How many hours of sleep do you take per 24 hours?

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TD, do you usually sleep for most of that 12-hour period, or just lie in bed? Could it be medication side effects, or depression, or something doctors might find, like thyroid problems or vitamin D deficiency? My understanding is that as people get older, they tend to sleep less and may have poorer quality sleep. Not sure how true that is?

It varies massively for me. It can be anything from twelve to none at all. The problem is that I tend to be at my intellectual and emotional peak during the later hours of the day, and I resent having to cut those periods short knowing that I'm going to be sluggish and emotionless when I wake up. However, I recognise the self-perpetuating nature of my predicament and I aim to have my sleep routine under control by the end of the summer.

TD, I think that even people with a certain level of depression, or those with thyroid/nutrient problems, might still feel energized at times. The way to know the difference would be their stamina throughout the day, week, month, ETC. and how hard they crash and burn out. The same could be true for people coping with all sorts of problems affecting energy levels.

I wish I could remember where, but I heard someone describe the will to live as the will and energy to fight entropy. The more unwell someone is, the less they fight entropy, and they eventually stop moving, thinking, ETC. A bit off topic, but fighting low energy levels made me think of it.

If i have less than 7 hours sleep, i get insane amounts of anxiety even when I know my day isn't going to be full of stress.
If i have interrupted sleep but still manage to get in 9-12 hours sleep, i get a moderate case of anxiety and usually wake up with a headache.

My preferred sleeping pattern is from 10pm-8am, but currently it's at 5am-2pm. Leaving the afternoon for breakfast/lunch, and a tea in the evening if I feel hungry, but at my current habits, I just eat whenever i'm hungry and not sticking to any sort of schedule. I am on medication though to keep me alive, so i don't know if that makes a difference to sleep.

I usually sleep an average of 6-8 hours a night.

About six, on average. Sometimes more, sometimes about 4. My body wants to wake after the 4/sleep cycle if I've had a stressful day or week and need to do fun things. Typically I sleep only four hours on Friday into Saturday, since I'm finally free of work for the week.

I usually get about 4 or 5 hours of sleep at night. I usually don't feel like talking to anyone the next day and sometimes have trouble functioning. Lately I've been falling asleep for a couple of hours while taking naps though.

Quite a lot of us getting less than the recommended 8 hours then. I've been that way myself, but not very often. I tend to think it's down to stress and / or my brain refusing to stop. Sometimes my thoughts at such times are scared or angry (which gets my adrenaline going), other times they're just fascinating (to me).

Somewhere between seven and nine, my period always prolongs it. Dry humidity and tooth ache makes sleep tricky.

On average (once I fall asleep) 5 hours... I do take 30-45 min naps though in the middle of the day.

Since I was 5 years old I sleep exactly 7-8 hours a day normally. I can go as little as 5 before I get non-functional, but I don't think I've ever slept more than 10/day in my life, even when I'm sick.

Overall, I usually get 6-8 hours of sleep. Sometimes I'll nap during the day, unless that nap becomes what I call a "hibernation" and sleep all the way until the next morning. A few times per month I may even get as much as 10-12 hours of sleep, but it all depends on my schedule and whether or not I have appointments or other reasons to wake up normally. One might say I use sleep as a coping-mechanism for life's stressful, tiresome moments.