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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Lack of Sleep

I haven't been sleeping well lately. I blame the playoffs. Darn those late-night hockey games. Then after hockey I'm usually still wide-awake and decide to watch late night....usually Jay Leno and a bit of David Letterman. Those shows are so funny! I usually set my TV to sleep and then fall asleep watching them which is typically around midnight. Then I need to get up at 7am to work the next day.

7 hours of sleep is not enough. I think I may make "get more sleep" a goal of mine for the rest of this month. I am very awake once I get up, but getting up is hard to do!! I always regret not going to bed early when my alarm is beeping at me, but then the very next night I don't want to go to bed early. It's a vicious, vicious cycle!

How about you, how much sleep do you get an average night? Are you a night or morning person? Are you able to function 100% without a good night's sleep?

I was reading about "sleep debt." Yep just like money debt we have sleep debt where we need to "pay back" our bodies the sleep we deprived it of. So THAT'S why I sleep in on Saturdays!! The average adult needs 8 hours per night! I need to work on that! Kids (6-10) need 10-11 hours of sleep! Wow that's a lot of sleeping!

12 comments:

  1. I like to be in bed by 10:30 at the latest on school nights and I am up at 6:45. I wake up lots during the night though so it isn't solid sleep.

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  2. I'm about the same as Jolie. I go to bed at 10:00 on school nights and am usually up around 6:30. I wake up many times a night too.
    I need 8 hours of sleep and I don't function well on little sleep.
    The sad part is that I usually follow the same schedule on the weekend. I can't sleep in anymore.

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  3. Sun-Thursday I average between 8-10 hours per night which is my ideal amount of sleep, Friday nights I usually stay up a bit later to catch up on stuff so I usually stay up late and get about 7 hours of sleep which is no good for me. I def funtion at my best with a minimum of 8 though, and if I go over 10 I'm groggy and it's almost as bad as not sleeping enough!

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  4. I go to sleep around 10PM and wake up at 6AM. If I have a bad night's rest (like my kids waking me up) it takes me days to recover.

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  5. Surprisingly, I don't sleep as well if I don't have a cup of tea during the day

    I am noticing my body getting sleepier earlier, and more tired in the morning in general

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  6. I definitely need at least 8 hours or else I wake up tired and hit the snooze button one too many times! On the weekends, I love to stay up late and sleep in - yet for some reason I can't seem to sleep past 8 on a Saturday or Sunday. I guess that's a good thing as it means I'm more productive!

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  7. I try to be in bed by ten and my alarm goes off at six. I try to start getting ready for bed by 9:30 so I can be asleep by ten, not just in bed, but that doesn't always happen. The weekends are totally different though. I go out and stay up really late and then I like to sleep in. :)

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  8. I don't get nearly enough sleep! lol! I'm going to say I average about 4-5 hrs of sleep a night, and that's not even solid. *sigh* I honestly don't remember the last time I slept for 7-8 hrs... an eternity ago i'm sure. lol! I function fine on the sleep i'm getting, but caffeine also helps me along. ;)

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  9. I go to bed around 11pm, usually fall asleep between 11:30-midnight. I wake up at 7am most mornings. So that adds up to 7-7.5 hrs per night. I don't think that's ideal for my needs. I would probably be healthier and happier (read: less bitchy!) if I routinely got 9 hrs/night. I just can't seem to fall asleep at 10pm on any regular basis... I've tried...

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  10. I heard once that the best, most refreshing sleep is between 11pm and 1am. That there is some special chemical or something, that you get when you sleep during those times that you don't get when you go to sleep later. It could be a bunch of baloney but supposedly you feel more rested when you sleep then.

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  11. Early in the week, I can function well on 7 hours of sleep, but as I get more stressed or busy, I need more which is disproportionate to the sleep I actually get. I prefer almost 8, I think, sans major stress. 9 or 10 if I'm really stressed but that rarely happens.

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  12. lately, i've been going on 5.5 - 6 hours of sleep. and that's bad sleep too. before I got 7-8 hours. :(

    I am not a happy person and very stressed. and lacking sleep, i always feel sick and nauseated.

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