How much sleep do you need?

[redbaron]

Vote. And state your type.

[Marie84]

No less than about 7, though 8-9 leaves me feeling more well rested and all around more positive and active
I envy people who can function normally on little sleep :frown:

[Nowisthetime]

I need at least 9 hours.

[Slacker]

It's been so long since I've gotten enough, I don't even know. I think at least 8 hours though.

ETA: I'm IEE.

[1981slater]

ILE Ti "Mad Scientist"

Work day: 6-7 hours
Weekend: 8-9 hours

[Creepy-bg]

I voted for don't keep track, but it's usually somewhere between 8 to 16 hours at a time. then I'll be awake for 12 to 96 hours at a time

[Jimbean]

Around six hours, the world is too big to sleep more than that, at least for me.

[Marie84]

they don't really exist though (esp. in the long-term), sleep is important for everyone...

Oh I'm not talking long term, I mean people who can maybe go a night with little, to no sleep, and still be able to function through that; an LIE guy I used to go to school with was like this, you'd never know that he was up all night working on stuff

[Lotus]

i have an extremely varied sleep schedule. sometimes i need 6hrs, sometimes i'll go days without sleep, other times i sleep for 12hrs straight. the only thing consistent is that i tend to wake up (if not already) around 2-4 am, sometimes i fall back asleep but other times i can't.

[Aiss]

Activity phase: 3 to 6
Recharge: 8 to 12

... and yes, I know it's bad.

[FDG]

8 hrs, I exercise/play sports a lot, I need at least 7-8 to feel well-rested. I can't sleep more than 9 tho.

[redbaron]

I need at least 7-8 to feel well-rested. I can't sleep more than 9 tho.

I'm exactly the same.

[Minde]

I seem to generally need at least 7-9 hours. So I guess I'll vote for the 8+ option.


Semi-related: I heard once that if you have insomnia and can't sleep, just quietly laying there gives you about 70% of the rest you need. I haven't verified it, though.

[Beautiful sky]

I sleep from 10pm to 2am wake up for an 10min and then go back to sleep to about 5:25am. I wish I had someone wonderful to walk with in the mornings; I love the morning air.

[redbaron]

Semi-related: I heard once that if you have insomnia and can't sleep, just quietly laying there gives you about 70% of the rest you need. I haven't verified it, though.

that's what I tell my kids to do when they can't sleep.

[Khola aka Bee]

Activity phase: 3 to 6
Recharge: 8 to 12

... and yes, I know it's bad.

Same here. I might get a decent nights' sleep once, maybe twice a fortnight.

[1981slater]

Vote. And state your type.

...never talk to strangers, respect old people, say hello when you enter a room and don't eat and talk at the same time,

I envy people who can function normally on little sleep :frown:

They aren't: they r just destroying their mind and body, it's like asking for money, you get a lot of money first but then you have to restore the debt with an interest rate. In the long term, sleeping 8 hours per day is the wise thing to do

I voted for don't keep track, but it's usually somewhere between 8 to 16 hours at a time. then I'll be awake for 12 to 96 hours at a time

I sleep from 10pm to 2am wake up for an 10min and then go back to sleep to about 5:25am. I wish I had someone wonderful to walk with in the mornings; I love the morning air.

Not 5:24
Not 5:26
Tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel. One hint: the worst is yet to come

i have an extremely varied sleep schedule. sometimes i need 6hrs, sometimes i'll go days without sleep, other times i sleep for 12hrs straight. the only thing consistent is that i tend to wake up (if not already) around 2-4 am, sometimes i fall back asleep but other times i can't.

You are Se-ESFp

[Aiss]

Same here. I might get a decent nights' sleep once, maybe twice a fortnight.

That's not exactly what I meant, I should have said "recharge phase". I become increasingly sleepy during waking hous, until I start sleeping 10-12 hours for a few days, then I tend to fall into regular 8-10 hours, but after a while I'm too rested to sleep and start staying up more again, until I reach ~3 hrs a night, and the cycle repeats - takes anywhere from two weeks to a month.

[Creepy-Pied Piper]

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[Hot Scalding Gayser]

When i was active, having 6 hours of sleep was the best. If I got to sleep in I'd want to just sleep the whole day and it would ruin being active. But yeah I hated that temporary uncomfortable-ness.

[strrrng]

When i was active, having 6 hours of sleep was the best. If I got to sleep in I'd want to just sleep the whole day and it would ruin being active. But yeah I hated that temporary uncomfortable-ness.

same. the only times I sleep 7+ hours/night, are when I'm not physically active. and it only breeds stagnant laziness. but conversely, lessened sleep tends to make me more concentrated (increased dopamine flow), and better able to maintain a state of active tension. this feeling of resistance just compiles, and ultimately makes large amounts of sleep seem completely unnecessary, and potentially harmful.

[Nexus]

Ni-INTp / 4 hours...if I sleep more or less I just get sleepier, but I try to get 6-8 when I am not really busy

[strrrng]

mandatory nightly rapes are a bitch

[Rubicon]

After about 20 hours of being awake, life becomes a sad, boring affair for me. 25 hours +, and life typically loses all meaning. So there is essentially no point to staying up beyond that :-p ... unless I can somehow convince myself that I will care about the results of this particular activity when I wake. But that's kinda hard for me to do. The same thing happens after 3-4 days of less than 5 hours sleep a night, so I try not to do that either. Nothing is a more effective reminder of my innate frailty as a human being than sleep deprivation. Well that and thirst - tie. :-p

[Nexus]

mandatory nightly rapes are a bitch

lol...I still remember at bootcamp people trying to wake me up to iron or stand watch; I remember once the OOD walked in on people trying to wake up my rackmate and him cursing at them in his sleep, it was so loud I woke up and started laughing...another time someone whispered 'Attention on Deck' in the Starboard Watch's ear and he shot up in the top rack to stand at attention while still asleep and hit his head on something...

[silverchris9]

I don't keep track. Here's the deal: if I'm active the whole time, I can just go forever and not sleep (I mean, obviously there's a limit to this, but I can power out 24-36 hours, although past 24 I get cranky), or do three to five hours a night or something like that. But after a certain point, if I don't have something to do, I immediately fall asleep, regardless of where I am.

I always did think it was kind of weird that I could sort of start dreaming before I was all the way asleep.

I do that too! It's weird, right?

Also, Si-valuers are always telling me about how I need to sleep more. Grrr... *shakes fist*. I'm busy doing Se overachieving stuff, leave me alone with your petty concerns for how I'm destroying my body and such!

[munenori2]

I do that too! It's weird, right?

If by weird you mean the most awesome thing in the world.

[Crispy]

I read a few places that the healthiest hours per day of sleep was 7.5-8, which nowadays I stick to 8 hours with an alarm. I used to only get 4-6 hours a day all through high school but I actually need the sleep in college. Once this semesters over I'm going to switch to polyphasic sleep(1 Core Sleep period of 0-6 hours + 1-6 20 minute naps per day; gradual until 0 Core hours and 6 naps) , which'll give me 6 more hours of waking life per day.

[Aiss]

I read a few places that the healthiest hours per day of sleep was 7.5-8, which nowadays I stick to 8 hours with an alarm. I used to only get 4-6 hours a day all through high school but I actually need the sleep in college. Once this semesters over I'm going to switch to polyphasic sleep(1 Core Sleep period of 0-6 hours + 1-6 20 minute naps per day; gradual until 0 Core hours and 6 naps) , which'll give me 6 more hours of waking life per day.

For the sake of this thread finally getting derailed, I would like to point out that the only person I know who had a plan like that was LII, too. approach to -HA?

[redbaron]

For the sake of this thread finally getting derailed, I would like to point out that the only person I know who had a plan like that was LII, too. -HA?

I must say, I find that strange! (I mean, the plan itself, not the fact that they're LII)

[Crispy]

For the sake of this thread finally getting derailed, I would like to point out that the only person I know who had a plan like that was LII, too. approach to -HA?

Maybe, although I don't know if it's particularly healthy. Leonardo Da Vinci supposedly done it, and Kramer on Seinfield failed at it. Adapting to instantly falling asleep at nap time is the hardest part. The people who have succeeded for at least a month, claim the adaptation period takes from 1-2 weeks and is described as "getting hit by a bus over and over". But once that's over you can fall asleep a few seconds after you lay down. And you can remember a significant larger proportion of your dreams.

[The Exception]

7-8 is optimal for me. I can usually do okay on 6 hours but anything less than that I find myself not functioning as well in addition to just feeling tired.