How many hours sleep do you have?

my working week is 3 times12hour shifts 4pm till 4am mon tue wed so tue and wed up at 10.30am 6hrs sleep then usually less on thu as my works done for nearly 5days so plenty of catch up time
 
I go to bed at 22:30 - 00:00ish and get up at 8:00 .... i usually feel like death though lol.

Never eat before bed... i cant help it i always have the munchies.
 
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Freefaller said:
There's no such thing really, it's what your body needs, my body naturally wakes up after 5-6hrs if I sleep well which I tend to do. If I'm physically/mentally tired my body will sleep longer. Then again I'm quite in touch with my body's requirements and my sleep reflects that.
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there sort of is though

obviously there are probably individual variations but studies do show that 7 hours is optimal:

Researchers from the University of Warwick, and University College London have found that lack of sleep can more than double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, but that too much sleep can also double the risk of death.[10][11] Professor Francesco Cappuccio said: “Short sleep has been shown to be a risk factor for weight gain, hypertension and Type 2 diabetes sometimes leading to mortality but in contrast to the short sleep-mortality association it appears that no potential mechanisms by which long sleep could be associated with increased mortality have yet been investigated. Some candidate causes for this include depression, low socioeconomic status and cancer-related fatigue.” “In terms of prevention, our findings indicate that consistently sleeping around 7 hours per night is optimal for health and a sustained reduction may predispose to ill-health.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep
 
I usually end up with between 6 and 7 hours of sleep. My shift pattern at work doesn't really help, Fri-Mon 1600-0200 :(

Went to bed around 0400 this morning and was back up bout 1000 !
 
About 7 hours normally. I'm trying to make sure I get up only an hour later on weekends - a lie-in is nice, but such a ridiculous waste of a morning.
 
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