Poll: How many hours of sleep do you get each day?

Re:Poll: How many hours of sleep do you get each day? by cperciva on Friday October 10, 2008 @11:45AM (#328944)

I get as many hours of sleep as I need. I don't try to keep to any particular schedule: When I'm tired, I go to sleep; and when I'm not tired any more, I wake up. Some days I sleep 5 hours; some days I sleep 11 hours; some days I sleep for two or more multiple-hour periods. I probably average about 8-9 hours.

Occasionally I need to be awake at a specified time (e.g., every Thursday evening, for rehearsals of an orchestra I'm playing with), but this very rarely interferes with my sleep non-schedule.

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Re:Poll: How many hours of sleep do you get each day? by Freaky on Friday October 10, 2008 @04:18PM (#329211)

Same here. I do find it a bit awkward, though; my cycles tend to rotate around the day, like my body thinks a day should be 26 hours or so. Can lead to missing a lot of sunlight, which isn't always very pleasant.

Still, on the bright side there's only 480 million years to go before the moon slows the Earth's rotation enough to get back into sync with me.

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Re:Poll: How many hours of sleep do you get each day? by wheels on Friday October 10, 2008 @02:08PM (#329089)

Same here. I tend to average 5-6 hours most "nights". When I'm working a normal job I tend to manage by sleeping 6 times a week since that was easier for me to keep going schedule-wise than a 7-day week. Now with the startup I sleep a bit less -- not because I have to be up so much as I just wake up after 4-5 hours most of the time with the always-long list of to-dos going through my head. About once a month I'll hit a phase where I'm a little burnt out and sleep for 8-10 hours for three or four days in a row.

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