I work nights so at the beginning of the week I get about eight hours sleep but by friday Im down to six. It also depends on the type of work I am doing whether it is mental or phisical.
I try to get 9 or 10. Depending on work, can be 6-7.
I don't think the Eight Hours thing is true for everyone - it's very much a personal thing, and I'm one of those people who needs a LOT of sleep.
Also, I think the older one gets, the less sleep one needs - babies sleep 18 hours a day, after all...
I find that six hours is just about right. If Ihave much more than six hours then I feel tired all day. Like Mr FC, if I fall asleep early then I simply wake up early.
What? uh? eh? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........
About 5/6 hours is my lot; I've never been a great sleeper. The birds always wake me as I like windows open-hate them closed, even in Winter. One of my greatest pleasures , on days off, is to lie and listen to birds singing. I find it spooky in big towns, that are illuminated all night by acres of Neon, to hear birds singing in middle of night. It seems scary to me, a symbol of something we are getting awfully wrong. Similarly, I notice that you can't see the stars in towns; maybe we ought to think harder about 'light pollution'.
I lived in bradford all my life untill I moved to northern Ireland seven yrs ago. the thing I noticed in bradford was that the birds never sang the only place you heard them was in the park.
I'm sure I was a cat in a previous life, and didn't quite finish the conversion to human by the time I was born this time around.
I tend to need 7-8 hrs, but when im up for 5 it can be 6hrs. I too have noticed that when i have gone to bed , not even an hour has gone by and I hear birds singing.
Stars, I have noticed where have they all gone? Rarely do you see them anymore. In my courting days there were thousands of them , a romantic setting it was!
