60 and I pee when I decide to. I've done 50 mile rides w/o peeing. I've always needed 8-10 hrs. sleep.

I wish I needed less sleep, but I seem to need more. At one time I would have been fine with 5 or 6 hours a day, but now that amount of sleep leaves me tired. Unfortunately I am a born night person who works days, which doesn't help. I feel much better on a schedule that lets me go to bed just before dawn and get up around noon.

I need much more sleep than I used to need when I was younger. At 64, I need at least eight hours but rarely get it because I sleep for shorter periods of time at a stretch. I wake up at 3 or 4 AM and lie awake for an hour or two, then fall back asleep into a deep sleep until 8 or 8:30. If I get up at 5 or 6 I'm tired for the rest of the day even with seeveral naps. When I manage to get my eight hours I still nap two or three times during the day. When I was young I could funtion perfectly well on five or six hours of sleep.

Don't know if will have an effect but over here we have the "New" low energy light bulbs. Apparently they throw out a light in the Blue spectrum and that is not conducive to sleeping well. Spend an evening with the "Blue" lights and you will have trouble sleeping. Maybe that is why I sleep better in the summer where I wear myself out with evening rides and lots of gardening.

This was highlighted on a programme today about cost saving in the home and came up as a recorded fact about energy light bulbs

Wow my sleeping schedule is similar to yours, asleep at 10:30 - 11:00. Wake up at 3-3:30 I'll read or watch some tv then back to sleep and up again at 5 am. I've lost about 20 lbs this year and I don't need as much sleep. Also I drive my family crazy on vacations because by they time they get up around 7:30 or 8, I've already been up for a couple of hours and am ready to get going.

I don't know how much sleep you need but 8 hours seem too long for me.

This is pretty much my routine. The other thing I've noticed is that once I'm out of the house I can go all day without feeling tired. But, if I come inside during the day I start feeling tired and need a nap.

I can usually sleep a bit longer in the morning when the time is available, but only maybe 30 minutes or so. Too much longer and I just get more lethargic. There's definitely a sweet spot for me in terms of sleep time.

I pretty much have a built-in alarm clock, but I'm not "instant-on". I don't take forever, but I want a little while. Then again, how quickly I'm ready to go is strongly related to where I'm going... to work and I'm slow, on vacation and it's a matter of seconds!

I'm generally a 6 hour sleeper, but it almost always takes a while to go to sleep. Unless I'm reading that is... then it's minutes. I've heard that's one symptom of chronic sleep deprivation: Not being able to read without falling asleep. May be true.

I've heard that men are afraid of comittment... not this one! When I commit to a nap, it's for a couple of hours at least. Trouble is, I awake (if you want to call it that) so groggy that it takes another hour just to get functional again. I feel like I'm drugged when I'm in that state.

Not a commitment problem. I sleep 20-30 minutes because that's all I can sleep, and, once again, I am instantly awake, ready to start a new "day."

But not too long for most. I've done a fair amount of reading about sleep. Obviously there are many that can thrive on 4-5 hours of sleep, but 8 hours or more is what the majority of people need.

Me, I try to get 8 hrs. a night, though I think I need more. I can get by on less than 8 hrs. but if it happens a lot it catches up with me and I'll need some extra sleep, whether it be a daytime nap or a longer time in bed at night.

I've been sleeping and aging for as long as I can remember.

So far, getting older (bout to be 53) hasn't affected my NEED for sleep, just how much I actually GET.

The last couple years, I haven't had more than 4-5 hours at a stretch, and going back to sleep is a toss-up.

Take last night -- since I almost never get laid down before midnight, 1:30AM isn't too extreme for a Friday night (I don't work Saturdays, faith-based). I was up at 5AM to drain the bladder, again at 10AM. Typical. During the week, when I have to be up and around before 6AM, I still can't get to sleep before midnight, often closer to 1AM. So, I NEED that morning ride just to function.

As often as not, evening 'naps' give me a headache. I know I get grumpier with the kids.