How long can you sleep a day, at most?

[Heimrik]

I usually sleep like 8/9 hours a day, sometimes less. Now I'm beginning with exploring the new techniques of lucid dreaming, I wondered how long you can sleep every day at the most. I mean then that you could sleep for example 12 hours a day, but not for 3 days or something, but really always, or a long period of time.

[Kanano]

Oh, I regularly sleep 12 - 15 hours. My mental illness (bipolar) causes that. I've slept for a full 24 hours once, though not all at once, off and on. I was just too exhausted to get up. I don't even remember the last time I got the standard minimum of 8 hours only. I think you'd have trouble sleeping longer unless you had it too, as before it really hit me, I could only sleep ten hours a day maximum. --- Kanano's alternate account that'll be in service until I can do a proper password reset.

[Lucidness]

It must be annoying feeling tired all the time.

[Hyperborean]

I believe the longest I've slept is about eleven hours, or so. I don't think I'm able to sleep much longer than that. Strangely I tend to feel tired and unrested if I sleep all too much, which I have on some occasions in weekends. I think the limit on how much one can sleep heavily depends one's condition, whether it be by regular sickness or chronical illness.

[ExoByte]

It varies person to person. Presumably you could sleep all day.

[Kanano]

Oh it is, about 70% of the time I feel a bit tired. I'm type 2 bipolar, and that means major depressive mood swings. It has two levels, one is the slightly tired, which is usual, and the other is the level I was in when I slept for 24 hours. I've actually went to sleep only after six hours of being up, and I usually start yawning about two hours after I get up. But I stopped with that **** now, I make myself stay up at least sixteen hours and I stop myself from yawning if I can help it. You'd think, with all this talk of being tired all the time, that it'd be easy for me to fall asleep, but it can take me up to 4 - 5 hours to fall asleep. The only reason I fall asleep and get the right hours is because of my sleeping pill, which kicks in and pretty much knocks me out after 4 - 5 hours. That's actually the way my doctor knew to diagnose me as bipolar: the being unable to sleep. I went through ten days, about six months ago, and only got 30 hours of sleep, and that was in mostly intervals of 1 - 3. It was a horrible experience, I passed out from sleep exhaustion twice, and let me tell you, I still remember exactly what I dreamed, and they weren't pleasant. I'll just say that sleep deprivation makes it known in dreams. I also took home a nice sleep phobia that kicks in when I'm tired and can't fall asleep, though I've mostly gotten over that now, but it still rears it's ugly head occasionally. That's the main reason I wasn't on this site for 6 months: I just wanted to focus on getting to sleep, and sleeping right and didn't want the distraction of dreams. Though, dreams are now one of my main weapons in fighting the sleep phobia. Because I figured, I love dreams and if I get paranoid about sleep if I cant get it readily, then I can't have them. Oh, something I forgot to mention. This is somewhat relevant to the topic. The LEAST amount of time I've been asleep for is twenty minutes, because of the bipolar. And I actually had a dream that fit that whole span, though I don't remember it now. So, I guess you can fit a lot of dreaming into only twenty minutes. Though I thought going into R.E.M sleep took hours to do? There, there is a mini biography of me, if anyone cares enough to read it lol. ^_^