How many hours do you sleep at night?
Sleeping is always a good topic to talk about at lifehack.org, because potentially we may find out our optimal hours of sleeping to use and enjoy more hours awake. But sleeping is important to our physical health, how to justify to decrease our sleeping time?
RelentlessProductivity.com has a suggestion – by experimenting it. Decrease your sleeping time per week, log and track the outcome on questions like:
1. How do you feel physically?
2. Do you feel more or less focused?
3. Do you feel more or less motivated?
4. Do you feel sleepy during the day?
5. Have you experienced any memory problems?
I see there are some logic behind this. Different people has different needs, and this is also apply to sleep. 8 hours is not a magic number, but an average of optimal sleeping time. So this is worth to experiment.
How much should you sleep at night? – [RelentlessProductivity.com]
Currently, my answer is four hours. I feel that caffeine is keeping me focused, but that it’s a train wreck waiting to happen. I’m more productive when I’m on the verge of crazy. I can’t help it. It’s true! : )
I try to get 6 hours a night during the week, but many times this ends up being 4 or 5. I find that I work even better under these conditions for a few days, but after a few nights of short sleep I start to feel quite spacey and my abilities drop off along with my patience and personality.
7 or 8 hours. To me, the key is not to use an alarm clock — to let my body wake when ready. Otherwise, I get sleepy and lose focus. (For me, it’s bed at 9PM and wake at 4 or 5AM).
From what I have found out the right amount of sleep seems to be at least over six hours. By having less than 6 hours sleep a night, you are affecting your reaction time, coordination and your judgement, which poses a very serious risk.
Something rather interesting I’ve found (as a recent graduate with nothing to do except find a job and play games and eat and sleep) is that the time you go to bed makes a huge difference. For example, if I go to bed ad 12:00 am and get up at 8:00 am, that’s 8 hours, but it’s not nearly as refreshing as going to bed at 10:00 pm and getting up at 6:00 am. Another thing, my father worked the night shift at his work for several years, and he says it took a month or two at least for his body to grow accustomed to the nocturnal rhythm. Just my $.02.
-Taylor
Also see my article on the same topic (in German) at:
http://www.kalyxo.de/2005/10/produktivitat/schlafen-die-richtige-dosis-fuer-manager-und-programmierer/
I try to be in bed by 9 but its always rond 10:30 and i have to wake up around 6:30 for work. That is 8 hours of sleep, and I am still tired off of that. I think that people are different and no certain amount of sleep is the perfect amount for anyone. It varies with everyone.
I’m having shift work everyday so just can’t fix a time to go to bed, but I decided to sleep 6 hours on weekdays and keep staying in bed on sunday till I can’t even keep my eyes closed, then I get up. I find this plan good for me and my work.
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well i work in shift duty doing night shifts as well i try 2 take some rest during night shifts as well but still i have 2 take sleep during day time for at least 8 hours but still fell some lousiness i found there is no alternative to the nights sleep i don’t feel energetic 4 whole of the week when my night shift is going on .i also felt loss in concentration and feeling some depression as well
Umm probably i would say around 7-8 but most teens get around 8-13. so whatever your age is will effect your sleeping habits.
I am a teen, 13, and i just slept twelve hours. Now my brother’s Freakin out and i stayed up all night the night before. So i slept 14 hours total out of forty-eight and i was wondering if thats bad for me? comment reply please
Umm, most teen do not get even close to 8-13 hours of sleep. I speak this from experience, I am 15 and I only get 5 – 6 hours of sleep along with my friends. I would NEVER recommend sleeping for 5-6 hours due to the horrible feeling the next morning that you have when you have to get up for school at 5:30 and catch the bus at around 6:00 with school starting at 6:30, the sad thing is, I live about a block from school. :(