Sleep habits. What are your requirements?

[Neshanic]

I have to have a cold room, a comforter over me, except my legs, and the ceiling fan going. Cold is 70 in the summer AC, no heat on in the winter.

[SarahB]

1. Total fatigue.

It's rare I can ever fall asleep before 1:30am. I'm usually up at 7:30 too, but my body seems to be ok with that. I'm a night owl. Always have been. When I'm stressed, I'm a massive insomniac.

[bigwillq]

6. Hey Sarah

I get bouts of insomnia too but I think I cause it. I just flick and flick that TV and I just watch it all night.

With work and going to the bar, I usually don't get home most nights till 1 or 2 so I'm still kind of hyper cause of that. But I usually get up relatively early like 9 or so. I have no kids and I don't work until late afternoon so I guess I have the right to sleep in.

Does anything help your insomnia.

[SarahB]

10. That's what my husband says

Who ironically does sleep studies at times for work. Supposedly, I just need a better routine. I think I'm just a little hyper because I've been like this since I was a kid. I'm not even tired really. I think maybe I just am able to pack in plenty of good REM in those 6 hours.

[bigwillq]

11. I'm with you, I don't need much sleep

But I have the lucky fortune of being able to take little cat naps during the day before I go to work. I bet you don't have that luxury. It does help for me those little naps, like 10-15 minutes at a time.

But I can go with only 5-6 hrs. a night and still function well. Sometimes even 4.

[givemebackmycountry]

8. COLD

I love it in the fall and winter.
When it's 40 and below.
Here in Kansas City it's tolerable in the fall and winter.
Spring is hit and miss.
Summer....?
God maybe 80 or 90 or 100+
I'm a New York City boy and I can't handle that.
Yeah, I know it gets hot in NYC but not for as long or as hot as it does in KC.
And not nearly as humid.

I really love it when it's cold and crisp and clean.
I like to burrow down in my king sized water bed, the temperature set at about 75.
I don't understand how people can sleep in a water bed that's got the heater turned up to about 95.

That's like sleeping on a bed of coals.

Give me an open window.
40 degrees.
Dug under a comforter like an Alabama tic.

God help you if you have to get up in the middle of the night and hit the bathroom.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Duncan Grant]

15. Hi givemebackmycountry, welcome to DU!

Former KCMO area guy here! Nice to see more people from NW Missouri are showing up at DU lately! :hi:

[pmbryant]

2. Knee pillow

Some white noise from a fan or small fountain helps also, but is not essential. The most important requirement, though, is at least 7 hours, preferably 8.

--Peter

[bigwillq]

3. 4 pillows, a blanket

a fan on (except in the real cold winter), and I must sleep with the TV on the entire night.

[bratcatinok]

4. Summer - Room has to be cold (70 is good)

oscillating fan has to be on to provide white noise, neither fiance or I snoring. I use a lightweight cotton blanket and my ears have to be covered.

Winter -
The heater is set at 50 when a hard freeze is forecast, otherwise, no heat for me and fiance can turn his part of the electric blanket on. Still use the fan for the noise and to move the air around.

No lights, not even a nightlite.

[Insider]

5. 2 pillows, and cover or sheet on top

television w/sleep timer, or another person.

[Wapsie B]

7. Cool bedroom in the summer

with a fan blowing on me to move the air. A nice warm quilt in the winter with the heat around 68. Too cold and I can't sleep either.
Can't sleep till after 1 AM. Oh and gotta have my CPAP. Throw the mask on and pretty soon I'm fast asleep.

[Deja Q]

9. White noise.

I need noise!

A man over me is nice too. Even in the summer. Oddly, human warmth isn't bad, even when the humidity is 400%...

[gristy]

12. just a sheet on warm nights in the summer - I don't like ac on all

night. A fan in the summer. One or two blankets in the winter. And a cat. Love the cat.

[Droopy]

13. I can sleep just about anywhere

But I need lots of sleep. Eight hours at a minimum. I sometimes sleep twelve hours.

It does have to be a comfortable temperature, and I sleep best with two pillows, the sheets and a comforter. But I've been known to sleep half the night on the couch with my regular clothes on.

[Ilsa]

14. 75 or less, fan is nice,

sheet and light blanket, 7-8 hours helps me function better mentally, emotionally and physically, and I'm practically so out of it I might wet the bed (just kidding. I get up for that.)