Poll of the Day > I really envy people who can get by on like six hours of sleep

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I wonder how much more I'd be able to get done each day, like posting 12% more on GameFAQs.

Seriously though I could do a lot with two or three extra hours each day

There are some days where I could afford to sleep for 8 or more hours but I just wake up on my own after 5 or 6 anyway. But when I worked overnight, I would sleep for the entire day, like 8 or 9 hours everyday.
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Is it out of choice you don't get a lot of sleep? I tend to aim to get at least 6 hours but my mind refuses to switch off when I want it to(even then I have nightmares every night) so that results in 4 hours sleep at best unless I've been drinking.
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I know how you feel. If I get fewer than eight hours of sleep, I feel terrible all day. :(
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Some people can effectively run on even less. They've been trying to do studies on it...
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I just sleep 5 hours one day and 11 hours the next
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Those people and people who are out as soon as they hit the pillow. Its not as bad as it used to be because I take pills but I used to have nights where I would lay in bed for 2 hours before I fell asleep.

Also a lot of it comes from just getting up when you wake up in the middle of the night. Like sometimes I'll wake up at 3 in the morning then just get up.
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Sleep is weird...
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I used to be on the no sleep team but now I can lay down and be out and then be up by six and be fine all day. Dont get tired till I sit down at the end of the night.

Im getting old.

I can sleep for a good while and I'm a heavy sleeper as well. If nothing wakes me up, I can probably sleep 10 hours a day easily.
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My medication for epilepsy puts me in a coma so I can't sleep less than eight hours either.
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DrPrimemaster posted...

Those people and people who are out as soon as they hit the pillow.

Yeah, this too. I usually "sleep" nine hours tonight, as in setting the alarm nine hours after I go to bed, but it's probably eight hours at most between how long it takes me to fall asleep initially and waking up several times (but at least when I wake up in the middle of the night it's only about ten minutes to fall back asleep)

BADoglick posted...

My medication for epilepsy puts me in a coma so I can't sleep less than eight hours either.

Nice I wish I had epilepsy

I get by on 5 hours and go to bed at 6:30 AM. I fall asleep by 7:30 AM and wake up by 1.

I spend all night learning things and working on projects. I've got programming and electronics down, next I want to do some chemistry. I've got my diy raspberry pi handheld perpetually "almost done".
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I seem to function best on about 6.5-7 hours. If I try to shoot for eight, I wake up feeling like crap. Something to do with waking up in the middle of an REM cycle rather than at the end of it.
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I can probably function with 4 if needed. I tend to stay up since it takes a long time for me to fall asleep when I actually try usually. Not quite insomnia I suppose. I don't think I ever get 8 hours though unless I'm very tired.
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I sleep maybe 4 or 5 hours. I fall asleep really easily, but i can't stay asleep or get back to sleep when i wake up. I think your body just gets used to it after a while.
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I think I only had 3 hours of real sleep last night.
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I get 5 or 6 on weeknight, between 8 to 11 on weekends.
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Yellow posted...

I get by on 5 hours and go to bed at 6:30 AM. I fall asleep by 7:30 AM and wake up by 1.

I spend all night learning things and working on projects. I've got programming and electronics down, next I want to do some chemistry. I've got my diy raspberry pi handheld perpetually "almost done".

Kind of off topic, but why don't you ever try getting a job with that kind of stuff? Or do you?

I'm curious because that's the kind of stuff I'm into, and I try to self-teach as well (in addition to having a degree), but I'm not as good as you at finding motivation to do it.

SteamedHams posted...

I wonder how much more I'd be able to get done each day, like posting 12% more on GameFAQs.

Seriously though I could do a lot with two or three extra hours each day

but you're supposed to get 8 hours anyway. we're not cyborgs (yet).
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I used to be good on 5-6 hours. Then I took this awful medication for a little while and it broke my brain and I had to sleep for 8-10 afterward, even without taking it... it lasted years.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

I think I only had 3 hours of real sleep last night.

Yea, people who have been alcoholics for numerous years usually dont sleep that well.

JazzMasterZero posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

I think I only had 3 hours of real sleep last night.

Yea, people who have been alcoholics for numerous years usually dont sleep that well.

Well, it is a good thing I'm not an alcoholic then.
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8 hours best
6 hours i can live with

only got 6 last night. just ended up waking up which was actually a good thing. the dog needed to go out i just ended up staying up after that (anything for the dog).
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I used to live off of 3 hours for years.
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Melatonin pills and yoga. Worked for me for 2 years and going.

If I go to bed at ten then I'm up by three in the morning, just laying there because the world isn't awake.
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DrPrimemaster posted...

Those people and people who are out as soon as they hit the pillow. Its not as bad as it used to be because I take pills but I used to have nights where I would lay in bed for 2 hours before I fell asleep.

Also a lot of it comes from just getting up when you wake up in the middle of the night. Like sometimes I'll wake up at 3 in the morning then just get up.

I don't fall asleep immediately but I factor this into my sleep schedule. The trick is to force yourself awake daily at the same time so that you fall asleep at the same time. When my sleep hygiene was bad I would usually say (oh maybe just another 30 minutes on my phone or computer!) and that would ruin the schedule.

I'd be careful with these pills. Even melatonin is dangerous to use regularly given how you become dependent on the drugs over time.
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It is called sleep apnea and it is a very real thing... especially for the morbidly obese.

JanwayDaahl posted...

DrPrimemaster posted...

Those people and people who are out as soon as they hit the pillow. Its not as bad as it used to be because I take pills but I used to have nights where I would lay in bed for 2 hours before I fell asleep.

Also a lot of it comes from just getting up when you wake up in the middle of the night. Like sometimes I'll wake up at 3 in the morning then just get up.

I don't fall asleep immediately but I factor this into my sleep schedule. The trick is to force yourself awake daily at the same time so that you fall asleep at the same time. When my sleep hygiene was bad I would usually say (oh maybe just another 30 minutes on my phone or computer!) and that would ruin the schedule.

I'd be careful with these pills. Even melatonin is dangerous to use regularly given how you become dependent on the drugs over time.

That is definitely a problem with using drugs to go to sleep but I was already dependent on them before I started taking them because I couldn't sleep before I started taking them.
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Pills?!


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They say as you get older your supposed to need less sleep but it was the reverse for me. I went 9 months on about 2 hours of sleep a night when I was 19, and had no real problem.

Now my bones ache if I do that. I can handle 4 hours, but less then that and I feel like a zombie, especially after the second day.

That being said, when I went on my trip I did manage to handle getting no sleep for 2 nights in a row, and still at least function, though I felt pretty horrid till I caught up.
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I don't sleep too well either - on days I go to work, I manage to get by on 6 hours of sleep, but I sleep longer on my days off.

Even then, whenever I'm sitting in the recliner or on the couch in the living room, I have a tendency to pass out and sleep a couple of hours.
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