Question of the Day, Sunday, October 9, 2016

good morning! 

another two-part Question for today --

How many hours of sleep is ideal for you?

and, How many hours sleep do you usually get each night?

i'll start!

i do best with 7 to 8 1/2 hours sleep each night, though that doesn't always happen. 

how many hours sleep i get each night varies quite a bit. i try to stay around the 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 hours range. sometimes i'll have a night or two that i only get 6 or so hours, and will follow with a couple nights of 9 to 10 hours sleep.

for me, part of the problem is that i like to stay up and enjoy the quiet late night hours, but i'm also very much a morning person and once it gets light out i'm pretty much wide awake. 

how about you?

I am at my best when I get 8 hours of sleep. I feel so alert and able to tackle anything as soon as I get up.

If I get less than 6, or even 5 hours as in today; I will be exhausted all day long. 

When I run on around 6 hours of sleep for a few days, I find I am running for the coffee, pushing myself along; eventually ending up in a couple days of 2 hour naps.. 

I hate to take naps because I feel horrible after them. I cannot take a nap or lie down, dozing for less than 2 hours. It is a no win situation. 

I get maybe 6 hours a sleep. Ideally 8 hours would be better.

I don't get nearly the amount of sleep I should. I think I'd do well with about 6 or 7 hours. I consider myself lucky if I get 5.

7 seems ideal, but I usually get about 6 or 6.5 thanks to a certain cat.

I do best on 8 hours but am woken anytime after 6 depending on my three cats. They usually decide to playfight on the bed at about 4am. Oh bless 'em

I like to get 7 hours sleep however I'm usually awake all night. I'm retired so I can take naps during the day.

I'm pretty good with 7, although would prefer 8. I rarely get it.

I go to bed pretty early, and have to be up early + the obvious cat issue.  Add in that Casper is diabetic and has to be kept on an insulin schedule that fits with our life.  I'm asleep usually by 10:30pm  up at 5:30 am.  If I were able to sleep until 6:30 it would be incredible.  

I need and get about 9 hours of sleep. Like Artiemom, if I get less for a few days, I end up taking a nap, feel awful when I wake up, and waste the rest of the day. 

I've always needed that much sleep, even in high school and my early 20s. It was a struggle then to get enough sleep and half the time I felt like a zombie. I'm retired now, so I indulge myself. When I was working, I went to bed at 9 and got up at 6.

7 would be good I guess but during the week, I usually get around 4. I rarely go to bed before 3:00 AM and I have to be up no later than 7. I'm a night person. The middle of the night is the greatest. The world is dark and quiet. The moonlight is soft and inviting. Daytime is horrible. There is a giant fireball in the sky that wants to burn my delicate fair skin and tries to blind me. Ever hear of someone getting moon poisoning? No. Sun poisoning? Yup. Moonburn? No. Sunburn? All the time. Everything is better at night- including breakfast.

7 used to be ideal. I'm not sure anymore.  I can't function on 4-5 like I used to.  Sometimes I find myself out for 9 hours when I don't get woken up by kids and responsibilities. 

Artiemom said:

 
I am at my best when I get 8 hours of sleep. I feel so alert and able to tackle anything as soon as I get up.

If I get less than 6, or even 5 hours as in today; I will be exhausted all day long. 

When I run on around 6 hours of sleep for a few days, I find I am running for the coffee, pushing myself along; eventually ending up in a couple days of 2 hour naps.. 

I hate to take naps because I feel horrible after them. I cannot take a nap or lie down, dozing for less than 2 hours. It is a no win situation. 

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ahhhh, naps. the best way i've found (lately) is to not take a nap, but instead to go to bed earlier that night. when i do that, i can sleep for 4 to 5 hours and then get up and give my 3 their 'before bedtime snack' -- served late, but not forgotten. 

LTS3 said:

 
I get maybe 6 hours a sleep. Ideally 8 hours would be better.

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6 hours seems to be the minimum that i can get by on, but only for a few days really. then i'm 'playing catch up' on my sleep. 

Winchester said:

 
I don't get nearly the amount of sleep I should. I think I'd do well with about 6 or 7 hours. I consider myself lucky if I get 5.

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you know, i used to get up during the night and give my cats a 'middle of the night snack'. then after the girls reached one year old, i stopped doing that. but all three cats would then go to great efforts to try to get me up, even after a few months. so i recently started getting up to give them a 'middle of the night snack' again. i split my night's sleep into two parts, and am finding i'm getting very good sleep -- and my cats aren't making much effort at all trying to wake me up. this probably wouldn't work for everyone (or their cats), but it's working well for us.

I try to get 7 hours every night, and basically stay in bed that long, but I sleep very hard those first 4 hours or so and then lay there and wake frequently until I get up. I have ALWAYS been an early morning person, when I had a job in nursing in the last city we lived in, my shift started at 5 AM, so I got up at 3:30 AM. All these people that say they stay up so late to get the 'peace and quiet' of late night would get the same thing in the early morning hours.(I guess it could be figured as REALLY late night!) In the summer it is the only way to go if you have any yard/garden work at all, the mornings are so quiet and cool, I was always out by 6:30 AM to be in by noon. There are drawbacks of course, I get to bed EARLY, by 9 o'clock and get up at 4. I figure I get the best of both worlds, the quiet, peaceful nighttime and the glorious sunrise and cooler early mornings!

jcat said:

7 seems ideal, but I usually get about 6 or 6.5 thanks to a certain cat.

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ahhh, our cats certainly can be...firm, persistent...when they want to wake us up! 

Verna davies said:

I do best on 8 hours but am woken anytime after 6 depending on my three cats. They usually decide to playfight on the bed at about 4am. Oh bless 'em

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yup! that's about the time frame that my three cats feel the need to wake me up.

Muffy said:

 
I like to get 7 hours sleep however I'm usually awake all night. I'm retired so I can take naps during the day.

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i've mentioned before, in other threads, that i've seriously considered switching my day/night schedule so that i'm up all night, and then sleep during the day. although i haven't tried it yet, i keep thinking that would work out really very well for both myself and my cats. 

mickNsnicks2mom said:

 
i've mentioned before, in other threads, that i've seriously considered switching my day/night schedule so that i'm up all night, and then sleep during the day. although i haven't tried it yet, i keep thinking that would work out really very well for both myself and my cats. 

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I worked a seven-day, rotating shift (going backward) for 18 years. I didn't really mind third shift all that much. I had to be to work by 11 pm and worked til 7 am. By 5:00, most people's butts were dragging. Me? I was bouncing around, having a great time.  The worst part of third was having to get ready for work around the time my family was getting ready to go to bed. That really bothered me. Oh, and the fact that people thought that if I got off work at 7 am, I was in bed and sound asleep by 7:01!  It doesn't work that way! I'd get off work at 7:00, stop at my parents' house for coffee and stay there a couple of hours, helping mom with whatever she needed done. Went home and did a bit of housework. I didn't really get to bed until noon most days. Got back up at 4:00 and made dinner. And then studied for whatever class I was taking over at college until it was time to get ready to go back into work. I pretty much lived on about 4 hours sleep a day when I was on third shift. I learned to disconnect the phone and not answer the door. I still loved third shift best.

OTOH, come time to work the day shift and it was horrid for me. Had to be to work by 7 am and got off at 3 pm. By 10:00 am, my butt was dragging and it was all I could do to stay awake.

I don't think I could work that way anymore; I'm too old now and most of the time, I'm pretty much awake between 3:30 and 5:00 in the morning anyway.

I do best with 8 hours of sleep. And now that I've trained Ruby to sleep until the radio comes on, I get that most nights.