Are You Sleeping Well?

I answered 6-8 on average, but it's, like, 5 hours on a workday, 12 hours on a day off, so not exactly healthy.

I'm unemployed, and my studies timetable is really lenient (I study in the evenings, and this suits me perfectly); together with a nice combo of an antidepressant and an antipsychotic this usually leads to a healthy 9-hours-long sleep. Without meds it's about 4-5 hours of sleep per night for me, and I don't mean continuous sleep, of course. And let's not even talk about periods of actual insomnia back when I left my depression untreated, compared to it regular 4-5 hours of sleep were pure bliss.

Is it sleep time?
6 hours is a guide.
The reality is unstable, such as 3 hours or 14 hours.

Take a close look at the lighting lights at AM7-8.🌅🔦
Probably, solar power will be generated and human beings will start to move.⚡

PS I just received the impact of 30km / h, so I may not wake up when I sleep.⛄🚗ﾐ　
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I can never quite tell if my sleep is good or not, but yesterday I went to bed before 10pm. As expected, doing so has me wake up in the middle of the night, but I was too tired at the time to keep going. I initially wanted to go around 7:30 already XD

On regular work week nights I go to bed between 11pm and midnight, and my alarms go off at 6 and 7 respectively. on weekends at 8, gotta sleep in a tiny bit at least right? Although I think a big factor as to why my sleep doesn't always equate to rest is a) I actually lack a proper, mattressed bed and b) laying wide awake with worry. But that's par for the course, right?

Would like it to be 7, but I'd say around 5 and half is more realistic. Working on making it 6 and a half and hopefully by the end of the year being able to sleep 7 and more hours again.

I sleep okay, but uh, entirely nocturnally. Sleep procrastination plus unemployment is a hell of a thing. Any time I don't have a schedule to keep, I quickly gravitate back towards those blissful witching hours. Trying to break out of it by setting a million loud alarms just puts me into a cycle of mashing the snooze button until its dark again. Willpower is for the... uh... wilful.

I mean its not very 'nourishing' sleep to get it in random chunks of 10-40 minutes at a time, depending on if its snooze button or manual reset, but it does wonders for how vivid my dreams are :P

Usually try to get at least 7-8 hours. But usually it turns out to be less then 6.. Tonight I slept for 5 at most
Having bunch of stuff to do really takes a toll. Adding to that I like te read a book before going to sleep, play a game now and then and theres no time at all in the end.. Add some stress and not being able to fall asleep for an hour or two...

January is a bit frantic, hoping things calm a bit in February when all the deadlines will be gone.

Usually i sleep 5 hous a day, 6 when i am really tired. I think since high school (17 years ago) i can't sleep more than 6 hours with few exceptions.

6-7 hours, the cat likes my side of the bed too, so I am not always comfortable, and wake up a few times. :/

I sleep for around 8 hours usually. Sometimes up to 10, and never less than 6. Doesn't matter if it's a workday or a holiday.

kinda. i'm still trying to fix my sleep. hope you rested well for the weekend though!

I have always been a bad sleeper. And I mean since I was like 5. Life long anxiety issues will do that, I'm told.
Of course, night shifts on a semi-regular basis (until 2020, the enforced unpaid vacation year) didn't help the matter but I try to sleep when I feel sleepy and get as much as my brain will allow. Then I wake and play or read or interact with others, and go for more sleep when the schedule allows.
My doctor tells me it's not ideal but hey I've been trying for years to adhere to a "normal" sleep schedule and the only thing that happens is a lot of time wasted in bed waiting for sleep to happen. I sleep more if I get in bed when sleep calls.

May I ask what you do for a living that has you on those terrible night weekend shifts?

Well I usually go to sleep between 1 or 2 am, to wake up at 7.30 so, I don't get much sleep.
Mostly it's because of my work and that I try to avoid doing my homework as much as possible to play, because I have very stressful days and when I come back home I don't want to work(so I have to do it after or all at once), or if I do I don't want to sleep because I didn't play. So, maybe it's a problem about games, I don't really know.
I do my best to sleep early but it's very rare that I sleep before midnight.

If you have often sleeping troubles, you should seek medical assistance. It can be many different things, from stress in a limited time, to permanent medical condition.
For my part I was always very, very, very tired every morning and at some moments in day (mostly after lunch), and I was waking up numerous times in a night (take a pee, have a glass of water, etc). Finally I got my sleep monitored one night (at home, with a medical device from a sleep specialist): it appeared that I was suffering sleep apnea. Since that I'm sleeping with a air pressure device and my troubles are gone.

You can still sleep 8 hours, even 10 and not sleep "well". I had such an event of 2 nights of 2 hours sleep a few weeks ago and felt better then most nights after 8 or more hours of sleep, i am at home due lockdown so i got the "luxury". But it sucks and i wish i could sleep "normal" and be a "normal" person that can just wake up at 7:00 and go to bed at a normal time, like a "normal" person.

I thought about sleep apnea like the poster above, but i am skinny, so chances would be slim, but maybe still possible, i dunno.
But i always been a night person rather then a morning one, just over the years it got worse, corona isn't helping.

I sleep exactly 8 hours. No such option in the poll.

I wish I wasn't so lazy with going to bed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAijaMl-aqY

I generally sleep around 6 to 8 hours which is fine. My problem is when I sleep which consistently got worse during this pandemic period. These days I usually go to bed at 5:00 - 6:00 A.M. and wake up at 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. which is a pretty messed up sleeping schedule which I am not proud of.

Choosed 6-8 hours as the first commenter, but am kinda in the same situatuion. When I am working, I sleep from 0-6 hours (before my first morning shift I usually cant sleep at all, dont have this problem with consecutive days and night shifts). On my days off I sleep around 10-12 hours, but I am fairly sure that long term sleep-deficit is a big factor at that.
Before I started working full time and had relative freedome at university, I slept around 8-10 hours. So I suspect my sleep-necessity might be a bit higher than the average 8 hours.
I take adjusting to night shifts more easily tbh, I am more of a night person. I have to convince myself to go to bed before midnight. And I have to kick myself out of bed at 4:30 AM to get to work.
Thats the worst part. Waking up that early. I swear if only that would be avoidable, I would feel much, MUCH better about it.

I work Monday through Friday, have to get up at 5:00 AM and sleep 5 to 5.5 hours on those nights. On weekends I sleep about 10 hours a night. Before sleeping I read for about 30min on week nights, no reading before sleep during the weekend. I easily fall asleep and have no trouble waking up and starting my days right away. Might not be the healthiest schedule from what I read, but it works for me... and has for years.

usually i sleep pretty well. problem is: when i get up i often feel like run over by a truck for 1 or 2 hours. after that i'm fine and i can go till 4 am, 5 am or even the whole night without feeling tired or yawning even once. but at some point it's like flipping a switch and i need to get into bed in a hurry because i feel totally wrecked.
and yes, there is some medical stuff that is being worked on and needs to be worked on the future. so we'll see how that goes.

during the christmas holidays i binge-worked at home for almost two weeks to get things under control, tasks done, my messes cleaned up and such things. i didn't want to drag that shit into the new year so for two weeks i was getting as much done as possible and i needed 10 hours of sleep each night to truly feel refreshed and ready for the next day. worked for me just fine and i got it all done but obviously this isn't sustainable or compatible with modern day life.

notes:
studies show that 7 to 9 hours per night is the optimal amout of sleep for a healthy adult. let's just meet in the middle and say 8 hours. obviously this also depends on other factors like age, gender and personal preference.
also it's important to create the right environment for good sleep. make your room as dark as possible (use sleep mask if needed), as quiet as possible (use ear plugs if needed), don't have a messy bedroom (seeing all that work that needs to be done creates stress) and don't use your bed for eating, watching tv, playing with your phone and so on. there are some really good videos on youtube on how to improve your sleep quality and everybody should take a look at at least one of them.

This is also highly related with age groups.