How Much Sleep Do You Need?
By Angie
@andriaperry (116936)
Anniston, Alabama
July 24, 2018 9:25am CST
I just go up and I feel so tired. I was beeped awake because I have to get going a couple hours earlier today.
I usually get my eight hours of sleep and I feel fine, but last night I let time get away from me, I turned the light off at 2 am.
I finished canning the blackberries, got a total of eight pints of whole berries for pies, mostly. I have saved enough juice for two more batches of jelly, that is usually ten jars and I will be done with blackberries for this year. Home canning last as long as tin can foods, four years.
I had a hot bath, soaking way to long.
Then I got into a book, that always gets those extra hours.
I sure hope I "wake" up more because today will be on of those days I will find out how the next three months of my life will be like.
Have a wonderful day!
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@Marilynda1225 (82807)
• United States
24 Jul 18
I try to get between 7&8 hours. My days of staying up past midnight are long gone.
Hope your day brings good things
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
24 Jul 18
Thank you. I have never been a morning person.
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@allknowing (136601)
• India
24 Jul 18
I will not trade my sleep for anything in the world. I get my 7 to 8 hours. Even if we have guests they are left to fend for themselves.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
I agree! Let them cook breakfast.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
24 Jul 18
My fitbit says I only get about 4.5 hours of good sleep a night, I do feel tired, I need at least 6 or 7.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
I need one of those things, I want to know what it thinks about my habits.
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@jstory07 (139725)
• Roseburg, Oregon
25 Jul 18
@andriaperry I can not sleep any longer. Sometimes I sleep until nine over the weekends. It was from years of working graveyard and going home getting the kids ready for school and than cleaning the kitchen and finally going to sleep.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
@jstory07 Wow, I guess your body got used to it.
@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
24 Jul 18
I wish I could do a schedule, with Tony being sick some night I wake at 2 am, or 4 am to go and give him meds, he coughs a lot.
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@Juliaacv (51027)
• Canada
24 Jul 18
@andriaperry That's why we only go out late at on rare occasions, it takes too much out of me. And then I'm an old sour puss the next day
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@GardenGerty (160713)
• United States
25 Jul 18
I do not function well late at night anymore, so I seldom make it past eleven. Nine is better. Is there any chance you will get a nap?
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@GardenGerty (160713)
• United States
25 Jul 18
@andriaperry I would have really been dragging then.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
Nope, no nap. I didnt get home till after 6 om.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Jul 18
AT least, you can make up for your lost sleep because you are a stay at home mom. 
Me, I can't one weekdays.
I always only have about 6 hours of sleep. That's because I will feel sleepy only when it's 11:00 in the evening. but have to get up at 5:30 a.m. to prepare for work. I feel sleepy at work and would always yawn.
Since, I eat an early lunch at 10:00 -10:15 our snack time, I would use our one- hour lunch break's 15 minutes for napping. That will at least reinvigorate me.
Me, I can't one weekdays.
I always only have about 6 hours of sleep. That's because I will feel sleepy only when it's 11:00 in the evening. but have to get up at 5:30 a.m. to prepare for work. I feel sleepy at work and would always yawn.
Since, I eat an early lunch at 10:00 -10:15 our snack time, I would use our one- hour lunch break's 15 minutes for napping. That will at least reinvigorate me.1 person likes this
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
28 Jul 18
@andriaperry You are so busy indeed having those things in your hand. Be easy on yourself please.
@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
I am not a stay at home mother, I don`t even have children. I am a 24/7 caregiver to a 61 year old man, cousin, in remission with lung cancer. I am a full time landlady and I am launching an online store in a couple months.
Its rare I get to nap.
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@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
25 Jul 18
@andriaperry I am very glad to be back on a more normal sleep cycle now that teacher workdays are less than 2 weeks away.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
That is expected.I am glad you are better.
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@JESSY3236 (19941)
• United States
24 Jul 18
I usually need at least 8 hours. I had a nightmare last night. Lily, my cat, woke me up meowing thank goodness.
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@GardenGerty (160713)
• United States
25 Jul 18
@JESSY3236 I wonder if she could sense something was wrong. Maybe your blood pressure or blood sugar changed with the bad dream, so the cat got you up.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
@GardenGerty My cat use to do that when I gave her to my sister because I moved, he BF was a diabetic and would wake him when he was crashing.
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@Melanie_Marie (1871)
• New Baltimore, Michigan
25 Jul 18
Hi Andria, I like to sleep about 6 hours and then maybe another 4-6 hours later....so that's 10-12 for me, total.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
How do you work with that sleep pattern?
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@Melanie_Marie (1871)
• New Baltimore, Michigan
25 Jul 18
@andriaperry 
Luckily, I work from home.
I don't think there's one boss out there that would put up with me. I'd be like, "Ummmm.. I need a nappy. So I'm going home now."
Luckily, I work from home.
I don't think there's one boss out there that would put up with me. I'd be like, "Ummmm.. I need a nappy. So I'm going home now."
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@arunima25 (87819)
• Bangalore, India
25 Jul 18
I sleep for 6-7 hours in the night. I am a morning person and my day starts very early at 5 AM. I have a regular nap of 1 hour in the afternoon. So I need an average of 7-8 hours everyday. i can not do without it.
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@arunima25 (87819)
• Bangalore, India
26 Jul 18
@andriaperry Yes, I am a morning bird. I am most active and productive in morning.
@snowy22315 (180920)
• United States
25 Jul 18
I think I could have used a bit more sleep last night too. The little dog decided he needed to sleep with me.and was bouncing around early.
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@wolfgirl569 (106452)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Jul 18
Hopefully things go great today and you can get a nap in also.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
No nap today, I did not get home till after 6 pm.
@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
With a nap, yes I could do 6 hours.
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
24 Jul 18
Canned blackberries sound lovely!
I hope you have extra energy today? What do you mean about next 3 months?
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Jul 18
Tony came back cancer free today, every three months I know what the feal is and how much I work or not. He came back clean again
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