8h? Average? Hard to believe that's a modern number. Think of all the memes those poor bastards are missing out on.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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Those are rookie numbers.
Math checks out.
8hrs * 365 days * 48 years = 140160 hours
140160 hours / 24 hours / 365 days = 16 years total slept
WTF planet are you on where 16 days == 140,160 hours? 🙃
The planet where I worked 12 hours and shouldn't have been on social media doing math right before going to sleep.
I can either sleep 3.8 hours in any given 2 day period or I can sleep 28 hrs straight, there is no in-between.
While we're at it, how many hours y'all sleep without interruption? I'm screaming SCORE! if I make it 4-5 hours, like, oh thank god. Then I'm up and down for the next 8 hours. Despite being relatively fit, I'm in bed 12-hours a day.
I got problems with kratom and beer, also middle-aged, so I gotta pee a lot. Last time I slept well was working my ass off at Lowe's. And I do mean working my ass off in the outdoor garden center, in the spring. One thing top of mind as I stomped out, "This is gonna hit your health." OTOH, I can get out of bed without limping, so I got that going for me.
Jesus. How's that for a cry for help?
I got hooked on kratom few years back when I used it as a benzo substitute. It's better than benzos but still no joke. You don't realize until you're well into full blown addiction because the effects are so subtle. It started messing with my sleep and my mood, similar to opioids, so in the end I had to quit. The good news is the withdrawal isn't too bad. I'm now back to being able to just lie down and sleep instantly but it took a while.
Weird enough, unlike caffeine, I can be hyped up on kratom, read my book and fall asleep. But yeah, it makes me easily angered.
I get zero withdrawal, the addiction comes in where I'm laying in bed exhausted thinking, "Man. Just get up and pop 4 and you'll be awake and enjoying your day."
Last time I quit I went three weeks binging cheapo energy shots. Talk about withdrawal! The headaches were crippling for 2 or 3 days.
Well, somebody out there is getting 46,000 hours every day.
from Feb 2020 until December of 2024 I slept on average 3.5 hours every night.
that means I roughly slept 213 days out of 1460 days or roughly 14.6% of the time.
Why so little sleep?
covid + software dev + abusive boss
8 hours a day would amount to one third of our entire existence.
Except on leap years.
Bruh, I work 3rd shift and have ADHD. I'm lucky to get 5 hrs of real sleep without getting wasted.
I'm in my mid-40s but had tons of sleep issues (both because I didn't stay asleep long and working multiple jobs at another point). I'd be curious to know how much I slept.
I haven't slept for 16 years. Because that would be too long.