How much sleep do you need?

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I'm not sure if this is due to my AS or the fact that I'm a 17 year old student with a pennant for what can only be described as epic gaming marathons. I find that I need hardly any sleep, I've been measuring and I need on average 4.6 hours of sleep a night leaving a lot of tim for being concious and...active. Any other aspies have this or even a weird sleeping schedule/body clock?

More than I got last night.

I can survive on 7 but to really function I need between 8 and hours.

For me it varies greatly. During the summer, I can't sleep over five or six hours a night. This time of year, I could sleep twelve hours a day if I let myself.

Don't short yourself on sleep; get what you need. I just read an article in Newsweek claiming that lack of sleep lowers IQ, and I can believe it. The Navy had a thing for working marathons where we'd have to work continuously for several days at a time. In war, something like this is undoubtedly necessary. But in peacetime, where there is no real danger, I started going downhill after about twelve hours of constant work.

No, no. This isn't about me forcing myself to stay awake, I mentioned epic gaming marathons, I can down three bottles of mountain dew and stay awake(well...concious) for 40 hours. This is about my ability to go to sleep and wake up, fully rested, about 4-5 hours later. (and I never said I don't enjoy looooong lye ins during the winter.

I need 8 hours to function at 100%. I know one guy who only gets like 4 hours a night and claims to be perfectly fine, but honestly I see him constantly making all sorts of silly mistakes and forgetting to do things...I'm pretty sure the two aspects are directly related There have been tons of medical studies that show that getting less than 6-8 hours a night can have serious medical consequences, so while it could be true you are able to get 4hrs and be perfectly fine I find it highly unlikely (especially when you throw in epic gaming marathons and mountain dew haha).

Well I drink the stuff as if it's water so I guess there could be like...residual caffeine in my bloodstream or something keeping me perky. But I did measure the time I sleep over the course of a week to get that average so beyond that I don't know what to say.

Sleeping hours is nothing to do with AS. I know an NT who only needs 4 to 5 hours sleep each night. Personally I don't know how he lives like that (plus he works full time), but everybody's an individual. I think the average for a young female adult is about 7 to 8 hours a night, and I need about 8 to 9 hours sleep a night.

Six or five. I'm what people call an active student.

5 or less hours - I can function, but not anywhere near efficiently. Usually, the next night, I'll get 10+ hours of sleep to make up for it.

6 hours - I can make it a whole day without caffeine or crashing. But I'll feel like total s***.

7 hours - I can make it for two days. Maybe 3 with coffee.

8 hours - Still not enough, but manageable. If I only get 8 hours of sleep for a whole week, I can still function at the end of the week.

9 hours - This is the amount of sleep that I naturally get. That is, if I have no sleep deficit and nothing wakes me up.

7 or 8 hours is usually sufficient. However I can sleep for 14 hours if I let myself.

I would say I need at least 10 hours of sleep per night.

I'm not sure how much I need, but lately my schedules been something like 4 am to 2 or 3 pm, so that's near half the day gone by. Seems like no matter how much I sleep, though, I always feel sick whenever I wake up at a "normal" time, and am never too tired until very late at night.

I need at least 8 hours, preferably 10 hours each night.
Normally I sleep about 12 hours per night.
Depends mostly on how much stimuli I got that day
and how well I sleep on a particular night.

Pooh Bear

I remember learning somewhere along the way that sleep deficit is cumulative. In other words, the average adult needs 8 hours per night and if he/she gets 7 hours for a week, then they are almost a full night behind. I think this is bunk, but assuming it's true, I have esitimated for myself a cumulative sleep deficit of approximately 18 years. Seriously, it's scary how badly I sleep ... even with Melatonin supplements.

Varies. Physical fitness seems to reduce my need for sleep massively. I'm not very fit at the moment so im finding myself sleeping a lot. I think my emotional state also has a lot to do with it and whether or not im mid obsession.

I sleep as needed...

If I need extra time, I usually pull off a biphasic sleep cycle that brings me around 4-5 hours of sleep.
If there's really nothing to do I could sleep for 10 hours a night easily.