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At what time do you consider it to be late?

72 replies

LunasOrchid · 09/12/2019 22:55

As the title says really... What time, when you look at it, do you think 'ah shit, it's late now. Best try to sleep'?

I have a 3 yo DD and work part time. Wake up 7:30 most mornings. After 1am is my 'ah shit, it's late' time. I'm usually up after midnight most nights.

What about you?

OP posts:
winterplease · 09/12/2019 22:56

11 is 'late' for me Blush

Gertie75 · 09/12/2019 22:58

10pm is my bedtime so anything afterwards is late.

QuestionableMouse · 09/12/2019 23:00

11 ish. Not sure why because I'm usually up until 1ish anyway.

aLilNonnyMouse · 09/12/2019 23:00

I'm up until 2-3am a few nights a week. Usually don't get that "oh crap" moment until around 4-5am though.

LBOCS2 · 09/12/2019 23:01

Midnight is really my cut off. Used to be around 2am but I have early rising DC nowadays!

ChanklyBore · 09/12/2019 23:01

1am like you OP

I aim for midnight but 1am is really the time when I think shit, I’d better go to sleep. In reality I aim to go to bed at midnight, end up doing something that takes me to ten past, or so, lock up and sort stuff, bathroom, ready for bed, etc, drop in to bed at 12.30 or so and then have to read for at least a little while...

Sparrowlegs248 · 09/12/2019 23:01

12/1 ish. I have a 2 and 4 yr old and work part time. I need to go to bed earlier. I'm.tired.

Tinnedpeachesandcream · 09/12/2019 23:02

11pm is my ‘oh shit I need to be in bed I’ve got work tomorrow’ panic time. I rarely stay up that late on a school night unless I’ve been out at a rehearsal though. Normally I try to be in bed by 10pm, light out by 10.30.

AlwaysThereForEveryoneElse · 09/12/2019 23:02

11pm..is when my body is saying I need bed.. My pregnancy insomnia says otherwise.. See u at 3 am haha

ButterflyBook · 09/12/2019 23:03

When it gets past 2am. I have insomnia anyway. Makes no difference when I go to bed. I'm still awake for hours

HollysBush · 09/12/2019 23:03

Yep, 11pm. Feeling a bit of a rebel I’m still reading.

Wendallburger · 09/12/2019 23:03

All depends what I'm doing and if I have to be up early.. If I'm up early then I go to bed at 10am. If not then it can be anytime up till 3am. So what is late for some isn't for others 👍🤔🙄😊

OlaEliza · 09/12/2019 23:04

What time, when you look at it, do you think 'ah shit, it's late now. Best try to sleep

11 onwards but I'm usually up until about 1.

HairyFloppins · 09/12/2019 23:06

On a school night it is about 12am, then on my phone till about 12.30. On the weekend 1-2am.

I have never needed much sleep and my children are teenagers so no early mornings now.

Hate the night before an early morning flight, feels alien going to bed at 10pm.

Cherrysoup · 09/12/2019 23:07

About 11.30. I get up at 6.15, so by the time I piss round in the bathroom, let the dogs out for last wees, it’s 11.45 then I have to read for at least 15 minutes. I’m an idiot!

MarilynMorose · 09/12/2019 23:12

My “oh shit” is c.3am - it’s even harder to get to sleep after that sobering realisation too!

Try and go to bed before midnight but usually fail.

Usually in bed c.1am

ShannonShouts · 09/12/2019 23:12

1am usually

BusterGonad · 09/12/2019 23:16

I'm astounded by how late people stay up, do you not spend your life tired all the time? I am to be in bed by 10.30pm and am up at 6.10am. I need good quantity sleep.

Pipandmum · 09/12/2019 23:18

I get up just after 7am. 1am is my 'better get upstairs' time. However my tidying the kitchen, brushing teeth etc adds on at least 20minutes!

CSIblonde · 09/12/2019 23:21

10pm as that's bedtime in the week due to work, but my preferred bed/late time is midnight to 2am: i'm a frustrated night owl.

Alte · 09/12/2019 23:24

I'd say 9pm - unfortunately DD says 3am so we usually end up having to tell her to be quiet multiple times a night!

Shockers · 09/12/2019 23:36

11pm. I’m in too much pain to get comfortable though.

ClientListQueen · 09/12/2019 23:38

11pm ish but as you can tell I'm often up past that Grin
Up at 5.45am most days for work, 7.15am if I'm on a later shift

Anoisagusaris · 09/12/2019 23:40

@BusterGonad Why are you astounded? Surely you do realise that not everyone gets up at the same time in the morning?

PremierNaps · 09/12/2019 23:42

About midnight but end up awake until 3-4am most nights as can't sleep.