Does anyone regularly get 9 hours sleep a day or more?

Oversleeping is just as bad as undersleeping. I hope this clarifies the matter.

I wish.

It's not very often I don't get a full 8 hours sleep, at the weekends it's usually a bit longer.

Yes.  I took early retirement in 2006 and have not used an alarm clock since.
You need 8.5 hours average a day.
Do not believe anyone who says the only sleep 4,5,6 hours a night.
You would be unable to function is you built up a big sleep deficit.

Can't sustain the 4 hours a night sleep, after a good few weeks or even a couple of months you'd be too tired to get up, I've tried it over a decent period and eventually I was sleeping through the alarm clock and sleeping for 8 sometimes 9 hours.

My health was poor on 4 hours or less couldn't really function properly and was constantly stressed though I partly blame drinking back then as i drank to de-stress and the cycle continued

I can do 8 hours comfortably. I have great sympathy for insomniacs. An insufferable condition. We all need respite from life and sleep is certainly mine.

Its not the quantity its the quality of sleep that matters.  There is no one size fits all.  I would feel better with 6 hours of quality sleep ie deep no dream than 8 hours with less time in deep sleep.

6/7 hours plenty for anyone ,survive on 5  ,I usually wake up once or twice a Night

only when trawling these forums

I am like kincsem, I rarely use an alarm clock and just get up when I wake up and do not feel tired.  If I am still sleepy I go back to sleep.

I think it is very important not to use an alarm clock, the sudden alarm call is like you are being attacked by animals and can do your heart no good.

I rarely use an alarm clock and just get up when I wake up and do not feel tired.

There speaks a lady of leisure.

Agree with the no alarm clock thing I don't know if it's psychosomatic or not but I seem to sleep better now I don't have to use one

I think we're designed to get up when it's light. So in the winter we should sleep at lot longer.

I hate having to get up at 6 in the winter.

If i find it hard to sleep i lie right on the edge of the bed, and i soon drop off

If I get six hours solid sleep I've had a result. Sleep with one of those breathing machines to keep my airways open.

Is that true?^^^

I thought they were for the morbidly obese and sleep apnia sufferers?
I've seen athletes in those oxygen tents

Well Denzil it's fxxking safe to assume I'm not an athlete hope that narrows down the options left for you

On a more serious note I've seen a documentary on sleep apnia it's a very dangerous condition

Lucky Sod
12 Mar 18 21:00

If i find it hard to sleep i lie right on the edge of the bed, and i soon drop offWink


plagiarist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hhzk2J1eS0

The sleep apnea bit off the documentary

I nearly died from it Denzil

On shift work here normally somewhere between 5-6 if on easrly shift and 6-7 if on lates normally 6-7 if no work
when on the early will often have a 20-30 min nap in afternoon

ufcdan
12 Mar 18 22:11
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I nearly died from it Denzil Sad

What a way to find out you had it

power nap 4 -5

at some point in time it became uncool to sleep. it's almost like a badge of honour "i only get 4 hours sleep a night." who is honestly working 20 hours a day. after 16 hours of being awake your brain cells start to destroy themselves. there's nothing "cool" about not getting 8 hours sleep a night. it's absolutely fundamental to good health.

read a book called REST by alex soojung-kim. he talks about how the most successful people in the world get adequate sleep and also take daily naps to improve their mental and physical health.

book is here

https:// www.amazon.co.uk/ Rest-More-Done-When-Work/dp/0241217288/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&q...

book link
http://amzn.to/2FMkOI4

B_M, you posted this at 2.25am

Do you have difficulty sleeping or are you in a different timezone?

I have no trouble getting enough sleep. I often go to bed at 9.00pm and stay there for 12 hours

I read my Kindle at night for an hour or so, then, in the morning I wake up at 6.45 and have a cup of tea in bed, another read and then I tinker on my iPad until it's time to get up.

On my two work days I have to drag myself out of bed at 8.30. It's a hard life.

No work this week tho', because it's Cheltenham!

you do chronic insomniacs a great dis-service by claiming 4 hrs sleep /night is a myth. It is not.

9 is too much but I regularly get 8, it's why I'm so beautiful

In ye olden days it was apparently common to sleep 4 hours twice a day, and the 8 hour solid is a more recent invention?
Some people recommend that you do that - sleep 4 hours twice as it's more natural.

I can't sleep for more than seven hours. I can wake up at 6am on a Saturday and Sunday and never get back to sleep.

I always have an hours kip Fri-Sun about 12pm/1pm. That might not help, but I do feel well refreshed once I've realised where I am, and what day it is!

Mar 12, 2018 -- 4:00PM, Lucky Sod wrote:

If i find it hard to sleep i lie right on the edge of the bed, and i soon drop off

I get 7-10 hours a night and 9 hours is not a rarity at all, however; I also suffer from dropping off (will have to try LS's advice), but once gone heaven only knows how many hours I'm going to get. I do find I feel at my best between 7 and 8 though.

Makybe_Diva • March 13, 2018 9:24 AM GMT
B_M, you posted this at 2.25am

Do you have difficulty sleeping or are you in a different timezone?

haha well spotted. i am a chronic insomniac since i was a teenager, always stay up after midnight, my body clock is possibly on LA time at the moment although i was up at 830 GMT this morning so I shall be tired pretty soon .  i usually hate getting up early, it's one of the reasons i work for myself now ;)

socially the 8 hours sleep at night makes perfect sense, we are animals that live during the day so the night-time is a great chunk where we can get all of our rest in. 2x 4-hour sleep chunks would bother me... i do advocate an afternoon nap though, it worked for winston churchill ....

Churchill was probably half-cut through the day tbf.

Thanks for the explanation B_M. I don't like afternoon naps. Although having 12 hours in bed means I don't really need them.

I've been up since 6.30 this morning and I'm still up!

I'm feeling like a zombie right now. Will have an extra long lie in tomorrow 

I had about an hour an half at 8 till 9:30 tonight now god knows when ill nod off again.

Churchill had his bottle of Pol Roger delivered by his butler at 11am every day.

He said about Champagne... "In success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it."

He also said more generally....."Dinner would have been splendid, if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess."

was churchill loaded?

Is there any reason Roger delivered it by his butler. Could have saved a few quick and cut out the middle man?

blackbarn

Callisto-moon
I had about an hour an half at 8 till 9:30 tonight now god knows when ill nod off again.

he could put a glass eye to sleep.

usually 5-8 myself depending on need

chav the ****

Physical inactivity is the enemy of a good nights sleep.
Insomniacs should always consider taking regular exercise as their first option.
A late meal sometimes helps.

Medication can also ruin your sleep.

Drinking is another drawback for a good nights sleep. You drop off easily enough, but wake up after a few hours then can't get back to sleep.
Some people say this condition is the result of not having had enough to drink!
Although I'm not too sure about that.

for the past few days, well over a week now, I have had to lie on the floor to sleep

its ok, I have sleep in other places, a park bench in st james park
the police woke me

i got one of them microwave beds for christmas

you get a full nights sleep in 20 minutes

hurt my back and can only get to sleep on the floor now !

All the sympathy in the world for back sufferers

I always read a book and that helps to fall asleep

I was reading one last night. It was called- The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

its a true story about Russian conjoined twins Masha and Dasha

Isnt that a strange coincidence, its true

thanks denzil

Definitley true peace of mind is priceless for sleep in my experience

Should've said 'empty' mind or head I've never been able to sleep with anything however trivial on my mind

I just turned randomly to a page just now and it said "Bad Dreams-Good Life. Good Dreams -Bad Life

page 83, haven't got as far as that in the story...
but isn't it strange that I just opened at that page,
very strange honestly,

'The power of coincidence' That turned into my catchphrase

what would be the chances of opening up the book and glancing at that page and that sentence just now ? its funny

ah, just checked to see what Bad Dreams - Good Life . Good Dreams - Bad Life meant

One of the conjoined twins is able to sleep  and the other cannot
one has bad dreams and her sister tells her this to console her
Must be an old Russian saying, isn't that nice?

lfc1971
I was reading one last night. It was called- The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

Well if that's the criterion you'd probably give Rip Van Winkle a run for his money.