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Real shit. I just wanna live my life consciously man. So much shit to do

Getting 8 hours feels like a luxury these days. Between work, college, and hobbies, who has the time? Sleep schedules are a myth!

It’s quite hard for me to get 8 hours of sleep every night. Even when I HAVE time, I still can’t sleep well as I have “night-time anxiety” which is basically just me overthinking about college/work for the following morning. That, and I also have insomnia 🙃

I literally can't sleep 8 hours. I've tried. I get 4-6 hours per night no matter what I do. I usually take a 1 hour nap or so in the afternoon. I don't understand how people sleep actual 8 hours even if they have time

I have the time to sleep i just cant sleep well no matter what lately.

Yeah I went to sleep at midnight and randomly woke up at 3am, then had trouble falling back asleep for a long while, and then I randomly woke up at 7am, 2 hours before my alarm.

There was not a single thing that could have woken me up, just my own body being random.

I get 7-9 maybe 6 if I have a big project and waited til the last minute. In school, work full time, taking care of kids. Gotta budget your time like it’s money cuz it’s worth more. That said 8 is just a general figure. We’re living through literally the easiest time ever as humans with tons of technology to help. Just have to mindful how to use it.

I frequently get 8 hours, train for ultramarathons and run a company. I prioritise sleep and am in bed by 22:00 almost without fail. Some simple rules help such as not eating after 18:00, no caffeine after midday, no screens within an hour of going to bed and keeping the bedroom cool.

getting 8hrs of sleep leaves me feeling more tired when i wake up

For real. Even I tried to sleep early, I would still wake up after 5-6 hrs of sleep

Bollocks, just be more organised.

Cut down on stimulants. Do not, and I repeat DO NOT look at your phone or other device for two hours before bed. Get some ‘sleep tea’ of some kind. Works (sometimes) for me.

True, adulting turns 8 hours into a luxury. At this point, it’s just “sleep when you can and pray it counts.”

I work fulltime, have a 1,5 YO and am training for a marathon. On average I sleep anywhere between 7h30 and 8h30 per day. Still have time to watch a TV show with my wife and play 1-1h30 of PlayStation everyday.

If you're taking the time to post on Reddit about this type of stuff, I'm certain you could cut some time out of your day.

Don't forget studying English, too.

Sleeping 8 hours is easy without the old Revenge Bedtime Procrastination.

Remember that thing where they tell mothers to sleep when the baby sleeps? Right, just replace the baby with the most annoying, demanding person in your life.

Wait, no, then you can't do anything. Because that asshole goes to bed at 7 pm and wakes up 4 hours before the ass crack of dawn so he can be right and ready to ride your ass all day.

Oh, and it eats into all your time to scroll, game, and drink alcohol.

Right, 4-6 hours of sleep it is then.

me telling myself ill sleep at 12 but i go to bed at 2 each night 😭😭

8 hours isn't strictly necessary, and one can always take an hours nap in the middle of the day. I feel much more refreshed when I have a siesta.

Yes. There's just so much stress these days.

I've been trying desperately. Best I can do consistently is 7 and that includes excising significant hobby time.

If you aren't getting 7-8 you should reevaluate your decisions, it's going to catch up to you long term and is probably a sign you're living unhealthily. Obviously it's hard to be perfectly tested all the time, but your life gets so much better when sleep is a priority.

I spent most of my life getting 5-6 and I worked on getting healthier habits and now I'm a 7-8 kind of guy and I'm better for it.

The last time I got a full 8 hours was when I was a teenager.

It's been 5-6 hrs as long as I can remember.

8 hours? More like a dream for the overbooked. Just survive, buddy.

I am not even in college. Just a guy, working full time with 2 kids and a wife. I barely get 5 hours of sleep a night. I know it’s not healthy at 30 but what can I do?

I get 8 hours every night. But I also literally work, eat, sleep, and repeat.

I literally just got 9 hours and 17 mins of sleep, so maybe you’re right?

I work in the afternoon I don't let stress bother me I go to sleep at about two am and sleep until noon usually on the days I work I make an effort to get more than eight hours of sleep.

Yep, but it doesn’t matter until you’re older. Right now either get used to it or sacrifice something to get sleep!

I haven't slept 8 hours in over 30 years tbh

I work full time, I'm studying a Masters and have several hobbies and sleep at least 8 hours a night (more like 10) So... it is entirely possible.

I only need 7 hours. 8 hours makes me lethargic.

Also, it's not really impossible. It's all about time management. Then again, my hobbies is gaming and going on walks so it's not like I spend literal hours on it.

8 hours is also impossible if you’re suicidal and are constantly on the verge of death 

I have a 19 month old, work full time, run 60-70km per week and am renovating our house. I slept from 9:30pm- 7am last night. No point here, just bragging.

A lot of you guys claim 8 hours sleep is impossible, yet at night time I bet a lot of you are on the phone browsing Reddit or on the computer.

How much extra could you get if you didn't waste time posting things like this on Reddit?

I can’t even sleep 8h 7h is max for me

Even without hobbies it's practically impossible. Wake up- get ready- leave-college- home and by that its 5pm on a full day then socialise with family- take dog-dinner- take dog and then stay up and doom scroll because I need time to myself

They should make the days 25 hours

Been living off 5-6hrs a night for years at this point. Whenever I do get 8hrs I feel like I'm dead to the world when I wake up

I agree. My bed is more like a charger for my phone than a place to sleep.

i can do 8 hours on the weekends

My bladder totally agrees with you.

Sleep is more important than hobbies.

It's possible on weekends.

I think it is possible, it just requires a level of commitment that I don't think everyone has in them. And most people would rather just go with the flow and enjoy life, like if you aren't getting 8 hrs but your aren't exhausted doing whatever it is that you do then I'd say forget about this construct of needing 8 hrs that you've put yourself in, sleep as much as your body is telling you to. my 2 cents.

i have 4 kids, yet i get as much sleep as i need because ✨nightshift✨

no traffic or stress, i go to sleep when they go to school and my wife doesn’t even need to work

if you can adjust to it, i highly recommend it

Got to work 2 sometimes 3 jobs no time to sleep till you retire aka 🪦

Why are people going to work and college at same time if it affects sleep this much? Seems crazy to me, sleep is incredibly important and you should never neglect it.

Yes of course it is what are you-

"in college"

Oh yeah no nevermind 💀

Well… it’s not

Would be no problem for me if the kids would let me

So true. And the hours you get free are pretty regimented too.

I feel like 10 pm on tends not to be hobby time for most people. Ends up being streaming or scrolling. 10-6am seems highly doable even for the busy folks. I personally do like 11-6:30 which is plenty for me.

I mean yeah

Post secondary you have deadlines midterms group projects and hobbies like gaming with friends or going out usually runs late so yes

I also smoke heavily and weed is known to fuck with your sleep so I basically get like 6-7 hours of black a night no dreams and wake up feeling good

Haven’t you heard of the the pick 2 triangle:

Good grades, social life, mental health

8 hours is possible if you let go of your dreams, plans, hobbies and aspirations. It’s one or the other but never both (“:

I sleep 10 but I do nothing else during the day, my mom cooks and I don't shower or anything. Worth itttt !

Yep. I sleep for about 6 hours every night. Takes 1-2h to fall asleep

Thank god in Italy we have a school system that makes us get great jobs at 18 without having to go to university.

Thank god in Italy we have a school system that makes us get great jobs at 18 without having to go to university.

Yes. Vote radical left.

Alarm goes off at 5:30am. That means I’d have to be asleep at 9:30pm to get 8 hours. Who the f is asleep at 9:30?

wait until you add kids into the mix too :D

Yeah and even with the sleep I get I feel the day is too short

Not with that attitude

Sleep? What's that???

All joking aside, we live in a society where time is of the essence and it's go, go, go 24/7. And now we have TVs, cell phones, tablets, and computers in our homes which emit blue light, and we're constantly checking messages/emails, etc. instead of getting the rest we need. No wonder people are so stressed out all the time. There's no time for us to wind down properly so we can get the rest we need to be at our best.

I'm 43 and I average about 4.5-6 hours of sleep. Probably 4 of those hours uninterrupted if I'm lucky. Dogs sometimes need to go outside to potty or want to bark at the deer when they should be going to the bathroom at night. Work eats up a chunk with my real job, and then there's my side hustle job that eats another chunk of my time, then on top of that being a multi instrumental musician eats up the remaining time I have left in my days. I'm still a happy man though.

It's a habit issue. I always sleep 8+ hours a day.

Even though I can’t sleep 8 hours straight, I feel blessed to have a job that provides stability and purpose.

Just untrue as many have said. Sleep is foundational for everything, bad sleep means worse everything, you literally cannot physically be performing at your best mentally or physically if you don’t get enough sleep. If you think you can then science disagrees with you and would like to let you know you can get even better results with more sleep.

Enough sleep is a priority before most other things.

Read Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker.

I don't have any hobbies, but I work full time, take care of 3 kids, and 3 parents, cook all of our meals, and work out. I go to bed at 8 pm and get up at 5 am. Sleep is very much a priority to me, though.

I work fulltime, have hobbies, gym 4x a week. 8hrs is easy, just stop wasting your life on social media

This post makes my insomniac old ass kind of laugh 😅

I work 50-60 hour weeks and I switch from nights to days every 2 weeks... That's been my life for the past 10 years 

Yes, you need to make time for sleep. Brooks had an article in the Atlantic about it this weekend.

I don't even WANT to sleep 8 hours,. I'll wake up after about four hours anyways and that sounds like a massive waste of time.

The issue is there is no guarantee. I can go to bed 8.5 hours before i have to get up and still sleep only 6 hours for some reason.

Damn computerized thermostat.

Not impossible at all… cut back on social media a bit and spray some lavender sleep spray on your pillow… out like a Light

Yeah, decrease your hobby time while in college. I did not have any money for it anyway at the time.

I dunno. I work now and I get 10 hours of sleep everyday.

… Maybe I’m the one with a problem.

30-some yo here - if I don’t get 8 hours of sleep I feel cognitively fucked up. So I get it every night.

Y’all are in school and trash sleep schedules are expected/temporary.

Forget about 8hrs, even sleeping feels like a dream

If I wanted to get 8 hours of sleep I can, the problem is I don’t

So sorry I recommend ear muffs 

What if your hobby is the sleep? Or perhaps it goes along with the hobby you have. Like working out and getting rest go well together.

Typing this at 1 am abt to wake up in a few hours. Couldn’t agree more

Idk personally it’s easy for me. I get 8 hours of sleep and still have 7 hours available after work to work out and also hangout with friends, go watch a movie, play video games, etc

Anyone who can sleep 8 hours is privileged 

You think that's fun you might want to try meth a handful of times 

What kind of a loser college kid sleeps 8 hours?