How Much Sleep?

[Scarlett]

My flat mate works in a shop 3.5 days per week. On her days off she stays in bed until 2 or 3pm. Then she cooks and bathes, stays in her room and cooks again. I might do this on a Sunday perhaps once every few months. What about you? Do you spend your days off sleeping and eating? I wonder if this is common behaviour as I can never sleep for that long!

[Retrochic]

What makes you assume shes sleeping while in her room? She could be on line.

[Traci66]

I get up at six on a work day, days off, never later than 7.30.

[maggiebee]

Usually on bed by midnight and up by 8 at the latest. Can't lie longer than this.

[Mamyalynne]

You've said what time she rises , but not what time she retires - so hard to make a judgement really (if anyone else really should).

[B00]

Sleeping and eating....

My two favourite pastimes!

[Prudie]

You also don't mention age. Late teens and into early 20s I slept in until way after midday at the weekend. These days I can't sleep beyond 7 whatever time I went to bed.

[pusskin]

I'm retired and dont go to work.
I go to bed at 12, and always up at 9. Hey ho, have worked all my life!!!

[Scarlett]

She is 32. I know she sleeps because she tells me. I think she does go to bed quite late yes.

[woofgang]

if she is happy and not bothering you why worry?

[Scarlett]

I just wondered whether everyone slept this long on their days off!

[andy-hughes]

How much sleep anyone needs is dependent on how quickly their brain can descend into REM sleep, which is the sleep the brain and body actually need.

In a typical ten hours sleep cycle, the brain may spend three hours descending into REM, four hours there, and then three hours re-emerging again. So in fact, the brain only needs the four hours of that sleep cycle.

Those whose brains grow straight into REM need only a few hours a night - Margaret Thatcher was famously one of them.

I am unsure if she is a typical example, but if she is, her acknowledged lack of humour and tendency to want total control means that if that's what it takes, I will stay as I am.

I am sixty, and if left, I can sleep from say, eleven at night, through till three the next afternoon, and still sleep through the next night and wake around eleven in the morning, if left again.

I have always had these sleep patterns - I think I was a sloth in a former life!

[dannyk13]

Retired but rise at 6am go to bed at 11pm(approx) each day.

[Greedyfly]

I get up around 6.30am work days and at latest 8.30am weekends. I couldn't stay in bed longer even if I wanted. I lucky if I sleep through the night any night.