The least amount of sleep?

i have never been a good sleeper. i went to bed last night at eleven & was up by four. i probably wiill lie back down after while. it never has taken as much sleep for me as it does alot of people. good thinh, huh?

I am someone who needs my sleep or I get very cranky (at least my hubby thinks so), which he is probably right. I feel like if I don't get the 8 hours of sleep I can't even think very well and I am just not feeling right all day. I am tired a lot thought even though I get the right amount of sleep most of the time.

I think it all depends on the metabolism, profession and life style of a person to understand the amount of sleep he must have. For me, it would be little above 6 hours, may be 7 hours. I love sleeping but do not get to for daily tasks and the times when i am free I just cannot sleep. I think you cannot prepare yourself to sleep. It happens.

my regular sleeping hours is six. any more than that and i'd get a headache. any less than that and i'd find myself taking a nap in the afternoon. :) but i can still function well even without sleep for the entire day. but i have to make up for the lost sleep by the next day or else i'd go cranky and be senseless and useless the entire following day... -lol-

Yes, me too! I have to have atleast 6 hours of UNINTERRUPTED sleep. If I get woke up then I do not feel rested at all. Sleep is so important. With severe depression sometimes I fall into a cycle of 4 hours of sleep and then I am up for about 4 and then back to sleep. I haven't done this in a while but it can last for several days and makes me no good to acomplish anything.

i can still manage stuffs through even if i only get 3 hours of sleep, i even tried not to sleep during our school encampment because we were task to counts the votes for the newly assigned school leaders. The funny thing about it is that, i even went for a swim after the whole encampment. Hahai, High school stuffs are really fun:)

I have gone days without sleeping, but it wasn't by choice. I have a problem with insomnia. Over the counter medications didn't work, so the doctors had to give me a very high dose of prescription medication to make me fall asleep. Since I don't like having to take meds to fall asleep, I rarely do take them. This results in me getting an average of 4 hours a sleep a night. And I can go a week doing that and function quite well. But every so often I cut one of the sleeping pills in half and take it. With that, I can get about six hours of sleep.

I would really prefer to get 6 hours uninterrupted sleep, I could function nicely on that! I go to bed around 11pm and am up about 7:30am. That sounds like a lot, right? But I toss and turn all night because my joints hurt and sometimes have to get up and walk around awhile. I guess I get about 4-5 hours of broken sleep. I'm always tired. Old age is not for sissies!

Hello... I love to sleep. It makes me feel sooo good. However, when I have tons of deadlines, I can manage without any. Yup, I can work without any sleep if there is something that I really need to attend to. When necessary, I can do with 5hrs quality sleep. But given the chance, I can sleep for more than 8hrs.LOL. Lack of sleep for several days give me a headache. I sleep a lot to avoid migraine attacks as well. I only get deprived of sleep when I really have to. Have a great day! Weng

Like you, I can't function with less than 6 hours of sleep. but I much prefer to get more sleep than that, because I function a lot better with more than 6 hours. However, if I must get only 6 hours, then I must only get six hours, and that's that. I can't do more than that.

6 hours is my limit also. Any less than that and I am in a fog all day. 8 is the best and sometimes even 10.

I think I can still be quite productive with four hours of sleep only. However, any less than that then I'd be a zombie by morning. A six hour sleep is quite normal for me. That's how long I usually sleep - especially when I juggle gym, work, and going out to relax :) Thanks for the response on my discussion!

Ideally I need to sleep eight hours a night I cannot seem to function on less,although having had less sleep it catches up with me.When I was younger sleep was always a necessary part of my life. I am just one of those people who need their sleep.xx

I need at least that amount also. I seems if I can't get the sleep I need that I just fell drained.

i sleep around 6 hours too.. but my minimum would be 4 hours.. anything less than that will make my cranky all day..hehe

Hi UK, I think we may all be different this way. I like to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep, I don't always get it, but I function better. I know people who do quiet well on less than 5 hours and I use to think that it was a age thing but I'm not sure anymore, as some seniors say they need less sleep than when they were younger. I guess it just has to be chalked up to another way in which we are all different. Blessings.

I am quite flexible and I sleep when I feel sleepy and wake up when I have had my sleep quota, I guess. Cheers!!

I usually get somewhere between 4-7 hrs of sleep a night. So I guess the least amount of sleep would be about 3hrs and then I can't function.