Poll: How much sleep do you get?

[pooks]

i always am getting a hard time about how much i sleep. i just want to see how i compare to the rest of you girls.

i can function great on 9-10 hours of sleep. anything less than 7 for more than a day, forgit it. Bad News Bears! i can sleep for 10+ hours no problem, but i try not to so i don't mess up my whole sleeping pattern.

i don't know how anyone does it doing rotating shifts or being on call. hats off to you that can.

I've always been the same way. I also come from a long line of women who nap. One of my grandmothers actually took off her clothes and put on her nightgown for her nap!

I haven't been getting 8 hours at night for a long time, mainly because I just didn't want to go to sleep early enough to do that. But since I joined spark people I have been making myself get 8 hours and I feel SO much better, and haven't suffering from so much exhaustion during the day that I have to nap. (Although I always hit that point in day where I'm tired and want one; but if I don't get one, it doesn't kill me.)

So I'm now a believer in making time for my night's sleep, even when I'd rather not.

[cosc]

Pooks, I had a set of grandparents that religiously got up the same time 5:00 -off to bed at 9:00 and napped every day. When we would visit Ma we knew a pallet on the floor about 4:00 would be ready for us. I sleep around 7 hours waking up at least once to pee. That number varies lot according to job and etc. I have a bike tour in a couple of weeks and hope to change my internal clock to early to bed so I can be ready to unzip my tent at 5 morn for the tour.

[Jacki]

I voted 5-7. I used to sleep like a rock, but now, i don't know, i just don't sleep well. I consider it a really good night if I get 7 hours, but usually it's 5 or 6.

[missymaya]

I absolutely have to have at least 8 hours of sleep or I just fall apart and become a zombified freakazoid, no kiddin'. And there are those rare occasions where I would sleep for 12 hours OR MORE , which I think is built up residual tiredness. Of course, this doesn't happen often at all.

[Shiraz]

I voted for 5-7 hours. After having to wake up at 4:40 am for 13 years of day shift nursing I can not sleep past 5:30 or 6:00 am. But it so hard to get to sleep before 1030 p - 1130. I wish I could sleep longer.

Sadie, meetings do count as sleep Hilarious!! I guess I could few more hours a week .

[surgtech1956]

I'm in the 5-8 hour range - most nights its about 7. When I started menopause, I could not sleep I would guess for about 2 years, waking up, not being able to fall asleep, hot flashes - did I cover everything. Thank goodness I'm back to sleeping like a baby. I start a new job Monday and I'll be working 6:30a-5p and having to get up by 5am, I'm use to getting up between 6 and
6:30a - I'll have to get to bed earlier than my 11pm usual time - I definitely function better with a good night's sleep.

[redrhodie]

Looking back at this makes me sad for all the TEers we no longer hear from

I wonder if they get tired of riding.....or us?

[jesvetmed]

Looking back at this makes me sad for all the TEers we no longer hear from

I wonder if they get tired of riding.....or us?

I was thinking the same thing -- there are so many that have dropped off! Maybe when they are bored over the winter they will return!?

[crazycanuck]

Denise223 is still around on hotmail, CWR pops in once in a while, Saralou i think is still in Norway with their boat.

I for some reason, can't stay away...

[bmccasland]

I never thought I'd be saying this.... but.... as I get older, I'm finding I need less sleep. I used to be a 9 hr person, 8 minimum. Now, cough, cough, grumble, mumble, that I'm approaching 50, I sleep 7 to 8 hrs - 7 on week days, and 8 on weekends. OK, sometimes 9 on weekends, I sleep all the way to 7 am.

[surgtech1956]

I agreed with the less sleep as I get older. When I was in my 20's and 30's I would probably get 9 hours of sleep. Now at age coughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 52, I don't get anywhere near this. I think 7 is now the new 9.

[solobiker]

I was getting about 3-4 hours due to not being able to fall asleep or stay asleep. DH would often say "maybe you don't need as much sleep as you think" However my Dr. finally adjusted my thyroid medication and I can now sleep for about 6-7 hours. Love it!!

[Miranda]

I voted 5 or less, and I am dead right now. One of the last visits to the gyno for the yearly, I said, "ghee, from what I understand, perimenapause can cause some sleep issues...". The doc says, "Oh, that doesn't happy until full blown menapause, like age 50+, then you have 'major' sleep disturbances...".

Umm, ok, doc, whatever...

I say to the GF with similiar hormone stuff, "I wonder how he defines 'major'... does waking up at what I call the witching hour, about 3am, and staying up for the duration count as 'major'?...".

One does wonder.