I've been lying to myself.

[ECB]

I always said "Oh, 8 hours of sleep is plenty". But lately, if I get to bed by 9 or so - I've found that I can EASILY sleep 9 or 10 hours. This happened last night and I've felt good today. REALLY good. Not the usual run down feeling I get in the afternoon.

But this only happens when my almost 4 year old decides to sleep late. He gets up early? I'm up early. And this still means 8 hours of sleep. But I'm dragging, yawning, etc.

Darnit. I feel good, but I don't want to NEED that much sleep. It's usually not possible to get.

[Deleted]

I'm the same, I usually need 9 hours of sleep to feel great, but going to bed at 9pm just doesn't sound appealing to me. Blah.

[BettyBookWorm]

I feel my best after 10 hours of sleep. I don't get that anymore. LOL

[ECB]

Dec 4, 2012 15:15:19 GMT -5 doglove said:

I'm the same, I usually need 9 hours of sleep to feel great, but going to bed at 9pm just doesn't sound appealing to me. Blah.

Go rent yourself a young child. Then it will appeal to you.

[Deleted]

I'm sure I would after that! DH and I are so cranky if we get less than 7-8 hours of sleep. I don't know how we'll do it if we ever decided to have a child.

[Muddled]

I need lots of sleep too. I hate it.

[starrieskies]

I rarely sleep through the night. I generally sleep for 2-3 hours, then I'm up for about 30 minutes, lather, rinse, repeat. I have to go to bed around 9ish if I'm going to get anywhere near 8 hours of sleep. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen often either. I'm always tired.

[gault]

I'm in bed at 10, if not before. Does this mean I'm ready for child rearing?





Please say no.

[mortomo]

I got to sleep in on Sunday and got 10 hrs of sleep. It's been months since I got to do that and I felt really good getting that much sleep.

I get 6 hrs or less of sleep a night on a regular basis, so 10 is a lot for me!

[dirtyred]

Before the electric lightbulb was invented, people normally got around 10 hours of sleep a night (it was too dark in the house to do anything else). Instead of 8, we probably really need 10 hours of sleep a night.

[ECB]

Dec 5, 2012 9:32:05 GMT -5 dirtyred said:

Before the electric lightbulb was invented, people normally got around 10 hours of sleep a night (it was too dark in the house to do anything else). Instead of 8, we probably really need 10 hours of sleep a night.

Interesting tidbit!