How Much Sleep Do You Get Each Night?

[achilles765]

As a professional restaurant bartender, and someone who has always preferred to be up late at night and sleep during the day as much as possible, for me it's very much variable.
I tend to get home from work between 11-12 at night on Friday Saturday and Sunday, and I'm at work from 930 to 3 Monday through Wednesday. Sometimes I'll work Tuesday or Wednesday night instead of during the day.
But I like being up at night so on days when I work 10-3, I get 3-4 hours, then take a nap when i get home so I can be up most of the night. When I work a night shift, I go to sleep around 6 am and sleep until 2 ish. On my day off, I make up my sleep deficit. Because I'll go to bed like at 12 on Wednesday night and sleep until 12-3 pm Thursday.

My sleep patterns are...unusual and likely unhealthy lol.

[JayhawkCO]

As a professional restaurant bartender

Things change fast sometimes. I was a server/bartender/manager for a long time. I would regularly be up until 2 or 3 every night. Then I became the food and beverage director at a hotel and we did three meals a day, so I opened three days a week and had to be at work at 5:30. Now I'm an early bird.

[kphoger]

Usually in bed by 9:00. Up around 4:00. Leave for the gym around 4:30.

I can't do this as a fan of live sports though I see the appeal.

Sure you can, just go to bed and prioritize your own physical health.

Or move west.

Or just... oh, I don't know... record the game and watch it later? 

Paper clip

[Max Rockatansky]

Usually in bed by 9:00. Up around 4:00. Leave for the gym around 4:30.

I can't do this as a fan of live sports though I see the appeal.

Sure you can, just go to bed and prioritize your own physical health.

Or move west.

Or just... oh, I don't know... record the game and watch it later? 

Paper clip

I won't lie.  It was pretty great having the Lions gate over before 9 PM last night.  Not that the Lions played Monday Night Football when I was a kid. 

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[JayhawkCO]

I won't lie.  It was pretty great having the Lions gate over before 9 PM last night.  Not that the Lions played Monday Night Football when I was a kid. 

Costco chicken bake

I didn't love the sports timing when I lived in Seattle. At the time, I was still serving and I missed being able to get off work, grab a beer and watch the end of the west coast games. Mountain time is the best for sports for sure.

[Roadgeekteen]

Usually in bed by 9:00. Up around 4:00. Leave for the gym around 4:30.

I can't do this as a fan of live sports though I see the appeal.

Sure you can, just go to bed and prioritize your own physical health.

Or move west.

Or just... oh, I don't know... record the game and watch it later? 

Paper clip

Some people can do that, but I have a fantasy football team and engage live on internet forums about football so that's really not gonna work for me.

[achilles765]

As a professional restaurant bartender

Things change fast sometimes. I was a server/bartender/manager for a long time. I would regularly be up until 2 or 3 every night. Then I became the food and beverage director at a hotel and we did three meals a day, so I opened three days a week and had to be at work at 5:30. Now I'm an early bird.

If I manage to go through with my plan to finish my math degree and become a HS math teacher, I'm going to have to totally change my circadian rhythm for sure. I'm just not and never have been a morning person.

[Rothman]

As a professional restaurant bartender

Things change fast sometimes. I was a server/bartender/manager for a long time. I would regularly be up until 2 or 3 every night. Then I became the food and beverage director at a hotel and we did three meals a day, so I opened three days a week and had to be at work at 5:30. Now I'm an early bird.

If I manage to go through with my plan to finish my math degree and become a HS math teacher, I'm going to have to totally change my circadian rhythm for sure. I'm just not and never have been a morning person.

Wonder if you actually need a degree in mathematics to teach HS math...

[Henry]

Usually in bed by 9:00. Up around 4:00. Leave for the gym around 4:30.

I can't do this as a fan of live sports though I see the appeal.

Unless its a Packer game, or a playoff game of any other team I follow, I'm not setting my schedule around live sports.

For me it would be any of the Chicago teams whenever I visit, but other than that, I'll be in bed by 11, and up by 6.

[DandyDan]

It often seems like I get 6 during the work week, but 7 or 8 on weekends.

[kphoger]

I'm not voting, because the only two options with a range are "5 hours or less" and "9 hours or more".  The amount of sleep I get is not a whole number of hours, so forget the poll.

My wife and I typically get about 7¼ to 7¾ hours of sleep.  Generally 10:15–10:45 pm to 6:00 am.

I think rounding can be assumed; I thought about making them ranges, but it seemed like I'd lose an option (the first would have had to be less than 6 or the last more than 8; in hindsight, that might have actually worked).

Still not doing it, because my average of 7½ hours still doesn't round easily.

[DTComposer]

Usually in bed by 9:00. Up around 4:00. Leave for the gym around 4:30.

I can't do this as a fan of live sports though I see the appeal.

Sure you can, just go to bed and prioritize your own physical health.

I mean the games don't end that late. If I work a 9-5 it's fine going to bed from 11-12. But I'm young so maybe that will change.

That's one (minor) thing I think would be a weird adjustment if I moved to the East Coast - if I went to bed at my normal time (10:30-11:00) in, say, April (when there's MLB, NBA, and NHL) there'd still be a bunch of games going on (including, of course, my hometown teams).

I get about 7½ hours per night - 10:30 to 6:00 or 11:00 to 6:30. Varies depending on the whims of dogs, kid, etc.

[1995hoo]

That's one (minor) thing I think would be a weird adjustment if I moved to the East Coast - if I went to bed at my normal time (10:30-11:00) in, say, April (when there's MLB, NBA, and NHL) there'd still be a bunch of games going on (including, of course, my hometown teams).

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We just deal with it when teams go on a West Coast, or Western Canadian, roadtrip and the games all start at the wrong time of night. You either stay up late or you record it to watch a day or so later (and, to be fair, avoiding spoilers can be a challenge if you care about that).

I watch F1, so I deal with that same problem there in the other direction (races too early in the morning).

[webny99]

I'd like to meet the people who non-sarcastically voted for "9 hours or more".

[hotdogPi]

I'd like to meet the people who non-sarcastically voted for "9 hours or more".

I go to sleep at about 10:00-10:15 PM each day unless I have an event that goes later. I wake up naturally at anywhere between 6 AM and 7:45 AM. I think my average is slightly under 9, but still closer to 9 than 8.

I think it works well, as I don't have problems with lack of sleep like almost everyone else seems to have.

[PColumbus73]

Weekdays I average about 8-9 hours. I start getting tired / get ready for bed between 9:00-10:00, and I wake up at 6:00 for work.

Weekends it's about the same, but I usually wake up around 7:00 / 7:30 (my cat insists upon it).

[JayhawkCO]

I'm probably closer to 9 than I am to 8 every night, but I just made a choice unlike kphoger. 

[Rothman]

My alarm went off, I got up to get ready for my shower, I went to the bathroom, looked up at the bathroom clock, and saw that I had accidentally set my alarm clock an hour early for the first time in decades.  Fell back to sleep when I went back to bed, though.

Nursing home doesn't sound that bad.

[JayhawkCO]

My alarm went off, I got up to get ready for my shower, I went to the bathroom, looked up at the bathroom clock, and saw that I had accidentally set my alarm clock an hour early for the first time in decades.  Fell back to sleep when I went back to bed, though.

Nursing home doesn't sound that bad.

I wish I had that luxury. If it's past 4:00 am and I wake up and do anything that requires even a modicum of brain power, I'm resigned to being awake for the day.

[Roadgeekteen]

I don't think that my body is capable of sleeping for more than 7-8 hours. I will just wake up and not fall back asleep.

[Rothman]

I don't think that my body is capable of sleeping for more than 7-8 hours. I will just wake up and not fall back asleep.

If I sleep eight hours, I wake up dehydrated with a headache.

[kphoger]

If I sleep eight hours, I wake up dehydrated with a headache.

If I sleep much longer than about nine hours, then I end up with a headache.  But I think it's primarily because I'm tossing and turning, pretending to be asleep, for that last one or two hours.

[webny99]

I wake up naturally at anywhere between 6 AM and 7:45 AM.

You may not think of it as such, but it is actually a luxury to have that large of a window to wake up. Most people have to be up well before 7:45, and for those of us with nocturnal tendencies, pushing the lower bound earlier just doesn't work.

[Roadgeekteen]

I wake up naturally at anywhere between 6 AM and 7:45 AM.

You may not think of it as such, but it is actually a luxury to have that large of a window to wake up. Most people have to be up well before 7:45, and for those of us with nocturnal tendencies, pushing the lower bound earlier just doesn't work.

It depends how fast you get ready. When I had classes at 9 I would wake up at 8:15 and get to class at time but I don't shower in the morning (I shower at night).

[webny99]

I wake up naturally at anywhere between 6 AM and 7:45 AM.

You may not think of it as such, but it is actually a luxury to have that large of a window to wake up. Most people have to be up well before 7:45, and for those of us with nocturnal tendencies, pushing the lower bound earlier just doesn't work.

It depends how fast you get ready. When I had classes at 9 I would wake up at 8:15 and get to class at time but I don't shower in the morning (I shower at night).

You're kind of proving my point though because most people have to start before 9 too.