I average around 6 hours/night. That's just what I've grown accustomed to and function well. If I sleep much longer I wake up with a headache.

I've been to bed at 11:30 Pm and up at 4:30 Am 5 days a week for the last 30 years. Looking forward to My retirement Very soon !

(02-09-2017 09:48 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  I've been to bed at 11:30 Pm and up at 4:30 Am 5 days a week for the last 30 years. Looking forward to My retirement Very soon !

Yep, I'm an early riser as well. Amazing how much I can get done before most people are even awake.

(02-09-2017 09:48 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  I've been to bed at 11:30 Pm and up at 4:30 Am 5 days a week for the last 30 years. Looking forward to My retirement Very soon !

11 to 5 for me...33 years. I walk into the mill at 6:15 every AM.

I know people who can thrive on 4-5 hours of sleep. But the people who do that are typically not very long lived. There's a magic number for number of times your heart beats before you typically die -- and it tends to even hold across species. This is why a hummingbird doesn't live very long ... the heart is running at Mach 3. Those who sleep longer have a lower basal metabolic rate and thus a lower baseline pulse. So they're trading more hours awake now for more years alive later.

(02-09-2017 12:45 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I know people who can thrive on 4-5 hours of sleep. But the people who do that are typically not very long lived. There's a magic number for number of times your heart beats before you typically die -- and it tends to even hold across species. This is why a hummingbird doesn't live very long ... the heart is running at Mach 3. Those who sleep longer have a lower basal metabolic rate and thus a lower baseline pulse. So they're trading more hours awake now for more years alive later.

I'd like to sleep longer, but I just can't. I'm a light sleeper so any little noise wakes me up. Once that happens I'm awake so no use trying to get back to sleep.