How many hours of sleep do you get a night?

[Took]

8 hours on most nights, but insomnia will strike occasionally and I'll only get 5-6. However, sometimes on the weekends, I'll get 9-10.

I know I couldn't function for long on less sleep. I'd be a wreck!

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[si-am]

I average about 6 during the week; 10 on weekends.

 

[pharm]

7-9 but sometimes 6. Def wish i could get more sleep

 

[Squirlz]

Well it's almost 2:30 now. That's about how late we stay up on any given night. So I'd say anywhere between 8 and 10 hours as we rarely get up before 9:30 AM and usually more like 10:30.

 

[ReneeA]

I work 12 hour midnight shifts, so not much. Actually, when I had a normal schedule, I would say that I needed 8-9 hours a night. Now, on the days I work, I come home and crawl into bed at 8am and sleep pretty restlessly until 2:30. Then I get up and go get my kids from school (looking like the local bag lady). Nights I don't have to work? I now sleep between 9-10 hours on those nights to try and make up my shortage.