Having to come home from work at 11:00 PM and then immediately do net surfing, I only get an average of four to five hours of sleep these days. But my eyes are diagnosed as mesopic and I should really rest more a bit.
Workweek, 4 to 6 hours.
Weekends, maybe 9-12 hours.
My other half works graveyard (I work days), which probably accounts for the long sleeping times on the weekend - it's the only time we have for each other, really. That, and I can catch up on my sleep.
I firmly believe that I should never get up before the sun does - I'm most comfortable waking up between 10 and 11 in the morning. Unfortunately, the work schedule does not permit.
...I only get an average of four to five hours of sleep these days...
Sunday to Friday it's usually 3-4 hours between Daddy Daycare, Espresso Slinging and a few hours of City of Villains before a little snooze to get up and do it all over again. Saturdays is really the only day for sleeping in, which does occasionally allow for about 6 hours.
I figure I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Chris Shadowens
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...I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Yep, I follow the teachings of my patron saint, Warren Zevon, as well, Chris.
I normally get up for work around 5:45-6:00AM. After I get home in the evening, get my daughter to bed at 8:00PM, my wife to bed at 9:00PM, and the baby in his crib by around 10:00PM, I can normally get on-line about 9:30 or so and start perusing my e-mail, Shadowrealms PBMB site, Paizo to see what's up. After my son's asleep, I can devote 10:00 to around 1:00/1:30AM to 'my time'.
My schedule doesn't really change that much on the weekends...I'm normally up by 6:30-7:00AM because my daugher likes to get up around then. And have company. To watch TV or play board games. Happily, her favorite videos right now are Wallace and Grommit. The Bob the Builder/Here Come The Rubba-Dubbers phase sucked.
11:00 pm to 5:50 a.m on weekdays and 12:00 to about 8:00 am on weekends.
My 3 year old son has a tracheostomy tube to help him breathe and he requires constant oversight to ensure he doesn't get clogged up or accidentally pulls it out at night while tossing around, so my wife and I usually have to take turns sleeping in his room for most of the night. Baby monitors just wouldn't cut it, because his trach doesn't allow him to cry very loud and he could choke or asphyxiate and we'd never know it unless we were right there in the room with him.
When he's sick, our sleep time is often cut to only a few hours a night because he needs constant attention to clear his airway with a medical suction pump. When he was a little baby it was much harder on us. Now that he's 3, it's a lot easier, as he's a lot more stable and we hope to get his trach out within a year or two.
He had so many surgeries and procedures early in life, plus over six months in the hospital in his first year of life that we didn't game at all between 2002 until late 2004, by which time he had become a lot more stable and our worries subsided a little bit. We also got very, very little sleep at night. It was quite hellish, actually. He still needs lots of medical care and some more surgeries down the road, but he's doing a lot better.
He likes it when I read Dungeon or Dragon before bed time because he enjoys looking at the artwork and the maps. He doesn't like to be read to (even from normal childrens' books), he prefers to hold the book or magazine himself and ask questions....."no son, that's a Spawn of Kyuss, not a zombie...let's get that straight, okay?"
I am a sleep vulture, swooping past the gates of nod with pure opportunism in mind. There is no average. I take what I can get. Hey, I'm not doing anything now... perfect!
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11:00 pm to 5:50 a.m on weekdays and 12:00 to about 8:00 am on weekends.
My 3 year old son has a tracheostomy tube to help him breathe and he requires constant oversight to ensure he doesn't get clogged up or accidentally pulls it out at night while tossing around, so my wife and I usually have to take turns sleeping in his room for most of the night. Baby monitors just wouldn't cut it, because his trach doesn't allow him to cry very loud and he could choke or asphyxiate and we'd never know it unless we were right there in the room with him.
When he's sick, our sleep time is often cut to only a few hours a night because he needs constant attention to clear his airway with a medical suction pump. When he was a little baby it was much harder on us. Now that he's 3, it's a lot easier, as he's a lot more stable and we hope to get his trach out within a year or two.
He had so many surgeries and procedures early in life, plus over six months in the hospital in his first year of life that we didn't game at all between 2002 until late 2004, by which time he had become a lot more stable and our worries subsided a little bit. We also got very, very little sleep at night. It was quite hellish, actually. He still needs lots of medical care and some more surgeries down the road, but he's doing a lot better.
He likes it when I read Dungeon or Dragon before bed time because he enjoys looking at the artwork and the maps. He doesn't like to be read to (even from normal childrens' books), he prefers to hold the book or magazine himself and ask questions....."no son, that's a Spawn of Kyuss, not a zombie...let's get that straight, okay?"
I'm sorry to hear of your son's serious medical challenges, but it sounds like he couldn't be in better or more loving care. You, sir, are obviously a great daddy.
...I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Yep, I follow the teachings of my patron saint, Warren Zevon, as well, Chris.
Ah, Warren...sleep well, my fellow werewolf of London. Aaaooooo!!!
Happily, her favorite videos right now are Wallace and Grommit. The Bob the Builder/Here Come The Rubba-Dubbers phase sucked.
Oh man, Bob I could take as we didn't see it all that often but Rubba-Dubbers, I'm just glad there wasn't a power drill in the house to bore pressure release holes in my head. "...splish, splash, splosh!..." *ack* Never again! Thankfully, for me, she (my 6 1/2-year old daughter) can now split her tv time between a few Nick toons and Xbox.
- Chris Shadowens
Blue's Clues & the Wiggles split my son's attention right now. I'm actually growing a callus in my brain and find myself humming along with some of the songs, much to my own annoyance. I think I'll make Captain Feathersword a villain in my next campaign. My daughter is 13 and all into her MP3 player so I don't hear her much any more, although she watches some annoying teen shows as well. When I was her age, my favorite TV show as "Hogan's Heroes" and "Charlie's Angels" (especially when they were running....sigh)
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Blue's Clues & the Wiggles split my son's attention right now.
We like Blue's Clues (particularly Steve-era, Joe just isn't as good), but the Wiggles aren't allowed in the house. Lexi gets to see them at day-care, but they do not make an appearence at our house EVER! I just can't stand 'em.
We have a TV, but don't get any channels/cable/dish, so it's all just movies that we own. One of my suggestions to parents-to-be: go to Wal-mart and get several different kids dvd/tapes and find out which are the ones you can stand for 4 hours at a strech and which ones burn into your brain like a napalm coated auger. Steer viewing away fromt he ones you don't like in favor of the ones you do.
My choice for 7 & up girls: The Last Unicorn. I picked it up for maybe $8 at Costco and I was jumping up and down like a little girl for an hour. What's not to like about the movie? It's got a pretty unicorn who goes on a quest to find what happened to the other unicorns, meets up with a bumbling wizard who's trying to get better at being a wizard, Molly, a talking cat and THE RED BULL!! (Who hunts down the unicorns for King Haggard...)
Anyway, it's a good choice, and generally one that I can watch over and over again when watching my friend's daughter.
However, my current adult watch-over-and-over-again is, and will probably always be, The Hunt for Red October.
Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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We like Blue's Clues (particularly Steve-era, Joe just isn't as good), but the Wiggles aren't allowed in the house. Lexi gets to see them at day-care, but they do not make an appearence at our house EVER! I just can't stand 'em.
I couldn't agree more. I HATE the Wiggles. The in-laws are converts and are always trying to push Wiggles products on my son.
I would also warn parents away from the Baby Genius line of products. We received a three pack of videos as a gift. On the one hand, my son loves them and they are shot in a lot of San Diego area parks that he visits regularly. However, the songs are annoying, the computer animation is terrible, and the whole thing looks like it was put together by three guys with a bear suit and a video camera.
We have a wiggles rule in our house. Only one non-plot video per day. The video is an hour long and so that is plenty.
Things we permit our 2.5 year old to watch:
College Athletics: as much as he wants to watch. We are big college atheletic fans, so we don't mind the game being on, and my 2 year old has a mean jump shot already. Only with supervision. We shoot hoops during commercials. It helps that he also likes football :)
Wiggles or Teletubbies video: one per day, about 1 hour total time. He has seen them so many times we can at least get some laptop messaging in while he's watching it.
Sesame Street: at breakfast, occasionally at lunch. Only with supervision to discuss what he's watching.
Occasional plotted movie: e.g. Disney and other similar movies are ok as long as they have a plot and progress through, without graphic violence. Veggietales are good for moral / bible stories but they are a tad annoying.
We do have a strict plot only movies in the car DVD player. I can't stand to listen to the wiggles after we listened to it repeatedly on a long car ride down from Northern California to Southern California.
I'm a firm believer in an eight-hour sleep cycle. Or ten.
I figure, life's too short to be cranky all the time from sleep deprivation.
I've been cursed (or blessed) with insomnia, so I generally average 3-5 hours of sleep a night. I've found that my sleep schedule does adjust a tad bit to whomever I'm currently involved with, so when I date a girl that likes her sleep, I tend to get 6-7 hours of sleep.
Now that I live in the disgusting world known as Ohio Weather, I tend to become incredibly lethargic during the wintertime.
Between LARPing, TT, and working 3rd shift most of my life, I used to never see the sun. Now that I work an office job, I still never see the sun, but only because I come in before dawn and leave after the sun sets.
I never thought I'd long for the days of college. I must be getting old. =)
I get anywhere between 30 min. to 5 hours on a weekday. When I'm not planning something for my players I'm playing XBox or PS2. As for weekends, it depends on where I stay. When I'm at home I get between 30 min. and 12 hours, depending on how much work I did the day before. When I'm playing 2nd edition at my friends I get atleast 10 hours, he makes it a point to keep me so busy I sleep because he knows I have insomnia and can't get to, let alone stay, asleep easily. But like I've told him, "I'll sleep when I'm dead, and if I don't sleep then THEN you can throw a fit."
Hey!
Yeah, I sleep plenty. I try to sleep 6-8 hours each night. Most nights I make it too! ;P
Peace,
tfad
Well, I get my 40 winks; ie 8 hours each night or I turn into a werewolf and bite off peoples heads and limbs and anything else nearby; replacing shredded doors and furniture is a drag; so I go to sleep ontime. Once in a while I make my savings throw and can get up in the middle of the night to comfort my little werewolf in training or get a snack for the she-wolf who is gonna drop our next litter soon. Sigh, getting old sucks, I used to play Ad&d starting Friday at 7pm and ending on Sunday at 10am non stop; go to church; go to chow and sleep all day and night and be chipper for Monday. Now our group starts at 7pm Friday; and by 10:30 most of us start to nod a bit while the young guy points and laughs. I think we all want to retire (fat chance of that) so we can start our games at 3pm and still get a good game in and get some sleep.
...but only so I wouldn't fall asleep in meetings anymore.
So you wouldn't lay there and drool "...mmm...brains...." 'zombie? :-D
I find that copious amounts of caffeine helps my sleepiness. But there really isn't any substitute for sleep.
I'm waiting for the thread which asks whether we get enough roughage.
lol :) we could start a thread on what snacks people eat during games and who falls asleep in them due to lack of sleep. hehe I had a gamer who was sitting on the top bunk of a bed drinking a beer; had it between his legs; fell asleep; let go of the beer; it summersaulted down to land neck down into his high topped boots; we all laughed as it went glug, glug, glug. To be fair we had not sleeped in a few days. Ah, Army life.
I don't sleep much, 5 hours in the morning MAX during the week and on weekend, I don't sleep at all... Weekends are MY time, I'm not going it waste it sleeping :)
Now that Trigun comes on The Koga go's to bed at about two in the morning, normaly he'd be asleep by midnight, and that was when he fealt like staying up..
However, my current adult watch-over-and-over-again is, and will probably always be, The Hunt for Red October.
"Ryan, some things in here don't react well to bullets".
I'd say 6-7 hours work days. 11-12 hours weekends.
I get 7.5 hours per night and closer to 9 on weekends.
6 hrs a night. I work seven days a week(overnight shift) so I tend to sleep at work when I dont watch ESPN. I work 12 hr shifts I sleep half watch 3 hrs of T.V. and I actually have about 3 hrs of "work" itself, god I love my job.
I average about 4-5 hours a night, usually going to bed at 1 am, reading for a half-hour, and waking at 6 for work. Call me a night owl!
Age is catching up on my habits fast however...
It used to be like 8 hours... like normal, but this quarter it will average around 6-7.
Hopefully that number will go back to 8 after the Tax session is over.
I had people waiting to get their taxes from 5:25 (we open at 6) until 8, and that was with two people working as fast as they could. It was crazy, because the last person had sat there for around an hour and a half just waiting for his turn.
Thanis on the other hand finds five hours just fine and often since I get up early now I will find that he had just started to go to sleep when my alarm to get up goes off.
And as for me, I sleep for however long I can find time for. My problem is waking up in the morning. Since I'm used to being perpetually tired, (and an insomniac) I can stay up almost indefinitely, but once I manage to fall asleep, I'm not getting out of bed until I have to (or get bored of sleeping or think of something better to do, like eating ice cream for breakfast)
I'd guess that I average 6 hours when I have to wake up before noon, and 9 when I don't.
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What is this...sleep?....you speak of?
Seriously, it's 2:00 am here, my head's in bits, I can't sleep, and I know there's a change and feed at @5-6.
After that, I wake up when I hear my daughter's music box or Dora the Explorer book.
Our D&D group has several parents, who are familiar with Dora, so it's become an in-joke, whenever I've a potion or piece of gear we need, that I can go "I've got something in my backpack....but I'll need your help to get it!", and they get the reference.
Or if I put something in my Heward's Handy Haversack, it goes "Yum, Yum, Yum, Delicioso!"
But, whatever you do, dont ask for THE MAP!
I get 6-8 hours of sleep per night on average.
5.5-6hrs. I try for more, but between work, play, family and life, there just isn't enough time in the day.
6-8 hours
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I really dont sleep. The closest i can get to describing it is to associate it with elven's reverie. I am aware of all things going on at all times yet, i am either in a lucid controlled consciousness or just plain straight 'out of the body.' I wouldnt have it any other way. It's crazy, every minute seems like a hour for it seems that i experience a whole adventure within that time. I wouldnt have it any other way. Besides, i've always felt that sleep was a waste of time anyway. Life is too much fun and i dont want to miss out on any of it. Hey, you guys asked.
Thoth-Amon
6-6.5 for 3-4 nights, then I need 7-8 at least one night.
I never function 100% properly, but I have adapted to a zombielike existence.
The Army helped some. No sleep for 8 weeks in basic.
Learned that you could get by on 3-5hrs a day huh? Except that 12 mile roadmarch was rough, i slept most of the time marching with a pack at 4-5mph. Then when we got back expecting sleep for our efforts at ~6am...told to clean equipment and no sleep ;(
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Man, they were gonna do us down to 25% the night before, but some guy got caught sleeping in his foxhole, so they had us at 50% the night before the road march. I think they just do that to everybody anyway though, just to mess with their heads.
That was a loooong time ago. They don't use the gun of Rambo at all anymore, do they?