How Much Sleep Do You Get?

[Buckeyes_Doc]

Re: How Much Sleep Do You Get?

This. 6-7 hours is enough sleep for me. "Sleeping in" for me is like 9am. LOL.

LOL same here. I wake up every single day between 5 and 5:30. I set an alarm, but it hasn't gone off in months. Even on the weekends when I go to bed at 2 or 3 or whenever I will wake up at 5:30. Most of the time I'm able to fall back asleep til 8 or 9. If it's a workday then I get up.

So i usually get 6-8 hours a night.

[MassNole]

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I usually get 6-8

[sharks]

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For me it seems like a lose-lose. If I get 6-8 hours of sleep I'm tired, and if I get 8+ hours I'm tired too. I'm always tired so I guess it doesn't matter.

[UATide]

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Typically, between 6-8. Unless I get hooked on a videogame..(NCAA Football '11)

[CeltBhoy33]

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I shoot for 8 every night but there is always some game on that keeps me up till midnight so really about 6-7 hours.

[elgreazy1]

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Anyone ever work midnight shifts rather consistently? What was your sleep schedule like then?

I just started a job at my local Sheetz (big convenience store/gas station/fast food place mainly in the Mid-Atlantic region) until I can find a job to use my degree, and I'm going to be working a lot of 10p-6a shifts. Plus, I'm going to be doing some landscaping during the day a few days a week until the summer ends. I'm not looking forward to my sleep schedule.

I used to work a 5pm-5am shift and in turn new a lot of people with the same shift and all i can tell you is that you really need to prioritize your sleep. For some reason, people feel the need to be productive during the daylight hours, even if they work all night; it probably has to do with something deep within the human psyche. Regardless, I'd recommend you take care of your body and try to keep yourself on a very regular schedule that most normal-hour'd people would use except that you transpose it to your schedule. You really just have to force yourself to sleep from X-time to Y-time regardless of what you could be doing.

During my years working those schedules I would get little sleep and it would be very sporadic. In that time, my health degraded pretty bad, blood pressure & cholesterol got really high, I gained 30 pounds, my skin got really bad, my eyes always looked baggy, I lost motivation to do anything, etc. It was very hard on me, but then I started doing things right. Regardless, the human body is not supposed to work this way and be up at these times but if you take care of yourself you can really minimize any issues. You will be fine so long as you sleep and eat right.

[Aggies7]

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I work midnights 830pm to 630am. I usually get about 6 hours of sleep. Black out blinds are amazing.

[MattUMD224]

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In the summer and days I have work I usually sleep from 2am to 945am and get to work at 10am to 6PM

When I don't have work I usually stay up to 4AM and sleep til about noon.

I tell you one thing when I work doubles at work which last 10AM to 5AM, my sleep schedule gets all screwed up and the next couple days I can't get to bed early at all.

Once school starts I have a 8 am class with a 40 min drive to school so I'm going to start sleeping early in august and waking up early. Since I'm going to be graduating this semester and will have a job once I get out I elected to do the 8 AM class just so I'll be in a routine to wake up early.

[iAM-IncReDiBLe-]

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Around 4-6 every day. I just have bad sleeping habits.

[OSUFan_88]

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About 7 hours.

I remember my senior year of HS, it was no thang to sleep until 1 pm. Now, if I'm not up around 9-10 am, I get too tired over the course of the day.

[stlstudios189]

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if I'm lucky I get 6 hours a night.

[Vikes1]

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Between 5.5 to 7 hours.

[NDAlum]

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5 when I have off duty
7 when I don't

Average is a little over 6

[UATide]

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Around 4-6 every day. I just have bad sleeping habits.

Same. It's 4:16AM right, and I'm not too tired...

[Gibbz]

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8 1/2 to 9 hours every night.

There is a theory that says getting too much sleep is just as bad (if not worse) as not getting enough.

I have a hard time believing that. Define "too much."