According to Google, people, and many other ‘sources’, people need, on average, 8 hours of sleep. Maybe some sleepless students and adults need to finish their work and get less than the rest of us. But is that the case? Do we only need 8 hours of sleep? If not, do we need more, or even less?
Sleep is a crucial part of everyone’s day, it’s a part where you can rest you mind and body, and be at peace. Sleep deprivation will make your mind go blank, go slow, go “dull”, to put it mildly, and possibly give you dangerous diseases like Alzheimer’s and heart disease. And some advertisements, “You can only live seven days without sleep.”
8 hours seems like a long time, which it is, but not necessarily long enough for you mind to recover. The amount of sleep for people ranges due to their personal needs or problems. For babies and infants, they need 11-18 hours, 7-11 hours for teens, and 5-9 hours for seniors above the age of 65.
So, statistically, the average of all those hours is 12 hours, which is a very healthy amount of sleep, if I do say so myself. I try my best to get at least 10 hours of sleep on a school day, and 12 hours on weekends, so I partially fit in the “criteria”. But this just goes to prove that 8 is mainly in the range, but it’s still on the lower half of the spectrum for teens and children.