Sleep

[Mutant]

i average about 5-6 hours per night. 8 hours seems like an eternity, i rarely sleep that long, it freaks me out to get that much sleep.

i often have really weird dreams, lots of action dreams which are often cool, sometimes get into chronic nightmares though.....

when i'm training alot, especially when getting ready for a tournament, i punch and kick in my sleep and thrash around alot, i guess i'm dreaming about training and fighting then. it drives my girlfriend crazy, sometimes i hit her in my sleep and she wakes up and yells at me

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

i like hitting my girlfriend better when im awake.

[hughes]

I get about 8 hours sleep amd im an ectomorph. On weekends though i can clock up to like 12 hours.

[Sharky]

I'm not joking?

[NorthernMantis]

Originally posted by Sharky
I'm not joking?

That's the funny part. What do medical students know any way

[Sean the Black]

well according to some of the latest med reserch 4-6 hrs is ideal 6-8hrs is ok but anything over 8 you are running serious risks to your health in the long run

[ewallace]

Sharky quit feeling sorry for yourself you pusssy

[Mutant]

I'm still here at work and its 3 am. Crazy deadlines, no other time to get it all done. Its not as hard to concentrate and get things accomplished late at night, the phones not ringing off the hook, no annoying people bothering me.

What sux is I missed training again tonight...not enough hours in the day, I'll have to catch up with kung fu training this wkend.

I just heard an ad on the radio, these Jordan's Furniture guys that pollute the radio waves around Boston peddling their mattresses...theyre trying to brainwash the public into a lathargic catatonia where we all go out and buy their expen$ive mattresses and sleep our lives away, just because they say we need to (contrary to recent scientific studies, but theyre 'experts')and that they sleep all the time...attempting to lull us all into a sleepy, buying trance....I'm pretty freakin tired and burnt, I can't deal with that right now...they have this ad claiming that we need like at least 10 hours of sleep a night or we will die tired & miserably. I want to kill them right now, they are monsters.

[Sharky]

[Serpent]

Another thread made me think of this.

Obviously it varies a little from person to person, but what do you all think is the optimum amount of sleep each night?

I do best on seven to eight hours, but I can get by on six as long as it's not too many nights in a row.

What about y'all?

[Laughing Cow]

5~6 hrs on average.

[watzun]

I feel the best when I can get 8 hours a night. When I start to neglect my bed, I start getting irratable and have trouble focusing. Of course, if I have the chace to pull a 12 hour, I most definatly will.

[TaoBoy]

Average 8 hours.
9 hours and I feel super.
Can survive on 6 hours (but not for an extended period of time).

[PHILBERT]

9 hours and I am refreshed. 8 hours has to be minimum for me or I am just out of it.

[Serpent]

This is interesting.

A recent study was done. They (the erstwhile 'they'!) always said that 8 hours a night was optimum. Now they're suggesting that 8 hours could be detrimental as it's too much and 7 hours a night is closer to ideal.

I wonder how much of our sleep pattern is dictated psychosomatically by what we expect or are told is good?