Sleep.......

[john8pies]

Hi everybody.

just wondered how many hours sleep people get. I sleep more than i used to (suppose everybody does as they have more to do , etc) but still only manage 6 hours average maximum per night - more at weekends and less on weeknights. BUT i am always so tired I sleep for 20 minutes or so regardless of noise or distractions just after lunch. Is there any `normal` amount of sleep or is there any danger in not getting enough sleep? Just wondered.

[lady cop]

funny you should mention that, i tossed and turned all night, twisted up my sheets, called Bothwell 3 times, COULD NOT SLEEP! when on 12 hour shifts life is just work/sleep....tired all the time. on the rare day off, just want to sleep. "to sleep, perchance to dream"

[CARLA]

JOHN8PIES,

Interesting subject. (I may not have to exact % quoted in the new, but they are close).

I saw in the new just last week an article about "TO LITTLE SLEEP VS TO MUCH SLEEP" and it's effects on your health, in particular Being a DIABETIC, AND HEART RELATED ILLNESSES The findings were as follows:

1. Sleeping 6 hours or less a night increases your possibility of having diabetis, and heart problems by 15%(I can't remember the exact percentages. and of course genetic play a huge part as well.

2. Sleeping 9 hours or more a night also increase your risk of diabetis, and heart related illinesses by 25%, the theory being your not moving, so your less active.

3. Sleeping 7 to 8 hours a night DECREASES your possibility of these diseases byt 33%.

SO I GUESS ONCE AGAIN THAT OL 8 HOURS OF SLEEP A NIGHT HAS ITS HEALTH BENEFITS FOR US ALL.. OH AND YOU CAN NEVER CATCH UP ON SLEEP..ONCE YOU MISS AN HOUR IT'S GONE FOREVER..

[hotsauce]

I try to get 7 1/2 - 8 hrs per night. I have no trouble doing that. Unless I have the horrible task of public speaking in my future, I fall right asleep. If I don't get at least 7 hours I am all fuzzy in my head and I say random bits throughout the day that make little sense. On the weekend I log in 9 hours. Nine hours is the perfect amount of time. I feel the best when I get 9. I know...that is a lot.

My father gets about 4-5 per night. He works a job that requires him to get up very, very early...and he fights off sleep all night long. When I lived at home (he was sleeping about 3-4 back then), I actually saw him fall asleep standing up! He asked his doctor if it was unsafe to sleep so little. His doctor had little worries. He said "you will sleep if you are tired". Well, I'm always afraid he will get tired while he is driving. I think that amount of sleep is unsafe for anyone!

I try to make myself get at least 4 hrs a night. Much least then that and meetings become a blurr. About once every 6 weeks or so I'll sleep most of the day away.
A little bothered when the world was told you can't catch up on sleep, but then shrugged it off, 'cause it works for me.

I've always been like this. I can remember baking oatmeal cookies at 2:30 in the morning when I was 8. Don't know what my mother was thinking..letting an 8 year old stay up alone baking cookies, while mom and 6 others slept peacefully upstairs, could you imagine trying to explain that to a fire department now?

[devist8me]

I get 5-6 hours a night, with a 1-2 hour nap in the afternoon (if I'm lucky). I feel pretty good with that amount. However, some days it does seem to "catch up with me" and I sleep a lot.

[john8pies]

Thank you all for these interesting replies; I look forward to more!

[Lon]

I usually am in bed between 11 and 12 PM, am asleep in 10 minutes, sleep off and on for six hours and then up between 5:30 to 6 AM.

I average 5-6 hours of sleep at night but lay in bed for an hour before I actually get up! I need to wake up slowly otherwise I feel I'm running around all day and end up feeling even more tired.

[Tan]

6 hours does it for me! I can never nap during the day. I feel as though I might miss something.