How many hours' sleep do you get per night?

[BarryWhiteIsMyBrother]

Unless I don't sleep well and wake up in the night and don't manage to go back to sleep, I get around nine per night (I get up at 8:00 as I WFH). For years I got six and I was always tired. If I get less than eight I'm positively grumpy. It's a shame because I could get so much more done if I didn't need so much sleep.

How many hours' sleep do you get and is it enough for you?

My ds is 8 months. I get 4-5 broken hours. There is a reason sleep deprivation is a torture technique....

5.5 ish. I wish it could be more but I . Just. Don't. Sleep.
I can cope for a few days running on just 2-3/night before a long crash 3rd or 4th night.

My phone tells me a get an average of 7hrs 20 mins

8-10. If I've been working a lot and have a run of early mornings and long days then at the weekend I'll go to bed at 9 and get up at 10 or so the following day.

I try to get 9 hours every night. Any less and I am just miserable and grumpy.

I already cant wait to go to bed.

I get 7 max. 8 is lovely. 9 regularly feels a bit childish

Felt really rubbish lately as I’ve been going to bed past 12.30. I know it’s not good for me but I start to unwind after DD settles ( which can sometimes be after 9.30 as she has attachment disorder & separation anxiety) so time goes on. Sometimes I fall asleep on the sofa. Plus I have been drinking more wine lately which makes me wake in the night to go to the loo. Ideally I need at least 8 hours. I will try to go to bed earlier & drink less wine.

Between 5-6 on weekdays if I haven't taken a sleeper. When taking sleeping tablets it's around 6.5 hours. It can also be as low as 4 hours during a bad bout of insomnia.

Weekends with a lie in around 9 hours.

It is not enough, no.

If I could sleep unbroken I’d reckon 6-7hours. As it stands, non sleeping toddler, middle of the night toilet trips and worrying (why does everything seem worse at 2am?!) mean I get 8 hours broken up, sometimes with large gaps in the middle. And I feel like shit most of the time ☹️

I miss sleep.

6-7. I find 6 is the optimum for me and always has been really, since childhood!

Feel really groggy and out of sorts if I get more than 9

I need nine ie if I didn’t put on an alarm I would sleep for nine hours and wake up feeling refreshed and energetic.

I get six.

I wouldn’t get everything done if I slept nine hours.

@hopefulhalf

My phone tells me a get an average of 7hrs 20 mins

How does that work? Is there an app? Or is it just the last time you sent a message or something? I'd love to be able to track my sleep properly to see if I am getting as much as I think or no. Because sometimes I feel like I had a horrid night but maybe I still got enough.

I go to bed at 11pm and get up at 7am so in theory that should be 8 hours. The reality is more like 6-7 hours - I am a light and fitful sleeper - the quality of any sleep I get is fairly poor.

My sleep is really erratic, last night I had 11.5 hours as I fell asleep when I was getting toddler DS to sleep! But the previous week I've had between 4 and 6 hours a night, I think every now and again I just need a decent catch up and then I'm fine to do a week on 5 hours a night.

I have to say I felt amazingly rested when I woke up this morning

About 8.

I go to bed between 8.30-9.30 and read. Alarm set for 6am.

On average just over 7 hrs. I wake roughly the same time EVERY day at about 5.30 for the loo and rarely get back to sleep.

This is really interesting. I went to a sleep workshop this week and they said the sleep requirements are individual. I get somewhere between 5.5 and 7 depending on insomnia.

6 or 7. I need more sleep now than when I was young.

Now both DC are asleep and I have got into bed myself

Alarm is set for 5.45 tomorrow so I'll probably browse MN til half 8, then go to sleep

About 7 hrs 30 minutes on a work night. It depends on the weekends as my body clock wakes me at 9.30 regardless of when I go to sleep.

I always have a nap though of around an hour before dinner. I'm just a tired individual.

My ideal would be 10-9.30 so 11 hrs 30 mins a night.

Between 3 and 4 hours at the moment. On a good night 5. Wish I could stay asleep, but its been like this for 12 years now.

It varies massively. DS doesn't ofteb sleep through, and when I'm at work (I'm only part time these days) i get up at 5am.

It varies between three and six hours per night. I don't think I've had eight hours in years - I'm awful at falling asleep.

I do feel permanently knackered though.

I've just remembered I got a good night's sleep a couple of years ago. It was amazing not feeling snappy and headachy for a couple of days. I got a really good running time too.

6 but that's too little and I really need at least 8. I can really feel the difference when I get 7 and when I get 6.

At the moment around 4-5 hours, a combination of menopause, night sweats, needing a wee every couple of hours and getting up for work at 4am.