The Sleep poll - whats your average sleeping hours per day?

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sleeping and modern times.
if you sleep less than 7 hours - why? insomnia? children? you don't feel the need?...
if you sleep 8 hours and more - welcome to the club of escapism..

Poll Results

Option	Votes
6	38
7	36
8	16
5	15
9	7
12	2
10	2
4	2
3	1
more (?!)	1
11	0
2	0
1	0
0 (?!)	0

― Zeno, Saturday, 5 May 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I would've responded earlier.....but I was asleep.

― SeekAltRoute, Saturday, 5 May 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

I average probably 4.5-5 hours per night. Much to my consternation. I wish I could sleep 8 hours a night - I function FAR better on it. But I never, ever have.

― Mister Craig, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

Sun-Thurs - 6-6.5
Fri-Sat - 10+

During the week I usually read until 12:30 or 1am and have to wake up for work about 7. Sat and Sun I sleep as late as I can get away with.

― milo z, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

I just took a disturbing 4 hour nap.

When I had a job that I hated, I only slept about 4-5 hours night. Going to bed earlier meant facing the fact that I had to go bureaucratic hell to share an office with an ex-professional cheerleader.

― molly mummenschanz, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Sleeping is the best way to procrastinate, alleviate crushing depression & boredom, idle away a snowy afternoon, and refresh!

― Abbott, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

I usually get a minimum of 9 and up to 13 when I can get away with it. The longest I ever slept consecutively was 32 hours due to jet lag & due to nobody waking me up, which was kind.

― Abbott, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

6-7 :(

wish I could sleep more. meds, anxious brain, no sleep

― Ms Misery, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

I average probably 4.5-5 hours per night. Much to my consternation. I wish I could sleep 8 hours a night - I function FAR better on it. But I never, ever have.

-- Mister Craig

I was just about to say 'wow, me too,' then I realised who wrote this, ha. I always used to sleep a lot more even when I went to bed at 4am, partly because I didn't have such a stupid distance to go in the morning, so I could sleep in. Now it's about 3.30am to 8am. Being a student, though, I do make up for it several days a week, but it still kills me.

― emil.y, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

Usually 7. It's interesting how consistent the number is without an alarm clock.

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

I was just about to say 'wow, me too,' then I realised who wrote this, ha. I always used to sleep a lot more even when I went to bed at 4am, partly because I didn't have such a stupid distance to go in the morning, so I could sleep in. Now it's about 3.30am to 8am. Being a student, though, I do make up for it several days a week, but it still kills me.

-- emil.y, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:10 (4 minutes ago)

Shall we go to bed, darling? ;-P

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

five, because of kids and t.v. and baseball and insomnia

― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think my average is probably about 9 hours per night, but it really depends. Some nights are as few as 5 hours - if I stay up late studying and have to get up early to take my daughter to preschool; other nights I will get 10 or 11 hours - like if I sleep in late on a weekend morning.

Getting a consistent amount of sleep per night is impossible when you combine kids, college, and occasional insomnia.

― Sara R-C, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

About seven. I do need more (now that I am pregnant but I never manage to go to bed earlier). :-(

― stevienixed, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:05 (eighteen years ago)

I can function decently on 5 1/2 hours of sleep, but I generally get much less.

― Michael Servetus, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:19 (eighteen years ago)

It's terrible being a night owl and having to get up at 6am.

― Michael Servetus, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yikes, you guys need so little sleep!

― stevienixed, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

On a good night, about 6 - but broken up by feeding a 10-week-old baby, so it feels like less. I am sleep-nostalgic for the days of my late pregnancy, when I would doze on the sofa all day, then go to bed at 9.30 for 12 hours.

― Meg Busset, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

Between 18 and 21 hours a day here, I have ME though. Before that it was around 10 hours a day.

― V, Sunday, 6 May 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

I think I had double my average last night

*dancing banana*

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 6 May 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

I like to get 7 hours a night and function perfectly well on it. I do love a little nap, though (as previously discussed). Mmmm. Sunday afternoon nap. I'm very tempted.

I usually go to bed at 10.30, read for half an hour, then go asleep by 11 or so and wake up at 6.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 6 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

I think I average six; time between going to bed and the alarm going off during the week is generally 6.5-6.75 and I lose 30-45min on average a night through interruptions by the kiddies (6-m-o waking up for a 2am feed - whether I'm on duty or not - 2-y-o crying and wanting to sleep in the big bed, etc). Go to bed later at the weekend but still wake around 7am due to aforementioned little blighters.

The longest I ever slept consecutively was 32 hours due to jet lag

Cripes - an entire day off the calendar you never got to experience!

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 6 May 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

What's ME, V?

― nathalie, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

ME is horrible. I saw one of the liveliest people I ever new - the type of guy to run marathons and do endurance events - turn into a guy who you rarely saw awake.

My longest sleep was 19 hours, after flying to Italy after an overnight coach and staying awake till about 1pm.

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

But what is it? Sorry to keep asking.

― nathalie, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

I get about 6-6.5 during the week and around 8-10 at weekends. I don't usually like to go to bed before midnight, and I have to wake up at 7 for work. If I go to bed earlier it seems like I haven't had enough free time after work, like my existence is working, eating and sleeping, which is no good. Although eating and sleeping is nice.

― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

Initially derided as 'Yuppie Flu' in the 80s. Debilitating nervous system illness, probably more efficiently explicated by its other name, Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome.

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

:( stay strong

if feeling complacent i get 8 or more hrs/night but if feeling v busy and buzzing around in mind & body then i get 6-7, which seems to have become the norm now. but somehow i'm not feeling mental and am going to attribute that to all the yoga of late - they say that doing savasana for 10 min can be the equivalent to a few hours of sleep if done right!
also, 2-3 cups of caffeine/day.

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

(the stay strong was for V, obv. mr craig, whatever ;) )

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Aye, gotcha rrobyn. Seconded to V too.

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

6 and that's generous. i am lifelong insomniac

― m coleman, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, V, as others said: stay strong. :-(

― stevienixed, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

"The longest I ever slept consecutively was 32 hours due to jet lag "

didnt you hate yourself a little after u woke up?
i mean, for the time wasting...
i know i did, when i slept 24 hours once, but the advanteges where bigger.

i'm one of those people who really needs 8 hours of sleep,in order to concentrate "normally" during the dayafter,but i love sleeping so no problems here.
usually the sleep world is much better than the awakeining world -

sometimes i think if there was no need for the washrooms and no noise at all - i could sleep forever.but i do wake up easily by noises and stuff..

― Zeno, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

v, are you new around here? i didn't realize that anyone else on this board had ME...

― JuliaA, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

About 6, because I'm in college (people seem to sleep either 4-6 hours a night, or 9-11, nobody sleeps a normal 7-8 hours). In the summer it will be less because i'll have to get up at 6 AM, but for the whole next year I should be able to sleep as much as I want!

― Maria, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

Mean: 8 hours
Median: 6.5 or so.
Nearly always "catch up" on Saturdays.

― Øystein, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

six hours. we have a baby. better than the three i was getting 10 months ago. i've never needed more than 7 really,

― akm, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

5:/

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

That is important though - how much do you get, and how much do you need? I don't feel well-rested without 8, I have a friend for whom 6 is enough, and one who sleeps at least 9 a night to get through the day.

― Maria, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

8's my sweet spot

― s1ocki, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think one can go on less if you catch up on weekends. Sadly, I don't have that luxury as the shop has to be open six/seven days a week and I have a kid now. :-)

― nathalie, Monday, 7 May 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

6 is enough for me if I have not been drinking.
4 drinks or more and I would like 8.

great thread idea

― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 7 May 2007 08:12 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks everyone upthread for the nice words.

JuliaA - I've been here since around 2002, but only posted about 100 messages. I've mentioned being ill before, but not what it was.

― V, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

6 is enough for me if I have not been drinking.
4 drinks or more and I would like 8.

great thread idea

-- nicky lo-fi, Monday, May 7, 2007 1:12 AM (4 hours ago)

yeah, this is pretty otm -- EtOH can really fuck with your sleep patterns. if i've had even a little to drink, i need a big chunk of sleep. last night, i had zero to drink and slept about five hours w/o any problem getting up

― river wolf, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

it's the getting up part -- i'll probably want a nap later today, but it wasn't hellish to get up after five hours at all. whereas if i'd had even one or two beers, getting up would have been v difficult unless i'd put down like 8 hours.

― river wolf, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

6-6.5 on weeknights, 6-9 on weekends depending. I really don't like sleeping and wish I didn't have to do it.

― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

You don't like sleeping? It's the essence of our being! We are only awake so we can survive. ;-)

― nathalie, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

(Awake -> Eat -> Survival)

― nathalie, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, it seems like a waste of time. If I was more disciplined during the day I might be content to sleep, but it always seems like there's more to do.

― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

6-7

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, 6-7, though I need a lot more, and am sometimes given to catching up by taking epic naps or sleeping for 12 hours as a stretch

― kenan, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Usually 6 or 7 hours but I often take naps on the weekend and occasionally get a longer night's sleep during the week if I'm tired.

― Michael White, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

6-7 weekdays, 9-10 weekends

― sleep, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Food & sleep are two of my favorite things ever.

― Abbott, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I usually sleep about 7-8 hours a night. On weekends I can sleep for upwards of ten hours and often take naps. I had a two hour nap both Saturday and yesterday. If I'm anxious, I nap. If I'm bored, I nap. If I'm depressed, I nap. Napping solves most things.

― ENBB, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

I usually sleep for about five or six hours a night. I can get by on less, and rarely need to catch up afterwards if I do, though I can be insufferably dozy for a while until I shake it off again. I hate sleeping, it seems such a waste of time when I could be doing other stuff.

The only time I sleep longer is when I have a hangover, because sleeping is preferable to being in screaming miserable pain. I'd rather be doing other stuff that isn't (1) sleeping or (2) having a hangover, but 2 kind of ruins everything else that isn't 1, so 1 is the best possible option.

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

God, I love sleeping. I have to have at least 8 in order to survive and not turn into one giant raw bleeding nerve of irritation. I often like to have a bit more. The problem with summer is the early dawns, so I don't always get as much as I'd like. Was up at 7 again today, bah! Wanted to sleep until at least 8.30!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

Now it is summer, 5-6 hours in winter 7-8.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

HI DERE WHY DID I WAKE UP AT 3:45 TODAY

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

My last two nights of sleep. An epic tale in two parts:
sunday-monday:
Went to bed around 3AM, without really feeling sleepy. Partly because I'd gotten up around noon, partly because I had gulped down a huge amount of coffee that day, for no apparent reason.
Ended up reading for at least two hours. Definitely remember it getting light out, and noticing that my alarm-clock said 5AM.
Got up 8:30. So 3+ hours of sleep.
Shockingly, I didn't feel sleepy at all while at work.
Estimated sleep: 3 hours.

monday-tuesday:
Not sleepy at work... but then I got home.
Ate dinner. Fell asleep while reading on the couch (between 7:00 & 7:30 PM)
Woke up at midnight. Brushed teeth and went to bed.
Woke up at 8:30 AM.
Went to work.
Estimated sleep: 13 hours. (oh, there was a 3-minute phone-conversation in there somewhere too. All I remember was that there was something about BBQ and that it included a long lull where neither side said anything.)

Best Monday ever!
And I'm sure you're glad you spent precious waking time on reading this.
I promise I won't keep writing accounts like this in a cheap parody of the bar-shift thread.

― Øystein, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

I pretty consistently get eight hours. Seven is fine and so is six, but if I only get six hours for more than a couple of nights I turn into a prize ratbag. I'm not very good at lying in and prefer to get up and potter about.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

If my body clock got it's way I'd sleep between 8 and 9 hours of a night.
As it stands on work nights I get between 6 and 7. After a few weeks of that I turn into a bit of a zombie and end up sleeping between 10 and 12 hours at the weekend because I'm so tired.

― treefell, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

usually 5-6 hours

at the moment 3 or 4 :/

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Need to be up at 5 for work. After about six months, my body has adjusted, and I sleep lots over the weekend.

― mitya, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Five to six hours a night, with heavy sleep-ins on wednesday's and in the weekend.

...

*realizes something* So that's three sleep-in's in seven days, which is obv. very nice. But those three 10 hour nights still don't take away the feling of tiredness on the other days.
Is it a question of spreading those sleeping hours, or do I need 10 hours every night?

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

the more you sleep the tireder you get

er up to a certain point

it's like the more you do the more energy you have

but the other end

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

I had a great night's sleep last night! I totally conked out. I think it was because I was wearing one of those nose strips, though, so I was not sleepin beauteh.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

5-6. I approach 8 maybe once or twice a month. It's also increasingly common for me to sleep in two 3-hour blocs, separated by an hour or more.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently you cannot bank sleep. Meaning, if you miss sleep one night, sleeping extra the next will not make up for the missing hours.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i heard that too, but what does it mean? youre going to be tired forever? i dont get it.

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

mediacal researchers sais that a human being needs at least 7 hours of sleep per day, to be healthy.

ILX - you need to sleep more!

― Zeno, Thursday, 10 May 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

plus,don't forget the advantege of the "sleeping beauty" process..

― Zeno, Thursday, 10 May 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

I slept all the way to 6:45 today!

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

You can't bank sleep in that you can't save it up: if you know you have to get up five hours early on Wednesday morning, there's no point sleeping extra on Monday or Tuesday mornings -- the difference dissolves.

What you can do is pay back your sleep debt. It's how you recover from jet lag. But you can only reclaim about 1-2 hours a day. So if you usually sleep 10 hours a night and only get 4 hours one night, it'll take about 4 or 5 nights before you're totally normal again.

― stet, Thursday, 10 May 2007 02:17 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

SEGMENTED sleep -- everybody should try it (my body only works this way)

This obsession with eight hours of continuous sleep is largely a creation of the electrified age. Back when night fell for, on average, half of each 24 hours, people slept in phases. In “At Day’s Close,” a remarkable history of night in the early modern West, Roger Ekirch writes that people fell asleep not long after dark for the “first sleep.” Then they awoke, somnolent but not asleep, often around midnight, when for a few hours they talked, read, prayed, had sex, brewed beer or burgled. Then they went back to sleep for a shorter period. Mr. Ekirch concludes, “There is every reason to believe that segmented sleep, such as many wild animals exhibit, had long been the natural pattern of our slumber before the modern age, with a provenance as old as humankind.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/opinion/luhrmann-to-dream-in-different-cultures.html

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:27 (eleven years ago)

idk if maintaining a relationship makes that workable tbh

I like ten hours if I can get it but prob average five

― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:33 (eleven years ago)

oh i read about that months ago and was trying to remember what it was called, thanks Morbs

― Tributes as popular Lichfield cat dies (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:35 (eleven years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27286872

now i have somewhere to post this gem, wherein people get called arrogant for having their daily routines obliterated by industrial-capitalist timekeeping

― Tributes as popular Lichfield cat dies (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:37 (eleven years ago)

i know jerusalem is the classic but i gotta go w holy mountain here

― adam, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:57 (eleven years ago)

Then they awoke, somnolent but not asleep, often around midnight, when for a few hours they talked, read, prayed, had sex, brewed beer or burgled.

― fit and working again, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:02 (eleven years ago)

wake up sleep poll

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:02 (eleven years ago)

Tried segmented sleeping during the last Euros. Sleeping 10am to 2pm then 10 pm to midnight. It was just about bearable for those 3 weeks but I was relieved when it was over.

― pandemic, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:12 (eleven years ago)

I think classic 'segmentation' is more 8-11pm, then 2-7am? That's when I tend to feel most rested.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:16 (eleven years ago)

of course, i have no life.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:16 (eleven years ago)

talked, read, prayed, had sex, brewed beer or burgled.

poll

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:17 (eleven years ago)

taking a disco nap is a must for having sex if you're over 40

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:19 (eleven years ago)

I get 8 if I'm on the road, but not all at once.

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:53 (eleven years ago)

five, because of kids and t.v. and baseball and insomnia
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, May 5, 2007 8:22 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

replace baseball w nba playoffs and yeah

― smooth hymnal (m bison), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:36 (eleven years ago)

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