How Much Sleep Do You Need ?

TaKeN

TaKeN

TaKeN

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Everyone at work says i sleep too much and that i'm weird for needing so much..


On a Weekday i need to have 8 Hours sleep otherwise i feel tired all day...


So i got to bed a 11pm on a weeknight and wake at 7am to get ready for work.


But on a weekend i go to bed at 11pm and end up waking up at around 10.30 - 11 am, it as though i don't have a properly working body clock :p


Is any one else like this ?

and does anyone know how much sleep we actually need ?

TIA :)
 
Exact same TaKeN, i need 8hours+ through the week and i can happily do 10/11 hours at weekends. Although my weekends are more liek 4 - 2 rather than 11-10
 
I need 8 hours to properly function the next day.

If I have one day with only 5-6 hours of sleep it messes me up for a few days afterwards.
 
I've read that 8 hours is the recommended minimum somewhere.

Oh *** noes, medical thread ! Sorry. :p

edit: huh, t e h is filtered.
 
8 or 9 hours is best for me.

I can get by on less but not for a sustained period, without starting to feel tired in the day.
 
I get up at half five for work during the week so normally aim to be in bed for ten. That's plenty for me, at the weekend i can sleep a bit more but usually to a max of eight hours.

My two brothers can sleep on command, middle one especially. Before he went back to uni he was working as a apprentice sparky, started work at eight in the morning got up at quarter to, in bed for ten the night before. On friday he could go to bed at midnight and wouldnt be seen until midday or after on the saturday!
 
Mohinder said:
tend to vary between 5 and 9, with 7/8 being ideal/average but 6 happening too much :(

5 hours/9 hours are rare.
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That's the same for me.

I've found that anything less than 5 and I suffer for it the following day. Less than 4 hours and I get a migraine by the following afternoon :(
 
I try and aim for 5 hours when i'm on the idiot shift and have to get up at 4.30am or else i would be going to bed at stupid times! - and then just as i get used to it my shift changes to 2pm-10pm. :( .
 
I can cope with very little sleep, this past week on 3 seperate occasions I went to sleep at 3-4am to get up 3-4 hours later. However I tend to do a bit of catch up at weekends.. not so much today as I was up by 7! but I got 5 and a bit hours of sleep which saw me pretty alert this morning.

When I wake up in the morning I feel like I could lie in bed forever, but on the other hand at late night I'm always averse to actually going to bed, even around 1 am as I feel there're things I have to do.
 
Bunka said:
About 6/7 hrs during the week, but end up having about 10/12 on weekends.
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That is an insane amount of hours! i would kill for that and this is my last saturday off until christmas as well :eek: .
 
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