How many hours do you sleep?

[Gregg2]

You only know you've been dreaming when you wake up during a dream. For me, it's often hard to recall things in the dream.

Turning off my brain is harder after having slept a few hours. If I am awake for 20-30 minutes, I get up and sit in the dark. When I start to get sleepy, I go back to bed. I usually fall asleep quickly at that point.

 

[0388631]

As much as I can until the pattering of small feet cause me to wake up.

I sleep 7-8 hrs. However, my wife has terrible sleep habit’s, or maybe not a habit, but a condition. She tells me she has a hard time turning off her brain. Some nights she gets 3-5 hrs, but then later in the day she will crash, but that adds to staying up late the next night. We have several women friends who say they have the same problem. Anyone here? (If I have asked before, and we’ve discussed it, forgive me. )

For myself, when I lay down, usually my mind in a matter of moments starts disconnecting and I drift off.

More of a hint that they want to chat more with their husbands but they don't want to.

 

[willmtaylor]

I sleep 7-8 hrs. However, my wife has terrible sleep habit’s, or maybe not a habit, but a condition. She tells me she has a hard time turning off her brain. Some nights she gets 3-5 hrs, but then later in the day she will crash, but that adds to staying up late the next night. We have several women friends who say they have the same problem. Anyone here? (If I have asked before, and we’ve discussed it, forgive me. )

For myself, when I lay down, usually my mind in a matter of moments starts disconnecting and I drift off.

My wife is a middle school teacher, so (going to) sleep is never an issue.

 

[Tech198]

It varies. Sometimes 8 hours,,, Sometimes 2, or 4.

If i wake up midnight , I usually can't get back to sleep, so stay up watching iTunes for a bit.

 

[Huntn]

As much as I can until the pattering of small feet cause me to wake up.


More of a hint that they want to chat more with their husbands but they don't want to.

I can’t say for my case, as I go by what she tells me.

 

[0388631]

I can’t say for my case, as I go by what she tells me.

Ah, FARs cabin sterility, though a marriage would fall under part 91.

 

[LizKat]

I sleep 7-8 hrs. However, my wife has terrible sleep habit’s, or maybe not a habit, but a condition. She tells me she has a hard time turning off her brain. Some nights she gets 3-5 hrs, but then later in the day she will crash, but that adds to staying up late the next night. We have several women friends who say they have the same problem. Anyone here? (If I have asked before, and we’ve discussed it, forgive me. )

For myself, when I lay down, usually my mind in a matter of moments starts disconnecting and I drift off.

Generally I'm heading upstairs by 10pm this time of year. Almost always I discover I'm ready to crash about a minute and a half before I really do just about crash, so I try to pick up the day's clutter around here by 9:30 latest and then see what happens in the next half hour. And I have no idea why I always hit play on an audiobook upstairs when I'm almost always barely capable of staying awake up there long enough to set an off-timer (too optimistically).

I did read somewhere that the quarter-life of coffee's impact on a human is about 12 hours. That means that 25% of a cup of coffee downed at 3pm is still sloshing around in there in my wanna-sleep-now brain at 3am.

Reading about that has been enough for me to try to remember to skip an afternoon java break or at least move it to not later than around 2pm. I used to think coffee had little effect on me after a few hours but I can definitely tell now when I've had just a cup of the stuff too late in the day. I spaced out the time of day yesterday afternoon and had a cup of coffee around 4pm. Usually I'm asleep for at least three hours already by now (2:30am) but here I am just starting to think about heading upstairs. Everything nice has a price, eh? I keep telling myself the java was worth it.

 

[samiwas]

I try to get between 7-8 hours. I usually stay up too late and can only get 6-7. I can function on less, but I don’t like it, nor do I want to.

I used to have issues going to sleep, and I finally figured out that I was going to bed at a time when I just wasn’t tired. Nowadays, I can go to bed at pretty much any time, fall asleep pretty quickly, and sleep until something wakes me up (alarm, phone call, 6-year-old). Generally, I’m a night owl and like to stay up late and sleep late.

I also have no internal clock to mess with my sleep. I don’t wake up at specific times, or have trouble sleeping at off times. I wil always sleep for as long as I make time for. I’m very happy for this, as I work in film/tv and our work hours are across the board. Right now, it’s 3:22am and I’m sitting on set after starting work at 7:00pm. Tomorrow is off, then I start back Wednesday morning.

I do not live by the “you can sleep when you’re dead” mantra. I live by the “ill sleep as much as I damn well please” mantra!

 

[Pinhead117]

I like to sleep 7-8 hours every night.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I sleep as much as circumstances will allow, and I absolutely worship naps.

Since my mother passed away last December, while I normally sleep around seven to eight hours (if possible - less when I am working abroad), some nights, I have manage a wonderfully restorative nine. Bliss.

And then, there are naps.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

I function best on 8-8.5 hours of sleep. I do manage close to that according to when I fall asleep and when the alarm goes off, but my watch tells a much different story, based on how much I move during the night.

 

[kazmac]

I am better on 7 or 8, but last two years anything more than 5 hours on a weeknight is wonderful. Sometimes I nap on a Saturday.

 

[maflynn]

Clock wise, I probably float in the 7 hour range, actual sleep - closer to the 5 to 6 hour range. I frequently wake up around 2:00am, and it takes time to drift back into sleep

 

[0388631]

I have kids. To which I'll ask, what is sleep?

 

[Falhófnir]

What't that old joke, sometimes when I sneeze, my eyes close? Can't imagine that personally, I do like my sleep

I've found more and more I prefer going to bed early, getting up early. But I do try to get a solid 8h, particularly during the winter with longer, darker nights. In summer I often just wake up when it gets light as long as I didn't go to bed crazily late the night before.

 

[D.T.]

I have kids. To which I'll ask, what is sleep?

How old are your kids now?

Fortunately, we almost never had sleeping issues with Daughter, and certainly when we got a little older, she was sort of self managing.

 

[0388631]

How old are your kids now?

Fortunately, we almost never had sleeping issues with Daughter, and certainly when we got a little older, she was sort of self managing.

Oh, it's not that they don't go to sleep. It's that they wake up early on the weekend when I try to sleep in. We've never had problems telling them to go to bed. I'm sure that'll change as they get older.

There's been a few times they told us they were going to sleep hours before their bedtime. Naturally, I'd check because I couldn't believe it myself, but I was proven wrong. If I absolutely need to sleep, I put on some Planet Earth and they become entranced for hours.

 

[D.T.]

Ahh yeah. Ours is a late sleeper, or if she does wake up, she quietly goes downstairs, gets chocolate milk, a breakfast bar, hops on her notebook with headphones and zones out to some anime

though I'm usually up before anyone, once I wake up just a little bit, I'm up, must have coffee, the brain fires up - I always have something pending to do with work, a problem to solve, something to figure out, etc. This probably is a bit of answer for the "How do you relax" thread (i.e., go mentally offline).

 

[Willow Blackwell]

I usually spend my free time playing with cat, I give him more toys, he sleeps less.
Most weekends I take my cat for a walk in the park so she doesn't spend too much time alone and get bored.