For how many hours you sleep?

[prasanth5]

It is generally advised by the doctors that we should sleep at least for 6 hours in a day. But most of us due to busy schedule skip a part of this prescription. I sleep for at least 5 hours. But I sleep in the afternoon on sundays to compensate the loss.

[adhityaen]

Whether prescription or not, having lesser hour of sleep and being active through day time with good lifestyle is good for one and all. I wish all of our members a happy life with much lesser pain, but RA.

[prasanth5]

Yes tru. Too many hours of sleep makes the mind dull and the body too becomes inactive. We find some people sleeping for long hours without doing much of work. if they have somebody earn for them at home, all that they can do is sleep for long hours!

[crimson]

Oversleeping is a no no for me, it will make your body really in active and in turn could also lead to obesity. 5-6 hour sleep is fine for me.

[kageyd]

They say that older people require less sleep, but now that I am 69 and fully retired, I often sleep 7 hours or even a little more. On the other hand, while I was a busy working professional with multiple jobs, and a working Mom, 5 to 6 hours had to do for me. I guess I'm just "catching up" now. My husband once told me of a very accomplished researcher and university administrator he worked with who absolutely had to have 10 hours of sleep every day, or he would just fall apart. We are all different - thankfully!! Kageyd

[naturelover]

Is there any research being conducted to determine that long hours of sleep is very useful at young age or old age? I feel taking a little longer nap at the later stage quiet helps the person.

[prasanth5]

Many people seem to recommend longer hours of sleep during old age. I agree. I have not felt the need for longer hours of sleep probably because of the fact that I am 45 years of age. After say another 10 years I might feel the need for it. Good.

[crimson]

Here is one link regarding Aging and sleep, this could probably be a big help regarding this. I hope it helps.

http://www.therubins.com/aging/sleep.htm

[kageyd]

It was a fun link to read, thanks Crimson. It's interesting, though, that it doesn't make the point that as a person passes from the stage of life where active children are in the house and/or the parent(s) are getting up early to go to work, into the stage of life when retirement begins and there are no "external" reasons to get up very early in the morning. For my husband and myself, both of whom used to be up and about by 5:30 at the latest with work and kids, now that we're retired we often stay up a little later and definitely don't get up so early. Those "external" demands seem to us to be important ones in determining how much sleep one actually takes. Nice read!

[crimson]

Thank you kageyd, I agree with you, those external factors can also determine how much sleep we need and each every individual has it's own body clock. As for me me and my wife wakes up at 6:00 in the morning to prepare for work and kids and especially for me I sleep at around 12:00.

[naturelover]

Hmmmm.... I think this topic makes one sleepless for days (pun intended) to give good comments. There are ideas pouring in and links getting attached with more details. As we toil hard for that daily bread and in the same breadth, I construe sleeping is most important to give relax to the body and mind to get rejuvenate.

[prasanth5]

Yes crimson 6 hours of sleep is the most commendable in the sense that a research has been done which showed that sleep is 'cumulative'. If we cut down on our sleep the hours cut down will be added later to our 'sleep' and that is we would sleep that many hours more which we missed!