OT Poll: Amount of Sleep...

[Gandalf Parker]

Randallw said:
thats another thing I can't comprehend. People speak of making do with 4-5 hours of sleep every few days.

I make fun of my mother-in-law saying she is from some alien moon and never got used to Earth hours. She does an entire day in 8 hours. Sleeps, works, etc etc.

Oh and a Clock is uselss. Maybe once a week otherwise I just ignore it, by which I mean it does not even register as a disturbance.

Its been proven often enough (and Ive seen it personally many times) that you either want to get up or you dont. If you want to get up you wouldnt need the alarm, if your trying to sleep then no alarm will help.

[Traskelion]

Wow, I feel like a weakling compared to you oddballs. I sleep about 9 hours average, with a record of 16 hours. The longest no-sleep-straight was 36 hours, which seems to pale in comparison to you wierdos.
I don't know how anyone can live on 4 hours of sleep a day. After 3 days of that, I felt big-time hallucinations. Interestingly enough, I think that loosened my sense of reality or something, 'cause now I get hallucinations if I stay up for only 24 hours in a row.
By the way, when you people mean hallucinations, how much interaction is there? Because I find myself having conversations with people who aren't there, and I don't think that's normal.

But again, my record feels small now thanks to you people. However, I knew someone at the cannery with ADHD, so he got 0-2 (2 more often)hours of sleep for like...2 weeks in a row. He was kinda funny.

P.S. How normal is this: I've seen the words on a comp. game begin to contort and change colors......turned out the game didn't HAVE any words! This was while walking around in Morrowind, then shortly after, I could swear the NPC's in the Mages' Guild started dancing. What kind of things do you people see in your hallucinations?

P.P.S. I disagree Gandalf. Although I will gladly sleep in 'till 11 A.M. if allowed, when my alarm goes off at 7 A.M., I leap outta bed to push the "button to make the noise stop", and my mind is gone for a while. But that's little, considering I used to wake up at 3:30 A.M., and I did NOT want to do that. And if it matters, I've never pressed that "Snooze" button.

[Renegade 13]

Personally, I sleep about 7 or 8 hours per night, with a record of (only) about 20 hours straight without sleep. Sooner or later I'm going to try and see if I can get some hallucinations going See what the limits are.

[Kamog]

Well, I haven't had any interesting hallucinations by staying up for a long time. I've been up two and a half days but I guess that's not quite enough for good hallucinations. I do seem to recall hearing voices and thinking that someone spoke to me when there's nobody there. Oh, and seeing colored auras around people.

One time at a particular busy time during work at a previous job, I stayed overnight at the office working on an electronic circuit. I was very tired from not sleeping very much the previous few nights, and during that night I kept forgetting that the soldering iron is hot. So I got some burns on my hands because I kept touching the soldering iron tip, or clumsily dropping it on my hand.

On a few occasions I was driving while very tired and repeatedly nodded off. I kept driving off the road onto the shoulder and then I luckily woke up. It was dangerous! I opened the windows and had the radio on full bLast to try to keep me awake but it didn't work that well. Another thing I did was I drove into a highway exit in the wrong direction. Then I saw headlights coming from ahead and I realized my mistake and quickly turned around.

[Tanus]

My record is about 60 hours straight... but I never experienced any hallucinations or wierd side effects besides being really tired at that point. Though I do think I slept about 18 hours after that.

I can do alnighters with little more than a coke and a yawn

[TurinTurambar]

I havent ever gone more than 36. Re:Halucinations - I do remember bending down to tie my shoe in front of a car and having to jump sideways cuz all of a sudden it was hopping up and down and coming toward me.

That was friggin weird and happened around 30 hours I think.

Turin