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With all the things I want to do in the day,Id have to get by on 5 hrs of sleep per night.
How much sleep do you need? Could you get by with less to accomplish your goals?
I used to be a 8-9 hour a night person ...then I had children There were days with a newborn and an 18 month old that 2 hours was about all I got - that's why I feel pretty good with 5. Now I feel well rested on 6-7 & can function just fine on 5 (but not too many days in a row)
BTW - Coffee IS my best friend!
People who knew me before ...can't believe I am not in bed before 11 and up @ 5 LOL
Not a nurse yet but a full time student, full time employee, full time mom, full time wife. I generally get 5 hours of sleep a night. After a while my body just got used to it. I'm not saying it happened over night but somewhere along the line it did.
Hee, hee....I am also one of those people that can sleep practically standing up if you leave me in one place for too long.
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what I hate is when you finally go to bed and all you do is lay there and replay your day over and over and then even dream about it. When I worked in home health every AM when the alarm would ring I would reach for my beeper or if I was out in ouplic and I heard a beep I would grab for my hip! Pavlo's theroy
Originally posted by schoolnurse912what I hate is when you finally go to bed and all you do is lay there and replay your day over and over and then even dream about it. When I worked in home health every AM when the alarm would ring I would reach for my beeper or if I was out in ouplic and I heard a beep I would grab for my hip! Pavlo's theroy
Heh! At a previous job, I was part of the hospital code team (we had specific hospital flyers that would go to every code -- I was one of them). One night while I was sleeping in my basement bedroom, sleeping in the buff as I always do, I had a dream that I was sleeping at work and heard "Code Blue" called overhead.
Before I knew it, I had thrown the covers off the bed and run up the stairs. I finally woke up standing in the living room, naked, with my roommate and his girlfriend staring in shock!
I politely excused myself and went back to bed. The funny part was the look on my cat's face when I went back downstairs. Apparently, in the excitement, I had thrown her off the bed and she landed on the sofa across the room.
When I'm tired I can fall asleep almost anywhere too! I fall asleep on the toilet in the morning all the time :chuckle
I usually try to get 6 hrs, if I could sleep all I wanted I'd sleep from midnight to 8:30 then just stay in bed and watch tv...ahhh.
*sigh* unfortunately I'm a nightowl in a daytime world.
igloorn93
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I need about 8 hours per night. If I don't get them I spend my entire weekend playing catch-up. I am horrible to be around if I haven't had enough sleep. Don't know how some of you do it with only 4 or 5 hours.