About 4 hours is ideal for me. If I sleep more than 5, I'm groggy all day. I usually sleep from around 2 AM to 6 AM.

I usually take a short 30 minute nap after lunch.

I recently read that they've isolated a specific gene that allows some people to require about half as much sleep as a normal person.

It may seem weird to most, but for me the idea of sleeping 8 hours is crazy. I wake up feeling like I came out of a coma. I needed the full night when I was young but by the time I was about 15-16 I just didn't sleep much at all.

man this thread jinxed me awfully. I literally don't think I got 20 minutes last night. LMAO

Not much noise to bother you, or you're a deep sleeper?

I'm basically in the same situation in terms of weather... low humidity with a 25+ degree difference between night and day. I'll run the A/C during stretches of 90°+/70° weather, but I have a whole house fan that does wonders if it drops much below 70 overnight... it's the closest to sleeping outside without actually doing it, with a nice cool breeze, and some mornings it'll be in the low-mid 60s in the house by morning.

The neighborhood is pretty quiet, except the neighborhood dogs at 5-6am... even the few birds can get annoying once I wake up. Not sure I could do the outside thing just because of that.

I try to get 8 per night, but I wake up a lot. Usually I actually sleep for about four, then wake up, then try to get back to sleep to get the other four. It's been years since i slept a full eight hours without waking up.

I have an inability to nap during the day. Outside of migraine days, I can't do it. It's either overnight sleep or nothing.

I think I can generally ignore ambient noise. We're in the middle of the city so there's always some traffic noise, but at this point I can completely ignore it. So I guess it gets quiet enough. I want to convince my wife to just make that balcony our summer bedroom.

I usually get about 5-6 hours a night. I work in the heat most days, and usually run between 5-7 miles a day after work (which is still in the heat), shower, dinner, about 30 min of tv, sex, sleep by 11, up around 430-5 am, most days up before the alarm.

Since I started going to bed at the same time every night... 7-8. Prior to that 6. I am in bed at 10 waking up about 5:30. A hard workout during the day adds about 30 min.

I work nights but it's generally 14-16 hour shift 6 night in a row two off rotation. I probably average 30 to 40 hours a week overtime I've had up to 91 hours overtime for two week pay period. I like the money but it wears you the **** out.

I have a wildly erratic sleep schedule. About 3 times a week I sleep 3-4 hrs a night. 2 or 3 times a week I sleep about 7 hrs. Then the other 2 or 3 days I get 8-10. And whoever said you can't make up sleep is an idiot. Immediately after I have a full night of sleep I feel like a million bucks no matter how many nights of 3 hr sleep I've had.

Try Modafinil if any of you have irregular sleep schedule. Makes you feel wakefulness and ability to concentrate, but not like adderall. It's just more of a calming and lower key effect.

I feel great.

That's why God created caffeine.

If I take a nap during the day I'm screwed.

End up getting about 3 hours of sleep at night.

5-6 hours.

I go to bed at 1:00 AM every night, but I grab a 40 minute nap the next day to recharge for the afternoon.

Based on what I've read of Herschel Walker, he must have had that variant. Apparently he'd only need 4 hours of sleep a night. Dude was a freak.

I've read Gruden has it as well. Kinda gave him a leg up on the competition.