How much do you sleep when you are manic/hypomanic?

I actually sleep less when I'm hypomanic than when I'm manic.
Strangely enough, when I'm manic - I sleep about 7 hours. This is only a few hours less than my pre-medication self. I usually really burn myself out when I'm manic (intense exercise, floor pacing etc.) and have difficulty sleeping, but I usually get to sleep and stay asleep for a long time.
When I'm hypomanic I sleep 4-5 hours and spend most of that time on my computer doing work etc.
Do you sleep normally during your manias?

Funnily enough, the last time I went into hypomania before my major mixed episode/psychosis, I was sleeping a fairly 'normal' amount of 6 or 7 hours, which is partly what lulled me into a false sense of security. However, when I go full-blown manic, I tend to soar very high indeed, and psychosis is involved more often than not, so without meds, I often don't sleep at all. I have terrible memories, pre-diagnosis, of not sleeping for a week or two at its worst, and being floridly manic and psychotic. Not fun.

These days, I get in contact with my pdoc as soon as possible for a meds change, whenever I feel myself starting to go high, as I find prevention rather than cure is the best way of dealing with things.

Interesting timing for this question as I think my answer is changing. I am slightly hypomanic (long expansive episode) and was getting 4 to 6 most nights taking 75 - 150 mg of trazodone or about 3 or 4 with nothing. Last Thursday night I started Saphris at just 2.5 mg (half a 5 mg tablet) per night. Pdoc said take a whole tablet if that doesn't help you sleep. No need; with a half tablet I have been getting 6-7 a night, with the 6s coming when I stayed up a little late (my body clock rarely lets me sleep late in the AM). I wake up alert; this stuff is magic! Unfortunately, magic is expensive...

I'm much better than when I was a teen where I'd be up all night for several nights. Nowadays I have off and on occasions where I stay up like 3 extra hours.

On average, about 4 hours. I'll wake up at 6 am completely refreshed and ready to start my day- and I AM NOT a morning person, so waking this early is not normal for me.

Manic: 2-4 hours
Depressed: 2-4 days if someone will let me

I usually sleep about 7 hours also when on my euphoric states. But in my stable mood a sleep a lot - about 10-11 hours.

Rev678 wrote:Manic: 2-4 hours
Depressed: 2-4 days if someone will let me

That's pretty much me too

Maybe in the beginning of a mania, 5 or so hours. But,then I see my psych and get prescribed an anti-psychotic to help me sleep.

I have good meds at the moment so my recent behaviour has been modified for the better.
Previously and up to quite recently, my experience would be this. In full manic mode (an event)I would be in bed and 'asleep?' for 12 - 15hrs a day. If I then 'woke' up I could easily 'turn over and go straight back into 'sleep' mode for many, many more hrs. This 'event'could go on for weeks and even months - all very desperate - it has a name; I call it my 'Half World'. I have lived with BP for some 48yrs.
In hypo - things are a lot faster and last a shorter period. I am all of a buzz; talk too much, frenetic?, write huge screeds throughout the night. No sleep, straight into day - and on for what seems max of 3 days-ish before crashing.
Things seem a lot better. Currently, I dont have a fixed 'sleep block' - when I sleep keeps moving about from between 1900hrs to 0130hrs - I also find my head is too active to get to sleep immediately so takes a long time.Now sleep about 7hrs a night, which is good.