how many hours of sleep do you need?

[KiwiMeowo]

My ideal sleep time is from 12am to 9am, so I guess 9 hours. For some reason, I tend to feel very sleepy if I wake up before 9am, even if I have slept for 8+ hours.

A bad habit I need to change is procrastinating sleep, it would be 10pm, and I would think "Hm I still have enough time to do other stuff (Like homework, hobbies etc), then I blinked and it would be past 12am. I am worried staying past midnight would be a slippery slope that I would sleep later and later, so I'm trying to fix that habit.

[ValyceNegative]

My usual sleep times are from 11 PM to 7 AM, so 7 or 8 hours of sleep. I am most active in the mornings and I like to wake up early to have most of my work done during those hours so I can chill in the afternoon. Sometimes I like to shift one hour and do 10PM-6AM, especially in the summer when the sun rises very early, and enjoy the silent house when everyone else is still asleep and I can get ready for the day, then draw or write in peace. UwU

[riku]

i try to get at least 8-9 hours of sleep every day before school so i can feel energised throughout the day  !! if i get less than that im usually tired and cannot function properly 

on friday and the weekends tho, i get at least 10-12 hours bc i need a good nights rest before the weekend starts 

[petrichoran]

my body wants to sleep from like 1-2 to 9-10 am. i feel best with 9 hours of sleep but i can make it on 8 or 7 just fine. what sucks is that i can't sleep until 10 every day with work and school and everything in the world waking up earlier than me. so i end up getting 6 ish some nights, only get good sleep when i'm lucky, and rely on caffeine more than i'd like

[Version]

I absolutely can't function well unless I get at least 7 hours of sleep, which is pretty bad for me because I absolutely hate sleeping haha. Not only is the experience usually really poor for me, but I also wish I could function on less sleep so I could have more hours in my day to do stuff, you know?

[knifex]

On weekdays, I usually manage on about 7H of sleep, trying to fall asleep before midnight when I have to wake up at 7AM.
Left to my own devices, I'll end up going to sleep at 4AM and wake up around noon +/- an hour, so more around 8.

But! Most of the time, I'll end up sleeping more about 6 hours on weekdays, and 9-10 on the weekends.
Four hours is scary, I hope you do 2 cycle of those a day.

[sharkplushes]

how many hours i need? honestly, kind of a lot... id say 8-10 hours?

do i ever get that much? not really, sadly. i suffer from chronic insomnia, so getting to sleep and staying asleep can be a challenge.

im not sure how yall do it on 4 or less hours of sleep... i used to do that as a teenager, but now, its agony.

[Grimmgall]

I require at least 9-10 hours nowadays for full functioning. This is due to the fact that I've spent probably a lot less than a third of my life sleeping, since I've had a habit for having less than 5 hours of sleep since early childhood (5-7 years old), and spent a large portion of my teenage years having 0 hours of sleep due to either webcamming with my ex-girlfriend, watching television shows, browsing the internet, drawing, or spending a lot of time overthinking. I began sleeping more than 10 hours in July 2020, after learning the importance of sleep due to my medication withdrawal during that time. However, that was typically on and off, with some off nights where I'd sleep way less due to stress.

Anyway, I find it funny, however, that despite needing to sleep 9-10 hours a night for perfect functioning, I'm able to analyze and cognate more intricately and articulate myself more smoothly online when I am sleep-deprived. I suppose because I am very accustomed to it, as it's my "natural" state of being.

[cyberdreamz]

Currently I've been going to sleep at around 11pm and waking up at 5 or 6am, so that's... 6-7 hours. I do sometimes feel tired in the mornings but for the most part I just wake up and struggle to fall back asleep, so like, okay, I guess I'm getting up now.
Still not sure why my body started waking me up at 5am sharp every morning (I didn't even want to start doing that), but at this point I think I'd be more worried if I suddenly started sleeping in again. I do like having that bit of extra time in the day. It's just strange how it seemingly happened on its own I guess the tradeoff is that I can't stay up past 12 without feeling like I'm dying anymore.