CSampson

Depriving yourself of sleep can be pretty detrimental to your health but everyone is different. I used to think that getting less than 7 hours a night was terrible for you because that is what I had read and been told for as long as I can remember.
Then I went and lived in Japan on two separate occasions; the Japanese do not subscribe to the Western views of what defines healthy sleep patterns. Almost everyone I met slept less than 6 hours a night and most considered anything more than 5 to be wasteful. This was true for everyone from college students, who have about twice as much work to do as the typical American university student, to businessmen and housewives.
What I found to be most interesting was that we associate lack of sleep with poor health and loss of productivity among many other others. Yet we, as a country, acknowledge the people of Japan to be among the healthiest and most productive in the world. You might rightly argue that the greater life expectancy and lower levels of health problems are largely due to diet and exercise (I wholeheartedly believe it is).
My point is that, in my view, the country serves as one huge case study which highlights the fact that you should not worry too much about the timing and quantity of sleep you get. Do what you feel is necessary and make sure that you fuel your body properly - you will do just fine!
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fvaldes

bed around 1am to 5am.. wake up from 9am to 12pm ... usually sleep a full 8 hours.. just on different schedule.

To stay awake nothing beats this:

FlatLine

Have you gone through the Barney phase yet, that's a fun one!

Bed 5a-6a up at 11am-12noon.

I have 3 kids and a wife who is a saint (let's me sleep as much and whenever I want)

xentech

However much sleep I get I always seem to wake up tried and be pretty tired througout the day. Maybe I have diabetes But usually I sleep at 11 and wake up at 7. If I worked full time in AM I would sleep at 3-4am and wake up at 12 because I work much better in the early hours.

junkee

I dunno why, but im most productive after 10-11pm and in the morning. between midday-noon I just dont get shit done...

sleep: 2am-11am

nvanprooyen

I hear ya. Except it's "Jack's Big Music Show" here.