Do you sleep less than 6 hours or more than 9?

Sadly I'm the same way. First of all, I've always had a problem with insomnia. Secondly like Careybaird, I'll start working on something and get so involved that I'll stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning.

So, on average I'm only getting about 4 hours a night lately. I really need to get a regular sleep pattern too!

I usually sleep about 7-8 hours a night and feel rested. The times when I get less than that it makes me feel tired all day, and anything longer than 9 hours gives me headaches.

It's not the Quantity its the Quality of Sleep.

I personally think 4-6-hours of sleep are fine. 4-hours of sleep, along with maybe 2-15min-45min (45 minutes is the maximum) power naps.

If you sleep less your body will start to adapt and generate more energy. You can be a lot more productive in the long run.

Especially coming from a business mindset, I'm able to work and study more, while my competitors are sleeping. Money is being made 24/7. Don't get me wrong sleep 4-hours only isn't easy in the beginning.

Nevertheless, learning to tie your shoe in the beginning isn't a cake walk either.

The average person lives until they are 80yrs old. Additionally, the average person sleeps 1/3 of their life away. So pretty much you can calculate how much time you have left to live. So personally, I choose to sleep less.

You can compare sleeping all day ie. (9-hours plus) to charging your cell phone. Charging your cell phone all day does not give your cell phone an infinite charge that is going to last a day longer. When your phone says it done or "Battery full" its done.

In fact I think there are studies where, leaving your cell phone on the charger weakens the battery.
However, the human body is the same way. When you sleep 9- plus hours a day, you in fact weaken your energy supply.

Its the same with the human body. Your body starts producing less energy. Therefore, leading to a "still feeling tired" state when you wake up... We've all been there before you sleep 8-hours plus and still feel tired.

So it's not the quantity of sleep it's the quality of sleep.
REM sleep
There are celebrities and some famous people thought out history
only sleep and slept 4-hours a night ie. (Martha Stewart, Jay Leno, TonyRobbins and Madonna.)
You can see the rest here. Google Answers: Famous 4-hour sleepers

7 to 8 hours evry night. I don't break
this routine. Even on vacation, I'm
just used to this.

I sleep less than 6 hours per day. Even when I was a child I never slept that much. My father even took me to a sleep doctor. My dad was concerned that something was physically wrong with me.

I realized is so beneficial to get a good 8 hours. But, even more importantly, sleep earlier and WAKE earlier! You will feel like your days are longer... unless you are just more of a night person.

I hear that!! Ever since I left War, Iraq, USA...I get usually between 3-6 hours a night, sometimes only a few. Other times i may well sleep for a day almost.

My patterns are too sporadic.

I used to sleep around 6 hours a night when I was working full time and going to school at night. I was constantly exhausted.

Now that has changed and I get right around 8 hours each night. I wake up feeling rested and I am much more relaxed.

I used to sleep less than 6 hours a night for years on end but I was fully rested on that. Now I sleep 8 hours. It was related to my eating habits I think more than anything else. I was pure vegan on the less than 6 hours a night. Now I'm a happy meat eater

I really feel tired if I don't sleep enough. For me that means at least 7 hours of sleep.

I used to stay up working at least 19 hours a day from Monday to Friday, but since I got sick and my Doctor advised me not to get over stressed I now sleep at least 7-8 hours everyday. Ain't worth working hard and cut off 50% of your remaining days on earth. Health is more than just wealth.

I sleep between 5 to 7 hours a night

I usually sleep 7-8 hours and I fell great. If I sleep anything longer most of the time I wake up in terrible mood, thinking that I wasted a lot time. That's why I usually don't sleep more than 9 hours.

my preference is to use intention to always sleep the length of time that optimally balances the satisfaction of my body-mind systems need for rest with the interest of not sleeping more than needed so I have plenty waken hours - I like using the 80-20 rule/ pareto principle as a guideline for that.

The second aspects is doing my best to reduce any unproductive wasting of energy, while living a healthy life and apply practices that can improve sleep quality or fulfill similar functions as sleep in a faster, or more holistically beneficial way (such as deep relaxation during the day and when going to bed to accelerate deep sleep states and get better rest, yoga, meditation, exercise, healthy diet, healthy relationships etc).

Sometimes I function best on 4 hours a night for weeks at a time, sometimes I need 10 hours a night for days at a time, i.e. when I went through much change and need to process and integrate...my primary choice is to let my inner wisdom decide how much sleep is optimal whenever I can...

I would *so* love to be able to do this and not have to worry about insomnia. I keep thinking that maybe someday it will work again for me.

Being able to sleep 8 or 9 hours a night... ANY night, is my goal. Now all I have to do is to find a way to make it happen but I keep coming up blank. Hmmm... Oh well, maybe I'll surprise myself someday.