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    Default How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    I always try to get a full 8 hours of sleep because I just feel so much better when I get a good night's sleep, but half the time I get significantly less sleep than that. Part of it is because I have to be up for school at 8:30am three days a week, and I work some nights before school. A lot of days I only find myself getting like 4 hours of sleep, sometimes even less! Once I started college full-time and was also working at full time I started to realize that I get way less sleep than I used to. I'm lucky to get six hours of sleep, I consider that decent - anything in that range and above I consider good. Of course there are a few days of the week that I'm able to sleep in, but sometimes my body just wakes me up early since I'm used to it because of school. Other days I'm able to get like 8-10 hours of sleep but this only happens a couple days a week. The majority of days in the week I get much less sleep than that.

    I know that a person my age should be getting about 8 hours of sleep, but is it normal that I get substantially less sleep than that? I know once you become an adult sleep is less available because of the busyness of our schedules, so do any of you also tend to lack the amount of sleep that is recommended?
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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    If I can, I try to get 8 hours of sleep, so that I just don't feel so wore out during the day, but usually I only get 4-6 hours. As you said, with school, work, and social life, there really isn't a lot of time to just sleep in most mornings. I've been recovering from a completely shattered leg and foot, and the most I've been able to sleep at night is and hour with out waking up in pain, or just being uncomfortable. I've been trying to take naps through out the day to make up for it, but I still feel so drained right now. A huge plus for you is that there's a couple days a week, where you can sort of get caught up on your sleep Nina, so that's really good. If you can, make sure that your schedule stays that way!!

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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    Between 6-8..but I sleep during the day though. (Ask Athena. The last time she visited me I never rose until well after sundown)

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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    between 6 to 8, sometimes my sleep is very disturbed which I hate.
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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    Ugh my sleep schedule is so fucked up. I go to sleep at sunrise (6 am or so) and last week I only slept every other day wtf?! It's hard having such an off schedule because sometimes I have to be up early for clients (vanilla biz) and I can't go to sleep early even if I have the time to go to bed at 10-11pm.
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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    6-8 also, but I'm working on changing that. My sleep hours got worse when I started having to get up early (5am) to make it to yoga class at 6. Even tho I love it, I'm exhausted by 7pm and haven't been logging in for my extra work -pso- hours that I like to get in at night from 9-12. So its costing me $$. Trying to get work, sleep, and extra stuff in a day is such a hassle.

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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    It really does depend on my schedule and a good nights sleep is something I shouldn't, but do, sacrifice sometimes to fit everything in to my days . I'll normally get anything from 5-12 hrs (12 being my days off ).
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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    I always try to get around 6 and a half or 7.

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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    Getting adequate consecutive sleep can be tough for someone like OP who goes back and forth between working a night shift, and "normal" daytime activities. As someone who used to have to deal with this: I could never get the 7-8 hours of consecutive sleep, but by taking catnaps, I could at least partially compensate for the wacky schedule. Often, I'd only get 5 or so hours in one stretch, but somehow manage to sqeak in a 1 - 2 hour catnap so that the total hours in a given 24 hour period equalled 7 - 8 hours. Not ideal, but a way of dealing with odd schedules.
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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    8-12. Thursday nights I only get 7 though.
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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    Lately? About 3 hours of sleep every night... and it has made it harder to work at night and even harder to focus in the day. I'll get to a good 6-8 hours soon enough, just dealing with changes.
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    I see I'm not alone here. Hopefully tonight I'll get a reasonable amount of sleep. No class tomorrow so I can sleep in
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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    It feels like I never get enough sleep. Ever. Lol. If I could sleep for a week straight, that'd be amazing and welcomed!

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    wow im feel SOOO lazy after reading these..i get 10 plus hours..unless i absolutely have to wake up earlier..its bad. i get up when i feel rested, i figure my body will tell me. and unlike other people i cannot even function with less than 8..i start puking and feel extreme exhaustion and my eye burn like crazy

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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    During the week when I can sleep at night like 14 lol.. I go to bed very early and wake up for school at 10.. On the weekends more like 4-5 because I work until 5 and cannot sleep in very late.


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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    I aim for around 7-8 hours but a lot of the time during the week by the time I finish work, get to the gym, do the shopping, cook dinner etc, I'm only getting 5-6 hours. Then where possible I make it up on my days off.
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    I get around 8, but I find that whenever I'm exercising and the sun is out, I don't need as much sleep. The solution to getting a healthy night's rest for me is to NOT NAP. But that's difficult sometimes

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    Default Re: How many hours of sleep do you usually get?

    10 or more

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    Is it normal? Yes. In college? Definitely. It would be wierd if you were a working student who found time to sleep 8 hours a night every night. HOWEVER be forewarned, you can only pull this shit for so long before you body snaps back and you fall flat on your proverbial ass...your immune system is shot, sore muscles, aches, headaches, general malaise, and FATIGUE. After 2 years of doing what you just described my body just literally gave up on me. I've never been so burnt out in my life as I was the last two years of university, and the burn out affected everything from my grades to my money at work to my appearance to my mental health. I will never take my body so for granted again. Please try to get 8 hours of sleep at LEAST 4 days out of the week, it's so important to your long-term health!
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    As many as I can . Usually anywhere from 5-10 hours depending on my schedule etc, I hate those days where I can only mange 5 or so or can't sleep, I don't function well when I'm tired.
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    Oh geez. 8-12 here! I loooooove my comfy bed!!

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    about 10hrs a day. I love to sleep

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    8-9 hours a day. Any less and I start to go batshit crazy. I have pretty severe depression, and that will instantly trigger a meltdown.

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