What is the longest length of time you have slept for consistently?
352701
14hrs after being badly drunk and hungover.
54845
This is an interesting one which I think depends on what we THINK we need. Most folk in UK seem to generally consider we need 8 hours or thereabouts. I joined a group once which stated that if you needed more than 4 hours there was something the matter with you. This struck me as quite ridiculous on first hearing it but I gradually realised that our perception and conditioning are an enormous influence. I now KNOW I can manage quite well with 5 or 4 hours but have the capacity to sleep for 12 hours too. I am truly blessed to be able to drop off almost the minute my head touches the pillow.
140038
A good book to read about this is Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren. He tells a few stories of people who tried to sustain wakefulness. \n\nOne famous case is the disc jockey Peter Tripp who in 1959 stayed up for more than eight days as a promotional stunt. After a few days, he began to hallucinate, seeing kittens, mice, and cobwebs. He also became paranoid, insisting that an electrician had dropped a hot electrode into his shoe. \n\nIn 1964 high school student Randy Gardner (17) attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time awake -- 260 hours. And after 11 days without sleep he suffered no hallucinations or paranoia and no psychotic symptoms. But Coren challenges this often repeated fact in his book. Coren describes the day-by-day impact on Randy, as documented by John Ross of the US Navy Medical europsychiatric Research Unit in San Diego. Randy had trouble focusing his eyes on day 2, hallucinations on day 4, and slurred speech and a short attention span by the last day. \n\nCertainly there are drugs such as caffeine, cocaine and amphetamines that keep you awake, but these cannot sustain you for very long.
781499
I slept thru that one.
383324
That varies but I tend to be tired all day if I don't get at least 12 hours of sleep.
682243
The record is ten days.  Subjects began to hallucinate after three days and eventually became psychotic.  After ten days they slept for an average of 9 hours (but then went to sleep again a few hours later).  It took three days to recover.
444346
Sleep when you're tired, but the most crucial sleeping hours are considered to be 2-6am (you should sleep more than 4 hours though, at least 6 at a MINIMUM).  Happy sleeping.
1120268
i slept 18 hours and 11 minutes after staying up for 10 days straight
736216
I sleep about 7 hours a night.  I do not take naps either.  I am 29
925010
I sleep 8 Hours per day\nI sleep 56 hours per week\nI sleep 248 Hours per month\nI sleep 2920 hours a year!\n\nHow about you?
85308
Various biological factors help determine how long people can last without sleeping. Some people can go for longer periods of time than others. \n\nNotorious cases of record-setters include disc jockey Peter Tripp who in 1959 stayed up for more than eight days as a promotional stunt. After a few days, he began to hallucinate, seeing kittens, mice, and cobwebs. He also became paranoid, insisting that an electrician had dropped a hot electrode into his shoe.\n\nSix years later, high school student Randy Gardner attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time awake -- 260 hours. And after 11 days without sleep he suffered no hallucinations or paranoia and no psychotic symptoms.\n\nSome people with severe insomnia claim to have gone for several weeks without sleep. Though ususally in cases like this, even though they appear awake, their brain actually goes into a light sleep-like state.
860707
yes, if you sleep long enough to hit the REM (rapid eye movement) state of sleep. Dreams can last anywhere from a mere few minutes up to a half an hour. We hit REM sleep at least a couple times while sleeping, depending on how long you're asleep, so we dream a lot. But it's usually hard to recall dreams if you don't wake up right away after or during a dream.
358621
The amount of sleep needed varies from person to person but most require 8 hours.  You should sleep at least the number of hours it takes for you to wake up feeling rested and refreshed. For some people, this is 6 hours, for others, it is 10.  You have to find out what works for you.
243240
Take a sleeping pill.  You'll be in bed for 6-8 hours at least.
1085314
Studies show that the number of hours is not the main factor - what is more important is the number of complete sleep cycles. Each sleep cycle lasts an average of 90 minutes and contains five distinct phases, which exhibit different brain-wave patterns: 65 minutes of normal, or non-REM (rapid eye movement), sleep; 20 minutes of REM sleep (dream state); and a further 5 minutes of non-REM sleep.  The REM sleep phases are shorter during earlier cycles (less than 20 minutes) and longer during later ones.  If we were to sleep completely naturally, with no alarm clocks or other sleep disturbances, we would usually wake up after a multiple of 90 minutes, e.g. after 4.5 hours, 6 hours, 7.5 hours or 9 hours, but not after 7 or 8 hours, which are not multiples of 90 minutes.\n\nA person sleeping only four cycles (6 hours) will feel more rested than someone who's slept for 8 to 10 hours but not been allowed to complete a cycle due to being woken up before it was completed.\n\nI have also heard from various sources that scientists are developing a new type of alarm clock that would detect the phase of your sleep and wake you when the current cycle is complete, so as not to disturb the cycle and ensure that you are as fresh upon waking as possible.  (I heard this over a year ago and have been waiting for its release, as I have a medical condition that means I am almost constantly fatigued.)
1076025
Normally Seven to Eight Hours r quite enough for a healthy person\nbut if u want to sleep u should/must sleep n try to relax ur self as much as u can\nIf u'll be relax u can work n do things with concentration n easily without tiredness
1079503
How long have you ja*koff today I'am going on 5hrs. an 3 dif.way's