How Many Hours Of Sleep Do You Get On A Week Night?
 

I read 8-9 hours is best interestingly enough I feel more energized and focused on 6-7. Except on weekends when I do my workout class 9-10 hours seems to work best.


Some people I know work best on 3-4 hours. Which seems baffling to me.


How many hours of sleep do you get?

Not much brah and it's shitty sleep.

I just bought a Garmin Forerunner 235 watch last week and among its interesting features is that it tracks my sleep. In the past week, I've averaged 7 hours, with about 1.5 hours of that being deep sleep and 5.5 being light sleep. On top of that, I'm awake about 22 minutes a light on average. On nights where I've gotten closer to 2 hours of deep sleep, I seem to feel more rested.

Usually around 6 hours.

Been stressed lately / the last few months. So even if I lay down to sleep, I usually have a racing. Ind for a good two hours.

Same here. My Gear Fit 2, does the same thing.

I'd say these days about 6:45 as a strong average. Sometimes 9 sometimes 5.5

It depends on how hot she is

5-6.

If I sleep more than 8 I drag the next day.

Benadryl will help, you need to give it time - it's nothing like Nyquil - but if you learn how to use Benadryl it'll take shape - takes a hard hour to set in - plus it's easier on the kidneys than the giant Q.

That's about where I'm at too.

Yeah, these fitness watches are kinda cool. That Gear Fit 2 looks like a great device, especially at the current price.

Almost none on the nights I'm banging your mom.

Vision of Burgess Meredith in grumpy old men popped into my head when I read that.

7 is ideal for me

I go 4 to 5 hours a night during the week. I think my time in the Army is why I don't need much sleep.

5:30 - 6 hours.

Sleep is for sissies.

6.5-7 hours on a good night. 5-6 hours typically.

Depends on the number of biscuits eaten.

Great movie

7-8 hours usually does it for me.

I'll generally wake up naturally after around 7 hours of sleep and can function just fine, but I also have no issue knocking back out for another hour if I've still got time left before the alarm goes off.

5-7. Usually closer to the 7 side of things.

Do you guys getting 5 hours feel fresh and focused at work?

You guys getting less than 5 hours explains all the shitty drivers in the mornings on the highway

I am fine as soon as I have had a cup of coffee. My co-workers know to not to **** with me until said cup of coffee has been consumed.

I’m lucky if I get 5.

I get about 5 or 6. My alarm is set for 4:30 and I am always awake before the alarm goes off. Even though I am up before the alarm I don't really hit the ground running. I have to enjoy a cup of coffee or 2 before leaving.

My wife on the other hand pretty much goes to bed and gets up at the same time as me. But she gets up at 90 miles an hour.

4-5 way too often. I'm best on 7.

6-7 hours and I don't need coffee to get going. Shower and on my way.

6–7 Occasionally 5. Most of the time I wake naturally which is the best time to get up.

After 8 hrs I wake up with a headache, feel sluggish and foggy. Too much sleep doesn't work for me. Unless I'm sick.

4-5 for me... been that way for over a decade. sleep is for the weak.

They tell us in the Army we can sleep when we die.

I average about 5hrs 24min

5 1/2 to 6.

cause they are still drunk from closing the bars down at 2am :D

best case scenario: i get to bed around 9 and sleep till 7.

it depends on how hungry the cats are. elder cat always stands up and scratch's our wardrobe mirror like a litter box when she wants fed...

bitch :D

ETA: sorry, this is on the weekend. during the week, i sleep from 9pm to 4am. :cuss:

Six to seven

5 to 6..headed to work in about 5 min to beat the heat!

I try for at least 7, but i can't sleep worth a shit and I have a fat cow who lives in the apartment above me who stomps back and forth til like 4 am every god damn night.

My mom is Kathy Bates. Please report to the thread and vote accordingly, you disgusting ****!

4-5. I'm groggy until I get in the shower and then I'm ready to go. 6 hours after a dozen beers.

6 hours every day.

Maybe 6...

I had sleep apnea. I would sleep for 11 hours then 2-3 hours later would need a 1-2 nap. Sucked. Always tired. One time I slept for 16 hours and was still tired:(

I got my C-Pap 5-10-17. It varies, from 4-7 hours. I haven't taken a nap in a long time.

6:15. Doesn’t matter weekday or weekend.

6-7 hours.

7-8. Much better after my cpap/sleep study.

This week 6 hours 43 mins. Last week I was one lazy mofo' 8 hr 49 min avg.

6 during the week. Try to sleep in and get 8-9 on Saturday if I'm not doing something in the morning. Been about a month since I got to do that though.

4-5.

If I go to bed too early, I wake up too early.

How many times do you wake up at night to go pee on weeknights?

Really wish I was a 5-6 hour person or even less, but my brain starts to shut down after a few nights of that. I shoot for 8 hours/night, but can do okay with a little less.

However, some weeks it seems like I couldn't possibly sleep enough and want to sleep 9-10 hours/night while other weeks suck... and one doesn't necessarily cause the other.

I do not sleep.

I average about 7 according to my Garmin, which is more than I thought.

But I have a different topic that may not be worth its own thread: sleeping outside.

As background, our swamp cooler had a broken water line when we started to crank it up this year, and it's hard to fix because it goes up the side of our house and the break was 20 feet up. Simultaneously, we had dinner at a neighbor's house, and he was extolling the virtues of his ductless A/C system. So my wife said that perhaps it was time to consider an air conditioning system, and I've been in charge of that. It's a very slow process since most HVAC people are incapable of calling a potential customer back to schedule an appointment.

So that's the background. It's been in the upper 90s in Denver every day, and our bedroom is on the third floor of our house and what's kind of a large attic layout. It's surrounded by roof on three sides, so it gets brutally hot. 100 degrees plus on these days.

Well, my wife retreated to the living room couch on the first floor since the second floor is also pretty warm. I scouted around and decided that our little third floor balcony could be nice. So I dragged up one of our patio chaise lounges, put a comforter on it, and slept out there.

Man, it's been divine. The temperature drops to the lower 60s at night, so it's very pleasant. I look up at the stars, get my skin caressed by cool breezes, and I'm protected because the balcony has a three foot wall or higher on every side. I want to sleep out there permanently in the summer now. I think that perhaps people are meant to sleep outdoors.

I'm not into camping, but I'm loving this outdoor thing. The house originally had a sleeping porch on the second floor that was removed at some point in the past century, and those original builders knew what they were doing.

Anyone else sleep outside in the summer?

Quarterback situation? I can see that.

7-8 for me. I can go off a lot less, hell, when I was in dental school I could do 4 or 5 thru the week but **** that.

Your situation is quite a bit different than mine was, but when i had to sleep outside i never really slept. More like you close your eyes, but are still alert and waken every hour or less.

What about before you joined chiefs planet?

3-14 ±8

In my spot, I'm safe from everything but Spiderman and giant eagles. So I can sleep pretty soundly.

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.

Interesting thread. Amazing how guys like Trump almost never sleep. It's wiring mostly.

Stop being cheap and put some ****ing AC in that house.

My God.

AC matters

Yes. I don't use caffeine either. Probably drank one cup of coffee total in my life. I'm fine in class with the kids all day. Won't think about energy once. During baseball season I'll take the bus, go to the game ect don't feel anything.

Once I get home and sit down though I usually feel it. Lot of times take an hour nap or so. It's more mental exhaustion though which I find more tiring than physical.

I try to get as much as I feel I need. Weeknights, probably 5-6. Weekends, probably 8-9. Sleep is really good for you and it's free.