What is a normal amount of sleep in a day?

[quakerboy]

How much do you sleep? How much should a person sleep? Is there such a thing as too much sleep? an unhealthy amount?

[cwydro]

1. I think it depends on the person.

Me, I need 8 hours, but can get by with 7. 6 at a pinch, but I hate that.

[quakerboy]

7. Thats about right

Except when something prevents it, I am good for between 7-8 a night. I generally wake up after 8.

Though sometimes I have insomnia, and I end up living on 4-5 a night for a week or so. Doable, but not at all enjoyable.

[Haole Girl]

2. Did you know...

Too much sleep is as dangerous as too little?

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/09/24/sleep-study.html

[cwydro]

3. I've read that before.

I know if I get too much (not likely to happen in a household with as many animals as mine) that I feel awful.

I seem to have my own clock anyhow. Don't even use an alarm.

[Haole Girl]

6. I feel awful if I sleep too much, too...

much, much worse than being sleep deprived. And it's wasteful!

[quakerboy]

10. I dont know about worse

but more immediate. For myself, one instance of oversleeping has a similar effect to several cumulative days of being sleep deprived. One day of deprivation doesn't have much effect, but when they start stacking it can get uglier.

[quakerboy]

8. But does that account for

napping once one has left the confines of the sleeping area?

[mix]

4. on the international space station, i heard

they divide their days into thirds--8 for sleeping, 8 for work, 8 for personal time

apropos of nothing

:D

[quakerboy]

5. How very

logical

[auntAgonist]

9. I usually get between 5 and 6 hours of broken sleep.

I'm such a light sleeper. I hear everything. I awaken many times through the night.

I get up at 4:30am. I go to bed between 10:30 and 11:30pm.

[quakerboy]

11. Sorry

I know that feeling. Ive tried everything I can think of, but my default setting seems to be to wake a lot at night. Every fix helps for a while, but then the effect fades. black out curtains, fancy new bed, white noise, temp control, etc. The new bed helped for almost a month before I reset and started waking up a lot again.

I couldn't go to bed so early. I've tried. Except in cases of extreme illness, I haven't been to bed before midnight in about 18 years.

[auntAgonist]

12. I think I am just the sort of person that doesn't need

a lot of sleep.

:hug: