How much sleep do you get? - Page 2

Joe · 04-18-2003, 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by Rayman2k2
we got no other choice:shrug:

Being old is just a state of mind. Increasing age is something that we cant control.

murray13 · 04-21-2003, 09:50 PM

I've been getting right around 6 hrs a night/day for almost 20 yrs. About a year and a half ago I started working a night shift 2330 - 0800 and thought I might get more sleep by not having to set an alarm. Never happened. I still get only 6 hrs. If I get more than 8 hrs the rest of the day is a waste.

TerraMex · 04-21-2003, 11:19 PM

I'm usually up until 11pm, at wake at 7/8 am so 6 to 9 in weekdays, and maybe 10 to 12 in weekend or holidays, and thats counting a good half hour just trying to get up. Having a good night sleep goes a long way in a busy day.

Even with the whole 9 yards...er hours, i still depend on a good cup of coffee to get fully awake in the morning .

... except on LAN weekends (starting friday), which we only sleep on sunday to monday

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Talik · 04-23-2003, 05:28 PM

My sleep schedule is pretty eratic. Some nights I'll go to bed by 9, and get up at 7 for work, others I'll stay up till 3 in the morning and still be up by 7 for work. On the weekends I can get anywhere from 13 hours of sleep a night to none. It all depends on what's going on. My body has become pretty forgiving of a constantly changing schedule and I can usually go for about 2.5 days without sleep before my body starts demanding it and needs to catch up. More if I meditate.

Raccoon · 04-25-2003, 03:13 PM

I generally go to sleep about midnight, get up about 1am work till about 5 am, go BACK to sleep about 5:00am and get up 7:30 am and work 8-5.

So i really only get 2:30 hours of sleep a night on weekdays, weekends, i usually lan friday-sat midnight i.e. no sleep, then work sunday am till about 6:30, get up by noon to go to RC races

Overal, 2:30 weekday split into 2 parts(SUCKS), and total of about 5:30 on weekends.

As far as caffeine goes, i can't stand coffee, wish i could, and i generaly drink a 12oz coke with lunch

cabmeister · 04-25-2003, 04:01 PM

Normaly try to hit the sack anywhere from 10pm-1am . Weekdays always up and around at 5.30 am ,weekends at least up for a pee at that time . OH that don`t count ,weekends normaly around in the land of the living before 7 am.Sometimes nap when i get home from work during the week,56 ya know

KnightElite · 04-26-2003, 12:37 AM

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Originally posted by Raccoon
I generally go to sleep about midnight, get up about 1am work till about 5 am, go BACK to sleep about 5:00am and get up 7:30 am and work 8-5.

So i really only get 2:30 hours of sleep a night on weekdays, weekends, i usually lan friday-sat midnight i.e. no sleep, then work sunday am till about 6:30, get up by noon to go to RC races

Overal, 2:30 weekday split into 2 parts(SUCKS), and total of about 5:30 on weekends.

As far as caffeine goes, i can't stand coffee, wish i could, and i generaly drink a 12oz coke with lunch

Holy shit man.... how the hell can you get along with 2.5 hours of sleep a night? That's like... insane....

Rayman2k2 · 05-25-2003, 02:18 PM

im surprised people can live with 5 hours of sleep! but 2.5 hours...my god....

Smiley · 06-28-2003, 01:03 PM

i cant sleep more than 5-6 hours i get home at 10pm sleep at 12 up at 5 work at 530

iroc409 · 06-29-2003, 01:25 PM

some days i sleep no hours, some days 3 hours, some days 12. just depends on what my schedule and deadlines are, and how long i've gone without sleeping. it's a little different when your office is 20 feet from your bed

Boli · 07-15-2003, 03:24 PM

I hibernate in the winter... no seriously I must be the only person above 14 who passed out not due to alchohol consumption on New Years Eve... in the middle of a party.

I sleep arounf 12 hours minimum in the winter and never more than 4 in summer... I blame the sun.

MadDogMe · 07-16-2003, 03:35 AM

I sleep 12hrs or more usualy as well. Trouble is I sleep alot in the summer as well. I've just started konking out later, at about 10.00PM, I used to sleep at 6.30~7.30PM and sleep through till 8.00AM next morning!. It can leave you 'over tired' though :shrug: ...

I think six~hrs is about right, it takes a couple hrs to reach REM(deep sleep. Beta or Alpha?) does'nt it? and a few hrs of deep sleep is needed I think, and you should come out of deep sleep to light sleep naturaly IMO. Not straight from deep sleep because of a damned alarmclock!...

Talik · 07-16-2003, 01:13 PM

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Originally posted by Raccoon
Overal, 2:30 weekday split into 2 parts(SUCKS), and total of about 5:30 on weekends.

so, I'm guessing you've found at least one of the folling:
cocaine
methamphetamines
caffein pills
insanity

Wasn't it Einstien who would take a 15 minute nap every hour? and not sleep in a lump sum. or something like that. memory fuzzy.

dabum · 07-16-2003, 01:33 PM

My dad's been doing this for years (since he was in college in the 60's): He goes to bed around 11:30p - 12a. Gets up around 2, up until 5(ish), then back up before 7. And he's been doing this for 30 years... so, I don't think he'll ever catch up on his sleep.

Personally, I'm much more inclined to go to bed around 2, and up at 7 - 8, with occasional "sleep in" weekends (until around noon).

daBum
I am dyslexia of borg - your ass will be laminated.

MadHacker · 07-16-2003, 01:39 PM

I get about 4 hours sleep a night...
any less and i'm burnt out
I take a train to work and back so i sleep on that cause there is nothing else to do.(45 min each way)
it's what keeps me going.

On weekends at least one of the nights i get to sleep in and get 6 hours.. sometimes 7 hours of sleep.
if there was a way i could cut out sleep completely....
think of all the time i could save.

Boli · 07-19-2003, 10:43 PM

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Originally posted by Talik Wasn't it Einstien who would take a 15 minute nap every hour? and not sleep in a lump sum. or something like that. memory fuzzy.

Do NOT do that... *looks scared* I tried the napping approach grabbing a few mins maybe an hour every eight hours or so.... when I had a major amount of coursework to do. I eventually had to shut down complety for 12hours... and hand what I had done in and the rest late.

I think I went mad.

No seriously during that week I was having conversations with poeple that wern't even there and other crazy shit. Bit I'll give Enstien this... when you enter that stage you don't know what is reality and if you are dreaming so your mind goes completely hyper.

The ideas I had during that "hyper awareness" though were fantasic. I may try it again... but this time in a padded cell.

Avaryan · 07-23-2003, 12:34 PM

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.

pHaestus · 07-23-2003, 01:19 PM

I think both Buckminster Fuller and Thomas Jefferson employed some weird sleep schedule like 30 mins sleep every 4 hours or so. I've never tried it.

Roady · 07-28-2003, 09:44 PM

mon-thurs: up at 9, work till 6, sleep at 2/3
fri: up at 9, work till 6, club till 3/4, sleep at 4/5
sat: up 2am/3/4 lan and club till 3/4/5/6, sleep at 6/7am
sun: up as late as possible! 36 hours of solid sleep is not unknown!

put myself down for 6

Brians256 · 07-28-2003, 11:11 PM

I've tried the catnap approach after new kids are born and I don't recommend it. I can't nap unless I'm exhausted, so I basically ended up really tired all the time. 30 minutes of sleep doesn't cut it for me, even if I get six or seven of those naps. Well, at least it doesn't cut it if I want to be at a happy high-output temperment.

As anyone who has gone through basic military training can tell you (I haven't), you are really tired when you fall asleep while standing up. I've gotten that tired for other reasons than military training though.

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04-21-2003, 11:19 PM	#28
TerraMex Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portugal, Europe Posts: 870	I'm usually up until 11pm, at wake at 7/8 am so 6 to 9 in weekdays, and maybe 10 to 12 in weekend or holidays, and thats counting a good half hour just trying to get up. Having a good night sleep goes a long way in a busy day. Even with the whole 9 yards...er hours, i still depend on a good cup of coffee to get fully awake in the morning . ... except on LAN weekends (starting friday), which we only sleep on sunday to monday . __________________ "we need more cowbell."

04-23-2003, 05:28 PM	#29
Talik Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Portland Or Posts: 95	My sleep schedule is pretty eratic. Some nights I'll go to bed by 9, and get up at 7 for work, others I'll stay up till 3 in the morning and still be up by 7 for work. On the weekends I can get anywhere from 13 hours of sleep a night to none. It all depends on what's going on. My body has become pretty forgiving of a constantly changing schedule and I can usually go for about 2.5 days without sleep before my body starts demanding it and needs to catch up. More if I meditate. __________________ Reality is nothing more than the delusions of the masses.

04-25-2003, 04:01 PM	#31
cabmeister Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Lehigh Acres , Florida Posts: 41	Normaly try to hit the sack anywhere from 10pm-1am . Weekdays always up and around at 5.30 am ,weekends at least up for a pee at that time . OH that don`t count ,weekends normaly around in the land of the living before 7 am.Sometimes nap when i get home from work during the week,56 ya know __________________ Learning is a step in the right direction for those willing to listen. http://www.cabmeister.com

05-25-2003, 02:18 PM	#33
Rayman2k2 Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Annapolis, MD Posts: 190	im surprised people can live with 5 hours of sleep! but 2.5 hours...my god.... __________________ -Insert Signature Here-

04-21-2003, 09:50 PM	#27
murray13 Cooling Savant Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Omaha, NE USA Posts: 216	I've been getting right around 6 hrs a night/day for almost 20 yrs. About a year and a half ago I started working a night shift 2330 - 0800 and thought I might get more sleep by not having to set an alarm. Never happened. I still get only 6 hrs. If I get more than 8 hrs the rest of the day is a waste.

04-25-2003, 03:13 PM	#30
Raccoon Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 37	I generally go to sleep about midnight, get up about 1am work till about 5 am, go BACK to sleep about 5:00am and get up 7:30 am and work 8-5. So i really only get 2:30 hours of sleep a night on weekdays, weekends, i usually lan friday-sat midnight i.e. no sleep, then work sunday am till about 6:30, get up by noon to go to RC races Overal, 2:30 weekday split into 2 parts(SUCKS), and total of about 5:30 on weekends. As far as caffeine goes, i can't stand coffee, wish i could, and i generaly drink a 12oz coke with lunch

06-28-2003, 01:03 PM	#34
Smiley Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2002 Location: Collinsville Ill Posts: 31	i cant sleep more than 5-6 hours i get home at 10pm sleep at 12 up at 5 work at 530

06-29-2003, 01:25 PM	#35
iroc409 Cooling Savant Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: midwest side, yo Posts: 596	some days i sleep no hours, some days 3 hours, some days 12. just depends on what my schedule and deadlines are, and how long i've gone without sleeping. it's a little different when your office is 20 feet from your bed __________________ :shrug:

07-15-2003, 03:24 PM	#36
Boli Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Blackburn / Dundee Posts: 451	I hibernate in the winter... no seriously I must be the only person above 14 who passed out not due to alchohol consumption on New Years Eve... in the middle of a party. I sleep arounf 12 hours minimum in the winter and never more than 4 in summer... I blame the sun.

07-16-2003, 03:35 AM	#37
MadDogMe Thermophile Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Just shut up ;) ... Posts: 1,068	I sleep 12hrs or more usualy as well. Trouble is I sleep alot in the summer as well. I've just started konking out later, at about 10.00PM, I used to sleep at 6.30~7.30PM and sleep through till 8.00AM next morning!. It can leave you 'over tired' though :shrug: ... I think six~hrs is about right, it takes a couple hrs to reach REM(deep sleep. Beta or Alpha?) does'nt it? and a few hrs of deep sleep is needed I think, and you should come out of deep sleep to light sleep naturaly IMO. Not straight from deep sleep because of a damned alarmclock!...

07-16-2003, 01:33 PM	#39
dabum Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Richmond, VA Posts: 16	Unusual sleep schedules My dad's been doing this for years (since he was in college in the 60's): He goes to bed around 11:30p - 12a. Gets up around 2, up until 5(ish), then back up before 7. And he's been doing this for 30 years... so, I don't think he'll ever catch up on his sleep. Personally, I'm much more inclined to go to bed around 2, and up at 7 - 8, with occasional "sleep in" weekends (until around noon). daBum I am dyslexia of borg - your ass will be laminated.

07-16-2003, 01:39 PM	#40
MadHacker Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2003 Location: Okotoks, A.B. Canada Posts: 726	I get about 4 hours sleep a night... any less and i'm burnt out I take a train to work and back so i sleep on that cause there is nothing else to do.(45 min each way) it's what keeps me going. On weekends at least one of the nights i get to sleep in and get 6 hours.. sometimes 7 hours of sleep. if there was a way i could cut out sleep completely.... think of all the time i could save. __________________ "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - (Einstein)

07-23-2003, 12:34 PM	#42
Avaryan Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 3	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.

07-23-2003, 01:19 PM	#43
pHaestus Big Player Making Big Money Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: irc.lostgeek.com #procooling.com Posts: 4,782	I think both Buckminster Fuller and Thomas Jefferson employed some weird sleep schedule like 30 mins sleep every 4 hours or so. I've never tried it.

07-28-2003, 09:44 PM	#44
Roady Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Mid-Wales, UK Posts: 3	mon-thurs: up at 9, work till 6, sleep at 2/3 fri: up at 9, work till 6, club till 3/4, sleep at 4/5 sat: up 2am/3/4 lan and club till 3/4/5/6, sleep at 6/7am sun: up as late as possible! 36 hours of solid sleep is not unknown! put myself down for 6

07-28-2003, 11:11 PM	#45
Brians256 Pro/Staff Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Klamath Falls, OR Posts: 1,439	I've tried the catnap approach after new kids are born and I don't recommend it. I can't nap unless I'm exhausted, so I basically ended up really tired all the time. 30 minutes of sleep doesn't cut it for me, even if I get six or seven of those naps. Well, at least it doesn't cut it if I want to be at a happy high-output temperment. As anyone who has gone through basic military training can tell you (I haven't), you are really tired when you fall asleep while standing up. I've gotten that tired for other reasons than military training though.

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