ah, my favourite topic.. sleep. seeing people post at all times during the day brings to mind, how much sleep do you guys actually get? For me, its a varying cycle (hmm. maybe I should note it down).. from 12 hours down to 3 hours.. brr. coffee doesnt seem to affect me at all (i can drink and take a nap immediately).. here in winter, I dream of napping on a nice sandy beach, with a newspaper on my face, and the lapping of waves... hmm. I feel sleepy already. arrgh. I miss the sea!

Oacs..

i hardly sleep... but when i do... it's in a cycle of 3 hours... i feel well rested if i sleep in a 3 hour increment...

Oh frig, I wish I could function with 3 hours. I set my alarm for 7 hours from the time I get to bed.

If it was up to me, I'd never sleep. Sleep is such a huge waste of life. By the time we're 75 years old, we'll have spent 25 years asleep!

Originally posted by BuBu ... i feel well rested if i sleep in a 3 hour increment...

Hey! me too I love cat naps!

I guess I should have marked oscillating cycle but I marked 6 - 8 instead cuz adding up my increments it's usually about 8 or 9 hours.
My bfriends job requires him to be on call 24 hours a day and sometimes his shifts are 12-16 hours long I realized I hardly saw him if he was working
So now I get up to see him off or sometimes drive him, then if I can't fall back asleep I'll hang out here

Don't get me wrong.....I love to sleep!! When my bfriend's not on call I easily sleep 12-16 hours a night

Originally posted by oacs how much sleep do you get? (daily avg)

None. I only sleep at night

Working midnights right now so I'm getting about 5-6 hours of sleep a day!

Wow, already several votes, and NOBODY is getting enough sleep! I know that during the week, I average about 7 hours, but an adult human really does need 8-10 hours of uninterrupted sleep each night. Where is propofol? I'm sure he could give us all a lecture on the evils of sleep deprivation!

Looks like I'm the only person here who sleeps enough! Guess that comes from living in the country. We pretty much go to sleep when it's dark and get up when it's light-and, yes, we do sleep a bit less in summer. Nothing as great as getting up about 5 am and going fishing.

Originally posted by chdude3 Where is propofol? I'm sure he could give us all a lecture on the evils of sleep deprivation!

yah....doesn't it cause phsychosis?

This is a frightening thought

If you get one hour less sleep than you need each night for eight nights in a row, your brain will need sleep as desperately as if you had stayed up all night. Source: William Dement, Stanford University Sleep Researcher

but then again:

Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have found increased brain activity in areas of the brain that otherwise stay inactive. The longer the students went without sleep, the more activity was found. Research found students to have better recollection after long periods of sleep deprivation.

I went to sleep at 4:30am "last night" after performing major transplant surgery on my computers! And then I got up at 7:30am to get ready to go to work.

Sometimes I think I was meant for another planet... The perfect day for me would be about 30 hours long -- awake for 20 hours and sleep for 10 hours. If I wake up fully rested, at 7am or so I'm not tired until well after midnight!

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I looovvvveeeee my sleep! I go to bed late and get up early, well, relatively early. Get about 6 or seven hours sleep a night. Any more and my back aches for hours in the morning.

I usually get about 6 - 7 hours a night. Catnaps and me do not get along. If I grab a catnap in the afternoon it takes about 2 - 3 hours to be myself again. Hi AZ I have the same problem. Too much sleep and my back hurts. On Sundays I usually get up around 8 am ( regardless of what time I went to sleep ) read the paper have 2 or 3 cups of coffee and then go back to bed. I swear there is a sleep - aid introduced into most coffee brands these days.

I never get nearly enogh sleep. I find that when I do sleep in , I am more tired than if I was to have only 4 hours of sleep. Most of the time I get off of work at 11 pm and I need time to myself so I dont go to sleep till 1-2 am I then need to be up at 7am with the kids. It really is a hard habit to break.

I get between 6-8 hours a night
Unless Hubby is working nights where as he feels the need to wake me up when he leaves and when he comes home for his "lunch" break (we're talking wee hours of the morning here)...LOL... I dont mind really...I do get to fall back asleep when he has to go back to work
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