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?

I sleep badly due to my disabilities. So I usually go to bed about midnight but don't sleep till about 2. Then on a good night I'd wake at about 11. But it's usually more like 8 or 9.
I feel like I'm exhausted and in an ideal world would have a two or three hour nap in before dinner. So between 5-8pm. But that would just be too much I guess. I love sleeping but get really horrible nightmares every night.

Early 40's.

Bedtime: 3 am
Get up: 9:30 am
I love the quietness of night, and being able to work undisturbed on personal hobbies after I've finished at the 'day job',

WFH and don't usually start my shift until 10 am earliest.

mid fifties, in bed reading around 9pm and asleep at 10pm

Living the dream!! Lol!

@Alina3

Sadly sleep seems to have become something that is seen as optional and getting enough of it seems a bit indulgent

I don’t think it’s that anyone thinks it’s indulgent. There is a total consensus that sleep is a good thing.

But no one needs 11-12 hours a day unless they are unwell. If the need to sleep is such that you have no downtime when you are not asleep (unless you have infants or a chronic condition) it’s likely that there is something wrong. It’s also a pretty miserable existence: it means there’s no time to decompress after work/childcare.

I wouldn’t dream of standing in anyone’s way if they want to do this. I just think it’s a bit depressing.

At 67 recently retired i go to bed about 10...fall asleep quickley..wake up about 6am usually due to getting up early for job for past 40yrs ...trying to sleep later xx

Late forties. Bed around 11pm, up at 6am Mon-Fri.

At weekends I sleep much more.

Husband unfotunately had v.painfull shingles and waking up to take painkillers in night and waking me up once or twice a night si going to bed at 9 ish and up around 6 or 7 am

I find tv to be absolute shite.

I don't. There is plenty of choice.
I'm not morally superior about watching TV.

Early 40s - go up to bed 8.30 asleep anytime between 9 and 9.30. If not asleep before 10- it's a late one. Up at 6.30.

Also have a nap in the day when I can.

I'm 100% with you on this and do exactly the same. It's easier when you are older and not tied to family commitments though. And I bloody love it! Podcasts are also a favourite of mine and actually help my insomnia.

40, in bed about 9:30om then read for an hour ish then sleep until around 6am.

54, between 11-12 and up between 6.30 and 7am. I don’t particularly like sleeping and am ok as long as I have more than 6 hours.

68 usually around midnight. Sleep really badly and often awake for a couple of hours overnight.

37 - usually fall half asleep putting LO to bed about 8, then asleep in my own bed by 10. Up at 5:30 work days and 6ish on home days.

76, when I feel like it but then will maybe read for an hour or more. I wonder if anyone else dies what I did when still teaching, I would get home really tired and then at around 10pm would click 'awake' and then work well into the early morning, even until 3am.

I'm 39 and I go to bed between 10pm and 11:30pm

Depends what shift I've been on at work. I've had the day off today, and I've decided I'm going up at 10pm tonight 😁

Ah delighted to hear so many of you are fellow early bedders!

One night a week (tonight!) I don't get home until 9 from an exercise class but I'm literally immediately in bed. But it feels very late to me.

I have zero interest in watching tv for the sake of it. Bed at 8.30 and asleep by 9 is perfect for me.

Lots of people querying "missing out on life". That's totally baffling to me.

Lots of people querying "missing out on life". That's totally baffling to me.

Totally baffling? Really? I like to have a few hours in the evenings to do things I enjoy, such as read a book, play the piano, go to a class, practise the language I'm learning, watch a film, play with my cat, catch up with friends, whatever. If all I did for five days a week was work, eat and sleep I'd feel really unhappy and start to wonder what the point of my life was!

Yeah I don't finish work until 6pm, so it would be eat tea, shower, wash up and bed
Then it feels like I just work and sleep!

I'm 65, retired. I go to bed at about 11, although it takes roughly 45 minutes to get to sleep. I get up for a wee twice in the night, then get up 6.30 - 7 every day.

43 kids are 12 & 9. Usually about half 10, then read until 11ish. Alarm goes off at 6am. I’d like to be in bed by earlier, but just too busy with work, house jobs and running kids about. Sometimes don’t have tea until 8 or 9pm. How on earth do people manage to get to bed at 8:30pm. I struggle to even get the kids in bed by then.

53, sometimes as early as 8pm if there’s nothing on TV. I read until about 10.30pm usually.

I agree. I genuinely had no idea that so many people lead such limited lives. To each their own and all that but doesn’t exactly sound like fun.

Do the really early to bed posters go to bed at 8 in the summer as well?

I know this won't be answered until tomorrow 😀

Me neither. It's (genuinely) interesting to me how some posters' response to that was about how dull TV is, like that's the only option for an evening recreational activity. Earlier in the evening I was doing some work on my mapping course, I'm now about to do bit of language practice, then it's Tai Chi, cat cuddles and bed to read my book