How would you feel on 5hrs sleep?

[spikeandbuffy]

Just being nosy really. Health issues that cause fatigue but I'm like a permanently exhausted night owl
Last night my sleep thing says I had 5hrs 22 mins and of that 52 mins was deep sleep

I'm shattered

Sleep trackers are not particularly reliable. They can't always tell the difference between 'deeply asleep' and 'lying very still trying to get to sleep', so the bad news is that you may have had even less deep sleep than you think.

Many would kill for 5 hours sleep. It's not bad going.

I'm only just out of the sleepless nights stage with the DC so five hours as a one off wouldn't even register. I aim for six hours and that does me fine.

But five hours straight is infinitely better than six broken hours.

If you're fatigued and only getting five hours because of your routine rather than because you can't sleep any more than that then you definitely need changes!

5 hours is good for me.
I think got less than 2 hours last night. I'm OK but not performing brain surgery today

No I know, I think the issue is I need to try and get more because between not getting enough and the fatigue health issue I'm not functioning great

Finding recently I'm wiped at 5pm then wide awake at 10am and often don't sleep until 1

I'd feel ok till about 6 in the evening then I'd feel a bit tired. I've had 4 kids and I often have small babies come to stay, so I often have nights with not very much sleep. I'm able to function as long as I go to bed a bit earlier the next night.

I'd not feel great on that much sleep. Apparently I average 7 hours, I feel rested on 8.

I guess that during baby/breastfeeding years I got far less sleep, I was permanently exhausted but managed to function. It's not an ideal way to live though!

I feel fine with that much sleep. It's rare that I get more than six hours and I just don't believe that most people need eight hours or more

I think it depends
If I was a normal person then I guess 5-6hrs I would be fine on! But someone with health conditions like fibromyalgia would need more

Thats my current average night right now.
I’m awake by 5 fairly consistently at the moment. Nothing seems to make any difference. I feel ok most days.

I had to stop using my Fitbit because it telling me I had zero deep sleep most nights was making me sleep less obsessing over it.

I need at least 8-10 hours otherwise the pain and stiffness starts ramping up. Getting out of bed on 4 hours of broken sleep makes me dizzy.

I'm a night owl as well, always have been and I don't think it's done me any favours and probably contributed to my chronic illness. Sometimes I think if I could sleep like a normal person I could feel well again.

I rarely sleep more than that. I'm fine.

I can function as long as I get a 4 hour block in one go (plus a little bit extra in other chunks) but if there have been night wake ups from the kids that mean there has been no block of sleep then that is hard...

If I were left to sleep I could sleep for 9 hours. But in reality I get 6-7 hours usually..

On 5 hours I would be feeling pretty tired..

Most people would feel exhausted on five hours sleep.

However, generally your body will get used to it over time.

I’ve had 22 years of little sleep due to a disabled child (adult now obviously). I’ve not had an unbroken night’s sleep and due to medications every morning starts early so no sleep ins.

It does mean you spend your life feeling very tired though.

I maybe get 5 hours sometimes. I retired from over 30 years nights (nursing) I used to sleep 3 hours in the day. The last 2 years I couldn't sleep at all in the day. I always had the first break... midnight, no-one else wanted it. For several years, I would go to sleep at midnight, then be awake the next 4 hours. I used to wake up when it got light, although I have blackout curtains and an eye mask. I average 4/5 now,get up a couple of times (cystocele) but don't worry about it anymore. It doesn't seem to have given me any problems.

I'm interested in this. I rarely get above 1hr deep sleep. More like 30-40mins sleep a night. How much do other people get?

5 is pretty normal for me so I'd feel ok.

I feel much better when I manage 7 though

If I had 5 hrs uninterrupted sleep I would be happy. I wake up at 230-3am regularly and am still awake at 5 am . My brain just goes into overdrive!!

I average 5hrs 30. I get by.

Yeah I've been getting by but a lot of things have been falling off so I want to feel better
As in I've not been eating tea because too tired to cook, not been doing my daily spin class as too tired.. you get the gist!

90 mins in 24 hours??? I would die!!!!

For me that’s a typical night. If I am lucky my watch says I get 30 mins of deep sleep.

not ideal but it is what it is!

Deep sleep should be about 10% of your total sleep time. Too much and it leaves you groggy, and too little doesn't give you that brain recovery time.

I can cope on 5 hours sleep. My usual is around 6-6.5 hours..I average about 40 mins deep sleep and 1.5 hours of REM sleep.

I do take the occasional sleeping tablet on a Friday night. This doesn't help me fall asleep, but it does make me sleep longer so can often get as much as 9 hours sleep on it however the weigh up on that is the waste of my Saturday morning. Sometimes this tablet makes me sleep more than 12 hours (my record is 13.5 hours) and I felt so weird after all that sleep!

My 3rd child never slept. It was awful as I would be up all day with the 3 kids, then she would have a night where she didn't sleep, so I'd be up all night too, and then have to be up all the next day as well with a baby and 2 toddlers. I spent 52 hours awake once, I swear I started to hallucinate!!

Okay if it's a one off - tired but if I knew I could get a good night's sleep that night, I'd manage. More than one night in a row not okay. I had PPA and insomnia (couldn't sleep because I was anxious, anxious about the fact I couldn't sleep - it was the most awful vicious circle) and I nearly had a breakdown, even though DS wasn't actually an awful sleeper.