How much do you sleep?

On average, how much sleep to you get per night?

  • 2-3 hours per night

    Votes: 3 0.9%

  • 3-4 hours per night

    Votes: 16 4.6%

  • 4-5 hours per night

    Votes: 38 11.0%

  • 5-6 hours per night

    Votes: 71 20.5%

  • 6-7 hours per night

    Votes: 98 28.2%

  • 7-8 hours per night

    Votes: 87 25.1%

  • 8-9 hours per night

    Votes: 16 4.6%

  • More than 9 hours per night

    Votes: 10 2.9%

  • I don't sleep

    Votes: 5 1.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 0.9%
  • Total voters
    347
wizardofid said:
It is not good period, people that say they are functional with less than 8 hours sleep are talking BS. It has been proven consistently with sleep studies, people with less sleep suffer significant impairment compared to people that at least get 8 hours sleep. Getting less sleep greatly impacts your health too, and puts you at risk for a stroke, heart issues even diabetes. So when they say get 8 hours of sleep they really do mean it. The body is also tied directly to day/cycle, chemical reactions in the body is different during the day and night, specifically to encourage sleep at night and being active during the day.

Just wanted to point that out before people start with I am "fine" with 4 hours sleep BS.
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I work with a few people that sleep very little, always working late at night and up early, but personally I think they are fuelled by adrenaline. Again, I think that's asking for your brain or heart to explode.
 
Check out the “who is still awake thread?” I reckon a lot of people here are lying…
 
wizardofid said:
It is not good period, people that say they are functional with less than 8 hours sleep are talking BS. It has been proven consistently with sleep studies, people with less sleep suffer significant impairment compared to people that at least get 8 hours sleep. Getting less sleep greatly impacts your health too, and puts you at risk for a stroke, heart issues even diabetes. So when they say get 8 hours of sleep they really do mean it. The body is also tied directly to day/cycle, chemical reactions in the body is different during the day and night, specifically to encourage sleep at night and being active during the day.
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That's all true, except some people do naturally have a cycle that tends towards going to bed much later.
 
I average about 5-6 hours, but it's interrupted sleep. I wake up at least 2 times during the night. It's exhausting!!!
 
Nike7 said:

Two hardcore nerds geeking out over sleep. I love it.
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This is classic Huberman. A mix of facts, misleading claims, exaggeration and just good old hogwash.

Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors is a good critique of the book mentioned in the video.
In the process of reading the book and encountering some extraordinary claims about sleep, I decided to compare the facts it presented with the scientific literature. I found that the book consistently overstates the problem of lack of sleep, sometimes egregiously so. It misrepresents basic sleep research and contradicts its own sources.

In one instance, Walker claims that sleeping less than six or seven hours a night doubles one’s risk of cancer – this is not supported by the scientific evidence (Section 1.1). In another instance, Walker seems to have invented a “fact” that the WHO has declared a sleep loss epidemic (Section 4). In yet another instance, he falsely claims that the National Sleep Foundation recommends 8 hours of sleep per night, and then uses this “fact” to falsely claim that two-thirds of people in developed nations sleep less than the “the recommended eight hours of nightly sleep” (Section 5).
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The myths created by the book have spread in the popular culture and are being propagated by Walker and by other scientists in academic research. For example, in 2019, Walker published an academic paper that cited Why We Sleep 4 times just on its first page, meaning that he believes that the book abides by the academic, not the pop-science standards of accuracy (Section 14).
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Huberman's talks are always interesting, but people need to stop taking them as gospel. Every video of his I've watched has had plenty of nonsense, tiny studies presented as solid evidence, and so on.
 
Genesistt said:
I average about 5-6 hours, but it's interrupted sleep. I wake up at least 2 times during the night. It's exhausting!!!
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It's quite common to wake up during the night. If you struggle to get back to sleep that can be a problem.
 
The option = other. Someone ticked that. What the heck does that mean? I'm assuming 0 < x < 2? Is that even possible unless you're methd up to the eyeballs? Lol
 
FiestaST said:
5-6 Hours is the sweet spot hey.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1663209577578393601
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I sleep in 3 hour cycles. Get at least 6 during the week to be ok. 9 over the weekends.

If I do the normal 8 hours recommended, I am cranky, however, 6 is oki doki!

I am also a light sleeper, so wake up for the dogs at least once a night, normally twice.

But overall a healthy sleeper, according to me....
 
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