How many hours do you sleep?

[MikeGTi]

Usually 7 to 9.. Although this warm weather is playing havoc- Not that I'm complaining too much!

[PHuzzy]

Currently on nights, tend to sleep 9am-4pm ish.
When on days it's more 11pm-5.30am. So 6.5 hours or so on average, when on days it's more than enough, on the night shift when it hits 5am I'm knackered.

[Jonathan27]

ChemicalChaos said:

During uni term time, I'm lucky to get 6 hours a night during the week, sometimes only 5. By Friday I'll be like a zombie.
When left to mg own devices, I can easily sleep for 10 hours.
I like my sleep

You’re doing it wrong, when I was at Uni I seemed to sleep most of the year. Since starting working life (quite a while ago) I’m lucky to fit in more than 6 hours.

[CrutyRammers]

6 most nights, intespersed with a couple of nights a week where I'll have 9 or more.
I really should go to bed earlier, but there's so much to do...

[RemaL]

I voted 8+ but normally between 7-9 hours. in bed between 10-11 and up normally just before 7.

[Huntsman]

8 plus. Like the dead. Snoring like a wildebeast.

But then I leap into action like a young gazelle!

[P-Jay]

For lots of reasons, mostly based around my wife's working pattern usually I'm in bed for 9pm, asleep by 10:30 and awake at 06:30, but I can stay in bed (awake) til 07:30, but that's my limit - like to be up and doing stuff by 07:30 really.

That was until our Daughter arrives 6 weeks ago, sometimes I 'sleep' in 2 hour chunks, I say sleep because it takes me an age to get to sleep so it's nearer an hour, after a few days like that I'm seeing cats running around at the edge of my vision and I'm a liability on the road. Some glorious nights I'm asleep by midnight and sleep till 05:30am, those days I can even sometimes get back to sleep for 06:00am and get another 2 hours in before I have to get up for work...

And then there's nights like last night, got to sleep at about midnight, awoken at 1am because she sounded like she was chocking, I was deep-sleep to my feet in under 5 seconds - waking up like that does a real number on me, then again at 3am, then she woke up for a feed at 5am - the Wife obviously thought we should suffer together because she decided on jump back into bed about 5mm from my face and I had to be pulled off the ceiling - got back to sleep about 06:30 and woke up very late for work at 08:43.

[AyBee]

Jonathan27 said:

ChemicalChaos said:

During uni term time, I'm lucky to get 6 hours a night during the week, sometimes only 5. By Friday I'll be like a zombie.
When left to mg own devices, I can easily sleep for 10 hours.
I like my sleep

You’re doing it wrong, when I was at Uni I seemed to sleep most of the year. Since starting working life (quite a while ago) I’m lucky to fit in more than 6 hours.

[sjabrown]

I need 8 hours minimum to not be tired. Currently working day 11 of 12, and knackered having only had 6 hours last night. The worst of it is that I know I won't be able to catch up on sleep till next Tuesday.

[LouD86]

Normally its bed between 1 and 2, but I always wake at 6am, regardless! Don't feel tired ever to be hnoest, unless I don't sleep for 2-3 nights. And Im not a caffiene person either, just naturally need no rest

[R6VED]

I have an 18mth old daughter who didn't sleep through until about 9 months (our fault as we should have done the sleep training months earlier) My wife is due in 3 weeks with our son so the whole ruddy rigmarole will start all over again :-) I can't wait.

[Davidos]

My Sleep Cycle App says Average 7:41 Hrs - over the last 898 Nights - that 41.2 weeks in bed (!)

[HRL]

5hrs a night. Any less and I'm an irritable git for an hour or two in the morning, any more and I feel almost as tired as if I'd had only a couple of hours kip.

Hopefully it's not shortening my lifespan but sleeping more feels like a waste of valuable time that could be spent doing other things. Never enough minutes in the day as it is.

[Hub]

Like my sleep. Pre parenthood a good 8-9 hours would be preferred, though 7 is ok. The last 7 months though it has varied wildly with interruptions, getting better though! A few nights of 4-5 hrs and I'm walking round like a zombie.

[0000]

Slept 11 hours last night having had a B12 shot. About 5 hours the previous night.

[soad]

7 hours, If I can.

Some days get by on just 4-5 hours, but it drains you.

[Ali2202]

In bed for 12.30AM and up at 9AM normally.

Usually doze for an hour between 3PM and 4PM every day. Working from home and voicemail has it's benefits.

[andym1603]

Work silly shifts, also career for the wife. Lucky if I get any more than 5 full hours a night.

[vit4]

I work shifts, so aim to be in bed 8 hours before whatever time I have to be awake. Find it very hard to go to bed much before 8pm though. The last couple of weeks my shift pattern has been all over the place and I've had a few nights of 2 hours, 4 hours and mostly 5 or 6 hours. I don't know how people do it month in, month out. I feel drained! If I get 7 hours sleep I'm normally okay.

[stewies_minion]

Since I've started training in the gym properly I aim for bed at 21:30 and am rarely out of bed before 07:30.

When my kids stay with me, I try and go to bed when I put them up.

I'm exhausted now and I've got a whole gym session and evening ahead of me.

I'm only 34....