We are pretty much the same Penny...... especially my husband. He is always up during the night.... many nights I wake up and force myself to go back to sleep so I can have some sort of pattern. This having to sleep 8 hours a day is not right.... and we have been brainwashed into thinking we have to have 8 hours sleep straight a night. I have never been able to sleep more than 2-3 hours at a time.... ever! It use to drive my mother crazy when I was a kid. My children are all the same!

Pen

True Angel wrote:
[quote]They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.


Whoa, that sounds like my current sleep cycle!