How much sleep do you need!?

Typically people need about 8 hours a sleep a night but in cases where people are overly stressed, active or unificient diet people tend to need more sleep because your body needs to recoop from everything. I would saay its not a veery bad thing if you sleep extened hours every once and while but if its happening all the time you may need to make some adjustments to your life or talk to a doctor

Even though what people say that the average of sleeping time is 7-8 hours or 8-9 hours, if I remember correctly from my readings, sleeping hours is determined by how much your body needed the rest. If you had been in a lot of stress, you body would need a certain amount of compensation of your time to recover back to normal it's normal function. I and my siblings usually sleep for 4-12 hours (if we have no school) or more due to stress from trying to cope up with lessons. So your situation is your body trying to normalize/managing itself to maintain your regular internal functions. My advice: Obey what your body is telling you to maintain good health. Happy MyLotting!

Personally anytime someone wants to sleep continuously like this, is not good. This is usually a sign of Severe depression, and you need some type of meds to help you. I would seriously be talking to your Doctor if this is still happening, and let them know what is going on and see if there is something there that they can give you to help you out. It could also be a sign of other Health problems as well, so hope you have had time to get this checked out.

I think if I quit my job tomorrow, and all other stress (mainly financial) are taken away from me, I would also be able to sleep and sleep and sleep. I think that I have been sleeping less and less that it's really showing through my health. I need some time to heal up. And catch some zzz's.

Wow,I'm so jealous of you!To tell you the truth,I can sleep no more than 5 hours a day!It's so hard for me to go to sleep and it's so easy to wake up at night!I have to manage to have a nap at noon to avoid myself to have a headache,but in fact I can just close my eyes to rest and have never gone to sleep!If I can fall asleep while napping I would rather be late for work!

i usually go to bed at 12:00,and wake up at 12:00,too

Be careful because too much sleep can actually make you feel tired - hence why you want to sleep! I know that before I had a baby, it was often easy for me to sleep in to 10, 11, 12 on the weekends. Then I felt like my whole day was gone! Since I've had a baby, I have to get up around 8-8:30 every day because that's when she gets up. Now I've learned that I can actually get a lot more done and be very awake all day! I read that before about getting too much sleep, so now I try not to sleep LONGER but instead try to sleep BETTER. Focus on getting good sleep for a shorter period of time rather than lying in bed for 12 hours and I bet you'll feel better.

I need to sleep at least seven hours and that would be great for me. But usually I sleep late, especially when I don't have to go to the office to work. If I have to work the next day, I will try to sleep earlier so that I can have more sleep for my work. This evening I went with my other two colleagues to have a nice dinner in a hotel and then we went to KTV and just came back after twelve. Now it is 0:35. Tomorrow I have to work, so I don't think that I will have enough sleep tonight. Now it is time for me to say Good night to myself. Take care, ladygator.

I find that it will vary. Some nights, I feel as though I need a lot more sleep than other nights. I don't think that it's ever really the same. But that's just me and my sleep patterns and habits.

If you have had a stressful few months, then it makes a lot of sense that your body should want to make up for the hours of sleep that it has missed out on over those months. You should also be aware of the fact that it isn't just the amount of sleep that is important, but also the quality of the sleep that you get. Adults generally need somewhere between seven and eight hours sleep, whereas children might need twelve. New born babies might sleep for up to twenty hours per day (although it doesn't feel like it) and their bodies and brains are still developing at a very dramatic rate.

Wow Lady, you are lucky to be able to have such a long sleeping time without any interruption. How i wish i can have this kind of sleep for a few days. As for me, usually i am only able to sleep for only 5 - 6 hours. Because i have a growing son who will always wake-up in the middle of the night, either wanting to drink or pee. Hopefully, when he is growing older a few more years later, i won't be face with this kind of problem anymore. So, able to enjoy a much longer sleeping hours up to 8 hours per day.

I usually sleeps for 5 hours, but I still feel sleepy so better to have a good sleep at least 7 hours is the best. I don't want to take naps in the afternoon it gives me headache. It depends on our lifestyle how much sleep we have in a day. but, health wise, we need to sleep at least 7-8 hours. Have a good day

Wow that is so much like me. I sleep a lot too and lately have been sleeping a bit too much. For me, I need a minimum 8 hours of sleep a day. If it's less than that then wow my day is surely being a bad one and I keep yawning and feel drowsy all day. And on weekends I sleep for 10 hours I think.

Wow.. How I wish I could also sleep as much as you could. However, seemed like my internal body clock is not letting me to experience it. The duration of my sleep was 5-10 hours only. It really upsets me everytime I wake up so early in the morning eventhough its my free day or weekend. Even though I am very tired, I still have an early wake up call by my body clock. It also frustrates me whenever I wake up earlier than my alarm clock. hahaha.. it's funny but it's true.

It is conditional. sometimes I can sleep 2 hours a day. but sometimes I spend a whole day sleeping. It depends on how hard I work at that day.