How old are you and what time do you go to bed?

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For context: I'm 36, mum of three (youngest is 2.5), work four days a week.

Im also someone who needs a lot of sleep.

So... introductions over. I'm in bed for 8/8.30 and asleep 8.30-9 every night. I then get up at 5.30/6 with my toddler.

Aibu to ask your age and when you go to sleep?

Why is this thread filled with people judging and criticising others for what time they choose to go bed 🤣🤣 some of you could literally start an argument in an empty room.
To all of you that go bed before 10pm, you do you. If it works for you, great

I know, it’s truly weird 😂

Almost 40.

I aim for asleep by 1130 on a school night. Awake at 6 on school days up at 6.10.

Id like to be in bed earlier but by the time the teenagers are in bed and I've had a shower it's almost 11 anyway

57 Normally past midnight and up at 6.15 for my coffee.

I think as you get older you sleep less as you can see that time is running out and that there's still lots of bars, pubs, restaurants and clubs that you haven't been to (don't even get me started on foreign travel) - certainly in London and that's just in the central one zone area. To think I might only have 20 years left now!

There'll be plenty of time to sleep when I drop dead. Martha Graham was right: Tiredness is just a state of mind.

Really? I haven't read any/many posts like that at all. There's a lot of 'wow, I'm surprised/blimey, you lot go to bed early/similar, but that's not judgemental - its just regular chat. A couple of slightly critical comments maybe, but that's all that I can see. Who's arguing?

Between 11pm-12am. I would love to go to bed earlier as I wake up at 6.30am but the evening is the only time I get alone time.

Mid. 50s, young adult children, just after midnight. An early night never results in longer sleep for me.

53

bed 11ish, read until 11:30-12
alarm 6:30

as I’ve got older I don’t need as much sleep. I never sleep for 8 hours unless ill or jet lagged.

41 - Usually go up at midnight on a work night, will stop reading at 1am. Don't have to be up till 8.20 though so it's a good 7 hours sleep, never needed more than that.

Weekends are usually about the same though sometimes I'll stay up till about 3am.

Already in bed tonight though, spent today with the worst hangover I've had in a decade and I'm done!

59, Midnight to 2am back up at 7am

always been like this since my teens.

aunt said I was like that even younger but I don’t remember.

42, upstairs in bed for 10 then read / doom scroll for an hour normally.

Exactly, I've always been an owl. Years of small children and zero lie ins didn't change it, I can be wrecked all day and still perk up at night! Other than with very newborn babies, when I did crawl into bed at 7pm for a few hours when I could, but hated it as I then had zero down time.

Now dd2 is 16 and dd1 away at uni, I still stay up late to have some headspace!

47, bed at 10 and then asleep anywhere between 10.30 to midnight on a normal night.

43, kiddo in uni. Start getting ready for bed at about 11, watch TV in bed or read then go to sleep about midnight, up between 7 and 7:30.

It seems like people can’t be doing anything with their evenings going to bed so early—when do you do life things?!

46; bed around 11:30pm

53, in bed around 9, sleep by 10/10.30. DP is up for work between 4 and 5. If I can’t get back to sleep then I’ll start my day. Otherwise alarm at 6.30

Yes!!!! Typo!

This is what I asked upthread but nobody responded.

38. In bed between 9 and 10. Asleep by 10 30. Up at 6 30

Definitely! I'm all for the early night!

47, and I sleep when my brain lets me, which is not easily.

33, I go to bed at around 12.
I get around an hour to sort of wind the house up for the night after the kids finally sleep.
DS (2) is on the pathway to autism diagnosis. Sleeps no more than 6 hours per night, he finally falls asleep between 10-11 most nights (a bad night is 2am)
Always up by 6.

This week's been completely different. The baby (7months) has not allowed for much sleep at all having had a viral infection.
Just as that's started to pass, they now have a sickness bug.

Late 50's.

9pm if I'm on an early shift (up at 4.30 am), between 11 and midnight all other times.

What life things? Because usually a lot of my evening (especially now it's getting darker) are spent just watching TV or reading, so genuinely curious how other people fill their evenings.