Thread: How Much Sleep Do You Average ? POLL

I sleep a LOT, I always have.

These days on workdays I'm in bed at 2030 and up at 0630; though I'm a little later to bed in summer. When I was in the army and before that when I was a teenager I slept up to 16 hours on non working days. I think the late sleep-ins as a teenager was pretty chronic depression, and when in the army sleep was treasured as you got little on exercises ('out bush' as we called it). Three men on a missile detachment taking 2 hour shifts on the machine gun 24 hours a day gets a little draining after a month. As a Recruit Instructor I was working 16 hours a day, and working pretty hard, so I could fall asleep in five minutes if I didn't keep moving. Being deprived of sleep is very interesting, a little like mild LSD. Now I sleep long hours mainly because I'm bored. However, I'm adamant that I look so astonishingly youthful due to all the sleep...

Just a sec, I'm the only one who's voted 10! Who voted 'other' and is that like one hour or more than ten?

Originally Posted by Naallen12

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Hey, I see you're from Tanunda, that's just down the road! Nice town...

Originally Posted by Bruno

....The alarm clock goes off at 06:21 on a working day...

06:21. Is that like some sort of weird OCD thing or what?

My daughter goes to bed at 9. My 2 year old sin on the other hand has cried for 7 hrs streight b4 and he gets so mad he vomits, yeah let them cry themselves to sleep, really without gaging himself every day he stays up till 3ish anf is up by 530 no naps. So my 3-4 is broken up. My daughter is great though 10 hrs for her, she's 3

That sounds stressful and hard work! :-)

I Usually get around 6 hours, give or take a few minutes. I am usually up at 4-430AM and asleep by 930-10. Sleeping late for me is waking at 5AM. I've don't use an alarm clock either, I just wake up. Circadian rhythm can be a bitch.

If left alone I can sleep more than 8 hrs easy. I put down 10 as I usually go to be at 2am and wake up at noon. But then I have nights like last night. Bed at 1 am and up at 7am.

1st sleep ~ 3hrs. 2nd sleep ~ about the same.

If I sleep more than 8 I feel as if I've cheated myself out of my day. Fortunately that is infrequent. I usually sleep between 6 and 7 hours. If I sleep less than 6 I feel terrible throughout the day and less than 5 and I can't function.

If a person can get into the 7 to 8 hour ballpark they will live longer according to sleep experts. I am blessed with the ability to get to sleep and stay asleep.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I am blessed with the ability to get to sleep and stay asleep.

Amen to that.