How many hours of sleep do yall get?
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I probably average 7. I usually wake up quite early, no matter when I go to bed, so if I don't go to bed by 1 am I am still up before 7 am. Usually it doesn't affect me much. It takes about 3 days in a row of bad sleep (less than 6 hours) before I really feel it. I still occasionally stay up all night due to my job (I take care of animals, if there is a sick animal that needs supervision I'm up).1
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Week nights when I wake up to the alarm I get between 5 and 6 hours. In bed for 8, however. By Friday I feel like death warmed over.
Weekends and vacation, when I can sleep in to make up for not being able to fall asleep and being awake in the middle of the night, I get around 9 hours.
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Go_Deskercise wrote: »Pre-puppy 7-8 hours average
Post-puppy 5-7 hours average
Those super early mornings are seldom since he's almost 1 now but they kick my butt when they happen!
Adorable pup - get what you're saying. I've got two GSD boys, 2.5 and 4.5 years old, their both mentally stuck at the 4-24 months stage. Just love when they start playing (is dinoseering a word?) at 4:30 am...
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I get MAYBE 6 hours a night, and that is broken up, and that is if I am lucky enough to be able to fall asleep easily.0
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My entire life (I'm 43), I've required 8-9/night, maybe one night a week could dip below that - BUT, I was not very disciplined about my days, especially in the evenings and pre-bed routines.
I am determined at this point in my life to start finding the success I have failed to obtain. Part of that means I need some more time in my days, and spending that much time in bed simply doesn't work. I need more hours to get more done, but I already know that means the sleep I do get needs to be quality sleep, so I am very metholodically implementing better routines.
I'm trying to cut down to 6-7/night. Last week cut down to 7-8 most nights, and that was fine, this week taking that a step further. I'm hoping to be closer to 6 most nights other than weekends when there's more flexibility.
Yes, I know they "say" you can't train yourself to function on less sleep, but plenty of people have experienced otherwise, and I am finding my sleep quality is much improved with a more disciplined routine and preparation for sleep, and the effect has not been as bad as shorter nights were historically.2 -
Yes, I have tried sleep studies, getting the sleep apnea treated (slept more soundly between wakeups, still woke up), hypnotherapy (helped more than anything else, still not great), several prescription drugs (woke up just as often, but groggier), all the folk remedies, magnesium, melatonin, eating/not eating before bed, exercising/not exercising close to bedtime . . . . and on and on. So many things.
I hugged your post because I can soooo relate.
In all honesty, quitting smoking is what made my sleep go for a nosedive. As I smoker I could sleep on planes, trains and automobiles, floors, whenever and wherever. That ended. Then it just got worse at menopause.
Current strategies: blackout shades on window, pink noise, white noise, zero caffeine, no napping ever, screen-free before bedtime, wind-down routine, no exercise in evening, weighted blanket, occasional prescription meds
Failed strategies: melatonin, valerian, kava kava, various vile and nasty herbal teas, hyponotherapy
Semi-effective: Natural Factors Tranquil Sleep is the only natural remedy that has ever kind of worked, but it's not 100%
I know how you both feel with not enough sleep, the older (62) I get the worse no sleep gets for me, I just go with the flow anymore. Hang in there ! All we can do !1 -
Not enough. I was averaging 6.5 hrs according to fitbit. Working hard to get that up to 7hrs, but I'm apparently awake in the night for upwards of an hour, which I'd love to fix as although I wake up it only feels like it's fora few minutes. I'd love uninterrupted sleep but kids, husband, etc I think I'd need my own house to achieve that!
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6 if I’m lucky during the work week 🥴0
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Go_Deskercise wrote: »Pre-puppy 7-8 hours average
Post-puppy 5-7 hours average
Those super early mornings are seldom since he's almost 1 now but they kick my butt when they happen!
Omg I love him!! 😍0 -
7-9, for me.0
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I get about 7-7.5 a night usually. Sometimes continuous but rarely do I sleep through the night. Pre-kids I couldn’t function with under 7 hours but now I’m pretty good with 7 hours.
I think it depends on how you feel on the amount of sleep you are getting not necessarily how much sleep you get0 -
8 hours in bed but not 8 hours of quality sleep. Maybe 4 hours of quality sleep I would guess, at most.0
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Interestingly enough, now that it's almost 2 months since I posted here, I have successfully been living on 6-6.5 hours of "sleep" each night. I try to be getting into bed at the 7 hour mark, leaving some time to relax, and then able to be lights out going to sleep no later than the 6 hour mark.
Other than a couple nights that cut short (one night I just slept like crap - weather changed and it was way too hot in my room and I hadn't hooked up the AC yet), I've done pretty well overall and haven't been cranky or moody.
It does require a strict routine though, which can be difficult with my night owl boyfriend who gets to sleep for 9+ hours a night and doesn't have to get up until I'm already done with my first job of the day....but other than that, it's worked out just fine.1 -
7 to 8 but at times it's broke up cause I live with cats that wake me up and a puppy.1
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Usually 7-9 depending on when I went to bed, etc. I also tend to go to bed around 8 most nights. I've made myself a sleep routine to help get me to sleep faster/stay asleep because if I don't get enough sleep I am the worst person ever lol.
I also wake up between 4-5am most days.0 -
I’m lucky if I get six hours. More often I hover around 5h 15m, and that’s riddled with multiple disturbances an hour.0
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