Poll: How much sleep do you get?

[Geonz]

Also 7-8 (hoping we balance each other out).

When I was unemployed and then freelancing, one week to the day after my 40th birthday, I woke up at dawn.

All my life I had been a night owl and would sleep 'til noon, 1, 2, given the chance.

The rest of the summer, I was up with the sun, ready to RIDE MY BIKE.

I think the main factor that caused the change (and it doesn't make me a morning person - I still think better later) was that I was finally getting enough sleep - and also enough exercise (otherwise I prob'ly would just sleep more... slide into stagnation if not depression...)

I've really worked towards maintaining that. I found out I function a LOT better rested; it works like a really good vitamin or the right medication (though I gotta have a little caffeine too ).

[mlove]

Denise223--I have fibromyalgia too. I am lucky if I ever sleep more than five hours a night but I never feel really rested even if I get more. I am an early-to-bed, early-to-rise person married to a night owl.

[Bikingmomof3]

Oops, I voted incorrectly. Is there a smilie smacking it's forehead? I voted 8-10 (I was dreaming). I get between 5-7 hours. During the school week (12 more days, but who is counting?) I tend to get around 6 hours.

[chickwhorips]

Oops, I voted incorrectly. Is there a smilie smacking it's forehead?

there ya go.

[Dogmama]

Ambien keeps me awake - go figure.

I'm lucky to get 7 and I need at least 8. Anybody else get really foggy brained without sleep? Perimenopause has me awake at 3AM most mornings. I'm usually up at 4AM anyway to hit the gym at 5 or ride - but 3AM is a tad early. Today I logged onto my work computer & knocked out a couple of spreadsheets. Now, I'd like to knock out a snotty faculty member, but that's another story...

[chickwhorips]

Anybody else get really foggy brained without sleep?

beyond foggy brained.

i have a hard time with having a SO that requires less sleep than me. i feel bad for going to bed earlier, and he feels bad for staying up (doesn't help he works rotating shifts and we don't get to spend much time together).

[Bruno28]

I get 5-7 during the working week because I p*$$ about doing 'stuff' - just stuff, I don't know what - then it's way past bedtime.

5-7's what I get but I need 8-10 to keep me cheery, which is why I'm quite often grumpy.

When I was depressed I could sleep 20 hours a day no prob. Thank you Prozac. Happy to say I'm on biking and fresh air now!

PS Why do you suddenly have to get up to pee in the middle of the night when you reach middle age?

[RoadRaven]

I voted 5-7... I have been working on sleeping longer... a year and a half ago I was lucky to get 5 hours a night - I think cycling has helped my sleeping.

[Bikingmomof3]

there ya go.

Thank you!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I usually get between 7 and 8 hours. Working at home/self employed does have advantages. I am at my best with 8 to 9 hours sleep. 6 or less makes me feel awful, like a hangover or something.

I used to wake up in the middle of the night more often, but since I have been fitness walking and biking I sleep more solidly.

[Tater]

I typically get seven and a half to eight a night. Anything less than that and I am quite unpleasant to be around. I am a light sleeper and will take the dog's collar off because he insists on getting up at least once or twice a night to just shake himself, then lay back down. I got tired of his tags waking me at o'dark thirty. Mr. Tater has sleep apnea and must sleep with a mask and machine. Thankfully that stuff is quiet.

[Lise]

I usually do two night call shifts a week, from 10 PM to 10 AM. Yesterday I slept 7 hr, got up, worked 8 hr, came home, slept 2 hr, got up, worked 13 hr, came home, slept 2.5 hr, and here I am. It's not good, but it's my profession. I'm a midwife, and babies are no respecters of sleep for anyone! Some times I'll get several hours of sleep on a night call--it's completely unpredictable.

Ideally, I get 7-8 hr. I would love to sleep longer than that, but my internal clock gets me up. I always get up at least one to go pee. If I can get that much sleep with only one pee break, I am so happy.

It's taking longer and longer to recover from the night shifts.

[Bad JuJu]

I'm in the 5-7 range, but closer to 5. And it seems like that's what my body wants/needs. When I was younger, I could sleep for days, it seemed, or at least for 10 hours or so a night. But since menopause (which someone else mentioned as a factor), I don't seem to either get or want more sleep. I like staying up late, I like getting up early, and if I sometimes grab a short nap in the afternoons, well c'est la vie!

[Bruno28]

I always get up at least one to go pee.

So you're a medical person what is it with that pee thing?....never bothered me before I reached my late forties.

[caligurl]

i TRY for 7..... but it doesn't always work.... i get up at 4:00 a.m.... so if i can get to bed by 9... that's good (and 7 hours!) but it's usually later (usually closer to 10... so 6 hours)

before the big "drive to" rides.. i'm lucky to get 5 hours! (this weekend if i go to bed at 7 and get up at midnight.. that will be 5 hours!) i don't think i've EVER done a big ride on more than 6 hours sleep! yikes!