Personally, I'm a big fan of 9+ hours of sleep a night but with my current job, getting up at 5:45am it doesn't work so well. I always wished as a kid that I could go on like 2 hours of sleep a night. I'd love to have that much time to do everything that I want to.
If left to my own devices, my sleep tends to be fairly eratic though. During 1st year university, my roommate and I became completely nocturnal: sleep from 10am to 5pm. Kinda screwed me over for my classes, but I managed to recover enough to pass my year.
Sleep depravation? My girlfriend holds the current record that I know of: 6 hours of sleep spread between 9 days. She's an artist and was working on a series of painting... turned out beautiful work, but was starting to see things by about the 3rd or 4th day. At one point thought she was in a jungle and ended up incorporating in in the painting. As a side effect she now needs 3 or more cups of coffee a day to be happy.
As yet another story of Einstein's sleeping habits: I heard that he slept something like 18 hours a day during his university years and spent the rest of the time writing letters to his girlfriend. But he made up for it during WWII where he never slept more than 2 hours a night. Conflicting stories, I may be wrong, that's just what I heard.
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