How Many Hours a Day Do You Sleep? / What Do You Do When You Wake Up in the Middle of the Night?

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Sorry for the long title, I guess it could almost be two separate threads.

I typically get 6-8 hours of sleep a day.

I hate waking up in the middle of the night and not be able to fall back to sleep. Sometimes it's hard to turn off the old mind. I often go out to the couch, but try not to turn on the TV, read, etc.

How about you?
 

Five hours, at night, for the last thirty years. Usually another hour, or so, during the day. Self-employment has its perks.

When I wake up at 3 AM, I just grab the book I'm currently reading, switch on my book light, and read until I'm sleepy. That's usually an hour.
 

I sleep anywhere from 5-10 hours, usually 7-8 hours. Most nights I need to use the bathroom, so I just go and go back to bed. Sometimes I can't fall back to sleep, so I just lay in bed with my eyes closed. Just resting is almost as good as sleeping, sort of like meditation. Most days I take a 2-3 hour nap on the recliner, if I don't take a nap I start to get sleepy around 8pm, I hate that. If I do take a nap, I usually go to sleep around 11pm. I've noticed if my sleep is uninterrupted I tend to sleep 7 hours.
 
Go to bed when I'm sleepy, typically sleep for 7 hours without waking in the middle of the night.
 
Depends.most nights I get about 6 hours sleep but broken up in tbe early hours to do a wee...grrr! I can wake up at 5 am-ish and go downstairs faff about have a cuppa and go back to bed and nod off until about 8am.
 
How Many Hours a Day Do You Sleep?
Five or six...or seven

What Do You Do When You Wake Up in the Middle of the Night?
Pee!!

Oftentimes I get on here and other forums
....until I get sleepy again

There's nothing...nothing..... quite like what I call the 2nd sleep

fluff the downy pillow
scoot into the covers
smile at the sound of neighbor's cars warming up to take them to work

then
sweet conscious drift off...into soft nothingness


This retirement gig rocks
 
I shut my phone off at about 11pm but my Son does shifts starting late so we chat on Whatsapp then off goes my phone.

I dont do social media only this forum. I used to but decided to have a digital detox and it wasnt easy but Ive done it for a fair time now and feel better for it. Social media darned addictive and my online long term friend.agrees with me
 
I usually sleep 6 or 7 hours a night all together some in bed and some in recliner. Shoulder problems wake me most nights and sometimes I can go back to sleep in recliner but if not I read.

No day time sleep unless I'm sick. I've never been able to nap successfully. If I do go to sleep, I'll sleep too long and am foggy the rest of day and then cannot sleep at bedtime.
 
Sleep? What’s that?
I sleep approximately 4 or 5 hours at a time for the most part .
What do I do when I wake up?Pee then get high. 😂

When my man worked nights I’d play keyboards, saxophone, the piano and / or sing. Now I turn on the tv, read a book or visit this forum.
Less exciting ....but he’s happier.

Like Gary, another thing I do is think about all the people who have to get up to go to work. Here it can snow 24/7 and the only thing I think of is how pretty it looks. 🥰
 
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I, too, was going to start a topic on this. Sleep is a big problem for me. I either sleep too little (varying amounts of hours) or too much (also varies). Like most everyone I do wake up to use the bathroom and sometimes more than once. Often, though, I wake up and look at the clock to see what time it is and how much sleep I've gotten. I wake up many times. I slept too much today and don't feel good as a result. Feel like the walking deado_O:p:ROFLMAO:
 
I get a total of about 8-9 hours...a few hours are broken sleep. I may wake up after 5-6 hours and fall back to sleep and sleep a few more hours. When I wake up through the night, I watch one of my favorite movies..and end up falling back to sleep. I have a few recorded on my DVR.
 
I heard that 20% of married men get up to get a drink of water.
20% of married men get up to use the bathroom.
60% of married men get up to go home.
 
Ive got up at 10am UK time after a good night's sleep. Weird dreams but this is not unusual. Im maxed-out after the buildup and post Christmas doings and need to get orientated again.

Theres me talking about digital detoxing in a previous post and here I am on my phone checking out stuff emails and Jaqui Lawson e-cards text etc :rolleyes::sneaky:and having my 1st cuppa tea in my dressing gown and making list for a trip to the shops.

May have what my Son calls a power nap this afternoon...zzzz!😴
 
Once I wake up, no matter what time it is, I seldom get back to sleep. Normal nights sleep is from 4 to 6 hours for me. Lately I’ve had a dry mouth to the point it wakes me up. I get up, have a sip of water, unplug my iPad from the charger, go pee and go back to bed. That’s a good night for me.
 
In the winter I sleep between 8/9 hours. In the summer I sleep 6 hours, I can’t wait to grab my coffee & sit outside, I never nap, even when my babies were little & took their naps I would catch up on my reading. 😊
 
I sleep usually 8 or 9 hours every night. ... On the occasional night that I do wake up during the night, I will get out of bed, if I am fully awake, and find something to do. ... like reading or organizing something. ..trying to force sleep doesn't work for me.
After an hour or so of being up, I will lie down again and I always seem to fall back to sleep. That works for me.
 
I do best with around nine hours a night. Can sleep much less or much more depending on autoimmune flares. If something wakes me up, I often cannot go back to sleep. On pain nights when I can't sleep, I have to fight the urge to eat carbs ...have gotten much better with that over the past year. I can sleep 12-14 hours during flares and wake up feeling as though I've not slept at all.
 
2 hour increments unless I've done some serious physical work, then, 3-4... maybe. Once awake at 4 am, I stay up. Play my mp3, Hit the internet to catch up with a lot of other forums and groups that I hang out in. (sorry SF, you're not the only one) :)
One thing I have learned is anytime after 3am, my mind seems to sort itself out and feed me answers to things that have bothered me all the previous day, so I guess there is a plus to this.
 
squatting dog said:
...One thing I have learned is anytime after 3am, my mind seems to sort itself out and feed me answers to things that have bothered me all the previous day, so I guess there is a plus to this.
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I keep a pad of paper and pencil on the night stand for this very reason.
 

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