What time do you go to bed and do you fall asleep right away?

[cantdrv55]

Wifey and I are night owls ever since our disco days. Bed time is still around midnight and we’re in our late fifties/early sixties. I can’t fall asleep until around 1230 AM and I wake up at 6:30-7. Any more sleep than that and I’d have a back ache. If I could go to bed earlier, I bet I’d be up around 5 am and would need a nap after lunch. I’d feel like an old fart then.

[LWJ]

Sleep and I are not on good terms these days.

I used to sleep like an absolute baby and rise and feel great.

Then I spawned a child or three.

Sleep has never been the same. Or very good!

I typically go to bed at 10. Am asleep in 45 seconds. Often wake around 3. Get up. Waste time on the internet for an hour. Back to bed. Up around 6.

But there are exceptions.

[Bill Douglas]

Yeah, me too. Bed at ten, fall asleep as my head hit's the pillow, then I wake up at 3 am or 4 am if I'm lucky. Then by the time it's 6:45 am I'm about ready for sleep

I can't have sleep ins as one of the dogs is diabetic and needs insulin at 7 am and 7 pm.

[fintstone]

I can usually go right to sleep at 3AM. Otherwise, It is difficult to sleep. I wake up between 8 and 9AM if I have nothing to do to get me up earlier. Sometimes I find myself up later if reading, watching TV or surfing the web...or working on a project in the house (the sun starts to come in the window). Then if I have nothing going on, I try to get to bed for a few hours. Otherwise, I just stay up. I get drowsy on those days if not busy but fall back into the 3AM routine the next day.

I also have a backache if I sleep longer than six hours (sometimes less). It used to be worse, but I got a sleep number bed and made it very firm.

[cabmandone]

I go to bed right after I wake up on the couch and realize it's around 10:30.

[porsche tech]

I go to bed at 10 PM and fall asleep right before my head hits the pillow. I get up at 5:30 ready to go. If I try to stay in bed longer than that, I think about all the stuff I could be doing and can’t fall back to sleep.

[Tim Hancock]

We go to bed at 10 on weeknights. Probably takes 15 minutes on average to fall asleep. Alrm goes off at 5:00am and I am at work by 6:00am. I would love to be able to stay up later but the 6:00am start time at work means I am always a tad low on sleep.

Jealous of retired folks who don't have to follow a rigid schedule.

[oldE]

With a granddaughter living with us, although we are both "retired ", our schedule is pretty consistent. Granddaughter in bed by 8. We are not far behind her at 9. Wife sleeps fitfully. I usually have no problems and am awake around 5:30. When I am up, I will feed the inside critters then get the wife's breakfast ready at the same time as mine, so when her alarm goes off at 6:30, she can wake up the little one and join me.
I am a morning person. The wife is better later in the day. I learned almost 50 years ago that whistling first thing in the morning was not conducive to a long and happy marriage.

Best
Les

[id10t]

Somewhere between 8pm and 2am, depending on if i napped that day, what else is going on, plans for following day, etc.

Big issue is that if I am woken up after 5-6 hours of sleep I can't go back to sleep and so may as well start my day. Yesterday and this morning both started for me at 3am....

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

We go to bed at 10 on weeknights. Probably takes 15 minutes on average to fall asleep. Alrm goes off at 5:00am and I am at work by 6:00am. I would love to be able to stay up later but the 6:00am start time at work means I am always a tad low on sleep.

Jealous of retired folks who don't have to follow a rigid schedule.

I'm jealous of people that need an alarm clock to wake up the same time every day. I haven't set an alarm for years but my wife has and my internal clock is set to that. I'm awake now before the alarm goes off.

[GH85Carrera]

I get to bed about 10:30, and falll asleep right away. I usually have to get up to pee around 3:30 and then sleep until my wife's alarm wakes me up. I bounce out of bed and ready for a shower and other bathroom activities.

I turn into a pumpkin by midnight is we are up late for some very unusual circumstance. I don't think I have seen midnight since 1999 was turning to 2000, and I stayed up to see the world collapse from the Y2K bug. Nothing happened and I went to sleep.

[masraum]

My wife and I are both natural night owls. If we didn't have responsibilities, we'd probably both be up until the wee hours of the morning and then sleep in.

Due to my job, I get up fairly early, 2-3 days a week that's 415am, and the rest of the week that's 630am. I probably get to bed between 8 and 9 on the nights that I'm getting up really early. On nights that I'm getting up later, I'm probably going to bed between 10 and 11. On the weekends, I usually sleep until sometime between 7 and 9, and usually go to bed between 11 and 1.

I generally fall asleep very quickly, minutes. Occasionally, I'll have a night where I have a hard time getting my mind to be still and it can take longer (sometimes much longer) to get to sleep, but that's rare, not even once a month, maybe a handful of times per year.

My wife has a horrible time getting to sleep. It always takes her forever to still her mind, and consequently, to get to sleep.

I've tried to do this a couple of times when I was having an issue and had good luck with it, cognitive shuffling. (technique for distracting your mind from the flow of thoughts).

[wdfifteen]

I've had sleep problems for 20 years. When I worked and had to get up at 5:00 I took sleep Ambien and drank wine and that didn't work out well. I had all kinds of problems, but I survived it.
For some reason after I retired I kept thinking I needed to keep a sleep schedule, and kept taking sleep aids.
After about a year it dawned on me that I didn't need to keep a sleep schedule and I stopped taking drugs. When I have a cocktail or glass if wine, I do not drink after 6:00 PM. I got to bed when I get sleepy, usually between 8:00 and 10:00. I wake up to pee every 2-3 hours and sometimes I get back to sleep right away, when I don't I get up and read. It was about 3 AM when I started to reply to this, but I got sleepy and went back to bed.
That's pretty typical. I go to bed, sleep a few hours, get up for a few hours, go back to bed. I usually get between 6 and 8 hours of sleep a night total. I feel much, much better the next day if I'm lucky enough to get 8.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I went to bed at 3am today and woke up at 7. Most days 11pm and 5am. Almost always asleep in minutes. GF can fall asleep in seconds.

Have had 2 26 hour days in the last 2 weeks with 3 hours of sleep. Those are brutal.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by oldE

With a granddaughter living with us, although we are both "retired ", our schedule is pretty consistent. Granddaughter in bed by 8. We are not far behind her at 9. Wife sleeps fitfully. I usually have no problems and am awake around 5:30. When I am up, I will feed the inside critters then get the wife's breakfast ready at the same time as mine, so when her alarm goes off at 6:30, she can wake up the little one and join me.
I am a morning person. The wife is better later in the day. I learned almost 50 years ago that whistling first thing in the morning was not conducive to a long and happy marriage.

Best
Les

Once I'm awake, I'm awake (whether that's 4am or 10am) and my mood is fine. My wife is NOT a morning person, so I mostly just leave her alone when she gets up other than getting her a cup of coffee or tea. I very much understand your realization.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

Have had 2 26 hour days in the last 2 weeks with 3 hours of sleep. Those are brutal.

Those 26 hour days are killers!

[JackDidley]

In bed a bit after 12AM. Some times asleep by 12:30. Sometimes not at all. Always up by 8:30. I usually get 6 1/2 to 7 hours of sleep. It is enough. A couple years ago I had surgery. They wanted me there early, 5 or 6 AM. I just stayed up all night. No way I was going to wake up at 4AM .

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Those 26 hour days are killers!

I never thought I could work 26 hours straight.

[LWJ]

I will say not having a grinding work commitment has really helped stress and sleep. Can’t recommend it enough.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

^^^

My problem is I enjoy it too much. And if I'm reason a car doesn't go to Amelia Island because of me, that's a problem. One car isn't but because of the upholsterers that are now 3 months in.

Other benefit is I'm 57 but feel like 40.