5.5h to 6.5h, but I'd love to get 7.5h to feel truly ready for the daily challenges again. Haven't had enough consistent deep sleep since the 1st kid was born. That really flipped a switch in me.
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On average I get ~10-14 I'd really like to get ~7-9. Excess sleep is highly ovverrated.
I usually sleep about 6 hours. I‘d like to get 7 or 8, but rarely do. Mostly my own fault.
6 to 8 hours depending on the day. If it were up to me, I'd have a polyphasic system for a sum of 8 hours: 6 hours at night plus a 2-hour siesta.
I wish I could get more probably 5-6 hours of real sleep on a good night, I've tried all my life but I end up just lying in bed for hours
According to my mother, I have only needed 4 hours of sleep in a given 24 hours, since I was born. Same for my brother that is 3 years younger than I am. Finally in my mid 40s, I have to take a 30 minute nap occasionally, mostly if I'm bored.
I would like to sleep for 24 hours a day for the rest of my life
I need 7 to 8 and I get it by going to bed at 22.00.
Like 4 hours. Double that, or none, but no in between
I hate being a night owl but having to conform to a morning bird's world. Talk about nuking productivity.
I've got !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone and live my life in bed. As I don't have to adhere to society's timetables I sleep when I am sleepy and wake up when I'm done. I sleep 10-11 hours most days.
Once I had a really bad night where I basically didn't sleep. The night after that I got 14 hours of sleep. I think that's the longest I ever slept in my life.
I wish I was more in line with my family. It's especially hard with aligning lunch and dinner. So in a way I actually am still tied to society's timetable.
Usually somewhere between 9 and 12 hrs (disabled and not working for someone else, but have a micro farm to maintain).. it feels like such a massive waste of time because it’s never enough to feel rested. I used to go with the 4-8 hr thing and that was worse but the anxiety early in the morning really kept the energy up. And then led to panic attacks as an alarm clock. Woo was that fun for 3 solid years.
I don’t think any amount of sleep is enough, really (since childhood I've always tended to sleep a lot when my brain finally slows down enough), but I do know too little is super super bad for me.
Micro farm?
Yeah, I live in town on 0.2 acres. I’ve got a small flock of chickens, and a hydroponic garden in the works to use the entirety of my basement year round to provide most of my fresh food needs, and hopefully that of one or two people important to me, once it’s in full swing (it’s a very old house and the foundation is leaky, there’s not a lot I can do about it other than embrace it due to how it was built).
I don’t have a big yard, so the chickens have the bulk of it, and I can’t use the remainder for growing stuff because it doesn’t get direct sun, but I do better with controlled conditions like hydro anyway. I hate weeding, and the guesswork of watering dirt.
So far the garden consists of a sprout and seedling station (for eating and growing), several varieties of tomatoes and peppers that will be producing soon, some beans, peas, 2 types of mushrooms (grown on shredded cardboard), some herbs, and some asshole strawberries that hate me and refuse to grow. When I get the aquariums set up to breed guppies or minnows for my cats and turtle, (my neighbor was throwing out 3 55gallon tanks so I took them) I’ll be adding leafy greens and whatever else in an aquaponics setup.
I also keep colonies of crickets, mealworms, and a worm composter, for feeding the birds and making compost tea for nutrients.
I’m currently testing a bucket method for growing relatively large quantities of root crops in small spaces. I’ve had the idea for a while but I’m finally motivated to see if it works, and what it works for. If it does I’ll probably end up posting instructions on here somewhere. Probs slrpnk. Few months before I get results, or don’t, on the first round.
I wanted to sell this place and buy 40 acres with a shitty house, build up a real hobby farm/homestead, but everything started getting uncertain right around when I started looking, and I got real nervous about putting myself into a more precarious position, so I’m kinda stuck making this work for now.
Dang, that actually sounds awesome. You ever played minecraft?
Thanks! I’d prefer more stable income that doesn’t kill my body for being broken, but this will do in a pinch. I can work on stuff when I’m feeling well, and nobody judges me when nothing gets done as long as I take care of my animals. And who knows maybe I’ll end up with enough surplus to sell to neighbors or something! There’s a year round farmers market near me that moves indoors over winter; surplus/preserved goods could easily be sold there or something similar.
As for Minecraft, I tried it many years ago, and granted my pc at the time could barely run it, but that super open sandbox stuff isn’t really for me; I’m not a particularly creative person in the way that game needs.
Stuff like rimworld and oxygen not included is more up my alley. Sandboxy but considerably more goal-oriented base building/exploring, with clear progression.
There's something more rewarding about growing your own food, knowing what was used and how it was taken care of gives better piece of mind too. I haven't dabbled in husbandry but I'm a horticulturalist so I have a general curiousity in growing plants. Love to pop in the backyard and grab stuff right off the stems for breakfast or a snack. Being able to share or trade your goods is also fun too.
I asked about minecraft because I used to play and basically create a digital version of your microfarm. Rimworld is dangerous, I've sat down and lost hours without realizing it. Great game
An hour max. I like sleeping during the night. (I'm sorry, I think I just became a dad)
I get 6-7, and I like to get 7.
6 and later a 30min nap is also good, but the nap isn't always that well compatible with work. I do that quite often in summer when it's too hot to sleep very well and I'm working from home.
Should be sleeping now, but the clock change from UTC+2 to UTC+1 is throwing me off at the moment.
Not enough.
A lot more but baby.
I get slightly less than 8 hours. My body wants more than 9 hours. I hate sleep, I hate being tired, I hate waking up, so I want 0 hours.
5 to 6.
Would like 10 to 12.
~6hrs pr. day.
Would like to get an hour or so more, but like another commenter wrote. Baby.
8 hours every 3 days. Enhanced by stimulants. I wish I never had to sleep again. I deeply resent my own biology trying to force me to spend a third of my life in a damned bed doing nothing.
I take great pains to get the full 8 hours but this year I have been having trouble sleeping.
6-7, 10-12
6ish, I'd like 8 but I can't really fall asleep until after midnight unless I'm truly exhausted, then work means I usually need to be up around 7ish
I get about 7. Turns out I need closer to 9. When I do get enough sleep, the difference is pretty wild - my mood is better, WAY better. And my appetite is under control too, which is a nice bonus. But the only way to actually get those 9 hours is literally "eat-sleep-work". Just ain't enough time in the day.
It's 5-7 for me, that i get during workweek. 9-12 during weekend. I like sleeping a lot.
Sleep app says avg 6.5h/day
Between 5-7. My body likes choosing the 5 when I have important stuff to do the next day or I need to be up early
I get about 7 hours ish, but I wish I could get 8 hours. It's amazing how much an hour can do but I feel amazing on 8 hours in the morning but sometimes feel like a zombie on 7 hours.
3-4 hours a day, working minimum 12 hour shifts, usually 13-14, 4 days a week, 3 days when I can.
How are you still alive? Are you able to say what you do for work?
Some days I honestly don't know. I work for AWS in one of their many data centers as a critical facilities technician.
Sounds like hell on earth, specially with low sleep.
Save money and go live in a cheap place on earth...
Good days and bad days. I have a car, place to live, food in my fridge and cupboards and money in my bank account. Maybe one day I'll be able to pick up and move somewhere cheaper but in the meantime, one day at a time.
I have a theory that some people actually like some discomfort in their lives... Makes them feel like there is a challange and not just anyone could do their job.
That sounds like a hell of a life man, all the best to you
7-8. Whenever I'm waking up and don't wanna sleep anymore 😊 Depends on how late I was up though, I'm a night-owl.
6 and 24 preferably.
Would you sleep for a full day then stay awake for a full day? Or just sleep 24 hours everyday?
Preferably perpetual sleep to drown out all the news.
Understandable
About 6 hours on average. There's a lot of boom and bust though. 9 hours when off, 5 hours sometimes during the week.
I really badly want this to settle in an average of 7 hours daily.... But I've been really unsuccessful in rewiring my brain to be disciplined enough.
Typically I get about six. Had a long weekend had did nine and half each day for three days straight, which never happens, then last night I got four hours and undid all that goodness.
I would like between seven and eight hours on the regular, just not going to happen unless I retire and live on my own as I am a very light sleeper.
I'm a lighter sleeper too. Luckily for me, my upstairs neighbour's favourite hobby is seeing how loud she can get her chairs to screech across the floor. She practices 4-100 times an hour from 5 a.m. to midnight so she's pretty good. She could be better but she takes several breaks a day to test out how loud she can get her tv as well as hammering the floor at 6 a.m. occasionally. I went to commend her on her skills one time and she politely screamed "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE AND DON'T COME BACK". I know she appreciated it though because she got even louder since then!
I would rather live on the streets than put up with that, I could not cope with it as I get woke up by people in the same house being quiet let alone noisy cunts like that.
5-8 hours depending on if I had afternoon caffeine or not. I think I like 7 hours, but it has been a while that I've kept track of sleep quality.