Sleep (how many hours do you need ? )

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Kurt. said:
The past few months I’ve been needing less and less sleep, don’t know if it’s an age thing as when I was younger I would sleep all day if I could, now, I get by on 5 or 6 hours a night… typically I go to bed about 2am and am up by 7am. Last night I was up til 2.15am and was wide awake 7 this morning, today I’ve been really busy and had loads to do, eventually getting a shower and eating my tea around 8pm. I watched a bit of tv until 10pm then read a book and am still up now with same book in hand and don’t feel tired at al, getting annoyed with myself that I can’t lie in anymore.

Just to be clear, I don’t consider this a bad thing as I have loads of awake time to enjoy life.
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Average 6hrs, the odd time 7hrs, sometimes only 4 or 5
Edit; I also am prone to an afternoon nap
 

Kurt. said:
The past few months I’ve been needing less and less sleep, don’t know if it’s an age thing as when I was younger I would sleep all day if I could, now, I get by on 5 or 6 hours a night… typically I go to bed about 2am and am up by 7am. Last night I was up til 2.15am and was wide awake 7 this morning, today I’ve been really busy and had loads to do, eventually getting a shower and eating my tea around 8pm. I watched a bit of tv until 10pm then read a book and am still up now with same book in hand and don’t feel tired at al, getting annoyed with myself that I can’t lie in anymore.

Just to be clear, I don’t consider this a bad thing as I have loads of awake time to enjoy life.
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Assuming you have somewhere quiet in the house, whilst the family are asleep, try 20 - 30 mins of high intensity exercise if you can`t get to sleep, I find it almost kicks my brain into sleep mode afterwards.

Doesn`t have to be anything technical, just a load of reps with really light weights, fast press ups, crunches etc.
 

verreauxi said:
There is this extremely rare genetic condition, fatal familial insomnia, that onsets around age 40-50 where you can't sleep. You die within a few months to a few years of the symptom onset. Sleep is like adding fresh oil and cleaning an engine...if you don't do this it dies.
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There is a bunch of data on chronic sleep depravation being linked to disease - obesity, diabetes, heart disease.
7-9 hours for adults per night for health.
 

5 hours is a good night. Average probably around 4.

I'm one of them lucky, lucky people who can't switch their head off when they get home from work, so whilst I'm trying to get some kip it really kicks in and I have the mental equivalent of a marching band banging around my bedroom. Replaying scenarios of the day, what happened, what I could have implemented to better the outcome etc.

Every now and then I crash for about 9 hours and it's sheer bliss.
 
Loads.

Generally during the week i'll get about 8-9 if i can. Some days less (less than 6) some days more (12-14), all depends on how tired i am and how i slept the day before.

But weekends easily more. Sat night about 11-12ish (depending on if i have to get up on Sunday morning), if not ill sleep for more, 14-15 hours.

Same again Sunday but that can be more if i don't get enough sleep on the Sat night. This Sunday gone i slept for over 24 hours and only got up because i had to go to work. Woke up a few times during it but just went back to sleep.
 

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