How much sleep do you average?

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Ramathorn

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For me:

During the work week: 7 hours, and I have a very hard time waking up. Is this normal? Am I under sleeping? I suspect I am right at average. I always tell myself to go to sleep earlier, but it just never happens, or when it does, I can't fall asleep.


Weekend : about 9. But, still have some trouble waking up.




Sometimes, I have an easier time waking up on 6 hours of sleep. Wonder if that's a sleep cycle thing?
 
Not being able to wake up easily is because of your sleep cycle.

If you are in a deep REM state, it is harder to get up, and you feel groggy.

If you are undersleeping, you will feel tired during the day. If you are able to easily lay down in the afternoon and take a nap, then you are undersleeping.

If it takes you a while to wake up, but you feel fine during the day, then you are getting enough sleep.

BTW, during the week I average about 5-6 hours of not very good sleep. On the weekends, though, I get about 10 or more hours per night.

I hate when we play night games...
 
I work from 7AM to 5:30PM 4 days a week and average about 7 hours of sleep a night (10:30PM - 5:30AM). This is not continuous because I usually wake up about 2 or 3 AM to get a drink of water or go to the restroom. I'm not sleeping well right now because I just moved in with my fiancee and I'm trying to get use to sleeping in the same bed with someone else and different surroundings, etc. When I was living alone, the fiancee and I didn't sleep together during the week because we could not get comfortable because we like to stretch-out. Can't wait to move and buy that king size bed, we have a queen now.
 
I get about 9 on weekends. During the week my work schedule varies from early mornings on some days to late nights on others. I'm lucky to get 5 hours of sleep on a work day.
 
Six hours a night is all I need during the week. I'm usually in bed at 10:30-10:45 pm and I'm up and ready to hit the gym by 4:30-4:45 am. If you can figure out your cycle(s), you're set. I once heard someone say when you first wake up "naturally," (i.e., not from an alarm or other stimulus), THAT'S when you should get up, even if it's earlier than you wanted. Something about your body knowing your cycles are finished and having enough sleep. I figured out my cycle takes 3 hours, so 2 cycles during the week and 3 on the weekends.
 
Probably about 7 hours... we have a baby so it doesn't change on weekends. If we would go to sleep before midnight, we would get more sleep.
 
I work night shifts. Between nights that I work I sleep 6-7 hrs during the day. When I'm off or the night before I start my shifts I sleep 7-9. I'm not a good representation of sleep cycles, though, since mine are so thoroughly screwed up. I have to drug myself most of the times I have to sleep at night.
 
I'd say I average 7. Sometimes less, rarely more. I have a teething 10 month old and a 2 year old who thinks that 5AM is a good time to get up and ask for breakfast, if he's not already in bed with us by 2AM. Usually in bed by 10 or so, never in bed past 6AM unless my wife gives me a break by taking the kids.
 
Since I've been here in Chicago....not nearly enough!!
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About what Hornhawk gets, 5 hours avg. on weekdays and maybe 6 or so on weekends. Every couple of weekends I will get about 8 or 9 in a night and wake up very groggy and lethargic. My body does not like that much sleep unless I am sick or about to be sick.

I get a lot of time off work and when I don't have to wake up, I don't go to bed. I will stay up till about 6 a.m. and wake up about 11:30. I think that is what my body likes best. It just gravitates to that schedule.
 
I try to get 7 to 7.5 a night but often have some anxiety that keeps me up, so I probably on a weekday average 6 to 6.5. On the weekends, I can't really sleep in like I used to and end up waking up near the same time as a work day, though I sleep better. I probably get about 1 to 2 hrs more on the weekend, unless I've been up late the night before, in which case I get less.
I'm really tired right now; hopefully, it means I'll sleep like a baby tonight.
 
Design is to go to bed at 9 and get up at 4, on weekdays. But I end up getting 6 or less due to my wife's constant moving around. By Friday the sleep deprivation is big time, and I sleep about 10 hours on Friday night. Some booze involved, at those times.
 
I was getting about 8 a night. My wife and I just had a baby girl 9 days ago and all that's changed. Now it's a little here and a little there, maybe 5 hours a day. Why else would I be up at this hour? Oh, and I wouldn't change a thing.

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Great question frog. I can't explain it. I'm off from work so that has rejuvenated me some. I love my sleep but this is well worth it. She's in her baby papasan right next to me as I type this. She's my first and I have waited a long time for this. It will get better or so I'm hoping.

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Anywhere between 5 and 7 hours on weekdays, depending on how late I stay up. My wife gets up at 5:30-6am and I can never go back to sleep while she's getting ready (I get up at 7am). On weekends I usually get 7-8 hours.
 
I have always been a very deep sleeper. I get about 6-7 hours of sleep right now.

Bu,t no matter how little or how much sleep I get, it takes 3 separate very loud alarms for me to wake up. I do not get it and it has always bothered me.

Anybody have any tips?
 
I think it's just mind over matter. I'm just like you though man. Even when I'm not sleepy, I will still wait for the 3rd alarm.
 
It might be mind over matter. I generally don't hear the alarm until all 3 are going off. The alarms are usually ringing for 15-minutes before I even begin to wake up. On top of that the alarms are always factored into some sort of dream. It has been that way my entire life.
 
Rowdy,

At the beginning of this thread, there was some discussion about sleep cycles.

If it takes you that long to wake up, you are probably in the middle of a deep REM cycle. Try to get between 30mins-1 hr more sleep. You should be coming out of the cycle by then, and it should make it easier to wake up.

If that doesn't work, try to get about 30 mins more on top of that. If all of that doesn't work, then you are just lazy...
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haha.

If it's hard for you to go to sleep that early, try waking up 30 mins-1 hr earlier.

Seriously, it shouldn't take that much for you to wake up. You might try going to a sleep study as well. You could have some kind of sleep disorder. Do you feel excessively sleeping during the day?
 
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