How many hours should I sleep?

If your under 30 you should only need 7 hours. If you exercise and eat right you should feel rejuvenated enough to go through the week.

 

I read this thread last night right before bed.

I went to bed at 12. Woke up at 3 am (took a leak) and went back to bed and then woke up at 6.

Maybe I'll try to work in a 90 minute nap later today. :grin:

 

I'm 19 and need at least 8 hours. Last night I went to bed at 7 p.m. woke up at 10 p.m. for about 40 minutes. Had nothing to do so I went back to bed and got up at 6:45 a.m. If I only get 6 hours, I tend to have to take a nap when I come back from classes.

 

Are you basing this on anything other than personal experience (like perhaps science)?

 

Ummm, actually, it's been stated that the younger you are, the MORE sleep your body needs to process everything you've done.

 

Sometimes on the weekends I'll wake up at like 7 in the morning cause I'm so used to my weekly schedule. I look at the clock take a leak and think dang it's way too early and I go back to sleep till like 1 pm. It's like I slept twice. Awesome.

 

Same, I function on 5-6 hours normally, at least during the week. But my roommate my freshman year in college was a guy that needed 8-10 hours(or so he thinks). He was always way more tired than I was, I have the feeling he was sleeping too much.

 

I try to follow that rule by setting my alarm for like 5:30 am, waking up, and resetting my alarm for 8:30am, ensuring I get a solid 3hr interval to end on. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Its too hard of a process to nail on the head IMO.

 

I wake up groggy all the damn time, but my problem is if I try to go to sleep at 11:30 PM in order to wake up at 7 AM, I will end up tossing and turning around for God knows how long before I finally enter my sleep cycle.


The last few days I've been waking up right in the middle of intense dreams during R.E.M sleep and it really sucks.

 

5-6 hours is all we need. REM sleep is a b****. I must learn how to jump out of bed when I wake up. Dreams are too weird.

 

I'd film myself while sleeping to discover my intervals, but that ****ing movie has me paranoid.

 

If I can get 6 hours, I feel that I am okay. The problem though is waking up (like others have said) during REM sleep. I generally tend to go ahead and get up if I wake up at 4 in the morning and I plan on getting up at 5:15. It is not worth it to me to sleep an hour and 15 minutes and get back into a deep sleep only to have to wake up again. When that happens, it feels like to me that I didn't get any sleep at all even though I did.

 

Which movie?

 

Set the alarm for 2:15am so I could wake up and then sleep until 8:15am but woke up at 6am feeling awesome! Went back to sleep... snoozed it til 8:35... and feel sleepy.

Even if you wake up feeling awesome its hard to not go back to sleep if you can.

 

I went to bed at around 12:50, got up at 6:50 and got right up, felt great.

 

I've heard you shouldn't toss and and turn in bed, it makes you associate that behavior as a common or routine occurrence. Try getting out of bed and maybe stretching out. I'm with you, I had some problem sleeping recently but working out again seems to help my sleep cycle. good luck.

 

My main issue was Caffeine. I used to be a Soda junkie and then I would wonder why I couldn't get to sleep until 3 in the morning because my mind was racing.


After I cut out Caffeine in the afternoons and evenings I have slept much better.

 

Damn this thread. It kept waking me up last night.

Before I went to sleep, I checked the time. When I woke up (naturally, not via alarm clock), I checked the time. I had been asleep 3:40, so perhaps my sleep cycle was 1:50 (110 minutes)?

I went back to sleep anyway, but the fact that this idea affected my sleep pisses me off!