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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,596
    7-8 hours a night and we take it it turns at the weekend to have a lay in. We were lucky with the little un, slept through from quite an early age and she hardly ever wakes up during the night.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,697
    edited March 2013
    on average 6-7 hours.

    though this one time in band camp college i slept for 23hours.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    My kids have never slept through really until they hit the terrible 2s and then yiu get more trouble up to now where my little girl still has some health issues and sleep can be a bonus

    Try sleeping in the childrens ward for sleep deprevation
  • Eddie Firmani
    Eddie Firmani Posts: 650
    Davo55 said:

    Usually about 7 but almost always up in the night for a pee - sad side effect of being in late 50s!

    By saying "a pee", I'm assuming once. Just wait til your late late 50's!!!

  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    About seven hours a night but I seem to have lost the ability to sleep in on a day off. Still wake up at 6.30 every morning.
  • stonewallpenalty
    stonewallpenalty Posts: 3,842
    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    edited March 2013
    7-8 if I'm lucky......

    Apparently old Maggie Thatcher only slept for 4 hours a night while PM!
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    Eddie Firmani said:

    Davo55 said:

    Usually about 7 but almost always up in the night for a pee - sad side effect of being in late 50s!

    By saying "a pee", I'm assuming once. Just wait til your late late 50's!!!

    :-) That's made me feel much better about it EF. I'm still a sprightly one pee-er a night YAY!!!!!
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    *mumbles*....."Lucky bugger"..........
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    What's wrong with you all ? I sleep like a baby. Eight hours midweek and nine at weekends. Perhaps none of you work hard enough ;0)
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  • AllLeftFoot
    AllLeftFoot Posts: 1,500
    Between 4 and 6 hours - and at the very most 7.

    Have never been a 'good' sleeper, but at the same time have always been able to function on amounts that some would struggle on, so I have sort of accepted in my late 30s that's how I am.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    I'm an insomniac - my sleep pattern is f***ed and has been since I was a kid. Function much better later on in the day though, no matter how much sleep I get/don't get
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    Sympathies to those who struggle with sleep , be it through young kids or other stuff , does anyone have any good tips for getting a good nights kip , do the hot choccies / hot drinks work before bedtime?
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,135
    About 7 hours or slightly less, but I have real difficulty in getting myself to bed at a sensible time. It seems to be predicated on the the wholly illogical basis that I might miss something interesting if I go to bed a little earlier - not, of course, that anything interesting happens.

    I sleep a little longer on Sunday mornings, but not much. Harder to lie in as you get older
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Lately very little sleep as our twins have been ill. Starting to get back to being well now but I think they've got used to night time cuddles so keep waking up . Hearing my little girl say at 2am "I'll just have a little cuddle mummy" is not easy.

    6 hours unbroken sleep would be a luxury.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    Uboat said:

    North Lower Neil said:

    MrOneLung said:

    NOTHING prepares you for lack of sleep with a baby.

    Even if people think only need feeding every 4 hours so get them off at say 10pm give em a feed at 2 and in the morning at 6 when get up.

    In reality:

    9/10 pm Try to get them off to sleep.
    12am - get them off to sleep.
    2am - they wake for an early feed.
    3 am - finish their feed.
    4 am - finally get them back to sleep after their feed
    6 am - another feed and off to work.

    Cheers for that! I'm torn between as many lie ins as possible now while I can, or starting ti train myself into getting up early!
    When we had our first child I finally understood why sleep deprivation was the torture of choice for Stalin's secret police. I'd have confessed to anything just to get a couple of hours.
    Haha!! I'm slowly trying to convince them at work to introduce 3o'clock nap time!
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    Karim_myBagheri said:

    on average 6-7 hours.

    though this one time in band camp college i slept for 23hours.

    'Fresher's flu' went round halls when I was in the first year at Uni, and at one point I felt awful, went to bed, put some Liverpool UEFA Cup game on TV and promptly fell asleep (understandable I think), so I know it was Thursday evening, and I woke up on Saturday morning. It took me about two hours to work out it was Saturday and not Friday, and work out how long I'd slept.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,737
    Struggle to switch off once in bed. Managing 5-6 projects at the moment and there is always something going on in my head. Have taken to keeping a pad and pen on the bedside table as I continually wake at 3 or 4am and realise I have forgotten to call someone or chase something. The worst is when you wake and think of an angle no-one on the project has considered.

    I suppose I get 5-6 hours a night week days, rarely attempt going to sleep before midnight and am up at 7.30am.

    As I commute by cycle I generally find myself dozing around 8pm and will often drift off for 30mins or so. Feel like crap when I wake up from that.

    Weekends depends on booze intake. Thankfully my daughter is now 8 and likes her parents staying in bed. She cones down, fires up the laptop and makes herself toast and is good for 2-3 hours.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    It doesn't help when your missus sleep talks and wakes you up babbling away about random nonsense. I'd love my own bed sometimes.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,737
    Although I should add that the purchase of a memory foam matress has improved my sleep. Stupidly comfortable.
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  • Eddie Firmani
    Eddie Firmani Posts: 650
    BIG_ROB said:

    7-8 if I'm lucky......

    Apparently old Maggie Thatcher only slept for 4 hours a night while PM!

    Whilst hanging upside down from a branch, no doubt.



  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Eddie Firmani said:

    BIG_ROB said:

    7-8 if I'm lucky......

    Apparently old Maggie Thatcher only slept for 4 hours a night while PM!

    Whilst hanging upside down from a branch, no doubt.



    Like it ;o)
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    North Lower Neil said:

    Karim_myBagheri said:

    on average 6-7 hours.

    though this one time in band camp college i slept for 23hours.

    'Fresher's flu' went round halls when I was in the first year at Uni, and at one point I felt awful, went to bed, put some Liverpool UEFA Cup game on TV and promptly fell asleep (understandable I think), so I know it was Thursday evening, and I woke up on Saturday morning. It took me about two hours to work out it was Saturday and not Friday, and work out how long I'd slept.
    That's absolutely mental! I'd have to wake up at least for a drink of water/a piss.

    Dated a girl in my first year when I was in halls and she was an insomniac and just didnt let me sleep at night. Would finally make her let me go to bed at 7am and i'd sleep through the entire day, missed the royal wedding because i was asleep all day because of that girl! She didn't keep me up for that reason either, so i wasnt getting anything out of it.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    About five hours on average, say 2am 'til 7am. It varies a lot, but I'm never in bed before midnight.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    After so many years of having to get up early for work, when retirement came it took ages for the body clock to adjust so that I could just roll over and start snoring again for another couple of hours. About two mornings, I think.
  • maybe_baby
    maybe_baby Posts: 2,609
    I like working after midnight so always late to bed...probably 4 hours max, usually 3.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,697
    kentaddick said:

    North Lower Neil said:

    Karim_myBagheri said:

    on average 6-7 hours.

    though this one time in band camp college i slept for 23hours.

    'Fresher's flu' went round halls when I was in the first year at Uni, and at one point I felt awful, went to bed, put some Liverpool UEFA Cup game on TV and promptly fell asleep (understandable I think), so I know it was Thursday evening, and I woke up on Saturday morning. It took me about two hours to work out it was Saturday and not Friday, and work out how long I'd slept.
    That's absolutely mental! I'd have to wake up at least for a drink of water/a piss.

    Dated a girl in my first year when I was in halls and she was an insomniac and just didnt let me sleep at night. Would finally make her let me go to bed at 7am and i'd sleep through the entire day, missed the royal wedding because i was asleep all day because of that girl! She didn't keep me up for that reason either, so i wasnt getting anything out of it.
    yeah... i slept through the royal wedding. kind of pleased about it as well.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,786
    I've always been a light sleeper but now I seem to wake up early and can't get back to sleep. Maybe that's a sign of getting older. :-) 6 hours if I'm lucky nowadays.
  • P_Air
    P_Air Posts: 545
    My sleep pattern has changed considerably since I became a London Cabbie last year. Used to survive on 5-6 hours when I had a 9-5 job, but now I need no less than 7. Got a 4 month old baby too but she's been as good as gold sleep-wise from day 1 so can't blame her when I feel knackered!
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    edited March 2013
    Sometimes I might get only 20 minutes. Other times I am completely out of it for 14 hours.
    Sometimes I have 8 days in a week, sometimes I have 6.
    Part of working night shifts.

    When I was at school it would be between 2-4 hours and then lie in until I left for charlton on the saturday.
    Thats probably why I am working night shifts..

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