Thread: How Much Sleep Do You Average ? POLL

To bed at midnight most times and the wife gets up at 6:30 but I manage to fall back into a coma and hit the snooze bar a dozen times until 8:00. Iam self employed and make my own hours. So Jimmy I guess 7-8 hours for me....a tad more if it's raining on the weekend !!!

Usually it is about 6 hours, or a bit more.

The alarm clock goes off at 06:21 on a working day, and I try to get in bed by midnight so that 'tomorrow morning' is still 'tomorrow' and not 'today'

Im a 7 hour bloke as a general rule... I suppose it depends on if the wife wafts a fart in my face.

Autoimmune disease screwed my body over royally (it's why I'm adventitiously deaf today with no vestibular function). In 1994 my body stopped falling asleep. I'd go two or three daze without sleeping, then nod off for maybe 20 minutes and my eyes would pop open again. I was out of work with no health insurance so seeing a doctor was out of the question. I can't begin to adequately describe mental exhaustion from not being able to sleep. My brain wasn't fried; it was frayed. Then in April of 1995 I read about melatonin in Time Magazine, how your brain secretes it to make you fall asleep after the sun goes down and that people with sleep disorders are using supplemental melatonin to help them fall asleep. I found a GNC store and bought some. I started sleeping again -- consistently getting 3 - 5 hours of sleep a night. That one little capsule a night saved my life. After a few years I didn't need it anymore to fall asleep, but restorative sleep still eluded me.

A couple of years ago I read a book called "Earthing." It's about the benefits of electrically connecting our bodies to the earth, something animals experience all the time but we humans don't do too often, given the rubber soles on the shoes we always wear outside. What I read made sense to me, so I bought a "half sheet" that goes on the foot of my bed. There's a wire you plug into the ground terminal of a wall outlet, grounding the sheet to the Earth. The first night I used it, I fell asleep in just a few minutes and woke up feeling good. And every night after that. I average about seven hours of sleep a night now, and wake up feeling refreshed. It's just effen' amazing.

If you're interested, Google Earthing. There's a Web site and information on Wikipedia too.

I really suck at getting to bed, but when I finally get into it I hate getting out of it again, but work, wife and kids require me to so I usually end up with 5-6 hrs.

I average around six hours but I feel better by far if I get more. This usually only happens on weekends.

6 1/2 to 7 hours. I rarely get 8 or more, though I feel better if I do. Like some other people here, I'm a "sleep fighter" and it's difficult for my brain to decide it's time to sleep, even if i'm deadly tired.

I usually get around 5 hours and make up for it on weekends. Though by mid-week I'm in sleep deficit mode and will take a nap mid morning one day a week.

I usually average 5-6 hours a night.
Weekdays: Bed at Midnight Thirty. Wake at O Dark Thirty.

Originally Posted by Morty

Autoimmune disease screwed my body over royally (it's why I'm adventitiously deaf today with no vestibular function). In 1994 my body stopped falling asleep. I'd go two or three daze without sleeping, then nod off for maybe 20 minutes and my eyes would pop open again. I was out of work with no health insurance so seeing a doctor was out of the question. I can't begin to adequately describe mental exhaustion from not being able to sleep. My brain wasn't fried; it was frayed. Then in April of 1995 I read about melatonin in Time Magazine, how your brain secretes it to make you fall asleep after the sun goes down and that people with sleep disorders are using supplemental melatonin to help them fall asleep. I found a GNC store and bought some. I started sleeping again -- consistently getting 3 - 5 hours of sleep a night. That one little capsule a night saved my life. After a few years I didn't need it anymore to fall asleep, but restorative sleep still eluded me.

A couple of years ago I read a book called "Earthing." It's about the benefits of electrically connecting our bodies to the earth, something animals experience all the time but we humans don't do too often, given the rubber soles on the shoes we always wear outside. What I read made sense to me, so I bought a "half sheet" that goes on the foot of my bed. There's a wire you plug into the ground terminal of a wall outlet, grounding the sheet to the Earth. The first night I used it, I fell asleep in just a few minutes and woke up feeling good. And every night after that. I average about seven hours of sleep a night now, and wake up feeling refreshed. It's just effen' amazing.

If you're interested, Google Earthing. There's a Web site and information on Wikipedia too.

Interesting. Let me start by saying that I do not dismiss your experiences. I am the first to say 'if it works for you, great!'
I just read something about earthing. The main 'problem' I have with such things is that the proponents / inventors make a lot of claims and guarantees, but without having any sort of explanation on how or why it works. Or rather, they do have explanations but absolutely no proof or scientific underpinnings.

And if it indeed works for you (which I take your word for, no discussion there) why isn't it a problem for me, who is surrounded by computers 24/7 and who is wearing rubber foot wear throughout the day? What makes you behave different from me as far as earthing and its results are concerned?

Aside from the fact that -like you- I would try anything if I got desparate enough, I think the proponents dodge the hard questions and just go with the 'natural energies' which are 'extremely difficult, if not impossible, to measure' according to the faq.