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December 11th 2021, 05:44 PM
How much sleep do you normally get? Do you feel like you should get more sleep? What do you do when you can't sleep? Do you read a book, listen to music, play games?
I try to get between 8 - 10 hours of sleep every night; but I always wake up feeling just as tired as I did when I went to bed the night before! When I can't sleep, I like to read.
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December 11th 2021, 06:01 PM
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I try to get between 8 - 10 hours of sleep every night; but I always wake up feeling just as tired as I did when I went to bed the night before! When I can't sleep, I like to read.
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Same. I usually wake up tired even if I get 9-10 hours of sleep; but if I get 7-8 I am more tired, and if I get less than 7 I'm a zombie
If I can't fall asleep (which I usually don't have problem with, more likely I can't get up), I read a book or put on some sleep stories on YouTube.
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December 11th 2021, 09:43 PM
I usually get between 6-8 hours of sleep. It depends on how active my mind is at night or if I get woken up by anything.
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December 11th 2021, 09:57 PM
If you're struggling to fall asleep, what do you do? Do you find self-soothing activities helpful? Or do you rely on medication?
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December 11th 2021, 10:29 PM
My sleep varies so much, like I can sleep for ages and still wake up feeling as exhausted as I was the night before, yet other times I can sleep for about 5 hours and feel like I've had the worlds best sleep ever. I have sleeping pills and an anti psychotic medication which has a sedative effect aswell. For me sleep is like a on going battle. I've recently stopped drinking coffee in the afternoon and have stopped drinking fizzy pop etc too, and those two things do seem to be helping a little, however I have chronic insomnia, and often wake in the night. I do use sleep meditation apps on my phone or listen to a sleep meditation on my amazon music app...
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December 11th 2021, 11:55 PM
I sleep between eight and twelve hours per night, which is a big window.
I play on my phone too much when I can't sleep, and then I get distracted by it.
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December 12th 2021, 07:36 AM
Yeah, me too. Generally i sleep 8-10 hours at day normally. If I sleep more, when I wake up I'm completely dizzy
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December 12th 2021, 04:01 PM
Ideally, I try to get between eight and ten hours of sleep a night. Nine hours is my golden number. However, in the last several months I tend to get less than that, and lately I usually get between 5-6 hours. When I can't sleep I generally don't do anything. Getting up, or reading, or especially getting in front of a phone/computer screen just tends to wake me up. I generally just try to relax and get sleepy as best I can, and if I can't after too many hours I just get up. Sometimes I will try a mindfulness practice from YouTube if I am really desperate, but that's not something I do regularly when I have insomnia.
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December 12th 2021, 04:28 PM
What do you consider to be the earliest time to 'start the day' if you're struggling from a night of bad insomnia?
For me, it's 5am or 5:30am — and that's a heck lot easier to do between May and September when there's daylight.
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December 12th 2021, 08:11 PM
On work days I usually sleep between 5-7 hours. Weekends I sleep about 8-10 hours depending on how draining the week was!
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December 13th 2021, 04:07 AM
I usually get about 8-9 hours of sleep.
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January 21st 2022, 07:07 AM
aim for feel ready for bed around 10 to 10.30ish, sometimes gets to be 11 by the time I make it into bed. Alarm at 7.30 am weekdays, at weekends can sleep to 9.00am
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January 25th 2022, 01:52 AM
I always have the best of intentions on worknights to get at least 8 hours of sleep, but often that ends up being more like 6 or 6.5. I'd say on average though, I get between 6.5 - 8 hours of sleep.
I do take naps often though, when I can, as my chronic pain/illness make me fatigued most of the time (I like to call myself perpetually sleepy).
My like *ideal* wake up feeling mostly awake and refreshed is about 8.5 - 9 hours but that's few and far between.
When I can't sleep, it depends. Often I just stay laying in bed - which I know is the opposite of what you're supposed to do but I also know myself and if I get up and do anything I will absolutely not go back to bed and then all of a sudden it's 6:30 am and I have to get ready for work. Sometimes I'll read or play a soothing game on my phone or do some breathing exercises/meditations.
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January 25th 2022, 10:13 PM
All things being equal, I aim for about eight hours. Anything less than seven and I tend to struggle the next day, and usually anything more than nine hours makes me overtired. That said sometimes fatigue kicks in and I need more sleep, around nine/ten hours a night.
If I have trouble falling asleep my go-to is to read one of the books I keep on my nightstand, but if that doesn't work sometimes I'll get up and have a warm drink or play with my pets for a bit.
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February 3rd 2022, 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Stardust.
How much sleep do you normally get? Do you feel like you should get more sleep? What do you do when you can't sleep? Do you read a book, listen to music, play games?
I try to get between 8 - 10 hours of sleep every night; but I always wake up feeling just as tired as I did when I went to bed the night before! When I can't sleep, I like to read.
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that's a good question. usually 8 to 10 hours and i don't want more sleep otherwise i wake up tired. when i can't sleep i chat with friends on my phone but most of the time i fall asleep quite easily!
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April 12th 2022, 05:24 PM
I usually sleep 8-9 hours.
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May 2nd 2022, 07:34 PM
It takes me a long time to fall asleep so it seems like I sleep a lot but I probably get about 7 hours on average.
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May 4th 2022, 11:57 AM
It can take me a while to get to sleep or I sometimes wake up througout the night. I probably get between 6-7 hours a night sleep. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I really think I should be aiming for 8-9 hours though!
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May 10th 2022, 01:18 AM
I tend to go for 6-8 hours a night, sometimes a biiit less? Does take a bit to get to sleep for me even with my CPAP machine.
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May 10th 2022, 05:07 PM
I've noticed that if I fall asleep before midnight I need less sleep.
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Re: How much sleep? -
May 11th 2022, 02:18 PM
Hehe what sleep?? I get about 4 hours of sleep but rarely maybe more than 6, but that’s rare
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