how many hours of sleep do you get a night?
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I get about 6 1/2 hours of sleep each day. I go to bed at about 11 and get up at 5:30 in the morning every weekday. I crave for weekends when I get to sleep in :)
245238
9 hours is actually a very healthy amount to sleep. If you can, why not? 6 hours is too little
643641
It depends how many hours you need - people vary mostly between 6 and 9 hours.\n\nIf you are getting all you as an individual need you will not get depressed, fat or otherwise - well at least not from sleep deprivation!\n\nYou wont get older faster but if you are sleep deprived it might feel that way!!
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What is the right amount of sleep?? but most importantly, what are the right hours to sleep?? If you sleep 8 hrs per day but you go to bed at 1 am do not expect that it is the same as iif you had gone for sleep, say at 11 pm . There is evidence that there is an optimum 8 hrs of rest and that is between 10pm and 6 am the next day, since it is during those hrs that our body takes inventory of what is missing and goes about replenishing it. Meaning if you are out and about during those hrs, not only you are not replenishing but you are 'spending' also additional energy/ body resources at a time when your body is not really prepared to do so. Do not expect such advice to be widely disseminated in our electricity frenzied societies, however if you ask any honest phsyician, they will tell you so.\n\nI have been trying lately (the last 2 months or so) to at least prepare for bedtime at 10 pm, and be under the covers by 11pm the latest, during working days. I still feel drained at times, but I also began to feel a little better during other moments. (It also shows a little in my face too)\n\nAnother possibility of your being worn out, is that there may be some health condition that has not fully manifested. A first and easy step would be just some standard blood tests which are failry inexpensive, that will give you some indication of that, (if any exist)\nA third possibility is that we are all under some intense stress ( I hear more and more people complaining of feeling drained) which is putting us down
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No, it's not "ok".  You're not giving your body the rest it needs to recuperate and heal and eventually you will have sleep deprivation.  The average person needs at least 8 hours a night...some a little more.  Sleep deprivation can cause a lot of health problems, so get some more shut eye for your own sake.  Now go take a nap!  Godloveya.
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Heavens no.  Everyone has different needs as to sleep.  Some people function wonderfully on 4 - 6 hours.  Others can't feel their best without 8 - 10.  You will learn what your body requires to feel completely rested as you go - it will change as you get older.
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yes you can but it sucks.........your brain re charges after 4 hours of sleep, the other 4 are for your body, but your body can function on a half charge, so if you sleep roughly 4 hours a night that's all you really need to keep from getting nerve disorders and shit like that witch will kill you, Ive heard that a person will die if they go more than 4 days straight with out sleeping. Also, I dint know how long they would go but I have heard the Nazi's would force Jewish prisoners to work until they died from exhaustion.  \n\nI myself have conditioned myself to the point that I could stay awake while driving after 4 and a half hours sleep each night for a week, but the tax it in poses on the body is not cool. After about a year and a half I became allergic to the sun, doc. said that it was because one of my origins was increasing the out put of some long named chemical that I cant pronounce or come close to spelling, all thanks to a lack of sleep. my doc. recommended at least 6 hours of sleep each night, I sleep 6-7 hours and stay healthy
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It's usually depression that causes insomnia, anxiety, and hyperactivity.  Although no one has ever DIED from lack of sleep, it's best not to let this slide. Our human body needs between 7-8 hours of sleep every night to function at it's best. Make an appointment fora physical with you family doctor and make sure you tell him/her about your problems.
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get lots of sleep, like at least 8-10 hours
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I sleep about 7 hours a night.  I do not take naps either.  I am 29
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A typical adult will need an average of 8 hours of sleep to remain healthy. Some may be ok with 6-7 hours, some may need 9-10 hours. Most people will be between 7-9 hours. You should, as a practice of good sleep hygiene, go to bed and wake up at the same time daily. The body's circadian rhythm is naturally set to sleep at night, not only by the effects of sunlight (internal clock in near the optic chiasm an area in which the optic nerves of the eyes cross), but also by the varying core temperature of the body. The core body temp drops during the afternoon, which is why most people get a little tired after lunch and some cultures actually observe naps during that time. Then the core body temp starts plummeting after 7PM and hits the lowest around 3AM which is when you will be the most tired naturally, even if you are a night worker (which is why many shift workers suffer poor sleep). People who "claim" that 4 hours is enough for them are kidding themselves, the body simply can't recoup in that short of time and many people sleeping that little actually have a sleep disorder that keeps them from getting good sleep. Lack of good sleep and sleep deprivation can lead to a host of very bad things health wise up to and including death. Feel free to look over my previous sleep related question for the full dose of sleep disorders, diagnosis, and treatments. \n\nPersonally, I like about 7 1/2 hours of sleep; I go to bed between 9:30 and 11:00 most nights and wake up between 5:30AM and 8AM depending on weekday vs weekend.\n\nSleep tight ;)
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Although it’s a common belief that 8 hours of sleep is required for optimal health, a six-year study of more than one million adults ages 30 to 102 has shown that people who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate. Individuals who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 4 hours a night, were shown to have a significantly increased death rate compared to those who averaged 6 to 7 hours.\n\nResearchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the American Cancer Society collaborated on the study, which appeared in the February 15, 2002 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, a journal of the American Medical Association.\n\nAlthough the data indicated the highest mortality rates with long-duration sleep, the study could not explain the causes or reasons for this association.\n \nDaniel F. Kripke, M.D., in his sleep lab at UCSD.\n \nFirst author Daniel F. Kripke, M.D., a UCSD professor of psychiatry who specializes in sleep research, said “we don’t know if long sleep periods lead to death. Additional studies are needed to determine if setting your alarm clock earlier will actually improve your health.”\n\nBut, he added “individuals who now average 6.5 hours of sleep a night, can be reassured that this is a safe amount of sleep. From a health standpoint, there is no reason to sleep longer.”\n\nKripke is also a member of UCSD's Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging.\n\nThe study, which addressed sleep issues as part of the Cancer Prevention Study II (CPSII) of the American Cancer Society, also indicated that participants who reported occasional bouts of insomnia did not have an increased mortality rate, but those individuals who took sleeping pills were more likely to die sooner.\n\n“Insomnia is not synonymous with short sleep,” the authors said in the article. “Patients commonly complain of insomnia when their sleep durations are well within the range of people without sleep symptoms.”\n\nThey added that physicians believe most patient complaints about “insomnia” are actually related to depression, rather than a diagnosis of insomnia.\n\nWith 1.1 million participants, this was the first large-scale population study of sleep to also take into consideration variables such as age, diet, exercise, previous health problems, and risk factors such as smoking, in comparing longevity among the participants. In other words, individuals with specific characteristics were compared with individuals of a similar age, health background, etc.\n\nAlthough the study was conducted from 1982-88, the sleep results have not been available until recently due to the length of time required to input and analyze the vast amount and variety of data from the 1.1 million participants.\n\n“Previous sleep studies have indicated that both short- and long-duration sleep had higher mortality rates,” Kripke said. “However, none of those studies were large enough to distinguish the difference between 7 and 8 hours a night, until now.”\n  \nThe figures above indicate hours of sleep for men (left) and women (right). The hazard ratio, the top bar graph, indicates the mortality risk while the bottom graph shows the percentage of subjects associated with the reported number of hours sleep.\n \n The best survival rates were found among those who slept 7 hours per night. The study showed that a group sleeping 8 hours were 12 percent more likely to die within the six-year period than those sleeping 7 hours, other factors being equal. Even those with as little as 5 hours sleep lived longer than participants with 8 hours or more per night.\n\nThe mean age for women in the study was 57, while the mean age for men was 58. Within the six year period, 5.1 percent of the women had died and 9.4 percent of the men. The causes of death resembled the distribution for the general population.\n\nAdditional authors of the study were Lawrence Garfinkel, M.A., the American Cancer Society, New
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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.)
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im 13 and i get 4 to 7 hours of sleep a night
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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?
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if you go sleep at 9 pm, and wake up at 6 am, you are getting 9 hours of sleep, which is plenty. If you are still feeling tired, think about why. Are you eating healthy food? enough iron? enough excercise?
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its recommended that adults get 7-8 hours of sleep a night hope this answers your question x