the longest hours you can sleep for

@aciddrop (798)
May 9, 2007 8:28pm CST
as an adult,we're suggested to sleep from 6-8 hours a day.but the actual hours we sleep for differ from different periods and different individuals,because sometimes we get too busy to sleep enough,yet sometimes we are laid back then we sleep more.i know some ppl can sleep for over 12 hours when they have nothing to do.they just sleep to kill time.but for me,i am really"bad at sleeping".i just get used to waking up at 7 in the morning.when the clock points at 7 am,i spontaneously get waked up and find it difficult to go back to sleep. so do you have a set biological clock like i do?or you can sleep for hours as long as you want to?do you have an amazing record of it?lol
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44 responses
• United States
10 May 07
This is a topic near and dear to me because I love my sleep. That being said, I have noticed in the last year or so that I seem to need less overall. I used to sleep on weekends just as late as I possibly could and now by 8:30, I am usually ready to roll. That is still late, but in comparison, it isn't for me. There are nights I only get a few hours due to having things to do. I seem to survive. Great topic !
@andrejuly84 (1047)
• Romania
10 May 07
i sleep 6 or 7 hours by 1 a.m. to 7-8 a.m. i can't sleep more only if i'm very tired or i had a hard day i sleep about 8 hours but not more when i was a teenager i used to sleep even 10-11 hours
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• United States
12 May 07
I tend to sleep 4 hours at a time. I will take a 4-hour nap in the afternoon and sleep four hours at night. I am still getting a total of 8 hours. This habit developed after having children. I would take naps with them. Now they are all grown and I still take naps. LOL
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
i normally sleep 6 or 7 hours as well.over 8 is just too much for me.:)
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@aciddrop (798)
13 May 07
thats cute:P
• United States
10 May 07
i dont really have a biological clock when it comes to sleeping. I sleep so bad at night, i have insomnia or something, i just lay there for HOURS. So then i only get like 3 hours of sleep at night and i am exhasuted during the day. So when a weekend comes, or a day when i dont have tons of things to do during the day, I wil sleep so much to catch up on my sleep deficit from the rest of the week. I think the longest I ever slept was like 14 hours, but i was sick. I DONT wake up at the same time everyday, i am always so tired that i have to set an alarm to get up or i would oversleep cuz my body wants rest. Sleep is GOOD, if youre tired youre body is trying to tell you something...that it needs to rejuvinate itself. I dont get why sleep is seen as a sign of "laziness." Its natural and needed, why such a negative stigma?
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@aciddrop (798)
10 May 07
sometimes i find it hard to fall asleep as well so i know the feeling,it really sucks!i think you can try to drink warm milk and soak your feet in warm water for a while b4 going to bed,which help more or less to lots of ppl.as for the view that sleeping is kind of laziness,i'd like to put it in this way:spending too much time in sleeping is lazy.in your case i dont see laziness at all!:)
@xionous (439)
• Belgium
10 May 07
as every night i sleep for around 8-10 hours u knw im a good sleeper. i can easily sleep for 10-12 hours and i remember i slept for 15 hours one night and that was the longest ever for me.
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@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
awesome!:P
• Singapore
10 May 07
I can sleep for however long my insane mind decides. I can wake up after 1 to 14 hours perhaps. Yea, no typo there. Normally it doesn't get that crazy though. :P
• Singapore
11 May 07
You are so hardworking. I never did really study for my exams then.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
i think its good to be adaptable like you!when final exam comes,i have to spend so much time reviewing lessons and reciting things that i can hardly get enough sleep.but my bottomline is 5 hours.so just one to two hours less than usual.but some ppl like my roommates can stay up all night to study!they just need some tea or coffee to fuel themsleves up in the moring then they will still do a good job in exam.how crazy!
• China
10 May 07
When I was at shcool,I slept less than 8hours,about 7hours every day,and I have a set biological clock too.But when I work,I couldn't sleep normally,I sleep late and get up late.
@aciddrop (798)
10 May 07
i find it even harder to sleep late at school dorm.there are 4 girls including me share a dorm here.all of us have our own time for going to bed and getting up.its just difficult for me to sleep on when others already get up and are making noise.
@mskzalameda (4023)
• Philippines
11 May 07
I can sleep for about ten hours straight ha ha! I love sleeping and that makes me look fat ha ha! sleeping is a form of relaxation that's why I love it. Everybody loves sleeping.. its a good feeling :)
• Philippines
11 May 07
really1 great info.. then I must sleep more ha ha ha! zzZZZZZzzzzzZzzZZZZZZZZzZ.. -_-
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
have you heard that sleeping helps burn out calories?so it doesnt make you look fat but food do!:)
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@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
11 May 07
Hi aciddrop I get 7 hours every night. I cant sleep anylonger then that. Its true the older you get you dont need as much sleep. I wake up by myself at 6:30 I cant sleep any longer. But when I was a teenager I could sleep for ever. I think its strange the way our body changes.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
yeah babies can sleep all day long.but old ppl like my grandparents just sleep 5 hours on average every day.
@panicdude (456)
• Philippines
10 May 07
when i have school, the average time for my sleep is 6-7 hrs. i just can't put myself early for bed. 11 o' clock is the normal time for me to sleep and i wake up at around 6. but when vacation time comes, long sleeping strikes back. i remember one time when i slept at around 12am. i woke up at around 1pm. so there, that's the longest hours i can sleep for-- 13hours.
• Philippines
11 May 07
hahaha!! maybe i was so tired then. but now i try to sleep for 13hours, i just couldn't. the maximum time i can sleep for now is 12hrs. 1 hour less.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
i can never sleep for 13 hours even when holiday comes.well done buddy!:P
• Philippines
10 May 07
I guess it's "normal" for adult persons right now. I have the same predicament as yours, I always wake up at 6am or 7am, no matter what time sleep I the previous night. My body doesn't seems to bother whether I go to bed at 9pm or 3am, it's an automatic thing to me.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
same to me!but i just wont wake up till middday if i sleep at 3 am.:)
@MrSaleh87 (340)
• Egypt
10 May 07
I Think i was sleeping much hours in day but after knowing the meaning of work and buisness and mylot i just sleep for 4-6 and i think that make me so healthy than first or than much thinks about that
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
hehe so mylot has taken up your sleeping time,which is still good?lol
@misstree (241)
• United States
10 May 07
Hmm.. I think if I didn't have an alarm clock everyday to wake me up, I would sleep 12 hours or more everyday. I have Fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue goes along with it. Some mornings however, I have had to get up (before my alarm clock) because I can't sleep anymore. So I guess it depends. Pain also wakes me up. So my response is kind of irrelevant since I have an illness. But I figured I would reply anyways :-) Greets
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
oh is there a way to cure the illness?
@shinjiao (1457)
• China
10 May 07
The longest hours i can sleep for almost whole day.Last semester,I was so depressed with my life and one day I just laid on my bed and decided not attend to the class.Then I asked my dormmates to turn off the light and locked the door.I fell asleep and when I awoke,it was almost midnight.I didn't realize that I slept the whold day and even I had no sense of hunger.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
in this case,sleeping is a kind of escape.you can just sleep for the time being,but you have to stand up and tackle the situation anyway.hope you are doing well now!:)
@shinjiao (1457)
• China
11 May 07
Thanks for your suggestion.Believe me,I'm okay now.
• United States
11 May 07
I hate sleeping to much! Sleeping more than 8 hrs just makes me lazy, i just can't do it. I feel out of place when i sleep in to much. I feel like i have wasted half of the day. I do too wake up automaticaly, expect for me its not as early as 7. I got to bed around 1am every night and wake up at 9am.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
i dont feel like wasting time when i sleep too much,but just not well.
@fingerx (38)
• India
10 May 07
Hello friend i want to share some idea about sleeping. I regularly work for night shifts in a Us Based company in India. I get very less time to sleep in day time. For the last one year i am exp the same routine. I support that if you cannot sleep for at 6 - 8 hours a day then you have to suffer from lots of stomach diseases.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
hope you can manage to sleep more for healths concern!:)
@prasanta (1948)
• India
10 May 07
I have at a stretch slept for three days. No food, no bathroom in between.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
omg!:p
• United States
10 May 07
The most I can sleep is 9 hours. However, I usually sleep from 6-7 hours. Ideally, I would sleep 8 hours a night. Sleep is very important to me. It reduces stress and I also consider it my "beauty sleep". I believe that the more you sleep, the better you look in the long run.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
haha this is what most girls believe.so do i!:P
@stormygrl (761)
• United States
10 May 07
The other night I actually slept eight hours. I never do and usually only sleep 6 hours but I'm always tired in the late afternoon. I just need more energy !
• India
10 May 07
Dear friend try to sleep at least 6 to 8 hours to avoid some diseases like acidity.
• Malaysia
10 May 07
I hate to say that I have this sleeping problem. Normal week day i usually sleep at 3-4am and have to meet 9am office time. Then in the weekend, i sleep more than 12 hours. This sleeping pattern is straightly unhealthy, i have tried many methods to adjust it and hopes to get a normal biological clock as everyone else does. Wish me good luck.
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
yeah you need balance.good luck buddy!:P
@Divzs18 (441)
• India
10 May 07
Since I love to sleep the longest sleep I ever had was of 12 hrs for me. A day before I was attending the marriage ceremony of my cousin which makes me awake whole day so I sleep other day for 12 hrs. I feel when u sleep more than ur usual time u feels lazy to wake up and that makes u even sleep more...
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
true:)
@applefreak (3130)
• Singapore
10 May 07
actually for every hour you missed, you need to sleep two hours to make up for it the longest i have ever slept is a traight 24hours after two days without sleep guess i do have a biological clock but like an alarm clock, i only switch it on when it is necessary when i dun have to wake up early the next day, i will try to psycho myself before falling asleep that i do not wake up early tomorrow
@aciddrop (798)
11 May 07
hehe if i need to get up early than usual next morning,i will keep telling myself that going to bed the night b4.then i will really wake up in time!:)