How much hours a human being needs rest a day ?
@selvakumar_uth (24)
India
2 responses
@mikesgal4ever1999 (732)
• United States
6 Jul 07
The amount of sleep depends on the person. I usually get between 6-8 hours each day.
@anonymili (3138)
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6 Jul 07
I tend to sleep between 6-7 hours a night usually but mostly feel happy when I manage to get a whole 8 hours (this is very rare though)! Some people would say 6 hours is sufficient for adults whilst others would say we should have at least 7 hours sleep. It varies from person to person. Older people may need less sleep, my dad is over 70 and sleeps about 5 hours a night and is happy with that...!
A quote from a Daily Telegraph article from 1998: "The Victorians regarded sleep as an indulgence to be frowned upon. Sleeping beyond eight hours a night was thought to indicate idleness or an all-too-adequate private income. Some 50 years earlier, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was not a good sleeper, had advocated 'six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool,' reflecting the common view that around seven hours was adequate. There could be a grain of truth in this. At the Sleep Research Laboratory at Loughborough University, our recent study involving 400 men and women, aged 20 to 70 years, sleeping at home, found that women generally slept an average of seven-and-a-half hours daily, about 15 minutes longer than men." this article made me chuckle @ 8 hours for a fool, if we believe this, then many of us are fools!
@anonymili (3138)
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6 Jul 07
Oops I put my response in the wrong place!
I tend to sleep between 6-7 hours a night usually but mostly feel happy when I manage to get a whole 8 hours (this is very rare though)! Some people would say 6 hours is sufficient for adults whilst others would say we should have at least 7 hours sleep. It varies from person to person. Older people may need less sleep, my dad is over 70 and sleeps about 5 hours a night and is happy with that...!
A quote from a Daily Telegraph article from 1998: "The Victorians regarded sleep as an indulgence to be frowned upon. Sleeping beyond eight hours a night was thought to indicate idleness or an all-too-adequate private income. Some 50 years earlier, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was not a good sleeper, had advocated 'six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool,' reflecting the common view that around seven hours was adequate. There could be a grain of truth in this. At the Sleep Research Laboratory at Loughborough University, our recent study involving 400 men and women, aged 20 to 70 years, sleeping at home, found that women generally slept an average of seven-and-a-half hours daily, about 15 minutes longer than men." this article made me chuckle @ 8 hours for a fool, if we believe this, then many of us are fools!
