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

Before I had kids....probably a bit rough. But not too bad. Now, it's my standard. I'm at work by 6am, up till 10/11am most nights. And I wake up at 2am like clockwork for an hour or 2. Once in a while I will take a nap but thats usually because I'm not well. I've just got used to less sleep.

Depends massively on whether it is every night or just the occasional night.

6 solid and uninterrupted hours, I can function on for 2-3 nights consecutively. I have a professional, technical job needing attention to detail. Any more and I start making errors and am much less productive. Not safety critical. I couldn’t have a safety critical job as my sleep is not reliable enough, and I’ve consciously stayed in a job where I can work around poor sleep really well.

i’d manage and function but would feel tired.

If left to sleep until I wake naturally over a longish period eg four to five nights, , I will sleep nine hours which is a ridiculous amount of sleep. I will feel alert and happier though what parent can sleep that long???

I feel for you OP , For me that would be a reasonably good night sleep. For various reasons I often only manage up to 4 hours . It's horrendous and a real struggle starting the day and have to go into autopilot starting work.

I'd be absolutely fine if that amount was uninterrupted sleep. If I have just 3/4 hours uninterrupted (and then get up instead of trying to go back to sleep) I'm fine too. It's the nights where I'm woken up several times where I feel like shite the next day, even if I end up getting a full 8 hours in between the interruptions.

Yeah I do get mornings where the thought of getting up makes me want to cry I'm so tired
And yes, still wide awake....

I generally get around 6-7. There are times when it's 5 hours, and I'm fine on that.

My problem is, I don't like falling asleep, and I really don't know why.

I believe 70% of sleep should be deep?

I would get through as a once off, but I'd be pissed off and irritable.

Over a longer period I wouldn't cope physically or mentally.

I would be shattered too ... You have my sympathy. The modern world wasn't made for us night owls ...

@NatMoz @MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel
Yes.
We even spent a week in a hospital sleep clinic when he was about 1 year as I told the doctor he really didn’t sleep and I don’t think they believed me.
after 5 days they just told me ‘ he really doesn’t sleep, but seems to function well above average on hardly any sleep so is completely fine’. Fat lot of use that was to me.

He still doesn’t sleep great. Last night took to bed at 8.30pm, he took until 10.30pm to fall asleep. Woke at 1pm. Came in my room. Faffed an hour. Slept 2-5am. Wide awake 5-6am in bed talking. 6am we got up. So he’s had 5.5 hrs. Dh and I less than that. He will be super energetic all day with no sign of being tired.

with a newborn, 5 would be bliss. These days 5 is not enough for me to get through the day without a headache, dizziness and severe irritability!!!

5 hours would be amazing for me!!

I have a DD with health issues so sometimes I'm up in the night with her.

5 hours makes me feel like I have a hangover all day. I need 7 hours.

I did 3 nights of 5 hours in a row the other week. It's horrible. I fell asleep in the afternoon of the 3rd day when I sat down for a while. I was so tired.

That's the amount I get most days and I feel fine I have very active days with my toddler, walk 15-22k steps and go swimming and shadowing her around soft play. I'm 44 so no spring chicken, but I've always operated on a small amount of sleep. Below 3 hours is when I start to feel rough.