What time do you go to bed/wake up

[MrsMammy]

I go to sleep at around 11pm ish (tonight is a late night for me) and wake up around 7-8am. I have a toddler with type 1 diabetes and my sleep is often disrupted if he has a low during the night. What is your usual fall asleep and wake up times, also does anyone else have issues like this and if so what causes the sleep disruption. Just a light hearted topic

My sleep and wake times move roughly an hour ahead each day because I have a non-24 hour circadian rhythm.

Yesterday I went to bed at about 11.30am and got up about 8pm. Today it’ll be more like 12.30pm and 9pm I guess.

Asleep just after my little one's midnight meds and position change, do another position change at around 4am then awake for 6am medications. Some nights he will sleep all night and others he's awake any time from 11pm onwards.

This must be very hard on you, sending lots of love for you and your little one xx

‘sleep about 4 up about 6:23

Love how specific your wake up time is, do you set an alarm?

No, I’ve woken up at that time regardless for 26 years

I’m a night owl nowadays! When working I used to get up around 6.00 to be in work shortly after 7 ( to miss rush hour traffic and have a quiet hour at school catching up before staff and students came in!). As a result, I tended to collapse in bed well before 10pm! Every holiday I caught up with my sleep with late mornings.

But now, my body clock is to not feel tired until 2 am or later and not get up until 10 am at the earliest. If I have an early appointment, I get up after just a few hours sleep but will have a nap in the afternoon if I feel tired.

There are some days when I go past the point of feeling tired and am still awake at 6am listening to the birds and the first planes leaving Manchester Airport! Then again, every week or so I sleep late, sleep in the afternoon and go through the night from 9 pm ish.

So I have an awful pattern, no routine times but I don’t sweat about it as I reckon over the course of a couple of weeks I have the equivalent of 8 hours a night - just not at the same times.

Wait - is this an actual thing? Because this is what happens to me and it’s so frustrating! All my doctor could advise was sleeping pills to do a forced reset every couple of weeks. Is this actually a known thing and not just me being, well, odd?!

@AllTheChaos It’e a thing.

https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/non-24hour-sleep-wake-disorder

Wow @ZazieBeth, I am going to enjoy reading this. I genuinely thought it was just me. Thank you so much!

Go to bed about 10. Shout at teen boy to go to bed for about an hour. Actually go to sleep about 1am. Wake up at 7 to check I hear teen boy take shower and leave on time for school bus. Then I usually go back to sleep til about 8.30am. About once a week I get up and make him breakfast to show willing on the parenting front.

Asleep before 10pm usually (in bed a lot earlier at the moment because it's coming up to winter here.) Rarely have trouble dropping off.

Annoyingly I wake between 4-5am for at least an hour, and may or may not get some more sleep before getting up around 7.

Sleep around 3am up at 10.30am

I work shifts so it can vary . Typically I go to bed between 0130/0230 and up sometime between 0500/0730
If I'm nights it's bed for 0900 and usually I'm up at 1100. I'm permanently tired 🥱

Weekdays go to sleep around 11pm then Wake up at 7am (because I have to, I’m really not a morning person). Weekends go to sleep about 1am, wake up naturally about 10am. Luckily my entire household has a similar sleep pattern - we are all night owls.

I've got it too. The genetic rhythm for humans is 25 hour cycles. If you take away light everyone will revert to this, but most people can be kind of trained with light cues

9pm and about 6am

The am one not being my choice but my toddlers 🙃

I try to be in bed by about 1.30 am and asleep by 2.30. I often work until about midnight if I've got a lot to do. I work from home and generally wake up at about 8 am. I slipped a disc two years ago and I have to have something to eat and my painkillers before I can get up and about so I aim to start work by 10.

That’s a lot of sleep. When do you have time to do other stuff?

Usually midnight to 7am

How do you work that around work?!

I’m a chronic insomniac so I stay up until as late as possible. Usually get in bed between 1.30 to 2.30am.
On a weekday I’m up around 6.30ish, sometimes earlier.
At weekend I wake around 7ish. Sometimes I will read on the sofa and drift off unril everyone else wakes up. This can be around 10/10.30 if we don’t have plans for the morning.
I don’t get enough sleep but I don’t think I must need as much as others. Im usually absolutely fine from approximately 4 hours a night but occasionally don’t sleep at all which is hard.

I no longer have to. When I did have it it was a combination of quite a few different things :

1. Naps whenever I could. This is a lifelong thing. Naps in libraries at when I was at school and university. Naps on buses. Naps on the sofa after school. Naps in coffee shops. I have the ability to do a very short but very refreshing and deep nap. I also have reverse insomnia, which means I think I’m awake but I’m asleep. I still hear what is going on around me and can snap awake very quickly
2. Jobs that were flexible on hours. When I was a student it was working split shifts as a waitress in a hotel where they would give me a vacant room to chill out between shifts. Shifts were usually breakfast/lunch or lunch/dinner. I would also agree to do breakfast/dinner or dinner/breakfast when they were short staffed on condition I got a room. They loved me for that, as lunch was never busy. I loved it because I got to stay in a 4* hotel room- was even allowed to use the pool/gym. Or a pizza place where it was easy to swap shifts between days/nights and also were my colleagues were pretty understanding about my going for a nap sometimes when it was quiet.
3. Jobs that were very results driven, so I just performed at a level where my bosses said ““ah, I know you’ll get the work down, set your own hours, come in when you want”. I had a couple of those.
4. Jobs that were flexible re working patterns. I managed a couple of small call centres within larger organisations where I could pick my own working hours. Largely the call centres operated in the evenings and at the weekends, they had supervisors for the actual shifts. So some weeks I would do training at the call centre in the evenings and start later. Some weeks I would need to do “office work” and come in during the day. Sometimes the supervisors would want time off and I’d be the one who swapped with them rather than another supervisor. The call centres were also both in slightly different locations than my base office. So I could disappear “to do something in the call room” and have a nap. One of them even had a break room with sofas. Zzz.
5. I had jobs that involved a lot of travel to meet supporters an meeting them at their home/workolace/ in a restaurant or cafe. I got to set and plan my schedule. As long as I was travelling two weeks a month and completing a certain number of meetings a month I was free to plan my days and weeks however. So I could plan a train or plane journey at a time I knew I would likely want to sleep. Or meet people in the afternoon and evening one week, and morning and afternoon another. Or I could go back to the hotel for a nap. Meetings cancelled at the last minute were common in that role, so I could schedule dummy meetings to block out time, and just “cancel” them. I always exceeded my monthly quota so it didn’t matter. This was pre smartphone era, not sure it would work now.
6. Just pushing through if necessary. I can do 24 hours plus without sleep pretty easily if it’s important.

For all these things I used the tricks to move when I did the work, never to get out of doing work. In fact I probably over compensated a bit and did more time overall than was necessary. I always made sure that I was a top performer and that helped.

Night owl with insomnia and health issues that cause fatigue. Great combination

Depends what shift I'm working

Later shift - bed around 2am, get up at 8.45am
Early shift - bed around 1am, get up at 7.45am
Sometimes sleep for a couple of hours after work and always nap on a weekend afternoon