Comments on: What’s The Proper Amount Of Sleep Needed?

By: Oleg

Oleg — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:03:45 +0000

It varies from person to person. What you should do is time your sleep in cycles and see how many is right for you (wake up feeling refreshed and have enough energy to finish the day, given proper nutrition).

I can’t give you an exact number of REM sleep but know this: During the first sleep cycle, REM sleep only lasts for about 10 minutes. Each cycle afterwords, the stage 3 & 4 sleep length decreases and REM increases up until about 1 hour. That should let you guesstimate.

By: bartips

bartips — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:42:33 +0000

i was actually trying to see how much ACTUAL rem sleep you need to refresh properly. That would be cool if someone could answer that particular question.
thank you

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:18:29 +0000

i wish i could wake up for school with out an alarm ^_^ , if i tried I’d wake up at 3:00 and school would be over.I don’t get much sleep because i wake up at 5:30 on school days,only if i get a good nights sleep that is. I don’t have a hard time staying asleep or anything,it’s falling asleep for me,sometimes I’d go to bed at 9:30,but only fall asleep at 10:30 or even 11:00.

By: Oleg

Oleg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:34:06 +0000

Well, the average person falls asleep in about 15 minutes (this is healthy). Falling asleep in under 5 minutes is a sign of sleep deprivation and falling asleep after more time show’s that there is something preventing you from getting a full night’s sleep.

Generally, if you wake up naturally, without an alarm or any external disturbances (such as sunlight), you will wake up at the end of a cycle. From that, you can estimate how much sleep you got.

Dog’s in need of a walking you can’t do much about. I walk my dog on the rare night he begs to be to walked as well. But I find that I fall asleep really fast when I get back to bed.

In fact, its one method used to induce lucid dreaming… wake up in the middle of the night (usually closer to morning) and stay awake for an hour. When you go back to sleep, you go straight into REM sleep (which is where you gain your energy).

So the best advice is to try and wake up without an alarm. If you practice telling yourself when you want to wake up, your body does so for you and naturally waking up is much better than by alarm.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:49:37 +0000

Hmm… interesting. But what about taking into account the time it takes one to fall asleep? Sometimes it can take me an hour to fall asleep, but I never know how long it will take. And so it’s hard to exactly what is 9 hours after I fall asleep. Hard, if not impossible.

Plus I often wake up at night, usually because one of the dogs needs to go out or is just fidgeting. So it’s hard to factor that in too.

I do prefer 9 hours of sleep though, or even 10, on the days I can!