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

[Starik20X6]

I get around 8-9, I'm not usually up past midnight and I try to avoid sleeping away the mornings.

Why does waking up naturally feel so much better than waking up to an alarm, and why can't we all do that instead?

When the first rays of sunlight hit your eyeballs in the morning, your body begins producing endorphins to slowly bring you out of your sleep, which makes you feel refreshed when you wake up soon after. When you're woken by an alarm clock, your body is jolted from sleep to wake without the endorphins meant to ease you awake, thus you still feel sleepy and disoriented. That's why I always sleep with the blinds open on my window that faces east. Feels good man.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I get around 8-9, I'm not usually up past midnight and I try to avoid sleeping away the mornings.

Why does waking up naturally feel so much better than waking up to an alarm, and why can't we all do that instead?

When the first rays of sunlight hit your eyeballs in the morning, your body begins producing endorphins to slowly bring you out of your sleep, which makes you feel refreshed when you wake up soon after. When you're woken by an alarm clock, your body is jolted from sleep to wake without the endorphins meant to ease you awake, thus you still feel sleepy and disoriented. That's why I always sleep with the blinds open on my window that faces east. Feels good man.

You can get alarm clocks which throw light and don't make some stupid industrial honking noise too. If your house doesn't happen to have an east facing window.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Around the regulation eight hour, though sometimes I have a bit of trouble falling asleep.

Hoping I don't end up an insomniac like my mum, that'd suck pretty bad.

 

[Username Redacted]

I am in bed for ~8 hours a night. I am asleep for ~5 of those hours. Hours are unlikely to be consecutive.

 

[Zeraki]

I had knee surgery about two weeks ago, so my sleep schedule right now is pretty much whenever I happen to fall asleep and wake up.

 

[octafish]

As a parent of a three year old and an 18 month old...not enough...never enough...given that any gaming I do is inevitably after the kids and wife are in bed, even less than not enough.

 

[MPerce]

I try to get about 8 hours because that's how much it takes for my brain to be at its best. That never happens, though.

7 hours is optimistic.

 

[deserteagleeye]

I've been getting around 10 hours, but I stay up until 3-4.

 

[SpAc3man]

6 to 7 on weeknights normally. I would like more but it gets hard to find the time. Friday night I normally get around 9 hours and Saturday I try to get about 8.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Let's see...In a normal school year I'll usually sleep from 6-7 hours a night. Then on weekends, depending if I have any priorities (A certain Pony related TV show in the morning, for example), I'll get the same amount. Otherwise roughly 10+ hours. Though I'm always sleepy...I usually sleep in class.

 

[Bat Vader]

If I go to bed at 6:00 AM I will usually fall asleep around 7:30 or 8:00 AM and wake up around 11:00 AM. It will take me about another hour or so to fall back asleep before I have to get up for work at around 2:00 PM.

I usually end up getting 4-5 hours of sleep a day. That is if I don't take sleeping pills though. If I take sleeping pills I usually end up getting 5 1/2-7 hours of sleep.

 

[DustyDrB]

Five is the norm, but I get less sometimes. I just stay up way too late, even when I have things to do in the morning.

 

[Rule Britannia]

During the holidays I'll sleep for 12 hours or so but on school days I'll get around 7-8 hours of sleep.

 

[Beautiful End]

When I don't have school in the morning, I go to sleep like at 3am and I wake up like at 11am but only because I realize I must get up eventually. But I could keep going. So that's 8 hours.

During school days, I go to sleep like at 1 or 2am and I wake up like at 8am, so that's 6 hours, more or less. But I've always believed that a good night sleep (for me) consists of 10 hours of sleep.

I guess I'm a wuss at staying up that late. I've gone like two or three days without sleep but at that point, I enter my "drunk-like" state where I start hallucinating and everything's spinning and nothing makes sense. That can also happen when I'm really tired and I just won't go to sleep.

 

[qwertyzxy27]

Dat Bell Curve!

OT: I get very little sleep an average of 5. Mostly because I hate sleeping as my dreams are either incredibly boring or nightmares

 

[Phlakes]

7/8/9ish on weekends, 5/6/7 the rest of the time. Those 5s and below really used to mess with me but I've gotten used to it I guess, feels natural enough.

 

[Joccaren]

My sleeping schedule is basically whenever I can/need to. That generally means about 5 hours per night, going to sleep at 1:30am and waking up at 6:30am, however if I am particularly tired and free that night I'll take a nap from 4-7pm and go to bed around 2am, totalling around 7 hours of sleep. On weekends and holidays I'll go to sleep anywhere from 1-4am, and wake up any time from 10am to 3pm, so I make up most of my sleep there.

Is it healthy? God no, but I'd miss out on doing too much stuff if I let that get in the way of a good time.

 

[drobear]

Well If I don't feel like gaming to much I get 7-8 if I Game more 3-6 hours.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I get around 8-9, I'm not usually up past midnight and I try to avoid sleeping away the mornings.

Why does waking up naturally feel so much better than waking up to an alarm, and why can't we all do that instead?

When the first rays of sunlight hit your eyeballs in the morning, your body begins producing endorphins to slowly bring you out of your sleep, which makes you feel refreshed when you wake up soon after. When you're woken by an alarm clock, your body is jolted from sleep to wake without the endorphins meant to ease you awake, thus you still feel sleepy and disoriented. That's why I always sleep with the blinds open on my window that faces east. Feels good man.

Aye, that does indeed work like a charm.

But only if you don't have to get up while the Sun is still well below the horizon.

Also, daylight saving time messes us up more than most people would believe.

 

[Kyber]

6-7 on weekdays
on holidays none, because i go to sleep at a time that is considered "early morning"