How much sleep do you need or have

I think I need 8-10 hours, a little more than the statistics of others. the main thing is not to stay up too late, otherwise the state is bad

Similar pattern to yours chewbacca, but it's usually for a drink of water and not always a visit to the loo. Then I have to get up at 8.30am to let hubby's carers in, some days I just want to stay in bed for another hour uninterrupted.

You lucky lot. I’m envious.
I’m rarely asleep before 1am.
I have to read and listen to the radio until I feel sleepy.

I always wake around 5 or 6am. Try to doze back off until 7or 8am. Then cup of tea in bed,
So, I’m lucky to get 5 or 6 hours on a good night.

I haven't had what you would call a good night's sleep for many years. I fall asleep fairly quickly but can't stay asleep for long. I have a series of naps, an hour or so at a time,totalling 5hours at most a night ,if I'm lucky. I'm always tired and sometimes doze off watching TV ,but only for 10minutes or so. So envious of people who can stay asleep all night

I don't sleep! Well of course I DO, but
It takes me about 2 hrs to 'drop off' no matter how early or late I go to bed, if I read I do feel sleepy but by the time I've put the book down and turned off the light I'm wide awake again.
I need pain medication every 4 hrs but am usually awake again after 3hrs waiting for my next 'fix', and then there's the loo - so I'm lucky if I get 4 to 5 hours a night.
I'm tired when I wake up but after a cup of tea I feel fine and ready to go so I don't fret about it.

Around 7 or 8 hrs. I go up to bed about 10 and use my tablet to catch up on tv programmes that DH doesn't watch. Sometimes I manage a whole programme or even two and sometimes I am asleep befor the end of the first one. I usually wake up around 7 am and by 7.30 need to get up for a wee. As the bathroom is downstairs I stay up then and have a cup of tea. I can never nap during the day.

I sleep very inconsistently - sometimes a good 6 hrs and sometimes as little as 3 hours. I am working in a very stressful job which is deadline led, however, I manage somehow and generally return home exhausted.
I've tried numerous supplements to help with my sleep as well as meditation. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't!!!
I ensure that I have lots of exercise by going to the gym and dog walking. My lifestyle is healthy but sadly my sleeping pattern is not.
Here's hoping that once I retire I will be able to unwind and relax which may reflect on my sleep.

What's sleep?

Go to bed about midnight. Use my Kindle for reading usually manage about half an hour before it lands in my face. Sometimes manage about 4 hours before waking, have another little read the hooefully manage anotge 3 or 4 hours. Some nights I'm awake until 4 or 5 am before nodding off. These days I feel fine until about 8 at night when tiredness creeps in. Stick it out until about 11 pm and then I manage a good 6 hours. No two nights are the same.

I average about 5 hours, usually from 10.30pm to 4 30 am and can get about another 90 minutes, usually from around 6.30 to 7pm. I feel I would benefit more from sleeping straight through to about 7 pm which would give me 7/8 hours straight but don't stress about it by always having a good book by the bed. DH is very tolerant of the light coming on and sleeps much better. Even though he gets up several times to the loo every night, he's asleep more often than not, a soon as his head hits the pillow..

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The menopause has scuppered a good nights sleep. Insomnia, joint pain and of course night sweats are stopping me getting any decent sleep. I nod off after reading about 11pm, but by 1am I'm awake and it continues all night long. I would just love to fall asleep every night and not waken until 7am.

Havent described my sleep habits:I usualy go to bed about midnight have difficulty dropping off, it takes at least an hour and a half to do this, I have arthritis in my shoulders, and left hip,making it difficult to lie anywhere, when I do get off to sleep I have broken sleep, due to pain and discomfort and I dream these vivid dreams.I could sleep all morning but try to get up by nine o clock, I try to have seven hours sleep,eight is marvellous, but pain killers never last as they are supposed to.

I need 9 hours

Calandergirl,how pleased I was to read your answer today,I have very vivid dreams not nighmares, but when I waken I dont know if they are real or not, this is very disturbing, but you say Statins can cause this, I am on them, if only it was so simple, thank you, I shall talk to my Doctor and hope at last I will be able to have a nights sleep without these vivid dreams. Thank you.

I'm more use after 7 hrs which I was getting until a health issue crept up on me. Saturday night I had 2 hours - that was getting to sleep after 6 am!! Often it will be 3 am. I can't get up or the dog decided she wants a wee outside whatever the weather.
Trying hard to get back to my 7 hours!!

I go to bed about 9.00 and watch TV or read until about 10.00. I normally drop off quickly and until recently slept until 7.00 - 8.00.

More recently I have some worries about one of my children and although I drop off at the same time, I’m waking between 3.00-4.00am for quite a while. My head is busy turning things over and getting back to sleep for any length of time is rather challenging although I do usually manage another couple of hours.

I’m hoping that the issues could be resolved to some degree but I may have to just live with it. Getting back to a regular sleep pattern would help as well.

Like you I need at least 8 hours, I go to sleep as soon as I'm in bed and don't get up but I am a night owl and always have been. Some years ago I was diagnosed with sleep apnoea (my partner at the time said I used to stop breathing and he used to be waiting for me to start again) . Apparently I wasn't bad enough to give any treatment but it sounds like the lack of oxygen can make you feel tired how ever many hours you get. Thinking back I was never good on a morning so think it has always been a problem. There's no one to tell me now if I am still the same but it concerns me sometimes as it says sleep apnoea can sometime impact on other illnesses.
At the end of the day I think you sleep as long as you need to and at least now I'm not working don't have to set the alarm unless I'm going anywhere (which is most days at the moment). I always seem to wake after about 8 hours regardless of what time I go to bed.

I am a long term insomniac. I tend to have 6 to 8 weeks of insomnia followed by 4 to 6 weeks of sleeping quite well. I am currently - and blissfully - in a sleep period! I go to bed, read a bit then snuggle down and sleep. I have to get up to go to the loo once, usually, then go back to sleep. I've turned off all and any alarms and can sleep through till 8.30am if I'm lucky. All my working life I got up at 5.30 to 6am so this is luxury!! Insomniac periods will see me going to bed at 11, snuggling down, reading a bit, possibly falling asleep for about half an hour, then getting up again if I can't get back to sleep after half an hour. Those nights are spent reading, watching TV, sometimes doing something useful like cleaning out cupboards, entertaining the cat, surfing the net. I have tried everything over the years including heavy duty sleeping tablets, but nothing worked, and prescription medication made me feel awful all day. So I have given in gracefully. I thoroughly enjoy my sleeping weeks and don't worry any more about the insomniac periods. I can always snooze in the afternoon in front of the TV pretending to watch something silly - so glad I've got Netflix and Prime!!

We go to bed around 12.30 ani i usually read til around 2am then get up around 6.30 ish. Sometimes have a nap after lunch

I usually go to bed at about 1 am, go to sleep after about half
and hour, wake up for the bathroom at 3 or 4, and sometimes once more. I'm usually awake by about 7 but wont get up
until 8. Last night ( freezing night) my humane mouse trap caught a mouse at 3 am and I took it out by car to a field about a mile away. I let it out into a corner and turned around to get back in the car only to slip on the ice and fall heavily. It was difficult to get up due to the ice and I fell twice more. Finally managed to get up, got back in car, drove home, and discovered that not only was my nightie covered in mud, also my coat and shoes, but my legs and hands were also heavily muddied. I had to get into the shower to clean off and then had to get a clean nightie. During this palaver I discovered that my hand and knee were cut and bleeding, and various parts were bruised. I managed to finally get to bed about an hour later. Woke up at about 8 this morning to feel aches and pains everywhere. Oh well, I survived, and probably the poor mouse froze to death... humane trap my foot!

I hope it works as well for you as it does for me, JanetE
Mine are for sleep, anxiety and depression problems.
I don't know much about magnesium, but good luck with that.
Fibromyalgia is horrible.

I go to bed at about 2 in the morning, read for varying periods of time. I wake up at about 6 for a wee, and again at about 9. I do that for a while and then find I sleep through til about 11. You'd think I'd feel more refreshed on those days but I feel even more wrecked than usual. I'd love to be an early bird at both ends of the day but if I go to bed early, I find I just can't get back to sleep when I wake up at about 4 in the morning until just before the alarm goes off.
My children were really good sleepers as children but my grandaughter is as bad as I am.

Henetha I have just started on 10mg Amitriptyline ( sleep and fibromyalgia problems) I do hope it helps.
I am interested if anyone else has tried magnesium that helped sleep and what type/ brand.

I too have sleep envy! I've never been the best sleeper, even as a child I often lay awake most of the night. Nowadays 5-6 hours is a really good night. I also have fibromyalgia & apparently I wake during non REM sleep and therefore don't have enough slow wave sleep.