Poll: How much sleep do you need vs get?

[clearconscience]

I usually go to bed between 11.00-11.30, finally get to sleep about 12-12.30. wake up multiple times through the night from back pain. Get up between 4.30 and 6.30 depends on my back. Have not used a alarm clock in 15 years. Hate pain meds. so I do not take them, Advil helps take the edge off some nights but I do not like taking them for more than a couple nights. When I was a kid I could sleep all night and half the day, ahh those where the days!

I'm the same way been to several docs and therapists for back issues and all they usually want to do is give pain meds or muscle relaxers.
No Thanks.

When My back is really tight I will take Ibuprofen before bed and sleep pretty good.

My stepdad had really bad back issues and could only really sleep sitting up in his recliner so he would sleep in it for 3-4 hours then go to bed and sleep for about 2 hours before he had to get up. Usually around 4am.

He ended up getting a fancy expensive sleep number bed and has been pretty happy with it. Said it was the first time he slept 8 hours straight in years.

But I don't have thousands to spend on a bed.

 

[Boboclown]

Man do I envy you 4-5 hour people...

I sometimes wish I could sleep for 12 hours.

But 6 hours come along and I have to get up and eat something.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

I'm hurting for sleep now but then it seems like I am always hurting for sleep. I've been working a 4 day/10 hrs night shift for about 19 years now and I still haven't got the sleep portion figured out. On my work days I take two naps during the day and try to catch up on sleep on my weekends.

That's just how it is. I'm planning on retiring in 02/19 (this is a second career.) I hope I make it. Maybe I'll have the sleep thing figured out by then.

 

[Joe13]

I'm hurting for sleep now but then it seems like I am always hurting for sleep. I've been working a 4 day/10 hrs night shift for about 19 years now and I still haven't got the sleep portion figured out. On my work days I take two naps during the day and try to catch up on sleep on my weekends.

That's just how it is. I'm planning on retiring in 02/19 (this is a second career.) I hope I make it. Maybe I'll have the sleep thing figured out by then.

You'll make it, I'm sure if that. Figuring out sleep on a 4 day night shift is pretty horrible for sleep and life.

2 more years though and it's all easy mornings from there on out.

 

[mtm68]

I get 5-6, do better with 7-8; 38 yo, pretty consistent schedule, early to bed (8sh) early to rise, (4ish)... usually toss and turn a bit around 1-3; I work with teams in Europe, so sometimes conference calls make early mornings.

 

[Boboclown]

Lucky for me, I'm only a yougin' and don't understand the importance of sleep. Don't need sleep if you're too stupid to get why its important!

 

[Kruel J]

5 hours is my magic number. In bed by 11, up at 5:00. But it takes me a long time to shut off my brain and actually sleep.

 

[ThemGunsThough]

Ive been good at getting my 8 hours of sleep that I need. Starting next week, I might cut down to 7-7.5 hours of sleep as ive decided to get my workouts out of the way before work instead of waiting til after work and eating late.

 

[mjbskwim]

Lucky for me, I'm only a yougin' and don't understand the importance of sleep. Don't need sleep if you're too stupid to get why its important!

**oh yeah,been there done that screen for sure**

 

[Kruel J]

GREAT movie quote, from one of my favorites.

And Mike, we've known for a long time that you're a robot and don't require sleep.

 

[mjbskwim]

GREAT movie quote, from one of my favorites.

And Mike, we've known for a long time that you're a robot and don't require sleep.

Has it been that obvious?

 

[Hawaiian]

I need as much as I can get. 8 hours is good. I am old and wake up to pee a few times.

 

[Boboclown]

Has it been that obvious?

Nah, I was thinking you were an android.

 

[Caveman Jim]

5 hours is my magic number. In bed by 11, up at 5:00. But it takes me a long time to shut off my brain and actually sleep.

Same here and my Doc says "GET OFF THAT DAMN COMPUTER BY 8PM". Yet here I am at 10:36 "STILL ON THIS DAMN COMPUTER"!!!!

 

[Joe13]

Yea I would normally be asleep but I got things on the brain.

 

[Boboclown]

I know that feeling. Though right now its just not being in the mood to sleep.

 

[Wombat of Doom]

Can make do on 4, (or 0 really for 2 nights in a row) really need 8 to function my best. Average is probably 5-6. Chronic insomnia. Do not need CPAP.

 

[Nick Burkhardt]

Most nights I only get 6 hours. Saturday morning I am down for 9.

 

[mjbskwim]

Yea I would normally be asleep but I got things on the brain.

So there is one in there

 

[Medic!]

Honestly? About 23.

I'm asleep right now.
But hey. ''Life is but a dream''.