Page 9 | How old are you and what time do you go to bed?

defoneedanamechange · 2024-10-13T19:30:07+00:00

For context: I'm 36, mum of three (youngest is 2.5), work four days a week. Im also someone who needs a lot of sleep. So... introductions over. I'm in bed for 8/8.30 and asleep 8.30-9 every night. I then get up at 5.30/6 with my toddler. Aibu to ask your age and when you go to sleep?

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 13/10/2024 22:56

41 - Usually go up at midnight on a work night, will stop reading at 1am. Don't have to be up till 8.20 though so it's a good 7 hours sleep, never needed more than that.

Weekends are usually about the same though sometimes I'll stay up till about 3am.

Already in bed tonight though, spent today with the worst hangover I've had in a decade and I'm done!

TubeScreamer · 13/10/2024 22:56

53

bed 11ish, read until 11:30-12
alarm 6:30

as I’ve got older I don’t need as much sleep. I never sleep for 8 hours unless ill or jet lagged.

PickAChew · 13/10/2024 22:51

Mid. 50s, young adult children, just after midnight. An early night never results in longer sleep for me.

fallenbranches · 13/10/2024 22:50

Between 11pm-12am. I would love to go to bed earlier as I wake up at 6.30am but the evening is the only time I get alone time.

Plainer · 13/10/2024 22:48

WhimsicalGubbins76 · 13/10/2024 22:35

Why is this thread filled with people judging and criticising others for what time they choose to go bed 🤣🤣 some of you could literally start an argument in an empty room.
To all of you that go bed before 10pm, you do you. If it works for you, great

Really? I haven't read any/many posts like that at all. There's a lot of 'wow, I'm surprised/blimey, you lot go to bed early/similar, but that's not judgemental - its just regular chat. A couple of slightly critical comments maybe, but that's all that I can see. Who's arguing?

Charlize43 · 13/10/2024 22:47

57 Normally past midnight and up at 6.15 for my coffee.

I think as you get older you sleep less as you can see that time is running out and that there's still lots of bars, pubs, restaurants and clubs that you haven't been to (don't even get me started on foreign travel) - certainly in London and that's just in the central one zone area. To think I might only have 20 years left now!

There'll be plenty of time to sleep when I drop dead. Martha Graham was right: Tiredness is just a state of mind.

Teachymummy · 13/10/2024 22:42

Almost 40.

I aim for asleep by 1130 on a school night. Awake at 6 on school days up at 6.10.

Id like to be in bed earlier but by the time the teenagers are in bed and I've had a shower it's almost 11 anyway

Timelash · 13/10/2024 22:37

WhimsicalGubbins76 · 13/10/2024 22:35

Why is this thread filled with people judging and criticising others for what time they choose to go bed 🤣🤣 some of you could literally start an argument in an empty room.
To all of you that go bed before 10pm, you do you. If it works for you, great

I know, it’s truly weird 😂

WhimsicalGubbins76 · 13/10/2024 22:35

Why is this thread filled with people judging and criticising others for what time they choose to go bed 🤣🤣 some of you could literally start an argument in an empty room.
To all of you that go bed before 10pm, you do you. If it works for you, great

Susieblue18 · 13/10/2024 22:34

55 and usually asleep by 00.30ish. Set my alarm for 7.20am

walkingnightmare · 13/10/2024 22:29

I'm mid fifties and bed around 11.00. So many people here saying they go to bed at a certain time, but they've posted after the time they say! Are they sleep posting or do they mean they go up to bed then, but actually spend hours on MN instead of going straight to sleep?

blacktreacles · 13/10/2024 22:29

31,midnight, get up when my baby wakes about 6.30

doodleschnoodle · 13/10/2024 22:27

I am 38. I usually go to bed about 11pm and am up around 7ish usually on non work evenings. On my three work evenings, I'm in bed around midnight-1am.

Slothfully · 13/10/2024 22:24

Do you all go to bed so early because your life is empty and the evenings a nothing?

Unless you, whose life is so full that you're spending your evening sniping at strangers on an online forum.

Doubledded123 · 13/10/2024 22:22

Yes I'm shocked too. I'm usually mopping floors
Wiping the kitchen
Folding washing til 9! Full-time job single parent

ZippyDenimBear · 13/10/2024 22:21

In bed at 9 or 9.30pm.

Asleep about 12.30am. Awake anything between 8 and 9.

Threeboystwocatsandadog · 13/10/2024 22:20

60, any time between 1:30 and 2:30 am. I don’t sleep until after 4. I’m retired so can get up any time I like and often do!

Doubledded123 · 13/10/2024 22:20

53- single parent
Bed 10pm asleep 11pm
Up 645 on weekdays ... msybd 8am on a weekend

Things might change if I met someone worth staying in bed with.

Pllystyrene · 13/10/2024 22:20

39 and 9.30pm normally but I have a newborn who won't follow any kind of routine at the moment.

Joycedelight · 13/10/2024 22:19

Early 40s. Go to bed at 11pm , alarm goes off at 5.50am. I'm shocked by some of these early bedtimes. How do you have a life going to bed so early? Do you not have hobbies, friends to see, exercise or housework to do?

Musiclover234 · 13/10/2024 22:16

45 work 4 days fulltime hours( healthcare)
in bed by 10:30 latest…. asleep either within 10 minutes or hours later (insomnia issues) no kids

Giggorata · 13/10/2024 22:15

Nearly seventy, retired and few obligations. Between 1 am and 3 am, usually and rise around 9/10 am the following day. Sometimes an afternoon nap, of around half an hour.

One of the best things about retirement has been reverting to the semi nocturnal way of life that I had in my youth.

lucya66 · 13/10/2024 22:14

Bed 9.45-10.30

up at 6.30

I like bed and sleep. Can’t tolerate late nights.

Mrsrivella · 13/10/2024 22:14

Nearly 52. Normally in bed 10
ish, sleep by 10.30, up at 6.15. Occasionally revert to teenage self and bed around 2 am, still wake at 6.15

Timelash · 13/10/2024 22:14

45, usually between 11pm and midnight.

Always up by 7:30am, and 5:30am twice a week for gym sessions at 6am.