Be Excellent To Each Other

This is inspired by a conversation on Twitter I saw this afternoon.

How much sleep do you get? I normally go to bed at about 12:30am and get up between 6am - 6:30am.

That means I get 5 1/2 or 6 hours sleep. No wonder I feel like crap most of the day.

How about you lot?

If Mrs T is away, I usually end up watching shit on TV and go to bed around 1ish, getting up at 7.
If Mrs T is home, we are usually asleep at around 11pm, and getting up at 7.

During the working week, I tend to get into bed at around 11pm, read for an hour and fall asleep between midnight and 12:30am. Usually get up about 7-7:15am.

So, er, about 6 and a half hours, sometimes 7.

Normally 5-6, but for the last month 2-3 or so. Yay.

Why's that, Cras? Get some sleep!

That sock ain't gonna crust itself over.

12 while 6 most nights depending on second-born

Through the week midnight till 6:00

Weekends midnight till about 9:00 ish

Not enough.

More seriously, get up at 8, try to sleep at 12, but my mind rarely agrees with that so could be hours later.

I aim for seven and a half to eight hours a night. Bed at half ten or so, up at half six.

Sleep between 11 & 12 wake when every body clock does, so about 6...

I don't really have a routine, sometimes I go to bed early (as early as 20:00) sometimes late (as late as 05:00)

If I'm working in Exeter, I get up at 05:30, if I am working from home, then I have to get the kids up, so I get them up at 06:30 and then go back to bed until 07:30.

I used to go to sleep around 04:00 and sleep until 08:00, then at the weekend I'd sleep until 12:00/13:00 and that would do me fine, but then I had kids!

Malc

Tell me more.

According to Sleep Cycle I get an average of 8 hours 3 minutes and go to bed on average sometime between 22:00-22:30. I get up around 6-6:30.

Typically in bed by 2am, wake up around 9am.

Edit: AHAHAHA proper jobs are bullshit.

Mine is awesome! I get to go to court. Last week, I almost made a smarmy tosspot barrister cry. Almost.

over the summer it's been bed around 2-3am wake up around 11 depending on when I start work.

So around 8-10.

But that's about to change.

If I get less than 10-12 hours a night I feel like shit.

So yeah, I feel like shit all the time as I get around 8-9 most weeknights.

Bed at midnight ish, asleep by two, up a bit before seven.

Except on Saturdays, when I sleep until lunchtime.

Delayed Sleep-phase Syndrome! "Yay".

Although I only have it mildly, than fuck.

Asleep between 11.30-12PM and wake up at the first alarm at 7AM; then it's back to bed until 7.10 at the next alarm, then it's back to bed until 7.20 at the next alarm, then it's back to bed until 7.30 when I finally make a decision whether to get up or hit snooze for 9 more minutes.

Yeah, DSPS is my problem too. At uni I'd go to sleep at 6.30am and wake up at 1.30. I was super-productive.

getting to work by 10 (normally 8.15 ish) I'm generally useless til mid-afternoon anyway. Stupid society.

Generally 12-6 like a few other folk.

I need more! 8 is perfect.

WTB is BEEX's new favourite lawyer. He's the Amiga to Mr Chris's ST.

Wooo!

Oof, you sound much worse than me. I'm four hours out. 6.30am sounds like about seven hours out.

At least it means I'm so knackered I CAN sleep basically whenever after about 8.30pm, and also that jetlag doesn't particularly affect me.

No, I've no idea what I was doing up and signed in to work at 7 either, though it took an hour of snoozes to.achieve. Having a hospital appointment at 8.30 helped, as did being slightly under hours til today. Can feel me starting to fade again though.

I've just got up! Yay holiday!

I don't like less than 8, so I'm normally 12-8 or 12.30-8.30. Pretty much the same on weekends to stop the clock getting confused.

I go to bed at 11 and tend to get up at 7. However I wake up a lot in the night so don't get much sleep.

I tend to go to bed around 10.30 and wake up at 6.30, so eight hours or so. I can manage with a lot less but can't ever have more than that, can't keep just turning over and going back to sleep like I used to.

I can usually go to sleep around 11 & get up around 6. I need at least 7 hours minimum any less than that & I get cranky after a few days.

I must say, I really struggle to sleep in now on weekends. I can manage until around 8:30 and I just physically can't sleep any more. Never thought that would happen, lazy bastard that I am.

I'm usually awake by 7 or 7:30 at the weekends.
Body clock does not give me more than around 8 hours of sleep.

I have a friend who's near given up drinking because, amongst other reasons, even if he's had a decent drink the night before his body will still wake him up at seven on the dot so he can't sleep any kind of hangover off. The poor fucker, it's like some kind of disability.

I know this sounds like "hard man" posturing, but I don't get hangovers any more. They just stopped about two years ago.

In an odd sort of way, I miss them.

I sometimes get raging stinkers and sometimes nothing at all. It doesn't even depend on what I drink, how much or how much sleep I get. Odd.

Ditto. Tuesday night, had a couple of drinks watching a film, got up yesterday feeling like death. Last night went out to the quiz and got battered, got up this morning feeling fine. Bizarre.

My hangovers are always entirely commensurate with the amount of booze I drank the night before. I've always been incredibly suspicious of anyone who claims otherwise (*narrows eyes at everyone here*) because I can't understand why that wouldn't be the case. My private theory always was that the people in question simply aren't drinking enough, although I realise even as I type that out that Grim and Craster's very existence makes that a ludicrous theory.

Holla. We ruin a lot of otherwise good theories.

o/

For about 2 years now, I can't drink enough to feel drunk without getting a hangover. Even if I am just a bit tipsy, I know I will get a mild hangover.

It used to take a serious amount of drinking to impact me at all the next day.

I've basically been drinking near daily and considerable amounts for the past 10 months think I've only had 3 or 4 hangovers, the only thing that affects me is the inability to eat something until about 4 in the afternoon.

Well, I can drink quite a lot, dance or work that off in some other way and feel fine, but if I've only had a couple but just been sitting around it seems to hurt in the morning, so maybe it depends how lively you are.

I know when I'm routinely drinking too much when I stop getting hangovers (and, oddly, need less sleep). It's happened a couple of times - when I moved back to Manchester (around the first Manchester meet) and lived and two bagels, cigarettes and Leffe was the worst, and a few months back.

Unless I drink San Miguel, that gives me a headache after one bottle these days. They fucked around with it around the time it went onto permanent 3-for-£5 at the little Sainsburys.

These days I get fairly terrible hangovers off even a couple of pints of decent normal-strength real ale, never mind macrobrewed lagers. The only way to get away with it is hefeweizen/hefeweissbier, in which case I can drink 8 and be fine.
This on the other hand is how Helen has it. Cocktails and she's fine but otherwise she doesn't like lager, ale or spirits which leaves Magners or Crabbies. One of either of which gets her hammered and she gets the hangover before bedtime and feels rubbish the next day - when she's guaranteed to be wide awake by 6 (because that's when she wakes up, 8 is a huge lie-in for her). So she drinks less, which makes it worse, so she drinks less...

I don't worry 'bout nothing, no, 'coz worrying's a waste of my... time.

Dammit!

\o

I couldn't keep you hanging, bro.

Huh. I'm sure that was edited.

Bed at 9ish, read for a bit, asleep around 10pm then up at 5.30am

Before the baby it was bed at 10pm asleep at 11pm

I wake up every few hours for some reason at the moment (I sleep away from my wife and child in the week)

On a weekend I will get up between 5am and 8am, depending on how I feel and what the baby does.

Try to have an hours sleep on the sofa on a Saturday afternoon though!

I edited mine after you edited yours.