"Sleep Depravation"

[cars]

I find that I am most energenic & awake the next morning after about "6" or so hours sleep. If I sleep much more than that, then I seem to be more tired!
What are the average hours sleep others require not to have sleep Depravation?

[abbey]

Six hours on average, like yourself cars anymore & i feel worse than before i went to bed.
My best sleeps are when i catnap, i can sometimes feel fantastic after a 10 minute nap, opposed to 6 straight hours.
Winston Churchill reputedly never slept, just catnapped 10 mins here & there & he lived to a ripe old age.
I'd much rather have quality than quantity any day.

[LottomagicZ4941]

It depends on the quality of those hours. I think 6 to 7 hours of good quality sleep beats 12 hours of iffy sleep.

Differnt people have different sleep needs.

I don't function well if I don't get 7 hours.

My work kept me over two days in a row. Before that I was alternating between 4 and 12 hours a day.

After that I spent a year in sleep Dep mode on about 4 hours a day which is not good at all for me.

And the new 12 hour schedule is even more of a challenge to get good sleep.

[lady cop]

hi! i live on sleep deprivation...we work 12 hour shifts, and by the third one are legless from exhaustion. so when we get a day off all any of us wants to do is sleep. it's all so uneven and irregular. and often we work our days off as well. so the average workday , or night, i get about 4 hours and wake up tired. i feel the effects deeply, and during the worst of the hurricanes we were activated , not allowed to go home for days, had to "sleep" in the county jail. i ended up in hospital ICU with pneumonia, and i am a very strong healthy person normally. my concern about sleep deprivation is that it can render us unsafe on the job. being alert is of utmost importance. our reward is a three-day weekend sometimes, mine just begun, but i slept all day, too tired to think of Christmas shopping or other errands. maybe tomorrow. oh...they can send a cruiser out to get us to work on our days off too! i don't answer the door, have a mat out there that says "not without a warrant" LOL .... many other deputies that i talk to say they don't feel like Christmas , simply as a result of sleep deprivation.

[cars]

Originally Posted by lady cop

hi! i live on sleep deprivation...we work 12 hour shifts, and by the third one are legless from exhaustion. so when we get a day off all any of us wants to do is sleep. it's all so uneven and irregular. and often we work our days off as well. so the average workday , or night, i get about 4 hours and wake up tired. i feel the effects deeply, and during the worst of the hurricanes we were activated , not allowed to go home for days, had to "sleep" in the county jail. i ended up in hospital ICU with pneumonia, and i am a very strong healthy person normally. my concern about sleep deprivation is that it can render us unsafe on the job. being alert is of utmost importance. our reward is a three-day weekend sometimes, mine just begun, but i slept all day, too tired to think of Christmas shopping or other errands. maybe tomorrow. oh...they can send a cruiser out to get us to work on our days off too! i don't answer the door, have a mat out there that says "not without a warrant" LOL .... many other deputies that i talk to say they don't feel like Christmas , simply as a result of sleep deprivation.

Others have already said it before in the Forum, but I'll say it to. My hat is off to you & all the other law enforcement offercers out there! You all risk yourselves for the safety/protection of us mortals. Thankyou!!!

[lady cop]

Originally Posted by cars

Others have already said it before in the Forum, but I'll say it to. My hat is off to you & all the other law enforcement offercers out there! You all risk yourselves for the safety/protection of us mortals. Thankyou!!!

i thank you sincerely, (blushing), but i don't write for accolades....i'm afraid to post anymore! LOL actually it is really nice to hear how good citizens feel about us since we usually deal with the 'other' kind of citizen. thankyou as well.

[Peg]

I usually do best on 6-7 hours of sleep. A half hour nap is more sound than all those hours though.

[Hawke]

As a working student, I'm lucky if I can get 5 hours of sleep at night and - let me tell you - this is certainly not enough. By the time Friday rolls around, I am too groggy from a week's worth of too little sleep to do much.

Usually I get around 5-6 hours of sleep every night during the week and about 8-9 on weekends. But i found no matter how much or how less sleep i get i am ALWAYS tired! When i was 17-19 i used to pull all nighters.. Like stay up 5 days and sleep one and i was fine. I try to do that but my finacee yells at me to get in bed and go to sleep. LOL. I think i would rather sleep on & off all day and stay up all night. I don't know i am so confused! Susie

[persephone]

At the moment I'm lucky to get 4-5 hours, I need at least 7-8 hours.

Due to my lack of sleep at the moment my vision is more blurred than normal, my back is stiff and I'm no use for anything.