do you sleep?

How many hours of sleep do you get?

  • 10 or more

  • 9

  • 8

  • 7

  • 6

  • 5

  • 4 or less

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habilis

habilis

Ministry of Re-Education
Ever since my daughter was born almost 3 years ago, I get about 5 average hours of sleep a night. There's just too many cool things to do, and not enough hours in a day. It's all because of our stupid solar orbit that a day is only 24 hours. If it was up to me, a day would be 28.
 
Habilis...

I have often said that I wish the days were 40 hours long and we had 10 days in a week.

For future posters to this thread....I know, I know, Hab's and mine little dream of longer days wouldn't work cause life would be structured around the longer day and we'd still only be getting 5 hours of sleep....This is our dreams, and in them, we make the social and cultural impacts of extended days just the way we like em! ;P

Hab, I am beginning to understand the daughter thing. Mine will be 5 months old in 3 days....that, with the business my wife owns and my day job, there really isn't enough time.

I picked 5 for an average.

Eddie
 
I sleep average 3 hours per night. I try to get between 3 hours and 6 hours, as my personal sleep cycles are multiples of 3.

Reasons:
- Studies
- Parties
- Reading
- Anything else, sleeping is just so much a waste of time. A French actor once said 'I slept the first 11 years of my life, now I try to catch up all this time I have lost'. I agree :)

BTW posts and AIM conversations I had with some members can prove my sleep time.
 
sometimes 2 hours / night, or 15 in a week. for weeks.

and sometimes 10-12 hours per night. the same.
 
friday and saturday nights i stay up late, but then i sleep for 9 hours until Noon. On sundays i rarely sleep, i get about 5 hours. Weeknites i get 8-10 hours.
 
I usually get between 4 and 7 hours of sleep at night. I often stay up late messing around on the computer (hehe, Starcraft is so addictive in multiplayer!).
 
am i the only one who can stay more or less ok with 2-3 hours of sleep for weeks, and then suddenly switch to like 12 hours? i think most people more or less need the same amount of sleep so e.g. 5-6 but always, or 9-10 but always, and not changing so radically. hm. nnow 8-10 or 10-12 .. or then 4-5 if my body just hurts (so i can't sleep). i can't decide what to vote.
 
I usually fall asleep around 4AM and (if uninterupted) wake up at 2PM. hmm, so lets see...uh...carry the one...um... 10 hours. usually I'm woken up before I can get a good 10 hours of sleep in. My favorite way of waking up is waking up naturally and then laying in bed until I actually want to get up. :)

PS. Am I the only one who hates that Apple smile?
 
Originally posted by arden
I often stay up late messing around on the computer (hehe, Starcraft is so addictive in multiplayer!).
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Yeah I can relate to the multiplayer gaming addiction. Since I bought Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, my weekend sleep levels have dropped to almost zero, and if I actually do sleep, I have dreams of the game.

I wish I could have normal dreams, like being stuck on a dessert island with Playboy ladies, but instead it's a rainy day in 1942 and I'm deep in German territory, firing on Nazi's from my sniping position in a bombed out church in Cherbourg, and the action is INTENSE.
 
8 hours at most. I try to make the other 16 really count! :) But also often less than that for parties, reading, games etc.

Giaguara: I have done so for a long, long time, but regualr sleep cycles are in fact healthier for body and mind. I often enough skipped entire nights without any problem and without needing to catch up. It demolishes your body slowly but steadily. ... and then when you get a partner you need to sync cycles somehow :D
 
Originally posted by Cat
... and then when you get a partner you need to sync cycles somehow :D
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yea i know. i am definitelly better sync'ed in US (and not in EST either) simply because my hours were so weird in europe. i call it PST- syndrome. i.e. when your internal clock is synced to cupertino time ... :rolleyes: (well pst or cdt, whichever)...
 
The average amount of sleep one needs to remain healthy is 7-9 hours of consistent, unfragmented sleep. When I was an undergraduate college student, I worked as a Sleep Disorders Technician for 5 years to finance my college education.

If you want to learn more about sleep, check out these books:

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/102-3012465-6993717?v=glance&s=books

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine in the Child
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_2/102-3012465-6993717?v=glance&s=books

Treating Sleep Disorders: Principles and Practice of Behavioral Sleep Medicine
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_3/102-3012465-6993717?v=glance&s=books

It's very important to get the same consistent sleep (same time of the night, no staying up late one night, then going to bed earlier another night), unfragmented sleep. You'll live longer, feel better, and function better through out the day.

Your circadian rhythms are governeed by several feedback mechanisms. It's important to be exposed to natural sunlight to produce meletonin, a hormone critical for good restful sleep. Fluorescent lighting will not stimulate the production of meletonin (bummer for people "inside" all the time). During the first 4 hours of sleep, neurotransmitters and much protein synthesis are taking place (delta sleep). The latter four hours of sleep have increased REM (dreaming) that is important for learning and problem solving.

Not getting the proper amount and QUALITY of sleep will shorten your life time. When you don't get good consistent sleep, you're straining the brain and body, causing irreversible damage. Though it's not much, cummulatively it takes it's effect. This is why working night shifts, or rotating shift work shortens the life time 5 to 10 years.

Well, read up and enjoy.
 
During the height of the Enron scandal Ken Lay was asked by a reporter(I don't remember who, maybe Dianne Sawer) "How do you sleep at night?" He replied "I sleep like a baby – I wake up every 2 hours crying". I thought that was an awesome quote.
 
I answered 5 hours but that is the normal scenario... Most of the time, at least once or twice in 15 days I do not sleep at all for at least 48 hours... Like yesterday and today :D

Also, other times I sleep for 4 hours or less... And yes, I'm talking about the sum of my sleeping hours... :D

Because sometimes I sleep for 2 or 3 hours at night and then 1 or 2 hours during the day when and if I can :D ;)

:)
 
G: I can sleep for 4 hours one night, then sleep 10-12 the next.

The average adolescent needs more sleep than the average adult, usually around 10 hours. Ironically, we often get much less than the average adult.
 
When I'm on steroid (image, just because too many projects, or travel) then 3 is the minimum, but I have my highest efficiency and creativity with 8.
 
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