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    Is it over rated?
    I am managing around 5ish hours a night at the mo. I just naturally don't need much sleep - anyone else have the same problem?
    I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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    #2
    Originally posted by Pogle View Post
    Is it over rated?
    I am managing around 5ish hours a night at the mo. I just naturally don't need much sleep - anyone else have the same problem?
    About 5-6hrs has been my snooze time for the last 7 years a pattern I fell into when our daughter was born. Nowadays it's to bed at about midnight, watch a bit of cack TV for a bit until unconcious and then automatically wake up at 5:30/6.

    IMO it's not a problem because I don't feel any worse for it, but if opening one eye and reaching for the laptop to post on CUK I think I would seek professional help
    Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon

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      #3
      I'm a lot more effective at work on 7½ hours, but as I'm not at work I can cope with 6 hours ongoing...
      "take me to your leader"

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        #4
        I can manage on 6 1/2 hours during the week but need to catch up at weekends. I can go down to 4-5 hours for one night only but any more than that and my work suffers and I need to eat loads of sugar to keep going. Normally I get to bed around 23.00 Mon-Fri and up at 05:30. Weekends if I get at least one lie in for 8-9 hours I'm fine for the next week. Age has a lot to do with it (I'm 40+).
        ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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          #5
          Like many things - it's quality not quantity that counts. Give me 5 hours uninterrupted over 8 hours of being woken up by kids every hour anytime.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Pogle View Post
            Is it over rated?
            I am managing around 5ish hours a night at the mo. I just naturally don't need much sleep - anyone else have the same problem?
            Plenty of time to sleep when you're dead

            We're only here for a limited number of years. Spending 35% of that time unconscious seems a terrible waste of it.

            I can consistently make do with 6-7 hours without any ill effects.

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              #7
              Have a baby and then you'll realise 5 hours is actually really good
              'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
              Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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                #8
                Now I lay me down not to sleep
                I just get tangled in the sheets
                I swim in sweat three inches deep
                I just lay back and claim defeat

                Chapter read and lesson learned
                I turned the lights off while she burned
                So while she's three hundred degrees
                I throw the sheets off and I freeze

                Lids down, I count sheep
                I count heartbeats
                The only thing that counts is
                that I won't sleep
                I countdown, I look around

                Who needs sleep?
                (well you're never gonna get it)
                Who needs sleep?
                (tell me what's that for)
                Who needs sleep?
                (be happy with what you're getting
                There's a guy who's been awake
                since the Second World War)

                Who needs sleep?
                (well you're never gonna get it)
                Who needs sleep?
                (tell me what's that for)
                Who needs sleep?
                (be happy with what you're getting
                There's a guy who's been awake
                since the Second World War)

                My hands are locked up tight in fists
                My mind is racing filled with lists
                of things to do and things I've done
                Another sleepless night's begun

                Lids down, I count sheep
                I count heartbeats
                The only thing that counts is
                that I won't sleep
                I countdown, I look around

                Who needs sleep?
                (well you're never gonna get it)
                Who needs sleep?
                (tell me what's that for)
                Who needs sleep?
                (be happy with what you're getting
                There's a guy who's been awake
                since the Second World War)

                Who needs sleep?
                (well you're never gonna get it)
                Who needs sleep?
                (tell me what's that for)
                Who needs sleep?
                (be happy with what you're getting
                There's a guy who's been awake
                since the Second World War)

                There's so much joy in life,
                so many pleasures all around
                But the pleasure of insomnia
                is one I've never found
                With all life has to offer,
                There's so much to be enjoyed
                But the pleasures of insomnia
                are ones I can't avoid

                Lids down, I count sheep
                I count heartbeats
                The only thing that counts is
                that I won't sleep
                I countdown, I look around

                Hala Hala Hala...

                Who needs sleep?
                (well you're never gonna get it)
                Who needs sleep?
                (tell me what's that for)
                Who needs sleep?
                (be happy with what you're getting
                There's a guy who's been awake
                since the Second World War)

                Who needs sleep?
                (well you're never gonna get it)
                Who needs sleep?
                (tell me what's that for)
                Who needs sleep?
                (be happy with what you're getting
                There's a guy who's been awake
                since the Second World War)

                BNL lyrics to the track "Who Needs Sleep?"
                (Barenaked Ladies = great band)

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Pogle View Post
                  Is it over rated?
                  I am managing around 5ish hours a night at the mo. I just naturally don't need much sleep - anyone else have the same problem?
                  Pogle, when your friend invited to his hotel and asked "do you want to sleep with me?", he did NOT actually mean that he wanted to "sleep" with you.
                  I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SantaClaus View Post
                    Have a baby and then you'll realise 5 hours is actually really good
                    Been there done that - breastfeeding every 3 hours.
                    But it was well worth it
                    I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

                    Pogle is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
                    CUK University Challenge Champions 2010
                    CUK University Challenge Champions 2012

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