50 and old going to bed as early as possible - anyone else resonate ?

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I get up at 5.30-6am week days. I even like being in bed for 9.30pm on a weekend night too.

Ha, I'm late 60s, very fit and active and I hit the hay at about 9. Mind you I read and watch videos on Facebook until about midnight ha ha.

Up and about around 9am, unless it's freezing, snowing, or dark and dreary. Then I turn over and snooze until I've had enough of that!

Retirement is bliss.

One of the great things about no longer working for an employer is that you can get up and go to bed when you like. Going to bed and getting up at a certain time is something which evolved with the industrial revolutuon so is a comparatively modern trend in human social history.

I know, I get in from work at 5.30 how is it logistically possible to be in bed an hour or so later? Cook dinner, clear up, take the dog for a walk? Have a catch up with DH? I think even babies and toddlers go to bed later than some on here.

Separate rooms!

I'm a night owl so the opposite of a lot of people on here! Horses for courses i say but I'm rarely in bed before 11pm.
I think if you're getting up at 5/6am its obvious that you'll go to bed earlier.

73 years old. In bed by 10.00 and up at 6.00 for a couple of hours dog walk,

loop earplugs. Also, as long as I am in a deep sleep for long enough, he doesn't wake me up.

I’m 40 with a 3 year old.
Bedtime is 11:30pm/midnight
Wake up around 7am.

I don’t understand how people get anytime done after work if they go to bed at 9pm. We don’t eat dinner until 7:30pm sometimes. But I also take 15 minutes in the morning to get ready so I suppose that’s when morning people get stuff done.

I get in, jogging bottoms on, makeup off, eat something light, prepare dinner for DH and DS, clean up, collect DS from bus at 6.45, he eats, clean up again. Laundry on fast wash, out and on to dry overnight. Upstairs and into bed between 7.30 and 8pm.

If DH comes home early ish, we watch the channel 4 news and then I will start yawning and go up shortly after 8.

It really isn't hard. But I only have to make sure I've sorted food for dh and ds, then I just have to think about myself. No small children to consider. It really if life changing when they are old enough!

Im 43 and since starting HRT I am always tired about 10pm. Though I stupidly push through it and then get insomnia.

On days when my eldest skates I am up at 4:30am so I try my hardest to be in bed by 10pm.
I seem daylight driven though. I will wake up when the sun does, but put curtains shut and I will sleep for like 12+ hours!

I like to be in bed at 10 and reading until 10.30 but a couple of nights a week I’ll be out doing something and I have a 13 yo who is a night owl. I’m 44 and start work at 8am so need to work on it. My colleague is only 26 and thinks I go to bed late lol

When I said I'd feel like I'm wasting my life away I mean that literally for myself, no judgement on what anyone else chooses to do! It's just I don't have time to myself in the day as working or looking after kids so the evenings are my 'free' time. I've got lots of things I want to do, things I want to learn etc. so for me I'd rather be awake and doing things/watching things I want to watch and only having 7hrs sleep rather than having 10hrs sleep.

I've got friends that love nothing more than sleep.. I don't judge them. I think we all need different amounts of sleep to function.

We are just over 50
I would see H or teens all week if I went to bed at 9pm
We get up about 7am so sleep by 11pm is fine for us. 8 hours is enough.

If I lived alone, which is just theoretical, I might go to bed earlier but I wouldn’t sleep longer and there is a gulf between in bed but reading/not asleep and actually going asleep. H & I relax together (with teens) end of day. We are just not actually in bed.

We work backwards from alarm time.

I go to bed at 8-8.30. it's pretty miserable, I have no social life (am single and live alone) but have chronic health issues and just so exhausted that it feels impossible to stay up any later.

I would love to go to bed earlier as I am up for work every morning at 4.15, but my neighbours play their music most nights, I would go round to tell them to turn it down, but I live alone, so it’s not ideal really and if I report them they would know it’s me.
I’m lucky if I get 4 hours sleep some nights, it’s making me too tired to go to work.

You are a night owl compared to some on here, there are posters who go to bed at 6.30!

No, I would not like to only have a couple of hours free time after work/dinner and before bed. No judging others, but my evenings are for exercise, socialising and hobbies as well as housework and admin.
edited to say I go at about 11.30, get up at 7.

If I were you I'd try vaginal oestrogen for your nocturia.

What kind of job requires you to be up so early 7 days a week?

@RampantIvy I walk dogs on short walk (they go out with dog walker later), then I either do a 3 mile walk or a weights workout. Then shower and leave for DS bus at 6.55, drive to work, get there at 7.40.

I work in a school.

And at the weekend, I do two long dog walks when I wake up.

Two labradors both with very different walking needs. And I much prefer being out early when the air is fresh and sun coming up!

38 and would be in bed by 7.30 given the chance 😂

Until fairly recently I used to be a massive night owl, so I just can’t believe how quickly the switch has happened!

I'd go up earlier if I didn't have to take the dog out for a late night wee.

I love that there’s so many early-to-bed folk on here. I’ve found my people!
I love that I can doze with the TV on and when I fall asleep, I’m already in bed so I don’t have to move. I hate having to drag myself off the sofa when I’ve fallen asleep there!

You lot make me feel like quite a lightweight as I go to bed at 10pm and am usually switching the light off after reading by 11pm. I do find more and more though that I’m drifting off to sleep in the living room even if I’m watching the most gripping TV show or movie ever made. So maybe I need to give it up and just retire for the night at 7.30pm.