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I'm 17 and I get between 3 and 7 usually on weekdays, which my body has adapted to do over time. Probably rather unhealthy. On the weekends I get much more. I'm

by brackin 15y ago

I'm 17 and I get between 3 and 7 usually on weekdays, which my body has adapted to do over time. Probably rather unhealthy. On the weekends I get much more. I'm most productive in the early hours of the morning which is why i've turned out this way.

zyfo 15y ago
Sleeping more than usual on the weekends is usually a sign of sleep deprivation, though it often doesn't feel like it. I used to feel like I was doing alright on ~6 hours but I often slept 8-10 on weekends. Since then I've started to wake up the same time everyday and there's definitely a difference.
- lawn 15y ago
  I can only echo this. I was always staying up late before school, until 12-1 and waking up at around 7 on weekdays. When I got home I almost always took a nap, from half an hour to a full occasionally. On weekends I stayed up late too, but then I slept a lot longer so I got about 10 hours or more. Now when me and my girlfriend lives together I've been forced to adjust and I often go to sleep at 10, read a bit before sleep and wake up after about 8 hours even on weekends. I feel a lot better now and I wouldn't want to go back to how I had it only a year ago. I haven't really thought about sleep deprivation but in retrospect it kinda fits.
  - brackin 15y ago
    Sadly my situation is worse. 3am is probably average. I think I need to be more strict with time management on projects and also just go to sleep and maybe get up earlier, before school.
brador 15y ago
3-7? Are you crazy? Your body hasn't adapted to anything, you just don't realise the effect it's having on your learning capacity. Get your sleep kid, trust me, it pays off.
codejoust 15y ago
Just a warning: I'm the same age and lack of adequate sleep came back to bit me hard last semester. (Getting about 4.5-7 hours of sleep every day, working out a lot, school, programming). It took me a long time to recover from some sickness and that required some sleeping - now things are so much easier / faster than before. The difference is incredible in terms of focus and work done. Now I'm getting about 6.5-8.5 hours of sleep, and it's much better. I still need to be better in terms of going to sleep, but going to sleep at 10:30-11:30 and waking up at 6-7 isn't bad at all.
arthurschreiber 15y ago
For the last 3 years, I was visiting a cooperative university where you work half of the semester as a regular employee of a company and studying the other half of the semester. During the theory semester, I was sleeping between 3 to 4 hours on weekdays, leaving home somewhere around 5:40 in the morning and sometimes arriving at home at 8:00 in the evening, eating, and then hitting the gym for one hour. As long as I was able to get some sleep on the train commute, I was actually able to cope with that tiny amount of sleep pretty well, I think. Looking back at that time, it might very have been the most productive I had yet. I felt sooo much better getting up at 4:30 in the morning than I feel now when I get up at 6 or 7 (or even later).

by brackin 15y ago

zyfo 15y ago

Sleeping more than usual on the weekends is usually a sign of sleep deprivation, though it often doesn't feel like it. I used to feel like I was doing alright on ~6 hours but I often slept 8-10 on weekends. Since then I've started to wake up the same time everyday and there's definitely a difference.

lawn 15y ago
I can only echo this. I was always staying up late before school, until 12-1 and waking up at around 7 on weekdays. When I got home I almost always took a nap, from half an hour to a full occasionally. On weekends I stayed up late too, but then I slept a lot longer so I got about 10 hours or more. Now when me and my girlfriend lives together I've been forced to adjust and I often go to sleep at 10, read a bit before sleep and wake up after about 8 hours even on weekends. I feel a lot better now and I wouldn't want to go back to how I had it only a year ago. I haven't really thought about sleep deprivation but in retrospect it kinda fits.
- brackin 15y ago
  Sadly my situation is worse. 3am is probably average. I think I need to be more strict with time management on projects and also just go to sleep and maybe get up earlier, before school.

brador 15y ago

3-7? Are you crazy? Your body hasn't adapted to anything, you just don't realise the effect it's having on your learning capacity. Get your sleep kid, trust me, it pays off.

codejoust 15y ago

Just a warning: I'm the same age and lack of adequate sleep came back to bit me hard last semester. (Getting about 4.5-7 hours of sleep every day, working out a lot, school, programming). It took me a long time to recover from some sickness and that required some sleeping - now things are so much easier / faster than before. The difference is incredible in terms of focus and work done. Now I'm getting about 6.5-8.5 hours of sleep, and it's much better. I still need to be better in terms of going to sleep, but going to sleep at 10:30-11:30 and waking up at 6-7 isn't bad at all.

arthurschreiber 15y ago

For the last 3 years, I was visiting a cooperative university where you work half of the semester as a regular employee of a company and studying the other half of the semester. During the theory semester, I was sleeping between 3 to 4 hours on weekdays, leaving home somewhere around 5:40 in the morning and sometimes arriving at home at 8:00 in the evening, eating, and then hitting the gym for one hour. As long as I was able to get some sleep on the train commute, I was actually able to cope with that tiny amount of sleep pretty well, I think. Looking back at that time, it might very have been the most productive I had yet. I felt sooo much better getting up at 4:30 in the morning than I feel now when I get up at 6 or 7 (or even later).