How do you usually sleep?

If somebody asks if you slept well the night before, what's your usual answer?

My answer is pretty much, without fail, FINE. And my brother always asks how *I* can sleep fine when nobody else can, and my mother figured it out. He asked how I can sleep all night so well, and she answered 'she doesn't, she goes to sleep at 3 or 4 in the morning, she doesn't sleep all night', and this is true, lately I've been averaging in bed at 3 in the morning, and out of bed around 7:30, presentable by 8. That said, yes, I sleep fine for the little that I do, if I had to sleep for a whole night I probably wouldn't.

As long as your sleep schedule is cool with your work schedule, then it's nobody's bees wax how you sleep.

I function well on 5 to 6 hours a night. Old people don't need as much sleep as young ones.

Suzi wrote:I function well on 5 to 6 hours a night. Old people don't need as much sleep as young ones.

It really irritates me when all these 'studies' set a standard of 7-8 hours for adequate sleep. If I stay in bed for 7 hours my back actually hurts.

On work days I go to bed at midnight and my alarm is set for 6 but I often wake up before it goes off. Six hours is optimum and 5 sufficient for me to have a good nights sleep. Occasionally, if I haven't had that for a day or so I will sleep in for 7 hours on my days off work.

My sleeping habits have been terrible ever since the baby came. I got so used to having to get up, or stay up, with him that when he finally started sleeping through the night, I continued to wake up at around the times he usually did, and going back to sleep is sometimes hard.

I will never be a morning person. My body will never be wired to get up before 9 am so my sleep pattern is always disrupted.....no matter how early I go to bed. Once I'm up....I'm fine...but I can't be still or I might fall asleep.

The question hardly ever gets asked. I find I do sleep better if I remember to use ear plugs.

I say whatever works for the person, then go for it, but for me personally I've always been a very long sleeper, needing 9-10 hours per night most nights.

I feel awful if I sleep too much. 5 is usually a good number & about average for me. Sometimes I'll sleep in on weekends. Just depends on how much sleep I got during the week which CAN be next to nothing or if I have anything to do during the weekend.

I go through stages from sleeping the night through to waking up 1 or 2 times during the night.