Neighbour obsessed with what time I get up

[Mississipi71]

I overheard my neighbour talking about what time I get up in the day. I have no blinds in my bedroom, just curtains, so she can presume see what time I wake up. I even heard her saying "it is 11.30 am now, what time did she get up 11.15?" I don't go into deep sleeps (side effects of anxiety meds) so I never really feel I have had a full night's sleep. I am early retired, with no kids so what time I get up is down to me. I just read in bed, dont play music or watch tv, until I finally drift off. She also has no idea whether I have reasons for sleeping patterns and I don't need to justify anything to her. Anybody else have CF neighbours like this?

Goodness know what my neighbours must think of me.... my bedroom curtains are hardly ever opened during the day in summer due to being south facing! Occasionally I'll open them during the day for some breeze or if I need the extra light, but I've even been known to open them first thing and close them again mid morning - what a lazy cow I must be 😆

One of our neighbours used to make snide comments about us all the time when we
first moved in, such as “I knocked on your door at 10am on Saturday but you didn’t answer, you must have been in bed still!”. Or “I tried your garden gate, was surprised you had it locked! You must have been sleeping!”. We avoid her now and the comments have mostly stopped, although she still tries to have a sly dig at us if we happen to see her. Normally about our garden or something. We’ve done nothing to warrant any of these comments btw and she’s not even next door, but a few houses away!

What you could do is open and close them at various times of the day. Get up at your normal time, open them, then go back an hour or so later and close them for an hour or two, then open etc...

probably a cause for concern

how is it a cause for the neighbour;s concern?

Not for the neighbour!

for the person (or his family) who is “sleeping all day”!

oh @Endlesslypatient82
ha ha

I would tell her you heard what she said and it’s absolutely none of her business and to get a life and stop spying on you
you could also say you are on medication but why should U justify yourself
your neighbour is creepy

If you felt like being rude, you could tell her that you heard her, but just didn't want to talk to her! You're not obliged to answer every knock on the door (and why should you leave your gate unlocked if she's the sort to just walk in?)

Get a life size cardboard cut out of a celebrity and put it in the window to stare at her. She'll get the message soon enough.

I realise someone already suggested this! Sorry.

This!

Plenty of people work nights.

And plenty of people have circadian rhythms or sleep disorders where it's more natural for them to be awake at night and asleep during the day. Teenagers' natural circadian rhythms tend towards the nocturnal.

If someone's staying in bed all day due to depression that's one thing, but there's no inherent virtue in one sleep-wake cycle over a different one.

Pop round for a chat first if you can and soon before the issue boils over for you. Our neighbour wrote us a shitagram a few months ago threatening to complain about our child stimming noises (he had ASD, likely ADHD, LD and the verbal/cognative cognitive age of a 10 month old). It was very threatening, and said that it had been going on for months ( their time frame coincided with when we had to put him in a big boy bed, and when our baby was born). I was really upset.... caring for him really does take everything we've got and we are used to being judged when in public spaces but not in our home, but if we'd known about it before she reached the point of threatening us we would have tried other things and maybe preserved a cordial relationship. As it is we've pumped for soundproofing on our party wall, tripple glazing and beefed up the insulation..... the builders are currently in doing it..... I guess what I'm saying is that it is better to deal with it earlier before too much bad feeling builds....