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How Much Do You Sleep?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Working. What about you?
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I thought about having a poll but it is such a highly subjective topic that the answers will vary too much.
I usually average about 6 hours of sleep a night. I do best on 7 hours, but I work late and get up early.
Today I decided to sleep all day, not work, just sleep. I FEEL GREAT. Do you ever just sleep all day long? I've decided that I'm going to start making sure I get more sleep.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
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I usually sleep around 6-7 hours a night. My problem is that I want to go to sleep at 1 am, but I usually have to get up at 6 am for work. Thus I always feel like I`m very much not on a proper sleep schedule. If I had it my way I`d be going to bed at 1 am, getting up at 10 am, and lounging around in my PJs all day long. But thats me.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Martha's Vineyard
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I sleep between 6-7 hours. I remember sleeping for hours and hours in my youth, but now I look up at the clock and feel I can't get to sleep so I might as well get up. I long for that cozy feeling where I want to stay in that sleep/awake state for hours. Long gone I think.
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Nick
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6-7 hours when time is tight, 8-9 hours when i can
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Austin, Texas
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I typically average around 6 hours. If things were perfect, I would get around 7-8 hours and go to bed at a decent time. Unfortunately, I highly enjoy the nighttime and typically won't go to bed until 1, 2, or 3am. Sometimes I miss going to bed at a decent time - like 10pm - and getting up at 6am refreshed and ready to go.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: adequate, thanks.
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My sleep time varies between 2 and 12 hrs. I am not able to maintain a decent rhythm of sleep. I seriously think that it affects my life in a very bad way. For example, most days I only eat once, and thats sometimes after being hours awake. Currently I have school holidays, which makes things only worse. I seriously need to change that.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Sydney
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I need 8 hours otherwise I rat sh!t.
Kinda sux, wish I was one of those poeple who can survive on 4 hours.
MM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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"And after we are through, ten years in making it to be the most of glorious debuts."
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The midwest...
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try to get at least 6 hours...usually get less when I am oncall...the pager by the bed makes sleep a challenge...
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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I have a chronic illness that affects my health and though it's not visible to the average person, I definitely feel the effects of it if I do not take eat right or get enough sleep.
I notice that I feel 100% better when I get enough sleep. Sleep is really one of the best gifts we can give ourselves, I think.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Metamora, OH
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Lately around 4-6 hours. I am a natural night owl, and when left to my own devices I have absolutely no problem staying up past 3 or 4 AM or whenever. But then, life (read: school) comes along and tells me I need to wake up by 7 AM.
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Irvine, CA
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Neither Here Nor There
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4-5 hours at night and 1-2 hours in class.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
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I need about nine hours of sleep to really be fully effective. I couldn't imagine getting too much less that that at all. I'd be a wreck.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: california
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Anywhere from 0 hours on a bad day (I try to limit those to 1-3 per year) through 3 or 4 hours (what I'll probably get tonight) to 7-9 hours (95% of the time) to 12 hours (on a really good (bad?) day).
In other words, it varies. A lot. Which probably ain't good.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In the South
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I vary so much...
6 hours when I have 9AM class. 8 hours when 12 Noon class, 10 hours on the weekend. BUT, it all depends on what I have to do... I could sleep 14 hours if I could.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Philly
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I like 8 hours, but usually get 6-7. i can go for like 16 if you let me...
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Avoiding Hans advances
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On weekend my boyfriend gets 16 hours if you let him.
Weekdays he gets under 6.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: North Carolina
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I do good to get 5 hours. I try to sleep more but I usually just can't fall asleep before 2am unless I take something like Ambien. Which by the way gives me the best rest I've ever had.
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: College Park, MD
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Banned
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Six feet under and diggin' it.
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My medication for my psychosis and and other psychotic abnormalities like tracking down MacNN members addresses and driving by wanting to go in and...
Well around 12 hours and naps in between. Powerfull stuff. Makes me really drowsy...
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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somewhere between 4 and 14... and the crazy part is I have the same amount of energy throughout the day weather its 4 or 14... i am always tired.
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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now that i've given up on school again, too goddamn much. need to start volunteering again.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: NYC
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Varies a lot. 4-5 on nights with classes in the morning, 7 or so on work nights, and then 10 or more if i have nothing to wake up for the next day. Most weeks tend towards the lower end, since sunday is my only day off.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: FL Cape
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7-7.5 hours during the week. I'm usually trashed by Friday as my body rebels on me for getting less than 8 hrs a night.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: I don't know anymore!
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6 - 7 hours, although when I worked two jobs, I got by on 4 -5 hours for about five years. I'm a night person, so I usually go to bed around 1 a.m.
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Off the Tobakoff
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7–9 hours. About to do so now. Good night everybody!
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"You rise," he said, "like Aurora."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SoCal
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About 6 on weeknights, 10 on weekends. Nice change from the 4-5 hour weeknights I was getting all of last year.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2004
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I'm not sleeping much tonight, unfortunately.
I have a sick small child to tend to tonight.
But, we're catching up on Animal Planet.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jan 2005
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About 5-6 hours during the week and maybe 7 on the weekends... if I don't hit the clubs....
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: manticore or people's republic of haven
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4-8 depending on if my rational school/work side wins over my natural tendency to think that anything before 6-7AM is too early to go to sleep....problem is that classes start at 8:30AM.
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some people are like slinkys: they don't do much, but are fun to push down stairs.
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Baninated
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Dead whale
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Until I was 30 I needed at least 8 hours. 7 worked well once or twice a week, 9 were perfect.
Now that I am over 40 I sleep around 7 hours a night. If I don't set my alarm clock, thats also the time after I wake up myself. Sometimes, every two weeks I try 8 or more. Thats perfect for recovering.
I also found out that taking iron is good for me. I felt tired all my life, unrelated to the length of my sleep. When I take iron, after one week, I need less sleep, are not tired and swimming and running (in the morning before breakfast) is easy as a wink.
More: alcohol makes your sleep shallow. You fall asleep quickly but your sleep will be less deep making you tired in the morning. I really hate being tired! But I like wine in the evening .
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA
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3-4 ... maybe 5 on a weekend. I"ve been that way for as long as I can remember.
It's quite good on the productivity side.
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Hilbert space
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After Japan (2-4 hours a night) I need roughly insane 7-9 hours a day.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Rochester, NY
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I need no less than 7 1/2 hours on a regular basis. I can get away with as little as 3 on a one-night basis, and feel somewhat OK the next day, but unless I get my full sleep load the following night, I'm a zombie on the day after that.
When I don't get enough sleep on a regular basis, my body shuts itself off during the day. I don't fall asleep exactly, but the parts of my brain that keep track of time just shut off. I could ponder a problem at work for five minutes, then look at the clock and notice twenty have passed!
When I went to Japan on business a few years back, I had a little bit of work to do the night before a design review, and that turned into staying up until 4:30 AM. Of course, that screwed up my acclimation to Japan time, and I was absolutely wrecked the following day! The review went OK, but most of the extra work I did the night before was unnecessary. And by the time we got to the Karaoke bar after dinner, I think all that was keeping me awake was the bad, bad signing!
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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Originally Posted by Cody Dawg
I have a chronic illness that affects my health and though it's not visible to the average person, I definitely feel the effects of it if I do not take eat right or get enough sleep.
I notice that I feel 100% better when I get enough sleep. Sleep is really one of the best gifts we can give ourselves, I think.
Yes, Cody sleep is very important. I hope that you will try to get more sleep. The body needs that time to repair.
I try to get between 7 - 8 hours.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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7 1/2 seems to be my magic number but the reality of it is I usually get 6 1/2. I can function a lot better on 4 hours of sleep better then I can on 12 so I would rather sleep too little.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: NY
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7 hours or I fall asleep in class.
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Switched 7/7/05
12'' PowerBook G4 with AirPort Express, still goin' strong
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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6-7 hrs. at home, 8-9 hrs. at the office. Except the lunch break, of course.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: california
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Originally Posted by Cubeoid
1 billion hours.
Don't you mean eleventy billion?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 46 & 2
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I sleep about 3-4 hours /night, and one day out of the month I'll crash for 10-14 hours.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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About 6 hours on average during the week. 9 to 10 hours on the weekend.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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In regular mode, I usually go for 9 hours.
I never feel tired in the evening until I reach some weird point at 4 AM or so. Usually I make an effort to avoid that, so I try to get to sleep by midnight.
If I'm in crunch mode, with a definite deadline approaching fast, I can sleep only about 5 hours and auto-wake up 1-5 minutes before the alarm goes off. Usually that's sustainable for only a few days at a time. I don't really enjoy it, but I do get a huge amount of things done.
Sleep is a luxury I'm not willing to trade.
J
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: back home
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I sleep 6 but would need 7 to 8.
When I worked evenings I would have enough sleep but now I worked days and I am always tired.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by Monique
I sleep 6 but would need 7 to 8.
When I worked evenings I would have enough sleep but now I worked days and I am always tired.
I hope that you will be able to get more sleep. It's important.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: back home
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I don't know how long it is going to take. But, I was used getting into bed around 3 or 4 in the morning then sleep all I needed. But, now I have to go to bed around 10 in the evening and get up at 6 in the morning. I think it might take months.
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