How many hours do you sleep per day?

[CerebralEcstasy]

Circadian rythm anyone?:confused:

 

 

I generally sleep anywhere between 4-6 hours. Sometimes less, sometimes more depending on what my body demands.

 

Generally speaking though, my circadian rhythm dictates that while I may go to bed at 2 a.m, 3 a.m, 4 a.m - I will (unless drug induced) awake at precisely 6:20 a.m., even though I may have woke several times in the night.

 

I set my alarm clock "just in case" but there really is no need for it.

[Drip Curl Magic]

sleep debt is a perfectly acceptable way of looking at it, its actually how I do it ;) I aim for 9 hours a night, if you get 8 then you have to sleep 10 the next night to make up, otherwise it just accumulates and eventually I crash

 

 

you think like me.

[HappytheStripper]

Sleep debt? Now that's looking at it in a negative light...

 

Just think of all the extra time that you spend awake, constantly learning new and exciting things :doh:. Kinda hard to experience life when your unconscious on a bed ;).

 

I enjoy being awake and can't stand the thought that whilst I'm sleeping, I could be awake doing something.

 

I'd much rather experience life in a conscious state :).

 

Dark Mind .. are you unconscious on a bed .. ?? Or are you .. a waking dreamer .. ??

 

There happens to be more than one level of consciousness ..

Try sleeping .. you may discover a new level .. which is kinda hard to discover when you always live in the dark of night .. which you kindly have phrased .. the .. negative light ..

 

Ashley

[Chacmool]

sleep debt is a perfectly acceptable way of looking at it, its actually how I do it :eek2: I aim for 9 hours a night, if you get 8 then you have to sleep 10 the next night to make up, otherwise it just accumulates and eventually I crash

Exactly. "Sleep debt" is precisely what it is. According to a doctor I've spoken to, you can make up for lost sleep, but you can't "bank" sleep for lost hours still to come.

[Lancaster]

I'm an insomniac, it ususally takes me about 3 hours to fall asleep, maybe more. I think the problem is that I have trouble taking my mind off the fact that I'm trying to sleep, so it never happens.

[hallenrm]

Well ulike many of us who have posted on this poll I sleep for about 8-10 hours a day.

 

i found the discussion rather interesting, it set my thoughts rolling, did the revelations support my reading of the hypographites I often meet on the net?

 

is insomania indicate some kind of personality traits?

 

i did some googling and found some interesting links. here they are, Perhaps they may be of some help to some!

 

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=133

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/articles/whatissleep.shtml

http://relentlessproductivity.com/?p=50

 

and some curative methods, if yiu would like to sleep longer

 

1. meditation

2. other therapy

[learnin to learn]

I try to sleep 4 hours per night, but i am a deep sleeper and my alarm never wakes me up, so I sleep another 4hours!:angel:

[ForensicsGuy]

Too many less than 6 and I'm dead the next morning. More than 8, and I can get up, shower, and need a nap right away. It's amazing.

[paigetheoracle]

The more depressed I am, the longer I sleep. The more enlivened by that 'Eureka!' moment, the less I sleep - ergo, I go.

[Sleeth]

I've been told that you should get at least 10 hours sleep at my age, 15, but I just can't seem to get to sleep at night, I go to bed at around 11, so probably don't get to sleep about 12-1 and wake up at 7-8. I just thought that was normal B), so it's not really a big deal compared to some people, like Tormod :lol:.

[Tormod]

I've been told that you should get at least 10 hours sleep at my age, 15, but I just can't seem to get to sleep at night, I go to bed at around 11, so probably don't get to sleep about 12-1 and wake up at 7-8. I just thought that was normal :shrug:, so it's not really a big deal compared to some people, like Tormod :hihi:.

 

At 15 I think 10 hours is too much, but I am not exactly an expert on sleeping hours (as you have understood). ;) I do hope that when I grow old I will have less and less need for sleep...

[Michaelangelica]

The results seem to be forming a Bell Curve. (?)

 

Some say that meditating means you need to sleep less

[LJP07]

Not finding sleep easy these past few days , however, I put the average over the past year I'd say. 6-8 hours, recently that's been reduced to 3-5 hours of good sleep unfortunately.

[mcewen]

About hours for me on average. I'm thinking of making my New Year Resolution.......to become at early bird rather than a night owl, not long to go, or I'll end up merely be a hen pecked featherless bird brain.

Cheers

 

Too many less than 6 and I'm dead the next morning. More than 8, and I can get up, shower, and need a nap right away. It's amazing.

Yup, it's a balance thing - one end of the other is always too heavy.

Cheers

 

I sleep 6,

wake up

write in my journal

and go back to sleep for another 2

with the possibility of

writing, again.

- ooo that sounds like a good life - how did you manage to engineer that kind of a 'good life?'

p.s. are those little icon things automatic? Or is there a default if you don't select one? [newbie] Cheers

[wine]

The results seem to be forming a Bell Curve. (?)

 

Some say that meditating means you need to sleep less

 

Who says that?

It makes sense, but I've never read anything about it.

When one meditates, one is relaxed and one with many and all.

 

Does deep meditation yield some minor sleeping effects?:shrug:

 

- ooo that sounds like a good life - how did you manage to engineer that kind of a 'good life?'

p.s. are those little icon things automatic? Or is there a default if you don't select one? [newbie] Cheers

 

This is actually a rhythm that some people exercise to induce lucid dreaming, although I am unaware if Sun knows this or not.

 

The Five Phases Of Wild - Dream Views Lucid Dreaming Forum

 

Explains the method.

 

In fact, I really really wish all of you would try it, as an experiment.

Sleep paralysis is amazing, and if you can maintain awareness down there, you will be . . Surprised.

[gribbon]

I voted 6-8 but it varies greatly throughout the week. Some nights less and some nights more.

 

Last thing I knew you were online replying to e-mails at 1.00 in the morning! :shrug:

[Jay-qu]

yeah last over the last 3 nights I have had about 4.5 hours a peice, just cos I had things to do.. but it should improve throughout the week now :confused: