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How many hours?

4-5
- 7 (14.3%)
6-7
- 26 (53.1%)
8, supposedly recommended
- 9 (18.4%)
9-10
- 6 (12.2%)
11+
- 1 (2%)

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YixilTesiphon

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How much sleep do you need a night?
« on: February 27, 2007, 01:53:23 AM »

I'm sitting here wondering this as I'm up late not really accomplishing anything. I usually need to average out around 7, but as long as I average out individual nights can vary wildly.
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2007, 01:57:12 AM »

Yeah it averages out to about 8 per night for me... 5 when I have classes in the morning, >10 when I don't. But yeah I probably need >10...
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2007, 02:10:40 AM »

4 to 12 what ever it takes for me to wake up I don't use an alarm clock 
most of the time it's 7
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2007, 04:17:44 AM »

We have a newborn preemie baby, and I'm on indefinite leave while Mrs Velo works days.
Sleep is something I catch in between feedings, but not really even then.
Voof!
She's a sweet baby, though.
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2007, 08:41:43 AM »

About 14.
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2007, 12:43:20 PM »

I said 9-10 because that's what I PREFER to get. I usually only get 7, maybe 8, just because I don't go to bed early enough. On the weekends when I don't have to get up, my body lets me sleep up to 10 hours before I naturally wake up.
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2007, 12:55:08 PM »

6.5-7 hours is just about perfect for me. Works well with my schedule too: 11p-6a.
I know 8 is recommended, and it's okay. Less than 5 is too little for me.
Over 9-10, when I'm not sick, is way too much. I end up with a fuzzy brain all day, though not quite as bad as when it's less than 5.
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2007, 01:24:32 PM »

Sometimes I prefer two three hour 'naps' instead of a full six to eight hour sleeping session. I don't know why, but usually I do that when I got a problem to solve and just need mental down time to work on it in dreams.

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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2007, 01:44:12 PM »

I usually get between seven and nine hours of sleep, eight on average.
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2007, 03:06:54 PM »

9-10 hrs. I need my beauty sleep :)
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2007, 04:44:09 PM »

Is that measured with the chicken?
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2007, 04:54:55 PM »

I'm asleep right now.  :|
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2007, 05:05:05 PM »

Sometimes I only sleep one or two hours a night when I have a crap load of work to do....I can't get much done in a 8 hour work day.....So I work like 20-40 hours, or untill I can't stay up any more, take a 1-2 hour nap, and repeat untill complete.
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2007, 06:43:36 PM »

Since my schedule is so weird, it depends.  Sometimes I sleep four hours a night, and sometimes I sleep 14.  I've slept for as long as two days at a time, because usually I won't sleep much, and I spend the majority of my time working.  Four hours seems to keep me more awake than 14 though. 
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Re: How much sleep do you need a night?
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2007, 06:47:15 PM »

There does seem to be such a thing as too much sleep.
Damn those bears for their ability to hibernate.
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