How much sleep do you get?

[bigben2k]

After seeing many people complaining of fatigue, I thought I'd run the poll!

How much sleep do you get, on average, every day?

[jtroutma]

BigBen, you need to add a bit more variaty to that poll. I was inbetween two sections so I went with the lower one

For me, on average, about 6 hours. My body is not quite use to it yet because I can feel it trying to doze off every once in a while. Also, I feel like crap in the morning after 2 hours if I dont have a mug of coffee. (Damn black elixir of life!!)

[Brad]

normally around 9 hours, unless there is a new product coming out (last night I stayed up forever looking at all the canterwood reviews)

[hara]

I actually sleep more than 9 hours, really

You should add 9hrs+ to the poll Ben, just for lazy ppl like me!

Edit: My bad, I was asleep while typing the comment

[bigben2k]

Originally posted by hara
I actually sleep more than 9 hours, really

You should add 9hrs+ to the poll Ben, just for lazy ppl like me!

That's what the "ZzZzZzZzZzZz..." is for

[Puzzdre]

Usually, 8 hrs of sleep, and approx 1 hr for the grumpiness to be gone and mind to clear up. A nice strong (espresso or turkish, cca 2 deciliters) of coffee is obligatory, and I even got headaches if I don't have my morning coffe. Not to mention the dead ppl, nuclear wars and total annihilation of the closest surroundings caused just by looking at it until the caffeine strikes.
I rarely go to sleep before 1 am, and wake up around 8.30 - 9.00 (working time is not fixed, so... )

[bigben2k]

Geesh, you're lucky!

My wife has classes on Monday nights, and since we only have one car, and work close to each other, but far from home, we both have to go (I hang in the computer lab). Monday nights: 6pm to 10 pm, and we get home around 11 (and sleep at 12). Tuesdays is "study group" meeting. Same schedule.

Somehow, that sets the tone for the rest of the week where, even if we get home around 6pm, we'll be up until 10 or 11.

We get up around 6 am.

By the time Wednesday morning comes around, I depend on coffee!

[Puzzdre]

Yes, but it won't last too long, if bussiness speed up, this peace will be gone...and if not bussiness, having a kid will kill my sleeping abilities a lot...

Maybe I should videotape myself sleeping, to show the kids in couple of decades how it was in 'good ole days'. Boy, that tape would be a killer (literally)...

/edit
It always makes me sad to see ppl have to get up earlier than 7 am. I mean, everything after 7 am looks somewhat 'human' to me, and I really hate the feeling of waking up early, especially in winter. You wake up - it's still dark, and you came home in the dark. Makes me feel crappy even thinking of that...

[airspirit]

I get up at 0530 every day and typically don't start getting ready to sleep until around 2230 or so ... it gives me all told around 6-6.5 hours a night. No rest for the wicked.

I don't drink coffee either. Caffiene puts me to sleep. I have to watch my soda intake as well.

[Puzzdre]

Man, from my point of view, you're the next step on evolution ladder. Short sleep and no caffeine.

It almost defies the laws of physics!

[KnightElite]

Depends on the day. I also don't drink anything caffeinated, except the occasional soft drink. Definitely no morning coffee.

I go to bed between 11pm and 4am, depending on the night . Wake up between 7:30am and as late as noon, really depends on the day.

[pHaestus]

I tend to sleep very little on weeknights and then catch up on Saturday am. I also have a very variable schedule. When I am in the US working at labs I sleep 2-5 hours a day for a week or so, and usually am up for at least 1 initial 36 hour stretch. Sometimes work here is the same; if grant deadlines loom then I'll just skip sleep til they are done. I can readily fall into slack mode though and start sleeping 10hrs a day if nothing is pressing at work.

1am to 7am is my normal weekday sleeptime so I chose 6 hours.

[Arcturius]

I also have problems with caffeine putting me to sleep, I really don't understand it.

I guess I average 5-7hrs of fitful sleep a night, but that can easily stretch to 10-12, if I get a rare lazy weekend.

I think I threw myself out of whack in college, when I was working full time with a family--I would get about 4h a night, and sleep through class.
I still haven't adjusted to the 9-5 yet...

[msv]

Hello!
6-7 hours for me. Used to be more. Hate when I can´t sleep at weekends.
Rumors have that Josef Stalin slept approx. 5 hours a night, from ~5 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Albert Einstein slept some 9 hours.
Sir Winston Churchill had a 2 hour lunch nap in addition to 8 hours sleep at night.
I definetely call this a trend.
If I spend more than 10 hours at work I just start doing a lot of mistakes and errors I´ll have to correct later, so I usually go home in time.
Winters are really bad, I feel like Frankensteins monster. A bunch of corpse parts, inaccurately reassembled and unwillingly forced back to life.
Coffee is true, coffee is important, caffein is mandatory.
regards
Mikael S.

[bigben2k]

He he, nice history bit, thanks!

I think what drains me is spending 1 1/2 to 2 hours on the road each day, driving to, and back from work.:shrug:

[Balinju]

Originally posted by bigben2k
He he, nice history bit, thanks!

I think what drains me is spending 1 1/2 to 2 hours on the road each day, driving to, and back from work.:shrug:

holy $hit. here in malta, i only take 15-20min to arrive at school

the only problem is that the minibus collects us about 1hr and a half eary because he has to do two journeys

in conclusion : i have to wake up at 6.20am (for school not for work) and do not sleep until 12.00 for sure. so maybe i can get 6 and a half ours of sleep if i would be lucky.

But &od knows my sleeping hours when the day after i would have no school

so i put myself in the 6-9 hrs section

[Alchemy]

I usually sleep from about 6am to 9am. Can't manage to fall asleep any earlier.

About every two weeks or so I'll be working on an assignment all night, such as tonight. I'm a bit loopy now, but some more coffee should keep me going until about noon. Probably take a nap after that. Rather I didn't, though: if I could stay up another 12 hours I might be able to adjust my clock so I sleep more like midnight to six, or 2am to 8am.

This term paper is going to get a less than good grade, methinks.

Alchemy

[Cova]

Go to bed at around 1:30-2:00 AM - wake up around 7:00-7:30 AM - isn't much sleep. But then I go to work and sleep for another 8 hours before I get to go home and play with my computers (OC them more, or play games on them, or watercool them, or whatever).

[BillA]

interesting thread

in my youth (35 yrs ago) I could go for days on 1 to 3hrs, catch up with 6 or 8, and start again
but more typical was asleep by 10 and up at 5 (by choice, morning person)

now its far different, asleep by 1 to 2 AM, up at 7
but I feel the need for sleep all day - yet cannot nap
and if I have a deadline and sleep only 3 or 4 hrs; the next day is totally wasted

I am a major supporter of coffee plantations worldwide

don't get old fellahs, everything starts going to hell

[Joe]

Sleep?

[Brians256]

You can't take a nap even when you are tired, Bill? Now I understand why you are so grumpy! Not that I don't empathize... Being tired, can't sleep, and then dealing with argumenative kids.

There needs to be a different poll for the amount of sleep you probably *should* have, not what you get. Before I got married and had kids, I got 8-12 hours of sleep. Then... kids!

Now, I sleep at 11pm to 1am, get up at 5:30am and have one or two service calls (kids waking up, needing water, needing a bottle, etc...) in the middle.

This is why my writing takes so bloody long!

[Puzzdre]

Originally posted by msv

Winters are really bad, I feel like Frankensteins monster. A bunch of corpse parts, inaccurately reassembled and unwillingly forced back to life.

Gonna print this not to forget it.

This is the best description I've heard. Hard to beat.

I am a major supporter of coffee plantations worldwide

[Rayman2k2]

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[Rayman2k2]

Originally posted by unregistered
don't get old fellahs, everything starts going to hell

we got no other choice:shrug:

[utabintarbo]

Originally posted by unregistered
interesting thread

...
but I feel the need for sleep all day - yet cannot nap
and if I have a deadline and sleep only 3 or 4 hrs; the next day is totally wasted

I am a major supporter of coffee plantations worldwide

don't get old fellahs, everything starts going to hell

Well, I don't consider myself old (42), yet this describes me in almost every detail (Diet Pepsi rather than coffee).

I try to keep at 7 hrs a night (even on weekends).

Bob