phil_hg_uk
I am not a member, I am a free man !!!!!!
I like sleeping ............ I get as much as I can (usually 7-8 hours), I have been known to sleep for an entire day ......... did I mention I like sleeping 
How much sleep do you get?
- Thread starter Matthew_T
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bicyclos
Part time Anorak
- Location
- West Yorkshire
6.5 hrs average during the week, usually shattered friday night after heavy work load but Saturday is lie in day 12hrs usually which charges my batteries up. Alway's feel great on Sunday for some reason.......
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
It's crazy, I know.
I used to sleep badly, only getting about 4 hours straight a night on work nights and maybe 5-6 of interupted sleep on weekends. Since I have been ill though I hardly sleep at all which isn't helping me get better. I seem to run on Haribo and adrenalin much of the time just to achieve anything.
At least while I am in bed it is a sort of rest but no where near enough to help my body repair and maintain itself. I think the crazy dreams I have in the early mornings, where I am awake but not able to rise are bordering on halucinations due to the sleep depravation.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
3-5 hours a night, rarely more. My wife keeps our marital average at around 8 per night though. 
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
does laying in count as 'sleep'? I go at midnight-ish, wake up about 5.30-6.00am, have a long nice lay in till about 8-8.30 (9-10 at weekends)
Melonfish
Evil Genius in training.
- Location
- Warrington, UK
not been feeling fantastic last couple of days so i've been sleeping about 12-14 hours!
usually tho i sleep for around 6-7 and feel fine.
usually tho i sleep for around 6-7 and feel fine.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
weekdays generally go to bed anything from 21.00 to 23.00 and wake/get up at 05.30. sleep all the way through. weekends generally about 22.00/23.00 and awake at 7-7.30.
holidays is worse as we camp and once suns up I am up so can be 22.00 to bed and up at 04.00. I catch up when get back home though
holidays is worse as we camp and once suns up I am up so can be 22.00 to bed and up at 04.00. I catch up when get back home though
Historically, there wasn't enough sleep in the world for me. 8, 9, even 10 hours was grand. Plus the odd afternoon nap... Since children that hasn't happened, full stop. But while they were little I got interrupted but very good quality sleep - one of the wonderful things about breastfeeding is the massive happy-sleepy hormone hit which for me meant I could go from sparko to awake-enough reasonably effectively, and conked out like a light again. After littly stopped night feeds I got a couple of years of not-really enough but OK 5 or 6 hours a night, with the odd very short night/up all-nighter because of getting Stuff done (such as baking and decorating birthday cakes - I'm a just-in-time sorta gal) with the occasional massive lie-in on a weekend.
The last couple of years I rarely sleep more than 3-4 hours at a go, although I can usually go back to sleep within an hour or so of waking in the night. That stings particularly if you wake up a couple of hours before the alarm, because it's too early to get up really but there's just enough time to get back to sleep enough that the alarm going off really hurts. I have the odd night where I don't get more than 2 hours between wake-ups. I fairly often get through the week on an average of 4 hours a night and a couple of extra naps at weekends.
In the last few months there have been a handful of nights when I've slept 6 straight hours, which felt astonishing. And a few where I only slept 4 hours, but it was really good sleep which is almost as good. Last weekend I rode over to my mum's with a mate, and after a rather large lunch realised that I couldn't keep my eyes open so said I would just go snooze on the sofa for half an hour. Conked straight out, and then freaked them out completely when I re-appeared, assuming I'd been asleep for a while, 10 minutes later. My cup of tea was still hot, but I felt transformed by the three minutes of kip. When the kids are away at their dad's, I've sometimes had sleepy weekends where I doze a lot and don't do a lot else - there's an incredible luxury for me in sleeping until I wake up whether that's after 6 hours or 10 minutes, rather that being woken by an alarm, a cat or a brat.
The last couple of years I rarely sleep more than 3-4 hours at a go, although I can usually go back to sleep within an hour or so of waking in the night. That stings particularly if you wake up a couple of hours before the alarm, because it's too early to get up really but there's just enough time to get back to sleep enough that the alarm going off really hurts. I have the odd night where I don't get more than 2 hours between wake-ups. I fairly often get through the week on an average of 4 hours a night and a couple of extra naps at weekends.
In the last few months there have been a handful of nights when I've slept 6 straight hours, which felt astonishing. And a few where I only slept 4 hours, but it was really good sleep which is almost as good. Last weekend I rode over to my mum's with a mate, and after a rather large lunch realised that I couldn't keep my eyes open so said I would just go snooze on the sofa for half an hour. Conked straight out, and then freaked them out completely when I re-appeared, assuming I'd been asleep for a while, 10 minutes later. My cup of tea was still hot, but I felt transformed by the three minutes of kip. When the kids are away at their dad's, I've sometimes had sleepy weekends where I doze a lot and don't do a lot else - there's an incredible luxury for me in sleeping until I wake up whether that's after 6 hours or 10 minutes, rather that being woken by an alarm, a cat or a brat.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
[QUOTE 1681554, member: 10119"]I couldn't keep my eyes open so said I would just go snooze on the sofa for half an hour. Conked straight out, and then freaked them out completely when I re-appeared, assuming I'd been asleep for a while, 10 minutes later. My cup of tea was still hot, but I felt transformed by the three minutes of kip. [/quote]
I used to power nap and would be able to set an alarm for 15-20 minutes away and then within 5 minutes I would be in a deep sleep and then wide awake and refreshed when the alarm went off.
At a push, if I was really drained I can still do that now but if I do then the same thing will happen when I go to bed. I fall asleep immediately and then reawake after less then half an hour and can't sleep for the rest of the night!
I used to power nap and would be able to set an alarm for 15-20 minutes away and then within 5 minutes I would be in a deep sleep and then wide awake and refreshed when the alarm went off.
At a push, if I was really drained I can still do that now but if I do then the same thing will happen when I go to bed. I fall asleep immediately and then reawake after less then half an hour and can't sleep for the rest of the night!
paddy01
Senior Member
- Location
- Exmouth (Devon)
I can sympathise, during a depressive peak, heavy on the anxiety/panic, sleep is right out the window. Worst being 5 days with a total of 3 hours sleep, and that was chemically induced.
Never could manage the power nap thing though, sleeping during the day always makes me feel worse afterwards but then too awake going into the night.
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Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
Okay then, now what is the longest and shortest you have ever slept for?
My longest= From 1.30am to 4.30pm (15 hours)
My shortest= From 4.00am to 5.30am (1.5 hours)
My longest= From 1.30am to 4.30pm (15 hours)
My shortest= From 4.00am to 5.30am (1.5 hours)
Lisa21
Mooching.............
- Location
- North Wales
Night Train, I dont know how you survive on so little sleep
If that were me I would be up on a murder charge by now, coming anywhere near to a sleep-deprived Lisa is like poking a hornets nest with a stick. I NEED sleep. Lots of it. My ideal would be at least 10 hours a day
but i tend to usually get about 7.
If that were me I would be up on a murder charge by now, coming anywhere near to a sleep-deprived Lisa is like poking a hornets nest with a stick. I NEED sleep. Lots of it. My ideal would be at least 10 hours a daybut i tend to usually get about 7.
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
..yawn...just woke up...whats happening?
