Poll: How much sleep do you get?

[mtkitchn]

Man, I love sleep! I usually sleep 8.5-9 hrs when I can. My job disrupts my sleep patterns like Lise's....sometimes I'm up till the wee hrs, and sometimes I have to GET up at 0300. It just makes me sleep even more when I see a bed....
And once in a while an afternoon nap on a day off sneaks its way into my life....so delightful.
In my 20s I slept about 4-6 hrs a night; don't know how I did it.....

[Lise]

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

H*ll if I know. I really don't. I'm sure I should know, since I'm a women's health care provider. But I focus on the young and pregnant ones. Hey, maybe you're pregnant! That makes you get up and pee a lot!

YIKES! Don't throw that caber at me!

"It's perimenopause" seems to be the wastebasket explanation for a lot of things these days.

[Lise]

My job disrupts my sleep patterns like Lise's....

Do you ever have trouble sleeping after being up all night? I get into an "on/awake" thing, where I cannot let go and stay asleep. I'm working on it now with deep breathing and meditation.

Sometimes it's like: SLEEP NOW!, because I have a couple of hours' window of opportunity. If I'm at the hospital, and know that I can sleep for an hour, I can usually fall sound asleep. But if I'm home, and trying to sleep prior to a call shift, just in case I'm up all night, it's tough.

[mtkitchn]

Do you ever have trouble sleeping after being up all night? I get into an "on/awake" thing, where I cannot let go and stay asleep. I'm working on it now with deep breathing and meditation.

Sometimes it's like: SLEEP NOW!, because I have a couple of hours' window of opportunity. If I'm at the hospital, and know that I can sleep for an hour, I can usually fall sound asleep. But if I'm home, and trying to sleep prior to a call shift, just in case I'm up all night, it's tough.

I have the same problems, Lise! Funny when you read about getting help sleeping, the advise is always to go to bed at the same time every night....HA!!! This is the 24/7 world (well, with your job it's always been a 24/7 world).
Sometimes I wish I'd been born rich instead of so good looking....then I wouldn't have work and could sleep soundly every night on my yacht or in my mountain cabin.....ahhh....

[TsPoet]

Ancient Greek Proverb

8 for a woman
7 for a man
6 for a fool

[Lise]

I Funny when you read about getting help sleeping, the advise is always to go to bed at the same time every night....HA!!!

Yeah, I have finally learned to resist reading those articles.

[Bruno28]

"It's perimenopause" seems to be the wastebasket explanation for a lot of things these days.

Yeah - that's the one I didn't want to hear!

[Melody]

I voted 8-10. We try to aim for going to bed by 10:00pm, but sometimes (usually due to laundry) we may not get to bed till midnight, but rarely is it past then. We get up between 7 and 7:30 am normally.

But, on the flip side, when I'm on call, I typically get less than 5 hours of sleep a night, if I'm lucky. I'm usually a zombie and thank *God* I don't have to do anything that requires manual dexterity. That... would be scary

Like many other people I wake up frequently in the middle of the night in order to pee. For me it's due to a couple of things... First, my kidneys are failing (stupid things) and the other is I'm on a med called hydrochlorothiazide which is (unfortunately) a diuretic. Translation, I have to pee.. lots.

Mel

[chickwhorips]

i feel so much better. i feel more "normal" with my sleeping habits, and peeing habbits in the middle of the night.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Blueberry]

Since I started a job where I work *way* too many hours (, I've been getting way too little sleep. Hubby has a flex schedule, and consequently our evening schedule accomodates him. Which means I'm usually not in bed before 11-11:30 on a good night. And I get up at 5 or 6, depending on the day I have coming. NOT enough sleep. I'm constantly groggy. I don't really see how to change it, though. Hubby rides right before I get home usually (my riding has been confined to the weekend recently), and showers around the time I get home. Then animal chores and dinner, and there really isn't time for anything else before 11 or so. Ugh!

[im4smiley]

I voted in the 5-7 range. I have to get up early for work and I always always say I will go to bed early but I end up at the computer, or watching the news or doing the rest of the dishes or sometimes I read before bed. Bed around 11:30pm up at 5:30 am. It's great when I can sleep til 6:30 or 7 on the weekends!

[makbike]

I really need at least 10 hours of sleep to function well but that only occurs during my summer vacation. During the school year I typically grab 5 - 7 hours each night and am exhausted by Friday. I really hate it when I have to work Saturdays for that cuts into my catch up sleep sessions.

[enzed]

I put down 5-7 hour sleep.
But sometimes I'm lucky just to get 5 hours sleep.
I have tinnitus which makes getting to sleep somtimes hard. Ringing in the ears can be very distracting & I usually listen to talk back radio or late night TV in an attempt to fall asleep. When my sinuses are playing up, waking up I can feel particulary groggy.
So I envy those who have a regular sleep pattern.

[run it, ride it]

I am a university student. No fixed day-to-day schedule. It all depends on classes, athletics and workload. Some days I'll get a good 7 or 8 hours, while others I get none.

Even if you only get a few hours each night, if you get them at the same TIME every night your body will sleep more efficiently than if you're all over the place.

[winddance]

I put down 5-7. I typically get about 6 hours of sleep or less during the week. On weekends, it's more like 8 hours if I get to bed early.