How much sleep do you get?

[vhoffman]

Just wondering how much people typically sleep each night. I mean adults, not kids.

I typically get about 6.5-7 hours of sleep/night. I can't seem to get to bed any earlier than 10 pm, get up at 5:30, so that's about 7.5 hours, assuming I fall asleep right away. Just today, for various reasons, I was able to sleep in until 9 am. Do I ever feel good! I must need that sleep, last night got `10 hours sleep. However, most of us simply don't have the time to sleep that much.

Well, just wondering how much the rest of you typically sleep?

 

[TiggerandTink]

Usually about 7 hours, sometimes less, but my normal pattern is to be in bed by 11pm and up by 6am.

 

[Sandi12404]

I get about 6 hours a night. It stinks because I really need more but it never works out that way. I'm a waitress and I work dinner so most nights I don't get home until about midnight (we close at 11). Then it takes me about an hour to unwind so I hit the sheets around one and then I have to be up at seven to get DD9 ready for school. Sometimes I get lucky and get to sleep in on Saturdays but that's rare.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I need lots of sleep to function properly! I try to get in bed by 10:00 p.m. and read a book for about an hour. I turn out the light at 11:00 p.m. and get up at 7:00 a.m. on weekdays. I rarely fall asleep right away and I tend to wake up a few times during the night. Technically, I'm trying to sleep for 8 hours but I'm sure I don't actually get that much. I love sleeping in on weekends and can easily sleep solid until 10:00 a.m! Our kids are old enough to get up and amuse themselves on their own. I think I'm still catching up from when they were babies and toddlers!!!!!

 

[TurtleGirl28]

I gotta have at least 7 hours just to function. But I usually get about 8 1/2 hours a night. Usually I'm in bed by 11pm and up at about 7:30am. Except recently I haven't been able to fall asleep before 2am. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to make yourself sleepy?

 

[Iowaswete]

Normally about 5 hours during the day(I work 3rd shift) from 10 am-3 pm and then I get about 3 more hours after my daughter goes to bed 7:30 pm-10:30 pm

 

[tophee99]

Anywhere between 5 - 7 hours........I don't sleep well.....so between all the times I wake up, etc., I'd guess about 5......6 or 7 on a really good night!!!

 

[powellrj]

Anywhere between 5 - 7 hours........I don't sleep well.....so between all the times I wake up, etc., I'd guess about 5......6 or 7 on a really good night!!!

I can usually count on about 3 good hours and then I start waking up during the night. I shoot for 5 hours a night, I would love to sleep 8 or 9. I envy people that can do it. Even when I took ambien, if I got 6 hours I felt lucky.

 

[tiki23]

I get somewhere between 5.5 to 6.5; I would love to get at least 7 every night!

DH works graveyard - he likes to get up for awhile when the kids get home from school, then he goes back to bed about 5PM and doesn't get up until after 10PM. So by the time I've got the dinner mess cleaned up, see him off and climb into bed it's at least 11:00. I need some time to read and unwind, then the alarm goes off at 5:50 AM and I get to start all over again.

Sigh.

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

I aim for 7, and usually get somewhere between 6 and 7 hours a night.

 

[Princess Roo]

6.5 or 7.5, depending whether it is my turn or DH's to get up with our early-riser!
...Less than I used to get before children, and so much more than I was getting before DS started sleeping through the night a few months ago!

 

[dadof2]

typically 6.5-7 usually in bed by 11 up by 5:30 - 6:00

 

[rt2dz]

5-7 hours, providing I don't get up with a child during the week. On weekends I get 7-10; DH does his best to keep the kids away then so I'm not too run down.

 

[rjeash]

I gotta have at least 7 hours just to function. But I usually get about 8 1/2 hours a night. Usually I'm in bed by 11pm and up at about 7:30am. Except recently I haven't been able to fall asleep before 2am. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to make yourself sleepy?

Stay off of the Disboards???

 

[vhoffman]

I can usually count on about 3 good hours and then I start waking up during the night. I shoot for 5 hours a night, I would love to sleep 8 or 9. I envy people that can do it. Even when I took ambien, if I got 6 hours I felt lucky.

Hey, I tried ambien about a year ago. It really worked at first, but then just didn't seem to help as much. I'd still wake up in the middle of the night.

Here's something my ds's dr recommended for him--ds has trouble staying asleep. Melatonin, 3 mg each night. Its over-the-counter, ds's doctor thinks its ok for long term use. I give it to ds ocassionally, not every night, but he says it seems to help. Also, I give ds Sleepy Time tea sometimes, I also drink it, seems to help. We take it on trips when we're too keyed up to sleep. I prefer something like that over Ambien, especially in a hotel room and unfamiliar surroundings. I'd hate to wake up disoriented in a strange room.

Sometimes I'm so blasted tired I could cry, just aching to get to bed. Then I finally do, drift off to sleep, then wake up again in an hour, awake half the night Well, maybe I'm a genius--read somewhere that the geniuses of the world, Edison, Einstein, Mozart, all got by with 3-4 hours of sleep/night. so when I'm awake I should be doing something creative, like compose an opera? I truly envy dh, his head just touches the pillow and he's off to dream land, while it takes me at least an hour to fall asleep, regardless of how tired I am. I've tried all the common sense advice, like limit caffeine towards evening, hove a soothing bedtime routine, have a comfortable environment, keep the bedroom kinda cool, guess I just can't get there.

At least having such a problem I'm more sympathetic towards ds. Dh just says "quit worrying about stuff and go to sleep". Would that it were so easy. I don't "worry about stuff" except getting to sleep! Its not something that's under your control as much as it might seem, its not like there's a sleep button I can push and that's it. Seems the hardest task I have some days is getting to sleep at night! But the tea and melatonin do seem to work, might give them a try.

 

[powellrj]

I have tried both the melatonin and the sleepy time tea. I didn't have any luck with the melatonin, but the sleepy time tea made me have to use the restroom every hour on the hour!! 2 nights of that and I was more tired than before.

I have had many sleep studies and have just learned to live with it. My DM has also suffered her whole life and I just recently found our my DGM also suffered, so I am beginning to think it runs in the family.

 

[StephMK]

I go to bed usually between 11:30-1am & get up at 7 on weekdays & 8:30-9 on weekends. If I get more sleep, I feel sluggish & more sleepy. As long as I can have 1 good sleep in day a week, I feel good.

IMO, that is the #1 best part about the kids growing up. They are now old enough that we can sleep & they'll watch cartoons & eat cereal, at least until the fighting starts!

 

[rjeash]

IMO, that is the #1 best part about the kids growing up. They are now old enough that we can sleep & they'll watch cartoons & eat cereal, at least until the fighting starts!

I think you live in the same house I do! My DD6 and DS8 love to get into it when me, DH and DS10 are all asleep. When will they grow out of it!! I do beleive it is my DD most of the time that starts it. She can be such a

 

[mericletwins]

Just wondering how much people typically sleep each night. I mean adults, not kids.


Well, just wondering how much the rest of you typically sleep?

I sleep about 7 hours. Weeknights and weekend nights are the same.

 

[momofbgtwins]

Usually between 5 - 6 hours every night! DH and I are night owls. We head upstairs at 11:15 or so, but DH needs the TV on to fall asleep (they should ban TVs from bedrooms!) So, he falls asleep by 12:00, and I'm usually wide awake for another half hour. We also have our dogs in the room with us (no longer on the bed, thank goodness!) and one of the dogs will cry to go out by 5:45ish, so my day begins. DH gets the twins up at 6:15 while I feed the dogs and get the kids lunches and breakfasts ready. Even when the kids could sleep later (on the weekend, vacation, no daycare, etc) the they are usually awake on their own by 6:30. (I do zonk out on the couch at night sometimes, though)