Poll: So, how much sleep do you actually get per night?

[King of Asgaard]

A period of time located betwixt the fourth and second poll answers.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

During my work week I tend to go to sleep on average around 5:00am and wake up at 11:30am.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Around 7-9 hours but at the moment it's 7 hours.

I would get more sleep if my bloody parent stop waking me up whenever they go to the toilet at night! (I'm a light headed sleeper so any noise outside of my room wake me up easily.)

 

[Richardplex]

1 AM?
Please I've made it a week without sleeping[footnote]This behaviour isn't endorsed or recommended by me, side-effects include having no idea what you're doing, being completely unable to concentrate and hallucinations.[/footnote], anyway considering that I normally go to sleep anywhere between 2AM and 4 AM and tend to get up at 8AM I'd say anywhere between 6 and 4 hours, but considering that it normally takes me around half an hour to fall asleep let's say anything between 6-3 and a half hours, though one time I did sleep for 3 days, but that was after said week without sleeping, and may have been a short coma.

You only hallucinate after a week? Lucky you, that starts happening after the first day of all-nighting for me. 2 nights plus and I get violently ill after I sleep.

OT: 1 am? that's when I start my last 1 hour run. I normally go to bed around 3 in the morning these days, spend 2 hours trying to sleep and wake between 10 and 1, so it's quite varied, 5-8 hours.

 

[Alssadar]

My natural sleeping habits usually dictate getting 8 hours. I mean, with summer and all, I'm free to sleep whenever I want to.
But when I go to bed at 12:30, I wake up at 8:30; sleep at 1:30, get up at 9:30. It's randomly how my body works.

But during the schoolyear, I get around 6 hours, as I go to bed 'round midnight and wake up around 6:30.

 

[Aerosteam]

No matter what time I go to sleep, It's always 9 hours if I wake up on my own.

 

[King of Wei]

I try for 6 but usually end up getting 4 or less because I'm constantly thinking about work and other such nonsense.

 

[manic_depressive13]

It really depends. I rarely go to sleep before 4am, but depending on whether I have to go anywhere the next day the amount of sleep ranges from 3 hours to 12 hours. At the moment between I have three days off a week. I probably get 10 hours sleep on each of my days off and about 3-4hours on my working days, which averages out to a respectable 6-7 hours sleep per night.

 

[Zio_IV]

Where's mah insomniac option?

Been going 43 months without sleep. Christ I love not having to sleep. It's just so convenient.

 

[Bazaalmon]

I tend to get 8-9 hours per night if it's a weekday and I have stuff to do eg. school, job, whatever.
Weekends tend to be slightly less, but I still feel better with the smaller amount I get because I don't need to wake up to an alarm clock. I hate alarm clocks.
Why does waking up naturally feel so much better than waking up to an alarm, and why can't we all do that instead?

 

[Myndnix]

I am bit of an insomniac though.

Making your avatar suit you surprisingly well.
OT: About four to six hours a night. Feel like shit most of the day, but it works.

 

[Ledan]

Sleep at night? What a ridiculous concept!
I only sleep between 6 and 12 in the morning.

 

[rokkolpo]

Workdays: I get around 7-9 hours.

Weekend: I either do not sleep or do not even get out of bed. (Because I didn't sleep the other day)

 

[Kae]

1 AM?
Please I've made it a week without sleeping[footnote]This behaviour isn't endorsed or recommended by me, side-effects include having no idea what you're doing, being completely unable to concentrate and hallucinations.[/footnote], anyway considering that I normally go to sleep anywhere between 2AM and 4 AM and tend to get up at 8AM I'd say anywhere between 6 and 4 hours, but considering that it normally takes me around half an hour to fall asleep let's say anything between 6-3 and a half hours, though one time I did sleep for 3 days, but that was after said week without sleeping, and may have been a short coma.

You only hallucinate after a week? Lucky you, that starts happening after the first day of all-nighting for me. 2 nights plus and I get violently ill after I sleep.

No, I'm pretty sure it started on the third day, but I managed to stay up from a Saturday to a Sunday, which would be 5 nights without sleeping? Something like that, my recollection of the events is pretty hazy and I'm pretty sure that rock that I called pumpkin mountain wasn't really talking to me., it was awful, I'm pretty sure I was convinced that everybody wanted to kill me to, but I think that was the reason that I wasn't sleeping, and I probably thought that before I started hallucinating

 

[Bestival]

The whole 8 hours thing was basically bullshit made up to regulate how many hours people have to work, not sleep. The idea was 8 hours work, 8 hours leisure, 8 hours sleep.
Really, you only need between 4 and 7, except for the very young and the very old. Both less and more than that is actually sort of unhealthy.

I usually get between 5 and 6 hours on workdays, not because I'm obsessed with that whole 4-7 thing, but because I always end up reading, LOVE reading in bed.
Most of the time I'm in bed by like 22:00 or 23:00 or so, but then end up reading till around 01:00.
I try to really keep this rhythm going now, because I'm terrified of getting insomnia again. Had that a few years ago and it is absolute hell, 3 days awake, 3 hours sleep, 3 days awake.. after 2 weeks you start hallucinating, and everything happens in slowmo, horrible.


... So yeah, 6 hours.

 

[ResonanceSD]

after 2 weeks you start hallucinating, and everything happens in slowmo, horrible.

That sounds like it'd be awesome, I'd don a trench and some sunnies and walk around my own personal Matrix.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I think life's just too short to spend a third of it sleeping. When death comes a'knockin', I'd like to invite him in for a Waldorf Salad and a cup of tea before we depart, and I'd like to feel like the trip was worth it.

Depending on what is going on, I like to keep sleep between three and six hours, with lazy Saturdays or Sundays sprinkled into the routine, if feasible. Staying in bed on purpose is so much more rewarding and awesome when it's considered a truly luxurious, decadent, special treat.

When I'm dead, I'll be lying around for eternity. Can't have that as long as I'm breathing.

Also, a little caffeine right before going to sleep makes for very efficient dreaming. Only if you're not very sensitive to caffeine, of course.

 

[Issurru]

My sleep schedule is all sorts of fucked up sometimes. I work at least 8 hours a day everyday of the week. But I try to spend time with family friends and my girlfriend. So it can vary from none to 8 or if I'm lucky 9. I usually try to get at least 5 or 6 hours a night but that doesn't always happen. Like for instance I had to work yesterday from 7-4 then babysat my girlfriends bosses grandkids till 11. So I'm pretty much falling asleep at my job as I type this

 

[C F]

Generally 8 hours, though sometimes I'll clock anywhere up to 11 hours if I feel like sleeping in. I try to fall asleep around 10:30 to 11 pm so I can start my day early without any problems or drawbacks.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I think life's just too short to spend a third of it sleeping. When death comes a'knockin', I'd like to invite him in for a Waldorf Salad and a cup of tea before we depart, and I'd like to feel like the trip was worth it.

I'd be yelling at him to fuck off whilst I rax.


And then challenge him to a game of TF2.