Why can't I go to bed earlier? (Light-hearted)

[Jourdain11]

Seriously, what is wrong with me? It's 00.18 and I'm lying on the sofa fully-clothed, writing rubbish posts on Mumsnet and half-watching a documentary about Auschwitz. Why am I not in bed, if not asleep? And I still have to wash up, have a shower, switch of stuff... I will never be in bed before 1. And this happens EVERY NIGHT!

I'm an idiot 😂

I'm the same. Every morning I promise myself that tonight will be an early night, but every night I struggle to haul my derriere up the wooden hill.
I firmly believe its because its the only part of the day where my brain gets to process its own thoughts rather than meeting the demands of work, and (late teens) children.
I need that alone time.
But I also need sleep.
I now aim for a mix of both across the week so that I am not constantly exhausted.

It's my holidays so I'm staying up late drinking wine and watching a sappy romantic film.

About to go to bed now.

I feel your pain!

Same! By the time I've got the kids to bed, spent some time with DH, done stuff that needs doing, it's already so late! DH can literally just fall asleep (like someone switches off a button) but I've never been able to get to bed without having a bit of "chill" time.

But it's getting later and later! Seriously ... Awful. And tomorrow morning I'm going to wonder why I feel tired!

I'm the same, but I agree with pp. It is literally the only time I get to myself. Completely to myself.

I wouldn't be able to go to bed straight after doing jobs or before dd is asleep.

In fact it is going to be even later tonight because my husband is home from work for a change. And I need some me time.

I'm here too. And I have a baby! Wtf is wrong with me?!

We're all mad!

I'm still watching my Auschwitz documentary... It has 6 episodes!

I came home from a really hectic shift at 9 pm ...husband and son up until 11 ...am now just going to bed...I need my own time for a while!!

I'm way ahead of you, it's past 2 here, cba to walk the long way to the bathroom, can't fall asleep fast anyway, so procrastinating.

I will be up until 2 at the earliest. I read somewhere that it's to delay having to wake up in the morning, and I felt that. I get in late and it's 10 pm by the time I have time to myself, so I try and drag it out as long as possible.

Another reluctant member of this club...

I'm terrible for procrastinating over going to bed. This evening I've been working until just now so I can't berate myself for that but, more generally, it tends to be getting on for 10pm by the time I've done everything I need to. Then it's as though I need an evening so I start my evening at 10 whereas more civilised people seem to manage to start their evening by 8 and then go to bed at a sensible time.

Same!

Came to bed at 9 as I'm up at 6. I'm tired but will I put my phone down and just close my eyes?

I'm my own worst enemy.

I'm still awake...

To be fair, I was finishing work when the kids went to bed till about 11... But there's no excuse to still be up 3 hours later!

Me too. I'm going to feel very tired in the morning.

It's like I'm holding on to today!

I'm just as bad. I don't want to get up and go to bed. Very comfy sitting here reading mumsnet and listening to the radio.
I like being on my own, husband in bed.I'm waiting for the cat to come in.

It's called "revenge bedtime procrastination" and it's fairly common. Best thing to do is figure out what is causing it and and try and fix that. Have a Google, it's quite interesting.

I do this. Everyone in bed asleep and I'm up browsing random things on the phone with some sort of reality rubbish on the TV that I'm not watching.

I think some of us are just night owls.

I also feel sometimes when you go to bed it's definitely the END of the day. Like giving up on the day/accepting another day has raced by...hard to explain!

Night-time is magical.

But then mostly I'm tired in the morning. I envy my friends who jump out of bed alert and ready for the day (I seem to have quite a few who can do that despite not always going to sleep early).

I know when I shut my eyes, I'll open them and it will be tomorrow and it's starts again!!

I'm the same. It's the only time when I get a bit of quiet time to myself. I'm tired all the time though.

I do this all the time and try to fix it all the time because it’s awful to not get enough sleep. I think it’s caused by a combination of things for me. I am currently living with my FIL and the time after he goes to bed (10pm) is the only proper private time I have, so I try to maximize it.

I also have trouble getting to sleep. I hate the process of lying there waiting to get sleepy. If I stay up until the wee hours of the morning, I can fall asleep in minutes.

It's "revenge bedtime procrastination": languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=47552&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=revenge-bedtime-procrastination

It runs in cycles for me. I'll hit rock bottom one night when I don't get to bed until 4am and then have to be awake at 6:30am, and decide enough is enough and go to the opposite end of the scale and go to bed at 9:30pm the next night and then it creeps and a week later I'm back to 1am (which feels like my natural bedtime) which is just about ok but then it creeps again, 123am.

I'd be content even if I could just always ensure I'm asleep by 1am.

I don't have insomnia. I'm very fortunate in that I fall asleep easily.

What time do you start work? I’m a night owl but always try to be in bed by 11 on a work night as have to be up by 6.30. If it wasn’t for that it’d be 1am every day for sure!

I do this a lot, I'm really trying to go to bed earlier but I'm a natural night owl I think

Yep, a lot of comments on this thread resonate with me too!
I'm terrible. If I'm in bed before midnight, I'm doing well. And that includes work days when I know that I'm up at 6:30 and I'm crap on less than 7 hours sleep.

It's another of those things for me that I really know are bad and I should change like drinking too much, eating rubbish and not doing enough exercise.