Do you guys sleep?

[buckweaver]

Last night was probably the first dream I've remembered in about a year. I never remember them. Probably has to do with my sleep, but maybe not.

Seven hours' sleep is about perfect for me, I think. Any more than that, and I'm exhausted. Any less than that, and I can function on adrenaline for a day or two but I better make up for it soon after.

Usually get to bed around 3-4-5 a.m., but lately I haven't been waking up 'til around noon, which isn't good for me.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Oh man, the cell goes on vibrate all the time. And if I have it laying on my floor (my bed isn't that high off) I don't hear anything.

 

[fishwrapper]

I've always wanted to remember my dreams...until now.

 

[fishwrapper]

Oh man, the cell goes on vibrate all the time. And if I have it laying on my floor (my bed isn't that high off) I don't hear anything.

I suppose it depends on the gig. I, for the most part, am always available.
I have it set for standby mode for the middle of the night, but "IT" wakes up sometimes before I do.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

I hardly sleep at all. Insomnia is the bane of my existence and has been my entire adult life. I am Jack's somnolent dysfunction.

 

[OTD]

Since I started having to get up around 6, I now get much more sleep since I make sure I'm in bed by 10. Before, I'd get to sleep around 3 or so, getting about 5-6 hours of sleep if I was lucky. Usually 7-8 hours now.

 

[Diabeetus]

I've always had trouble falling asleep, no matter how tired I am. But once I go down, I have no trouble staying asleep eight hours, which is what I aim for.

 

[Sleeper]

As I've gotten older, I've come to accept that I need more sleep than the average joe. I'm pretty much a mess without anything less an eight hours. But I really need close to 10-11 hours a day.

In college, this wasn't a problem because I could take naps to catch up. Nowadays I'm forced to drink more coffee and catch up on my days off. Luckily I work four days per week.

 

[forever_town]

I quote the late, great Warren Zevon: I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Normally, I get about 6.5 to 7.5 hours a night. This week, I've been averaging about 5.5 to 6 because I've been covering a trial AND I covered a women's basketball game Thursday night right after posting a quick story about the trial on our Web site.

So yeah, I haven't been getting much sleep of late.

 

[Kaylee]

I can go exactly one (1) day with very little sleep. After that, the train runs off the tracks and I flirt dangerously with psychosis.

I greatly envy people who can sleep just a few hours, snap out of bed and be good to go. I could get so much done that way. But as it is, I feel like I need to sleep constantly. I work out, I avoid caffeine at night, yet no matter what, I'm up until at least 2 a.m. and can easily sleep 10 hours if I don't force myself to wake up.

The worst thing lately has been my dreams. Good or bad, my dreams at least have been interesting. Now they're just literal. Yesterday, a friend of mine called me and said "We need to get together and go out drinking one of these nights." So later that night, I had a dream about getting together with that friend and going out drinking.

 

[Rex Harrison]

I can't comprehend how some of you sleep on less than eight hours. I average nine or 10 hours every night.

 

[fishwrapper]

I can't comprehend how some of you sleep on less than eight hours. I average nine or 10 hours every night.

Want to borrow a couple of kids? You'll be comprehending real quick.

 

[TrooperBari]

Four hours on most days, six on good days. Whether it's actually quality sleep is another matter altogether.

Noisy frogs, noisy neighbors and noisy housemates do not make for a great sleeping environment.

 

[BYH]

Actually, I think you snore less during deep sleep. I think deep sleep is when you start shallowly breathing. I've woken up during deep sleep a couple of times and while going back to sleep I feel like I'm dying because I can't take a shallow breath, my body won't move and my brain is awake enough to know what the hell is going on.

It's not a fun feeling.

Oh my God. I HATE that. That ****s me up too. Except it happens when I'm coming out of a deep sleep. Always happens when I'm on my side too. I'll be awake, but I can't move, and I'll hear myself breathing and know what's going on around me. And I can't move. I try to jar my legs loose, nothing happens. Try to jar my arms loose, nothing. Try to roll over, all I do is stir ever so slightly. Then I grit my teeth and force myself to roll over, and I lay there, heart pounding, staring at the ceiling.

It's probably only 5-10 seconds, but it feels like forever.

As for the question, I can get by on four hours of sleep and roll all day long. But give me an open day and I'll ****ing sleep it away. I could sleep 12 hours a night, every night. Which, you know, sucks when you don't go to bed til 6 am.

My problem is when I get six hours or so. Then I almost always need a nap in the middle of the day. Less than that though and it's like the adrenaline kicks in.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Sleep? What is sleep?

 

[Cadet]

I looooooove sleep. I need 8-9 hours each night to feel normal.

And I'm totally a night owl. No matter how much sleep I get, I'm totally drowsy between 3-7 p.m. And even if I haven't slept for 18 hours, I'm totally awake between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m.

People know not to **** with my sleep. I have my parents, who still don't understand why I have to work Saturdays, trained to never call before noon. And sleep is my answer for everything: sadness, boredom, anger, embarrassment, illness, travel.

Those who were in Vegas know that I can sleep through anything. Except having my feet covered by the blanket. (Hi, Joe!)

 

[BYH]

I looooooove sleep. I need 8-9 hours each night to feel normal.

And I'm totally a night owl. No matter how much sleep I get, I'm totally drowsy between 3-7 p.m. And even if I haven't slept for 18 hours, I'm totally awake between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m.

Me too. I refuse to go to sleep before 1 am. I honestly haven't gone to bed before 1 am since high school. There was a period, when I was working 9 to 5 at a magazine, where I'd go to bed at 1:30 every night. That was a long time ago though.

Since then, the closest I've come to going to bed before 1 am was last fall, when I was up for 30-odd straight hours on a deadline and a complete ****ing zombie by 9 pm on a Friday night. I mean, I was so tired, it was like I was having an out of body experience. I would drink soda and hope it didn't dribble out of my mouth. I ordered dinner around 9, hoping for that second wind, but even that didn't work. Finally, at like 10:30, I said to my wife "wake me up in half an hour" and rolled over on the recliner.

She said "Why don't you just go to bed?" I said "I can't! It's not 1 am yet!"

It took me days to recover from that one.

 

[Rex Harrison]

Sam, are you Dreaming While You Sleep? Should we play Unquiet Slumber for the Sleepers? Scenes from a Night's Dream?

 

[Dessens71]

I believe I would function better if days were 30 hours long. I would sleep for 10 and be awake for 20.
I have issues with inertia. When I'm at rest, I want to stay at rest and when I'm moving, I want to stay moving.

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[Jeremy Goodwin]

6-8 hrs. I usually go to bed pretty late. When I wake up depends on what I need to to the next day /if my body will allow me to sleep that much.