Sleep... How much do you need?

4p · 17 Jul 2007 at 00:57

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,774680,00.html

That article claims that 2 hours of sleep will do you fine

Well, i find that 4-6 is fine for me (17 years of age)

If i have around 8 or more i generally feel tired throughout the day

Opinions?

Morba · 17 Jul 2007 at 00:58

i get by on 5-6

Scrutinize · 17 Jul 2007 at 00:59

i'm grumpy if I don't get 10-12 each night, under 8 hours and I really feel it.

James_N · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:01

I need 7-8 at least.

There have been days where ive got in at 1am and been up for 6am for work and not felt too bad though.

Azza · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:01

I can have like 8 hours sleep and feel fine when I wack up one day but the next I will feel horrid. Though I can easily have 4-5 hours sleep and feel great and another day feel horrid.

Ive also noticed that if I go to bed early in the morning say 2-3 and wake up at between 10am-12pm I feel really tired but if iget up at say 8am to 9am I fell fine.

Though I dont really need sleep because im a machine. It just gets really boring when there is nothing to do so I may aswell sleep.

unwashed potato! · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:02

i can have very little sleep, once went 2 nights and 3 days with not an ounch of sleep, so from friday until sunday 5pm-ish, but i find that it does begin to show if you don't get enough after a week or so, just in general tasks i find im much more lazy and down in the dumps

weringo · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:02

I'm 17 also and I get about 4-7 hrs sleep which does me fine combined with a fair amount of caffeine consumed throughout the day.

cheets64 · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:03

Depends on what you do, sit on a chair all day, 6 hours, go to the gym lift weights etc. 8+

4p · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:04

weringo said:
I'm 17 also and I get about 4-7 hrs sleep which does me fine combined with a fair amount of caffeine consumed throughout the day.

Aha! Well my friend i drink no caffeine at all (sometimes i take pro+) and im alreeeet

Oh and i was driving through Richmond 4 days ago, posh area :rolleyes:

psyr33n · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:04

Thorpy said:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,774680,00.html

That article claims that 2 hours of sleep will do you fine

Well, i find that 4-6 is fine for me (17 years of age)

If i have around 8 or more i generally feel tired throughout the day

Opinions?

Manipulation of the sleep cycle is a bit flawed; not only are sleeping and waking hours rather unsociable, but as far as I'm aware the body just needs a good few hours for maintenance. If a man was raised on 2 hours sleep a night I wonder how tall he'd grow up to be?

In relation to waking up tired, it simply depends on which phase of your cycle you are waking up at. As such, the "8 hour rule" is a rather large generalisation.

Craig321 · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:11

Thorpy said:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,774680,00.html

That article claims that 2 hours of sleep will do you fine

Well, i find that 4-6 is fine for me (17 years of age)

If i have around 8 or more i generally feel tired throughout the day

Opinions?

I can get by with 2 hours sleep for a few nights, I had about a week where I couldn't sleep at all and only got about 2 hours a night, I got by alright

Best is 8 hours, although I usually get by on 4-5 on Saturdays when I do 4 hours work from 9.30am->1.30pm (have to get up at 8.30, go to bed at 3-4am).

I have been known to sleep over 12 hours if nobody's in the house

pinkacidbootson · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:15

8-10 hours is good enough for me, but I have gone for up to 18 hours almost uninterrupted.

G-MAN2004 · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:17

Around 8 is good for me. For the past week though I've been living off 1-2 hours every night.

4p · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:21

G-MAN2004 said:
Around 8 is goof for me. For the past week though I've been living off 1-2 hours every night.

Yea and what do you feel like?

Does your general life skills get screwed?

Like making food or something?

G-MAN2004 · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:24

Thorpy said:
Yea and what do you feel like?

Does your general life skills get screwed?

Like making food or something?

I feel alright, even if my eyes hurt

I'm still able to make food etc. just, I'm too lazy so I haven't really done much.

EDIT: I don't think I can do it any longer though, no way.

Azza · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:26

simon50 said:
8-10 hours is good enough for me, but I have gone for up to 18 hours almost uninterrupted.

18 hours.

Longest Ive sleep for without getting up was 13 hours and that was becasue I had no sleep for 3 days solid (72 hours),

Dj_Jestar · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:28

10 hours for a good kip, any less than 8 and I feel it the next day.

Amp34 · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:28

I could survive on a couple of hours sleep each night for a few days but I really need about 8 hours, be that 12-8am or 4-12am (although I rarely get that as my parents always wake me up at 8-9am asking stupid questions :rolleyes:

).

I am also a bad sleeper so it always takes me a few hours to fall asleep, which means when I went to school and when I get a job I subsisted on about 6 hours max on a weekday due to not being able to get to sleep before 2am.

4p · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:32

G-MAN2004 said:
I feel alright, even if my eyes hurt

I'm still able to make food etc. just, I'm too lazy so I haven't really done much.

EDIT: I don't think I can do it any longer though, no way.

Cheers m8

Ive been through the same cycle as you

Me and 2 mates did like 3-4 days and had about 1-2 hours sleep a night

Forgeeeeeeeeet that

Deep · 17 Jul 2007 at 01:36

lol i have JUST finished watching the machinist on dvd and this thread appears!! coincidence i think not!

for me if i go to sleep really late, pushing 4, i will wake up really late like 3pm and feel like poo. mostly because the whole day has gone.

if i sleep normal 11-12 and i can wake up at 12 and feel wicked or i can be woken up 8 or 9 and still feel excellent. the only thing is if i wake up 8-9 it takes a good shower and activity before i feel properly awake!