We’ll give you a clue: It’s not Tuesday.
Scientists say that adults should get around 7-9 hours of sleep every night.
Scientists, however, probably didn’t stay out until 6am after a heavy night on the beer on Saturday night, get a bad dose of the fear on Sunday and get two hours sleep on Sunday night.
A weekend like that is just one of the scenarios in which an average adult mightn’t get the recommended 50+ hours of sleep per week and why quite a lot of people get more sleep on some nights of the week than they do on others.
UK bed company Time4Sleep recently surveyed 1,000 people in the UK about their sleeping habits and found, unsurprisingly, that nearly a third of participants (31%) lost most sleep on a Sunday night.
It is also hardly surprising that only 3% of those surveyed said that they lost most sleep on a Saturday night.
There was also a knock-on effect to people losing most sleep on a Sunday night, as Monday and Tuesday were next on the list with 23% and 14% respectively, with a steady decline from the middle of the week until the cycle starts again on the following Sunday night.
You can see the percentage for each day below.
Monday – 23%
Tuesday – 14%
Wednesday – 10.5%
Thursday – 9.5%
Friday – 9%
Saturday – 3%
Sunday – 31%
If the survey was conducted in Ireland next week, we’d suggest that Wednesday (the day after Paddy’s Day) would figure quite prominently, before that familiar Sunday night feeling returns the weekend after next.
Hat-tip: i100
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