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?

71 and go to bed anytime between midnight and 2pm. Usually fall asleep within 20 minutes or so - but don't get up until around 9.30 or 10.30 depending when we went to bed!!

34, DD 4. Anywhere between 8.30 and 9.30 may watch or read something. Up at 6-6.30 dependent on work days. Weekends hopefully up about 7-7.30 and may go to bed on a Fri/sat about 10pm! Always try and prioritise sleep as never know when DD will decide it’s morning!!!

49 and my sleep pattern has been horrendous for years,I usually go up between 10 and 11 but would never fall asleep till about 2 in the morning.

Last night a miracle happened for me and I was asleep before midnight and slept well,hoping it's the way forward from now on.

I'm a 47 year old shift worker; I'd love a regular bed time! In reality, anywhere between 8.30pm and 8am is bedtime.

41 pre covid when was in the office every day had to be up at 5am. so bed at 9 was often asleep on sofa at 8. now after covid with the blessing of working from home bed about 10pm sleep by 11pm and alarm goes half 7

42. In autumn/winter, around 10. In summer, 11.30/12.

I'm another one amazed at all the people going to bed so early!

I'm early 50s
Try to be in bed by 10.30 but it's usually nearer 11 and sometimes later and quite common to be up at midnight at weekends.
Need to be up by 6.15 on weekdays, 7 at weekends (DC usually have early sports commitments both days)

I do think that if you are child-free, or are empty nesters, you are more likely to go to bed early because you get more free time perhaps? I definitely go to bed later now my DC are older. By the time we've done dinner and I've encouraged chivvied/nagged them to get homework done/get off their phones/pack school bags/have a shower/go to bed it's usually quite late (DC are 14 and 11). So often I feel my own evening downtime doesn't actually start until 10pm.

Am stunned there are so many going to bed at 7.30! I'm waiting for curtain up at the theatre at that time, or having a catch up on the phone with my mum. It seems so early. Then again, I am a night owl and just not tired until 1 or 2 am.

Do you all go to bed so early because your life is empty and the evenings a nothing?

never heard of such early sleepers. 8pm? That’s dinner time

Fifty. Usually around now, but have just got from an evening out so don’t feel like going up just now.

I’m usually up at 5 during the week so I need to go to bed early.

49 with one teen at home - usually in bed around 10-10.30 during the week although I struggle with that as I'm a natural night owl. My alarm goes off at 6.15am.
At the weekend or on holiday it will be more like 11 - midnight and awake naturally at 7.30-8.
I'm surprised at how many people go to bed really early.

In bed 9ish, watch tv or read mn until tired, usually 10-11. Up 2-3 times a night thanks to menopause and up 5.45-6.30 depending on work shift.

58 yrs!

I'm in bed for 8/8.30 and asleep 8.30-9 every night.

@defoneedanamechange That's very unusual. Do you think you could be anaemic?

I'm 65, still working and go to bed between 10.30 and 11.30. Up at 7 on days I WFH and 6 on office days.

35, two young children, one not yet sleeping through. Bed at 2230/2300. Up at 630 during the week. I need more usually than 7.5 hours of broken sleep but I also need that evening downtime once the kids are sleeping...

28 with a 6 month old.

She sleeps at 8.30 so I go to bed at the same time but I'll sleep around 10 (and make a bottle ready for when she wakes at 11.30!)

36 and like to be in bed no later than 9.30 though rarely asleep before 10.30, something I regret every single morning when my youngest wakes up at 5.30

I agree that this thread is odd but because I'm surprised at the number of people who go to bed when I'm just sitting down to eat my dinner! 😆😆. I don't agree that the normal time for most adults to go to bed should be 10 - that's ridiculously early for many people, and I really don't think most people need eight hours or more sleep every night. I've gone to bed at about 1am for the last 50 years and the only difference is that now I'm only working part time, I no longer have to be up at 7, and sleep for an hour or so longer.

34, go to bed at 1am (and then read in bed for a while), get up late morning. I wfh and don't have children so I can create the schedule that works best for me.

62 and anywhere between midnight and 04.00.

I guess it also depends on your day. Work, sport ( 3 nights a week), dog walking and activities, household stuff, I'm knackered by 10.

50,.go up at 10pm usually,get up about 7.30

52. Around 11pm usually but I wake up several times in the night thanks to menopause

Did you mean 2am?