Sleep Patterns

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I never sleep more than six hours at a time if it can be helped. If I need to get up for something, I always wait until exactly six hours and thirty minutes before I would have to get up before I go to sleep. Any more and it feels like I've just wasted time, but I don't feel that bad if I get a little less sleep. I also never sleep during the day unless I'm in such a relaxing place that I can't help it, and then I feel like the whole day's wasted, even though it is kind of a good catch up for my usual sleep deprivation.

I also DESPISE when I have to go to sleep on a schedule made by someone else. If I'm told to go to sleep at 'normal' hours (which I have observed as being around 7-8 hours of sleep plus getting up early by 1-2 hours for preparing for the day, where I only need 10-15 minutes), then I'll usually end up staying awake in bed until what I think is a reasonable time, and end up getting woken up long before I have the rest I need.

What are your sleep 'rules'?

I need 30 minutes to get ready after I get up. So, I try to lay down 8.5 hours before I will need to leave my house. I take a rather large dose of melatonin about an hour before the time I will lay down to go to sleep. I try to stop playing video games 2 hours before it's time for me to lay down. If I don't my brain is just too active to go to sleep. Getting my mind to relax and go to sleep is a hard. once it happens I sleep for about 4-5 hours, then wake up and spend the rest of the time trying to get back to sleep, until it's time to get up.

My sleep patterns is usually to stay up all night and go to bed around about 4-6 in the morning then wake up around 12:00-2:00 PM. I sometimes force myself to stay up all day and night in order to get back to waking up in the morning around 6-8 like the average person but it never lasts long.

i don't really have anything against sunrises; it's just that the only way i like to early morning hours is after having been up all night. i'm naturally nocturnal, have been my entire life. of course society's expectations are not really forgiving of nocturnal children or adults.

most of my life has been a battle to stay awake during school or work. i sometimes wonder how much better i would have done (i already did really well) in school or at work if i was allowed to sleep during the day. on wednesday, i have a job interview for a night job, so i'm very excited.

When I was in high school, I used to have that same thing where I'd always go to bed 6 hours before I'd need to get up. I probably needed more sleep however. Currently I don't have fixed sleep patterns, but I do force myself to stay up at least 14 hours before going to bed again (I seem to need a lot more sleep than I used to), even if I'm tired. It seems to be something like, if I can't stay up for 14 hours, something must be wrong. Don't know where I got that though.

who sleeps? sleep is a waste of time

jeez i could be plotting world domination with that lost time *Evil Laugh

well sometimes i dont sleep at all, im an insomniac so yeah

i used to do the "lets see how long i can go without sleeping" phase or the "lets see if i can beat last nights time"phase

but now i try to get to sleep around 10:30 ha ha checks time (10:31) but when i get on the net or watch movies the latest id go woul;d be 4 in the morning max, i try alot to sleep before 1 at least

Sleep Patterns

Hmmm, where is that oxymoron thread ?

I need at least 7-8 hours to function normally, although I'm lucky if I get 6 hours on Mon-Fri.
My natural sleep cycle is 2-3am to noon, but I can only do that on the weekend.