Poll: On average, how many hours of sleep do you get each weeknight?

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Vote: Poll: On average, how many hours of sleep do you get each weeknight? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=308)

[shadowfax]

i'm on the pole at 6 or 7 hours... i am leaning toward 6... does an afternoon nap count?

[stefman]

No matter how many hours....it's never enough :D

[Xero]

i sleep WAY TO MUCH. but i love to sleep, so its all good!

[edesignuk]

I always try to get 8 hrs during the week, usually ends up being 7, but I could do with a lot more, on the weekends I have some serious layins :D

[pivo6]

There's never enough hours in the day for me to get all the things I need to get done. I wish I could sleep more than 7 hours a night.

[Freg3000]

I get between 7-8 all days of the week.

[cb911]

i'm about 7 hours during the week. i'd like to have 8 hours of actual sleep, but i usually lay in bed and stare at the ceiling for an hour every night. :p or at least it seems like that.

last year when i was going to college i was getting about 5-6 hrs sleep in the week. i said to myself i'd never do that again, but i'm going back to the same college next year. oh well...:rolleyes:

i really feel sorry for the people that only get about 3 hours of sleep, that must feel really horrible...

at least it's good to see that the majority have around 7 hours, give or take. :)

[TheFish]

man who ever put 12 is a lucky sob

[pimentoLoaf]

Let's hear it for nine blissful hours of sleep punctuated by frequent lucid :eek: dreaming!!!

[Mr. Anderson]

6 mostly - if I'm lucky I'll get 7. But its usually off to bed around midnight and up at 6 or so.

Unfortunately its the same on the weekends....

D

[vniow]

What's a 'sleep'?

[matthew_goldin]

I usualy get around eight hours of sleep. It is never enough, though. I want more time in the day to work. But I also want more time in the night to sleep.:(

[Delenn]

Wow, I envy all of you who get even eight hours a day. I try for it, but I always seem to go to sleep an hour and a half later than I intend, and wake up an hour and a half earlier than I want to... Leaving me with about five hours a night. :eek:

[ExoticFish]

for years i only got about 5 hours a night, but now i'm realizing how awesome sleep is when you actually get it (same for nookie, but that's a different story), so i've been making myself go to bed earlier so i've been getting 7 hours on average for a while now... and it's good.

[neut]

5-6 now.

0-4 when i was in school.

5-12 on the weekend. :)


right now i should be getting ready for hibernation...

[Iconocat]

During the week I'm lucky if I get six hours. I usually don't get home from work until close to 6pm and I need a lot of downtime for recreation and "stuff" in the evenings. I keep telling myself I'll try to go to bed by midnight, but I rarely ever am in bed before 1am and often even as late as 2am. I get up around 7am which isn't easy but once I've had a shower I'm ok. I require huge amounts of caffiene as soon as I get to work though. :)

Speaking of which... time for that now!

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Weekends however... 9/10/11 hours a stretch ;)

[neut]

i see how it is.

get up at 5:20am.

work-out / shower

at work by 7-7:30

get home 7-7:30

mary j, audio creation, and web dev.

sleep by 12:00

repeat.


if it wasn't for the weekends, excercise and mary j...i'd go crazy.

[Mudbug]

I've found that by waking myself roughly 30 minutes BEFORE going to sleep, I can actually get a negative number here. :D

Usually around 3-4 hours a night, if I'm lucky.

Insomnia sucks, in case you were wondering.

[wdlove]

I need my sleep, usually average 8 hours. Once I'm awake that's it, unless I'm sick. Have not be able to take naps.

[GrannySmith_G5]

5 hours a night. Once you do it for awhile your body goes into ram sleep quicker, so it is all good. yo.

[neut]

Originally posted by GrannySmith_G5
Once you do it for awhile your body goes into ram sleep quicker, so it is all good. yo.

RAM sleep???

Damn you are a geek!

I'll stick REM and lucid dreaming...

[Phil Of Mac]

Damn, I'm lucky! I get about 9 hours, and I'm a college student!

[GrannySmith_G5]

Originally posted by neut
RAM sleep???

Damn you are a geek!

I'll stick REM and lucid dreaming...

Ha. I must be thinking about the new memory chip I'm heading out to buy in a few minutes. One track mind I guess.

[iPC]

...5, if I can sleep.

At least once a week I can't sleep... :-(

Insomnia sucks more than most anything I can think of... except when I had insomnia, no computer, and I was recovering from reconstructive shoulder surgery!

[Doctor Q]

The world's oldest person, Kamato Hongo, 116, died last week. She lived in Kyushu, Japan. She had a habit of sleeping 48 hours at a time, then staying up 48 hours straight. I guess her system worked!

[mrsebastian]

i usually get 5-6 during the week and sleep in atleast one day on the weekend for 9-10 hours to recover. i find my stress levels directly effect the quality and length of my sleep.

[mrsebastian]

by the way, where do you guys come up with these poll questions?! if i may suggest one: how many people still get their music by "sharing" online even though there are many legal options out there now?

[jkojima]

I hear that the ideal amount of sleep is 9 hours per night, not 8 like previously thought.

Myself, I used to hit pretty close to 8 hours per night while at school (I tried 9... but in bed by 10pm doesn't really appeal to me), but recently a spate of deadlines has pushed this back to no more than 6 a night, if I'm lucky.

I blame Panther for some of the recent diminished sleep though :-) The first night I got it, I stayed up late migrating from Jaguar.

[AmigoMac]

When I was in the university, had no more than 5 hours a day, weekends only 6, When started to work, fine, 8 - 9 hours/day, got married and child, 5.5-6.5 , my 1st child grew up and got up to 8, since almost 1 year, got a new child and since then 5-5.5 ... :cool: ... just hope to continue with 7-8 hours /day, would be nice.

[dricci]

I uninstalled sleep, it just takes way too much time to complete.

[MacFan25]

I get on average 7-8 hours on weeknights. I go to bed a little after ten and get up at six.

[RealityMonster]

My G5 just came in yesterday. It's my first Mac since my G3 Wallstreet powerbook, and it's been a year since I sold my PC...so I've been working with my partner's Win2000 box for a year. Now I've got a G5 and a 17" studio display. I think I'll have a lot of late nights at that machine from now on...

[AmigoMac]

Originally posted by RealityMonster
My G5 just came in yesterday. It's my first Mac since my G3 Wallstreet powerbook, and it's been a year since I sold my PC...so I've been working with my partner's Win2000 box for a year. Now I've got a G5 and a 17" studio display. I think I'll have a lot of late nights at that machine from now on...

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Wrong way, amigo :D

It seems to be you haven't seen a bed in years... ;)

[SiliconAddict]

Hoot hoot! I’m a night owl. 4-5. I recoup during Saturday’s by sleeping in to 1-2PM but I'm up partying with my friends, usually :-\ This weekend was a bust, until 3-7AM. I know this crap is going to catch up with me one of these days. I'm 27 right now. I'm expecting it to hit around 30-35.

[SiliconAddict]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
The world's oldest person, Kamato Hongo, 116, died last week. She lived in Kyushu, Japan. She had a habit of sleeping 48 hours at a time, then staying up 48 hours straight. I guess her system worked!

Ya I saw a video of her the other day. Wasn't she cast in The Mummy? ;)

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by SiliconAddict
Ya I saw a video of her the other day. Wasn't she cast in The Mummy? ;) Actually, it was The Great-Great-Grandmummy. When you and I are 116, we'll see if we look any less wrinkly.

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by jkojima
I blame Panther for some of the recent diminished sleep though :-) The first night I got it, I stayed up late migrating from Jaguar.

Me too, me too. It was great.

[Centris 650]

Even having 2 kids, one 2.5 and one 9 months, I get about 8 hours normally. In bed around 11 and up by 7. It's nice that I can go to bed and fall asleep fairly quick so I don't have the problem of laying in bed awake for an extended period.

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by Centris 650
Even having 2 kids...You may have a lot of childcare duties, but you probably sleep well because of them, not despite them. By bedtime, I'll bet you are exhausted!

I almost always go to sleep quickly. I can probably just look at a pillow and be unconscious in seconds.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by RealityMonster
My G5 just came in yesterday. It's my first Mac since my G3 Wallstreet powerbook, and it's been a year since I sold my PC...so I've been working with my partner's Win2000 box for a year. Now I've got a G5 and a 17" studio display. I think I'll have a lot of late nights at that machine from now on...

Congratulations RealityMonster on your new G5. Sleep is still very important. You will accomplish much more with an adequate amount of sleep.

Doctor Q, maybe by the time you hit 116, they will have a good way to get ride of those wrinkles.

[Stelliform]

Originally posted by ExoticFish
for years i only got about 5 hours a night, but now i'm realizing how awesome sleep is when you actually get it (same for nookie, but that's a different story),

I'll just have to take you word on that. :D on Both counts. ;) :D

[revenuee]

3- 5 on weekdays

12 - 16 on weekends

[Chilton]

Here's how it happened.

Back in 'tha day' when I was a competitive swimmer, I needed 8+ a night. Then one of my college psych classes mentioned a study where college students stayed awake 3 hours, then slept for one, awake for 3, slept for one, etc. So about a dozen of the people in my class tried it, and it worked great. But it was hell on our social lives, "Oh, I can go party tonight, but I have to sleep for an hour around 10pm, then I can party til 2".

The other thing was that I'd get bored, so I picked up a nasty habit of trying to do zillions of things. I went home over the summer, and fell out of habit doing it. But I kept the habit of doing waaay more than I normally had time for, and I didn't have time for it anymore.

Today I sleep about 3-4 hours a night, max. Mainly due to SuperCard 4's release, and about a zillion apps I haven't written that I'd like to.

-Chilton

[tazo]

Usually around 5.5-7 hrs per day. I commit myself to going to bed at 10:30 on weekdays, but I often will not fall asleep until approx. 12:00am or so. On sundays it is the worst for me, as I rarely fall asleep by even 12am; I just think too much during that time :)

If i could only turn off my superfluous thinking when I am trying to fall asleep I think that would help :)

On average I will go to bed at 10:30, but not fall asleep until 11:30-ish and awaken every weekday at 5:50, so lets just call it an average of 6 hrs of sleep per night :)

[Computer_Phreak]

When I get older (~18-22), I'd like to go noctournal, maybe sleep from like 5-7 AM or something, going to clubs or something, with my pimp legion of doom :D :D

Seriously, I get about 7-8 hours a night.

[revenuee]

Originally posted by Computer_Phreak
When I get older (~18-22), I'd like to go noctournal, maybe sleep from like 5-7 AM or something, going to clubs or something, with my pimp legion of doom :D :D

Seriously, I get about 7-8 hours a night.

keep in mind that when your 18 - 22 in your in college or university, and you won't be clubbing as much ... i found even though i would have time for it, funds are pretty low, gotta conserve...

LOL , i sleep from 6 am to about 10 am

but thats because i've got reading, writing, and this damn forum... LOL

weekend i sleep late 4 am to 2 pm

acctually you know what, my day is all messed up, i have no average time

sometimes i sleep from 12 am to 12 pm, sometimes i sleep from 5 am to 8 am
sometimes i sleep from 5 pm to 2 am

it's all screwed up

[voicegy]

Originally posted by neut
[...]if it wasn't for the weekends, excercise and mary j...i'd go crazy.

So, Mary is your girlfriend, right?;)

I average 6-7 hours a night...never have a problem going right to sleep, thank goodness.

[neut]

Originally posted by revenuee
keep in mind that when your 18 - 22 in your in college or university, and you won't be clubbing as much ... i found even though i would have time for it, funds are pretty low, gotta conserve...

But these are the years when you rack up a nice credit card debt that you can pay off with your new high paying job...as soon as you find one that is. ;)

Lets see: that's about the time i bought my brand new $2000 micron PC, then a $4700 G4 (w/ accessories), and spent at least $200 a week on alcohol and cover charges. :) oh yeah, not to mention a brand new house, baby and girlfriend...and yes, i have managed to pay all that off...except for the house of course.

just about done paying off this years concerts and TiBook purchase...now what should i buy? damn credit card.

[revenuee]

Originally posted by neut
But these are the years when you rack up a nice credit card debt that you can pay off with your new high paying job...as soon as you find one that is. ;)

Lets see: that's about the time i bought my brand new $2000 micron PC, then a $4700 G4 (w/ accessories), and spent at least $200 a week on alcohol and cover charges. :) oh yeah, not to mention a brand new house, baby and girlfriend...and yes, i have managed to pay all that off...except for the house of course.

just about done paying off this years concerts and TiBook purchase...now what should i buy? damn credit card.

i'm trying to find the perfect balance between working as little as possible (financial) and still having a pretty active social life

"bar tender, i'll take a pitcher of your finest cheapest beer" :D ;)

[wdlove]

Originally posted by revenuee
i'm trying to find the perfect balance between working as little as possible (financial) and still having a pretty active social life

"bar tender, i'll take a pitcher of your finest cheapest beer" :D ;)

I wish you luck in finding that balance. At this point in which do you spend more time? Just hope that your sleep life doesn't suffer. A rested mind will accomplish more (financial).

[neut]

Originally posted by voicegy
So, Mary is your girlfriend, right?;)

actually, I prefer to call her my mistress. ;)

my girlfriend helps...but only certain times of the month. i need more girlfriends. ;)

[revenuee]

Originally posted by wdlove
I wish you luck in finding that balance. At this point in which do you spend more time? Just hope that your sleep life doesn't suffer. A rested mind will accomplish more (financial).

School... i've got a lot of essays to write for the next 3 weeks, and a lot of pages to read just i general to keep up with the material... all through the term/year

i only go out on weekends and take the weekends to sleep off the the week

but ya, last few weeks and few weeks to come are like going to be like that

sometimes i'm just stupid, rather then studing and go to sleep i procrastinate, and then when i have nothing to do, i just watch tv ... i waste time, and thats my own fault

[WinterMute]

Can't ever sleep before 1am, no point in even thinking about it, get to bed around 1:30 most nights, up at 7ish, feeling like baked *****.

It doesn't matter how much sleep i get, I always feel crap in the morning, 2 hours, 10 hours I feel the same, so 5-6 hours is good.

I once stayed awake for 76 hours on a mix-down, I was hallucinating by the end:D

[lufwa]

Oh, there's nothing nicer than a good sleep. Gimme 9 hours and I'm happy.

[Riko19]

well due to my buzy livlihood of college life i get 4 to 5 hours of sleep due to work payload job social life etc!

not too bad now im on the move with this 17 inch powerbook.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by WinterMute
Can't ever sleep before 1am, no point in even thinking about it, get to bed around 1:30 most nights, up at 7ish, feeling like baked *****.

It doesn't matter how much sleep i get, I always feel crap in the morning, 2 hours, 10 hours I feel the same, so 5-6 hours is good.

I once stayed awake for 76 hours on a mix-down, I was hallucinating by the end:D

WinterMute you should try the routine of sleeping for 2 days and stay awake for 2 days. Never know you might just live to be 116 years old like the oldest living person that died in Japan recently. :p It's getting into a routine that helps!

[revenuee]

Originally posted by WinterMute


I once stayed awake for 76 hours on a mix-down, I was hallucinating by the end:D

76 hours eh?

hmm i did 52 the most, i didn't halucinate, but it did make it difficult to drive :D

i did 7 days once where i slept for 45 minutes to 1 hour a night. I had a huge project time sensitive project that i needed done.

But even that 1 hour is a time when your brain rests so it would be different

[Awimoway]

It doesn't matter how much sleep I do or do not get, I'm still wide awake from 8pm to 2am. I sleep best when it's light outside. Frankly, I've never had a consistent sleep schedule. I think I run on a clock that is longer than 24 hours. Probably 28-30 hours.

Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, who does most of his film editing at home where he has two kids, sleeps while his kids are at school, spends the evening with them, and then works all night while they sleep. If I ever get to work at home, I think I'll go with that, although my wife might not like it much.

[matthew_goldin]

On weeknights I usualy get eight hours. But on weekends I get 8.5 hours.

[revenuee]

last week i slept 2 hours every 8 - 12 hours for 6 days

then at the end i slept for 14 hours to recover ....

[gwuMACaddict]

Originally posted by stefman
No matter how many hours....it's never enough :D

this nailed it for me. i get around 6-7, but could always use 8-9...