Sleep

[blithe spirit]

How much sleep do you get a day..in general?

Do you nap regularly or just occasionally?

Do you have a bedtime schedule you try to keep? or whenever?

A wakeup time...or whenever?

I've been so scheduled to my work for years, always up at 6 and to bed by 11 or so...I really don't need to keep those hours anymore...has been a habit though..

Just wondering?

[frenchy]

eeeeeeeeeeeee.. i'm all over the place on that .. sometimes if i'm out in my shop i can stay out there till the sun comes up .. and sometimes i'm asleep by 7 pm .. i do take a lot of naps tho cause i usually can't sleep for more than 3 hours at a time .. so some days i might only get 5 hours sleep and then there's usually one day a week where i get 10 hours or more.. i'm hard to live with cause of that fact .. but i've learned to use headphones at night now ..  

[Lifesighs]

If I'm in a good sleep mode I wake up at 7 or 7.5 hours, however I do like to stay up late and read and I usually get up early. If I don't get my 7 hours in I usually do take a nap by default which means I try to read a book and fall asleep instead.

When I worked I always felt sleep deprived because I never got my make up nap time.

[Lucinda Stone]

I do have that work clock too, but only for the work mornings when the alarm goes off at 6:15. I seem to be getting by on less sleep now, usually up til 1am or so. Saturdays can easily sleep later, 10 or so, Sundays earlier as I read the paper that morning. Absolutely cannot nap tho...

[Wayne Goodwin]

I sleep when I want to . I have no certain time to do anything . I may get 5 hours sleep other times I mazy sleep 12 hours . Back when I worked I advared 5 hours sleep ..

[T2Friends]

I have struggled with insomnia for years.  I take something to help me sleep.  I definitely helps me fall asleep, but I don't stay asleep.  I tend to sleep in 3 to 5 hour increments.  If I go 5 hours I feel very lucky.  I wake up to pee or just my aches and pains generally wake me up so that I remember to take some more IBUprofen.  I used to love naps, but when I was having real issues with my insomnia I stopped taking them, in an attempt to get my body into a better sleep wake rhythm. That is when I stopped reading in bed as well, not a good practice if you are struggling with sleep issues.  At least that was some of the advice I got and tried to follow.  As I said, things are a bit better now, and sometimes on the weekends I will indulge in a nap...one of lifes little luxuries! LOL.  I usually wake around 7 am without an alarm clock and I usually go to bed around 10 or 11, although I might not fall asleep until 12ish.  And if I only wake up once during the night that is a good night, although I might be up for a couple of hours before being able to go back to sleep.  Still better than the nights when I am up and down every couple of hours.  

 

[Karin M Fichtner]

I worked the Graveyard Shift for ten years. I did that for two reasons...first, because my kids were in school, and they were old enough to be alone and get themselves off to school in the morning. I would sleep during the day, so that I could be up in the evenings with them, and we could eat dinner together. Secondly....I think I was meant to be a vampire. I am quite happy being up half the night, and sleeping in in the morning. I always intend to go to bed earlier (for me, that's around midnite), but I seldom get to bed til at least 2:00 a.m. As I write this, it is 1:18 a.m. EST. I will put my dog out, read for a little bit, and turn out the lights about 2:15. I usually fall right asleep, but after about 6:00, I sleep fitfully. I should just give up and get up....but I don't have a good reason to, and besides, I am still tired. But my brain won't shut off, and I have some pretty weird dreams. Occasionally I take a short nap during the late afternoon.

[Wayne Goodwin]

Hope ya haven't bit anyone . I like that ...

[crestofwaves]

I NEED nine hours, but I don't get that when I work, as I am today.  I am a night owl--stay up til two, three, sometimes four-- wake up around 10-ish. That has always been my body clock.

I can take a cat nap--seriously sometimes just the commercial break between television shows, and feel better afterwards, but I am a firm believer in naps--love them especially because my dog naps with me, lol, right there on the bed next to me, her butt to my body, and it just feels peaceful to have her there.

Ok. off to my one class a day job!  Shouldn't be too stressful or tiring. Then home to blow the FREAKING snow again.

[Snagg]

I generally go to bed between 11:30 and midnight, and get up around 6:00. My fiancee has medical issues, so she counts on me to get certain things done to help her get ready for work each day. But I can veer all over the clock, when necessary. Last weekend, my daughter and her husband were ill with a virus, and they needed me to babysit the grandson. I got to their house about 8:30 Saturday night, the grandson woke up around 11:00 P.M., and when he realized Paw-Paw was there, well...That was That. He absolutely would not go back to sleep in his crib - He was getting over the same bug, and he wanted to be cuddled and held. He understood that mommy and Da-Da couldn't do it, so he slept on my chest all night - And I sat there all night, in the dark, watching the snow go by outside their living-room window - With no ill effects on my awareness or alertness the next day. Went back home about 10:00 A.M. Sunday morning, when my daughter and her hubby were up and feeling better, took a half-hour nap and was fine for the rest of the day.

I've always had what you might call an unusual degree of vitality and endurance - Staying up for two or three days at a stretch, whether helping out friends who were in a jam or just running around being an idiot, and then 4 or 5 hours sleep never bothered me. It probably has something to do with being diagnosed in the top .05 percentile for hyperactivity when I was a kid.

Hey, if it's good enough for Keith Richards, it's good enough for me - And, just for the hell of it, I'll do it without, uh..assistive stimulation.

[Wayne Goodwin]

Joanna with dog next to ya makes for some good cuddling and peaceful rest ..

[Karin M Fichtner]

No, Wayne.....I haven't bitten anyone......yet. ;-). I envy you, Crest, to have your dog nap with you. My poor old Rocky can't jump up on my bed anymore. I bought him doggy steps, but for some reason, he's afraid to use them. I hate that he sleeps in the living room on the couch now. I miss him. He comes in to my room in the morning, though, and lies on the floor until I get up. Now, as I write this, i am in my recliner, watching the news, and he is lying on the footrest, snuggled up as close as he can get. That's all the snuggle time I get anymore. :-(

[Wayne Goodwin]

Maybe ya can give him pain med's like ibuprofen . Might help .