How many hours of sleep do you need?

our body really needs 8 hours or more

it depends on how tired i am.... i think i usually get around 7-8 hours of sleep a day. i used to only get around 4 hours and that was enough. although i feel so much better now getting those 4 extra hours of sleep. just because you feel like your not tired doesn't mean you aren't. i can see how people can sleep for 8 hours. I LOVE sleeping..... it feels so freaking good to sleep sometimes. i love it when i'm so tired and just pass right out and sleep hard. i end up waking up the next morning feeling so refreshed.

Its hard for me to get 8 hours of sleep now. There's always things to do. If i can get at least 7 hours sleep, I consider myself lucky!HAHA. But then if I don't get enough sleep, I feel tired, sleepy through work.When I am both sleepy and tired, I tend to be clumsy.

I need 8-10 hours sleep at night to pass a day.

Unlike some people, I don't need just 5 hours of sleep- I can work on only 2. Because I get very busy during the day and night, I get very little sleep. I am used to it, though. I've been getting less than 8 hours of sleep since I graduated high school in 2003. I do understand that for some it's not healthy, but sometimes you just can't change it.

i know i don't get 8 hours of sleep a night! i probably could, if i put the kids to bed a bit earlier and went to sleep almost right after they did. but then there would be no time for my husband and i. also, i work 4 nights out of the week and don't usually get home on those nights until around 11. by the time i get home i am usually so wound up from work still that i cannot go right to bed. i end up staying up for a while on the computer or reading or watching tv. but that is also the only time of day that i really have to myself, since my husband doesn't stay up too late with me. usually i can function fine. it may take awhile to get myself up and going, but i am usually fine with about 5 hours of sleep. would i like to get more? sure... who wouldn't? lol but with 2 kids and more to come someday, i have resigned myself to the fact that i will not be getting a decent night's sleep until they are moved out of the house! :)

People tell me I need eight hours of sleep, but I've never slept eight hours in my life. Well, maybe twice. I have spasms that wake me up in the middle of the night so I usually average about three to four hours at once. Then, I go back to sleep for another two or three. This is my average and I seem to be doing pretty okay.

Hi! From what I know, 8 hours of sleep is needed by younger kids and adolescents. Of course, babies sleep much more (like almost the whole day) because that's what they need. As we get older, the hours of sleep that we require every night lessens. During old age, we actually sleep the least. If you would notice, grandparents often wake up very early (sometimes at the wee hours) in the morning. The amount of sleep we need is based on need. Some people sleep less during the weekdays and sleep more during the weekends to keep up with the hours' loss of sleep. I am 41 and very busy at my job as a teacher, and 4 hours of sleep is the best for me.

i know i dont get enough sleep. i dont sleep terribly soundly or as soundly as i should. most mornings i wake up and still am pretty exhausted. i do get about 8 hours though, but it doesnt feel like it.

I do not think that the sleep of eight hours is required by all the people. I am of the opinion that it depends on an individual's nature as to how much sleep is required by him or her. I have an experience of being quite okay with a sleep of just 5 hours constantly for more than ten days. However, I feel that the nature of work you are engaged in plays important part in deciding how much sleep is required by you. I had this cut out sleep during the time I was overloaded with some table work. The work did not require lot of mental stress and so I had to just keep doing the similar type of job for so many hours. At the same time I also had some free time to get myself refreshed. So I could do with this much sleep. Another very important thing about sleep for me is that the nature of sleep. If I have sound sleep for about five to six hours, I think that it is enough for me.

I really value my sleep well but sadly, I can't get my desired hours of sleep which is 8 hours or more. I have shifting skeds at work and usually I only get 4 or 5 hours of sleep. I can still function though but I can still feel that I need to recharge more. 8 hours of sleep is what I really want to have. Every time I sleep, I always yearn for that 8 hours but at times, I easily get distracted leaving me only shorter hours of sleeping time.

gangus2 - hi. I can go three or four days on as little as 4 hours sleep. I can stay awake for 48 hours if I have to. I like sleeping. When life is normal, I sleep somewhere around 8 hours, but I'm never rested, no matter how much or how little sleep I have. It's sad that people don't have time for sleeping. What kind of crazy world is this? travel lightly, anawar out

For me a perfect night is 5.5 to 6 hours. Anything more than that I feel like somebody has kicked me across a football field. I normally try to be in bed around midnight and I wake up automatically between 5:30 am and 6, everyday 7 days a week.

I want to have more than 8 hours, but unfortunitely, I can only get 6 hours for sleep!

I need 8 hours of sleep a night. if I don't get this, I'm not very good at my job, and I get worn out really easily. Also, since I drive a lot, it would be dangerous for me to be sleepy. I don't see why I should try to function on less.

i really need 7 hours of sleep. but sometimes i happens that i could manage only about 5-6 hurs and thats also fine with me but as for a person he needs a 7 hours sleep. but one thing what i reaslise is i cant sleep more and if it happened and get up morning i feel bodypain and tired and if its lesser sleep than i feel more sleepy and i dont feel like getting up from bed. but 4-5 hours sleep is really very less and i dont know how you manage it.

Personally, I feel that if I get eight hours of sleep, I feel exhausted when I wake up the next morning. But if I get five or six hours of sleep, I wake up in the morning feeling refreshed. At least that's what my experience has been. The number of hours a sleep a person should have in a given night should go according to the individual person, in that everybody's body type and system is different. Keola 12

i dont like sleep to much and i sleep only four and five hour in one day. and i try to good use of my time so we dont sleep to much and but we should proper rest.and try to fit because its will be god for our helth i try to fit but many time then i dont fil good then i take some mpre sleep

I usually take 8 hours of sleep. When doing nothing, I sleep more than that. I love sleeping, in fact it is one of my hobbies. Below 5 hours of sleep, I feel like I'm deprived of my right to regenerate my strength.

guys! sleep is important, we need at least 8 hrs of sleep a day in studying, but because of our generation today is more in hanging up with friends or maybe jamming to them thats is why some of teenager sleep at 4 hours a day base of what i see in environment that i grown up.!! and i'm one of them. im always hanging with my friends everyday and also i have a job on line jobs that similar from call center but we more in grave yard or coder.!!i sleep a 4 hours a day and i always budgeting my hours. and also i'm studying nigth before my work..i have two kids to manage, i'm single dad.. and some people say that i'm the perfect father.. ! is that so..