I try to get 8hrs in.

usually 4-5 hours.

On an average, I get about 8-hours of sleep each night. This is not planned, but only the result of the sleeping extremes that exist; sometimes I sleep for only 4-5 hours, sometimes 12-13. It depends.

I live on a rather strange sleep cycle (if you can call it a cycle, as it has no defined begin-end point) I work from home as a programmer and set my own hours; I am currently working for a company in the early-development stages of a video game. This is wonderful but it fuels my erratic sleep cycles-- once I begin something I cannot stop easily until I at least understand or finish a healthy portion, until I hit a goal point for that evening.

I usually stay up until 5 P.M. (East Coast Time) then sleep until I wake-up, sometimes only after a few hours, sometimes very late. Time has ceased to exist for the most part. This is a great freedom, but it can be unhealthy after a while I believe.

I love to sleep, but I hate going to bed. My ideal hours of sleep would be 10-hours. With this I feel most rested.

Regards,
sharky_machine

Anything over 6 hours, continual sleep is a bonus for me :!:

I try to get 9 hours. However, when I'm working on a new feature for DaniWeb, or bug fixing, or just in the middle of something, I can't stop until it's done ... and have been known to pull one too many allnighters because of it. The problem, it seems, is that I always seem to come up with my best ideas right before bedtime, and I don't sleep until I've implemented the idea. My longest time up at once coding was roughly 36 hours, the time it took to code the blog and code snippet sections, start to finish.

Hi all,

Well, what can I say, I am filled with ambivelance, a part of me feels good that i'm not alone but at the same time I feel bad for all the people who are not getting the rest they deserve.

Sharky - I used to date a guy who was in to programming and he like you worked from home, it was madness to say the least, he became obsessed with his work, sadly he is not in the best of health, the result being high blood pressure, chronic insomnia and physical pains. You work to hard and need to "learn how to love going to bed"

Dani- What a cool name you have! I love it. You are very young and have your whole life ahead of you, don't kill yourself over any work.

The problem we have in America is that we are an industrialized nation that focuses way to much on "production" and as a result we are unable to find that critical balance between work, joy, family and fun. 36 hours girl? I can't even imagine what your stomach and head must have felt like?

As for myself, I need to find a way to get 9 hours, afterall, paying with your health is a pretty hefty price if you ask me......Justine

I usally go to sleep around 3AM or 4AM and I wake up at around 11-12 I find it is much more relaxing to work on my web sites in the morning with less disturbances and it is so much quieter.

8 - 9 hrs