How Many Hours Sleep Do You Get A Night?

[mitch]

Reading posts about having a Nap. I was wondering how many hours everyone gets to sleep at night.

I'm lucky if i get Five Hours. Even on My day off.
I get up early. (4.30am with DH) and don't go to bed until gone Midnight.
DH gets home from work and manages to get a Nap on the sofa most nights. Infact He's there as i type this LOL.

Wish i could do that. :whyme:

[Scrwballsgrl]

I have to say I'm pretty spoiled when it comes to sleep, I have a county job so I work 8-5 M-f with weekends off (speaking of which we have a holiday tomorrow Veterans Day, we'll probably go down town & watch the parade or go to the Battleship). I usually stay up til around 9 or 930 and get up around 515 or 530 depending on if they are offering OT at work or not. But last night I was so sleepy for some reason, I went to bed at a 1/4 til 9 and slept clean through til my alarm at 600!

[MrsDM]

I have problems falling asleep at night because I can't turn my mind off. So, maybe about 6 hours on a weekday, more like 8 on the weekends when I can sleep in later.

[June_Bride2008]

I probably sleep 8-10 hours. I get good sleep or I'm grumpy!!!!!

[Aleta]

Let's see, I go to sleep anywhere from 10 to midnight and wake up around 6ish. I wake up at 6ish, I'm NOT a happy person, but awake. Lol.

[Jacobs_Girl]

right now I am getting about 3 hours and thats because I am sick. My nose gets too congested and I wake up about 7 times a night.

But usually I get a little less than 8 hours

[FFC]

This depends on my shift. All last week I was getting about 5 on average... I had to get up at 3:30 but getting of work at 2pm was sooo worth it! This week I'm getting at least 6 hours a night, maybe a little more. I tend to be tired no matter how many hours I get LOL.

[NurseLau84]

Right now I am getting about 6. All of my classes start at 8 and I can't fall asleep before a certain time....my mind is just all over the place. In January I will be in big trouble because my clinicals start at 7, meaning even less sleep than I get now!

[KMS]

I usually get about 8 hours. I try to for health reasons, but beyond that I just feel like crud if I don't.

[acidcookie]

This is actually one of my problems right now--my sleep schedule is so messed up because as a grad student work hours are anytime, anywhere, and too often those of us working together are on so many schedule variations that sometimes I may not get to working until 10pm, or sometimes I have to get up at 6:30am. Right now I go to bed anywhere from midnight to 4am and get up anywhere from 7:30-10am. Ideally I'd go to bed at midnight-ish and get up at 7-8am. We'll see if I can ever get back on that kind of track.

[KMS]

This is actually one of my problems right now--my sleep schedule is so messed up because as a grad student work hours are anytime, anywhere, and too often those of us working together are on so many schedule variations that sometimes I may not get to working until 10pm, or sometimes I have to get up at 6:30am. Right now I go to bed anywhere from midnight to 4am and get up anywhere from 7:30-10am. Ideally I'd go to bed at midnight-ish and get up at 7-8am. We'll see if I can ever get back on that kind of track.

Yeah, I look forward to the day when I can have a more consistent sleep pattern. I have to be at work anywhere from 7 am to noon so I'm always waking up at different times.

[gwenshack]

I really need 8 hours, otherwise I'm shot. I go to bed long before FH and usually get up around the same time. Yet he functions somehow!

[Whitewater]

I suspect that as soon as I start getting treatment for whatever is wrong (going through some tests right now) I'll start to sleep less.

Right now I have an abnormal pattern, although I've always needed a good solid 8-9 hours of sleep to feel good and rested.

Now, I sleep about 9-10 hours at 'night' (because I'm nocturnal I tend to sleep from 3am-ish to noon-ish) PLUS a 1-3 hour nap during the day.

That's what signaled there was something wrong! I'm not depressed, but I probably have something up with my thyroid, because I'm tired ALL THE TIME nowadays.

I hope the tests will find something!


Whitewater

[RevMatty]

I don't sleep at night. I work the graveyard. Otherwise during the day, I average 6+ hours. Don't want to drift off, while driving my Peterbilt.

[ktmb34]

8-10 hours. trying to get all the sleep i can before someday i have a child :)

[Ninedays9]

I get 0 hours of sleep a night. I usually sleep during the day because of my overnight work schedule. Even if I have a night off, I stay up all night... unless I've got 3 or 4 nights off in a row, then I sleep at night. But, as I found out today, that also isn't great 'cause then I get used to sleeping when it's dark again and can't sleep with the light.

Grrrr. I need a day job so I can sleep at night with my fiance.

Anyway, back to the question. I typically sleep 9 or 10 hours. I'm also starting to wonder, as Whitewater is, if I've got thyroid problems. My grandpa does, my dad does... and I've got the same symptoms.

[Dani]

Ahhh, Sleep! My favorite! During the week I try to go to bed about 9:30-10:00 and I get up about 6 am. Weekends I still get up at six (the pooches schedule don't change on a weekend) and then I hit the couch for an afternoon nap, if I am lucky it would be both days, Saturday and Sunday. :)

[WBandMe]

It's hard to say. I work until either 2 or 3 am and have a lot of trouble winding down after that so sometimes I can't fall asleep until 6...and the nights I don't work my body is still all messed up so I'm awake anyway. I guess I usually sleep between 6-10 hours, but it really varies.

[Nekochanpurr]

Anywhere between 5-10. o.o; Usually 10 if i've got more than a few days at 5..

[WebLady]

I usually get 8 hours; another perk of working at home ;)

[rainbowtreat]

Right now I am lucky to get 5 hours a ngiht. I have made myself not go to bed untl I am tired and can fall asleep when I lay down. If I go to bed just because it is late and I should I will toss and turn and my head runs wild that I can't fall sleep. Have been dealing with a few things so my head is full. So I stay up once every one else has gone to bed and relax and veg out and wait till I am tired enough to fall sleep. Then I have to get up to get the kids ready for school so I can't sleep in. I tend to catch up on some sleep on the weekends when my husband is home to get up with the kids.

[brendalin]

I do not function well if I go an extended period of time with little sleep. Right now I am getting about 5 1/2 and that is way to little for me. I think that I function best on 8....

[amunet]

I get about 7-8 hours each night, I try to get as many hours as I can in a day.

[mj512]

My job requires me to stay up until at least 11:30 and I have to wake up at 6. So no more than 6.5 hours a night. Some times I get a nap in during the day.

[wpv82]

usually about 8, maybe a little less, but i catch up later.

[Fishlips]

My issue isn't wanting to sleep, or being tired, or not having the time to sleep...I usually wake up a dozen or so times a night and I am completely conscious when I do. And that doesn't count getting up to go to the bathroom. I feel like an old woman! I want to sleep 9-10 hours, but I only get about 5-6 when I'm lucky and it's more like an hour then wake up, then another hour then wake up...

[tootsie]

7-8 hours during the week. On the weekends, 9-10 hours. Love sleeping in!

[SarahPearl]

On a good night 6 1/2 - 7 hours..
On average though, 5 - 6

FH and I are fortunate to have jobs where we work 7:30-4ish so our sleep schedule would be something we could control..

[Docsgirl]

I'm lucky if I can get 4-5 hours a night. I've had a sleeping disorder since I was a kid and have been on and off sleeping meds for as long as I can remember. The meds I'm currently on have stopped working and I'm kind of dreading going back for a different prescription. I would be able to get around 9 hours of sleep a night if I didn't wake up about 6 times throughout the night.

[RosieAngel]

I usually sleep 7.5 - 8 hours. I get really sick if my sleep schedule gets thrown off, either by sleeping in or not getting enough sleep!

[tortoisegirl]

9 on weekdays and 10-12 on the weekend. =)

[ikkin510]

Sleep, what's that? I think I normally get 7 hours a night. But rarely is it uninterrupted.