How do you feel about your sleeping pattern?

[Champ]

[Left Is Write]

1. I am the parent of young children. I don't sleep enough.

[trotsky]

3. Same here.

It's gotten much better since they were infants (thank Koresh) but every few nights one or the other will have a nightmare or a bladder accident or whatnot. Nothing can prepare you for the sleep deprivation that is an integral part of parenthood.

[bigwillq]

2. My sleeping pattern in all over the place

I usually get up at a decent time, like 9 a.m. but then after lunch I sleep for a few hours because most days I don't go into work until about 4 p.m.

I don't get much sleep ay night cause after work I usually go out or if I don't go out I'm still up all hours of the night.

[rainbow4321]

4. Night shift worker here....

We're always tired...worst time was during Texas' hail storm a few years back when ALL of my neighbors were getting their roofs replaced. How dare they schedule that stuff during the day when I try to sleep :bounce:

[SheilaT]

5. I was a champion sleeper in my youth.

In my 20s I'd typically get at least nine hours a night, and could readily sleep much longer. I miss those days.

I had kids, which plays hell with your sleep cycle, and then I got middle-aged (I'm now 56) and simply cannot sleep through the night. I now have a back problem that causes me to wake up in pain after about four hours. It's immediately cured if I stand up, but then I have trouble going back to sleep. Sigh.

[WyLoochka]

6. Just right

Usually 5 to 6 hours a night. Up by 3:30 - 4:30 am, once in awhile up at 2 am, just because getting up early is one of my favorite things in life.

[St. Jarvitude]

Sleep enough, but at the wrong times

I have really, really bizarre sleep patterns.

[hyphenate]

7. I'm an insomniac

I sleep when I can. I try to maintain regular hours, but midnight to 3 and then 6 to 9 isn't exactly helping.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. none of the above, mine is totally out of whack since I have

been out of work

[auntAgonist]

9. I get enough sleep usually

but the thing is, working afternoons, I tend to stay up wayyyyyyy too late. I don't go to bed till 4am some days and then sleep till 11am , by the time I get up and get showered, do a bit of housework, check email, my own news forum and DU etc, it's time to go to work again. I have a 45 minute drive and I start at 3pm.

I don't have a life.

[Wapsie B]

10. Pretty good.

I get around 7-8 hours a night or day if I'm working a graveyard shift.
Harder for me sleeping days during the summer though. But thank god for nasal CPAP. Sleep like a baby with it.

[nickgutierrez]

11. What is this "pattern" of which you speak? n/t

[Skittles]

12. it's terrible

no regular schedule whatsoever; sleep in 3-4 hour increments

[The Great Escape]

13. I Get Just The Right Amount Of Sleep...But...

I've gotten in this habit where I sleep three or four hours (in my bed) and then wake up. When I wake up, I have to go sleep somewhere else. I cannot go back to sleep where I originally went to sleep. I have to go to the couch or the spare bedroom and sleep another 3 or 4 hours. This also works in reverse, if I doze off on the couch I will wake up and have to go to bed.

[HuskiesHowls]

14. I've always been a night owl

and my kids stayed up way late, too. When I was working night shift(11-7, 7 days a week) I'd sleep through lunch, then run around all day. I'd get away with that for about a month, then crash for a whole weekend. Can't quite do that anymore!!!

Now a normal night's sleep is 4 1/2-5 hrs.

[More Than A Feeling]

15. I have pulled more all nighers this semester than in my entire life

I am not bragging. I am mourning.

[flamingyouth]

16. I'd get a lot more if my neighbors would shut the fuck up

What kind of people sit and get drunk outside on their deck until 2 am in Seattle in December, fergawdsake? :grr:

[Cadence]

17. I can't get REM. I never get REM! I'm going to

go crazy if I can't ever get REM!!

[Shadowen]

18. You forgot the option...

"What sleeping pattern?"