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[Dev]

How much sleep do you need to function at at least 80% capacity?
I really envy people who say they can function well on 6 hours sleep. For me that's an impossibility. The least I can go on is 7 hours. The optimal amount is 8 hrs. sleep. Nine hours seems to be too much for me. I sometimes wonder if my desire for 8 hours of sleep is all psychological (I mean, that's what the doctors tell us so...). Or it could be because I exercise that I need more sleep.

One of the teachers in my school, also a mother, claims she gets only 3-4 hours sleep each night. Wow! I can't believe that (but I do). And I never see her napping either. Come to think of it, I usually only see men teachers doing the afternoon nap thing during their free periods.

[Thunndarr]

I know some people who claim to get by on substantially less than 8 hours of sleep , but what they don't mention is the 4 hour naps they take on Saturday and Sunday afternoons after sleeping for 10 hours on Friday and Saturday nights.

[tiger fancini]

5-6 hours normally does me, and thats without siesta's and long lie-in's at the weekend. For some reason, I've lost the ability to lie in at all these days, and usually wake between 6-6.30 every day of the week, regardless of whether i'm working or not. This is a pain in the @rse if i've been out drinking until the small hours, as I still wake up, have to get up, feel like poo, and wait for my hangover to kick in

[canuckistan]

Definetly 6 because I'm usually busting my butt doing something physically hard.
Anything less for a few days in a row and I can get pretty cranky.

[Captain Corea]

8-9 is perfect for me. I feel quite stress-free at that point.

[hermes.trismegistus]

My productivity reaches its zenith while averaging around 4 hours a day - split in two segments (no other animal on earth sleeps in one block).

Namaste.

[Demophobe]

[Thunndarr]

[hermes.trismegistus]

[hermes.trismegistus]

[Demophobe]

I prefer dead, thanks.

[Satori]

[desultude]

I always have and I suspect always will function best on 9 hours sleep. Anything less will cause me to nap or be tired all day.

Animals have all sorts of sleep patterns- look at bears and other hybernating animals, and cats, who sleep most of the time. We sleep, as we are animals, we sleep as we do because we are human animals- not bears, cats or wolves.

That being said, it is surely true that the diurnal cycle is disturbed by artificial light, Humans with only natural light sleep many more hours than modern humans. I have a suspicion that I would be even happier with ten hours sleep!

[tzechuk]

12, if I can have that long.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I voted 6, because then I can function at around 80%. But I only feel good when I've had at least 8 hours sleep.

Which never happens. Someone kill me.

Sparkles*_*