how much sleep do you get????

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how many hours do you sleep a night

  • < 6 hours

    Votes: 28 18.4%

  • 6 -7 hrs

    Votes: 52 34.2%

  • 7-8 hrs

    Votes: 44 28.9%

  • 8-9 hrs

    Votes: 16 10.5%

  • 9+ hrs

    Votes: 12 7.9%
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NismoDDS

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just bored and wondering how much sleep other pre dents get.. i imagine we'll have to cut that number in half once we get to d-school.
 
I sleep from around midnight til 7am in the morning, so about 7 hours or less. I'm a shallow sleeper, so.
 
wow, some of you guys get a lot of sleep! I usually go to bed at midnight and wake up at 5, but sometimes I'll go to bed at 11 if I am feeling really tired.
 
I just thought of something else to ask. How many of you take naps during the day? I only sleep 5-6 hours a night, but I almost always take a 30 minute nap during the day. The tricky part is keeping it under 30 minutes, but I have a lot of practice 😀. I even do it at school. I'll go into my car or sleep in the library if it is too hot outside. I feel about 1,000% better after I take a nap.
 
i sleep more now that i'm in dental school. i end up taking about a nap a week, but way more if it's a tough module that week. 🙂
 
rollypolly said:
I just thought of something else to ask. How many of you take naps during the day? I only sleep 5-6 hours a night, but I almost always take a 30 minute nap during the day. The tricky part is keeping it under 30 minutes, but I have a lot of practice 😀. I even do it at school. I'll go into my car or sleep in the library if it is too hot outside. I feel about 1,000% better after I take a nap.
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I might take a nap if I have a stressful week. But my body doesn't take "naps"...in other words, when I go, I go....all 8 hours. So I have to have an alarm wake me up, and I'm usually even more tired afterwords! 😴
 
Dental school hasn't really cut into my sleep time overall. It just cut my fun time by about 95%.

🙁

I tried going on less sleep and I was doing worse on exams. I took one exam on 3 hours of sleep after a few days of only 5 hours of sleep and when I looked over it I had missed a ton of questions that I knew the day I looked over the test, even though I hadn't reviewed the material since then. I realized that my brain just doesn't fire on all cylinders if I don't get enough sleep and made sleep a priority.

I now get around 7 hours a night and maybe 5.5 if I have a big exam the next morning, but then I usually make that sleep up with a nap after the exam or by sleeping 8.5 hours the next night.
 
sleep and i are like peas and carrots. i do surprisingly well on little sleep except once during a calc exam i started writing the letter "h" but there was only numbers? i turned it in. i still don't know what i scored on it but i walked out with a B in the course. still, sleeplessness catches up to me and it's straight 19 hours the day after. sleep is a brutal master.

i read sleeping too much is bad. i don't think i care much. 🙄
 
Jem27 said:
sleep and i are like peas and carrots. i do surprisingly well on little sleep except once during a calc exam i started writing the letter "h" but there was only numbers? i turned it in. i still don't know what i scored on it but i walked out with a B in the course. still, sleeplessness catches up to me and it's straight 19 hours the day after. sleep is a brutal master.

i read sleeping too much is bad. i don't think i care much. 🙄
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You should care. Sleeping too much makes me tired, so I resort to more sleeping - which makes me even more tired.

It's a never ending cycle for me. 😴
 
I really hope not! I need at least 5-6 hours to function! 😱


NismoDDS said:
just bored and wondering how much sleep other pre dents get.. i imagine we'll have to cut that number in half once we get to d-school.
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SHC1984 said:
I really hope not! I need at least 5-6 hours to function! 😱
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hey awesome, i just noticed you have columbia on your sig. neato, you've decided. 😀 maybe i'll run into you on the subway if i ever visit NY!
 
Jem27 said:
hey awesome, i just noticed you have columbia on your sig. neato, you've decided. 😀 maybe i'll run into you on the subway if i ever visit NY!
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You have been paying absolutely no attention to one of the most famous personalities on SDN. She's had that in her signature for ages!😛
 
My internal 'wake up' clock is set at 9:30am, sharp. No matter when I sleep, I always wake up at the same time.
 
tamkhan said:
You have been paying absolutely no attention to one of the most famous personalities on SDN. She's had that in her signature for ages!😛
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aw sh*te. guilty. i don't really stop to check out the girls. it's the boys my eyes are after. 🙄 i'll do better. i'll be equal opportunity from here on out.
 
Jem27 said:
aw sh*te. guilty. i don't really stop to check out the girls. it's the boys my eyes are after. 🙄 i'll do better. i'll be equal opportunity from here on out.
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boys? o rly? do tell.....

i sleep ~7 hr/night. ah, the luxury.
 
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I've been getting less sleep because I just discovered Call of Duty 4 xbox live multiplayer.
 
Mmmm sleep, can't get enough! Usually less than 6 hours though. 🙁 I pulled three all-nighters in a row during finals week...very strange results like I was hopped up on drugs lol.
 
I need around 9 hours to function at my best and fully take advantage of my weight training. I set sleep as a top priority, and work my schedule around it as much as possible.
 
Thanks! where will you be attending? I pretty much knew it was going to Columbia unless some miracle happens and Harvard accepts me...



Jem27 said:
hey awesome, i just noticed you have columbia on your sig. neato, you've decided. 😀 maybe i'll run into you on the subway if i ever visit NY!
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I got accepted to Columbia on Dec 2nd and thats when I had it up! thanks for paying attention 😉😀


tamkhan said:
You have been paying absolutely no attention to one of the most famous personalities on SDN. She's had that in her signature for ages!😛
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I've been sleep deprived because of work.😡
 
I usually get about 4 hours each night (I've got some sweet sleeping disorders). Its all good though, I get about 3 hours of sleep at work during the day.
 
TheWiredNerv said:
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I've been getting less sleep because I just discovered Call of Duty 4 xbox live multiplayer.
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Heh, I just finished playing. I'm on PC though. I just can't do first person shooters without a mouse and keyboard.
 
I can't help but think that sometimes the human tendency is to try and impress other humans by telling them how much they DON'T sleep. Anybody else feel that this is often the case?

I swear, ever since I was a kid I've always heard conversations of sleep and how much you get and it always, always, always, seems like everybody tries to one-up the next guy...

"Yeah, I'm hardcore, I only sleep 6 hours a night."

"Oh yeah, I'm even badder (banging chest with fist), I sleep 5 hours a night!!!"

"Uhhhhh!!!(Look of stuper on face), that aint nothin, all last semester...I only slept 3-4 hours a night, every night cuz I had to work graveyard...and then, and then...I had to babysit...yeah, my younger sister...cuz, cuz she's got insomnia".

"I SLEEP 1 HOUR!!! 1 HOUR I SLEEP, EVERY NIGHT!!! I'M!!! THE ALPHA-PROVIDER!!!"

"I...DON'T SLEEP, RRROOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRR!!!:boom:(weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth)"

...beware of the me-monster.
-Brian Regan
 
all y'all are weak. sleep when you're dead.
 
denticus said:
I can't help but think that sometimes the human tendency is to try and impress other humans by telling them how much they DON'T sleep. Anybody else feel that this is often the case?

I swear, ever since I was a kid I've always heard conversations of sleep and how much you get and it always, always, always, seems like everybody tries to one-up the next guy...

"Yeah, I'm hardcore, I only sleep 6 hours a night."

"Oh yeah, I'm even badder (banging chest with fist), I sleep 5 hours a night!!!"

"Uhhhhh!!!(Look of stuper on face), that aint nothin, all last semester...I only slept 3-4 hours a night, every night cuz I had to work graveyard...and then, and then...I had to babysit...yeah, my younger sister...cuz, cuz she's got insomnia".

"I SLEEP 1 HOUR!!! 1 HOUR I SLEEP, EVERY NIGHT!!! I'M!!! THE ALPHA-PROVIDER!!!"

"I...DON'T SLEEP, RRROOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRR!!!:boom:(weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth)"

...beware of the me-monster.
-Brian Regan
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awesome dude. i love brian regan. btw, you don't sleep? that ain't nothing.
 
I laid in my bed from 11pm till 3 in the morning last night staring at the ceiling...i even counted sheep until at least 500...🙁
 
I usually sleep 5-6 during the week and 8-10 on the weekends to make up/prepare for a sleepless week ahead.
 
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I have had a couple of nights this week where I would drink a pot of coffee at about 6PM and then play video games until 2 or 3 in the morning blasted on caffiene and then get up for work at 5:30. I would still be jittery the next day a work. Still not sure why I decided to do that. Usually I sleep about 6-7 hours a night (and if you are wondering why I do not use any contractions it is because my apostrophe does not work).
 
usernametaken said:
I need around 9 hours to function at my best and fully take advantage of my weight training. I set sleep as a top priority, and work my schedule around it as much as possible.
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Me too! even if it means going to bed at 8 or 9pm. I just gotta have it 😀
 
i guess going out and drinking almost every night kinda disrupts your sleeping patterns, especially when you work at 8am the next day and work 10 hour shift. dang im pimp
 
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