Knowing what time it is when you wake up and ageing

[OnTheBanks]

I always used to be able to guess the time pretty accurately when I woke in the night. But lately I find I'm often way out, and think it's something to do with ageing. Anyone have any experience of this?

No.
I mean, I don't have a clue before I open my eyes and then the clock radio on the bedside table tells me.
But that has always been the case.

I can still do it pretty well and am over 60. Not sure this helps

I can still do this and I'm nearly 60.

I don’t really have a clue and I’m 25

I can do it pretty well (mid 50s) but we don't have blackout curtains which helps, and I'm too short-sighted to see what it says on the radio alarm, I'd have to pick my phone up and unlock it close to my face to find out. I'm the same during the day, I always have a pretty good idea what time it is.

Once I no longer had little children walking me at godforsaken o'clock, and my body had a chance to settle back into a sensible circadian rhythm, I found that my natural waking time was about 7.30am. When I went to sleep did not have much effect on my waking time, unless I went to sleep extremely early or late (before 9pm/after 2am). I could always tell whether I had woken early or slept in, and had a sense of what time I had woken. I feel it even became more accurate with age.

Until Covid. Now I wake at all sorts of hours, and never have any accurate sense of what time it is when I wake. It rather reminds me of being a teenager and really struggling to get up for school. A sense of being all at sea, timewise.

I'm early 50's wake up a couple of times a night normally for the loo! I sometimes have a surprise at the time. Love waking up at 2 am and getting snuggled back down- less so when I wake up 20 mins before my alarm! We still have a digital alarm/radio (radio does not work anymore) but I like to see the time easily in the night.

Well I can still, sometimes to the minute, and I'm mid 60s. I'm not a good sleeper and frequently wake multiple times, it still shocks me that I usually know what time it is before I check my phone. Nothing to do with the light as I've got blackout blinds🤷

I think the answer lies in the bladder 😂?

I'm late 60's and I can guess within 10 minutes , so no it's not anything to do with ageing imho.

I'm usually pretty good at guessing, and I'm 64. I can't see why aging would have an effect.

OK interesting, I wonder why I've got so much less accurate then? Ageing was just a guess. Everything else had gone to hell in a handcart so seemed a good guess