What time do you go to bed and get up (excluding caring responsibilities)?

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Obviously if you've got caring responsibilites etc that involve getting up at night this isnt a reasonable question to ask!

What time do you go to bed and get up and how much sleep do you need?

To feel properly refreshed I need 10+ hours. This would involve going to bed before 8 which just isnt practical. It's ridiculous.

If I have 2 nights in a row with less than 6hrs each, I cant function on the third day.

I'm trying to get into a better routine of going to bed at the same time every night and getting up at the same time every morning. Hopefully this will help. So 10pm - 6am.

My husband thinks he's a night owl (he isnt which is why he is knackered all the time but that's another discussion) so basically, I'm not going to see him much without the children.

At the moment I seem constantly pissed off with him so that may be a good or bad thing!

Bed by 9, up without an alarm at 05.45. Leave for work at 06.30.
I occasionally manage to get an hour or so in the afternoon if I'm lucky

I go to bed about 11, usually don't sleep til about 1.30-2am.
I wake up between 7:00 and 7:30 to get teens up and moving for college, although weekends it can be as late as 10am if i don't have to be up for anything.

I need 6 hours if i'm left to sleep. I often only get 5 on a good night. I can function on 4.

Now all DC are out of school my alarm is 7.30am, sometimes even 8am. Last 20 years it has been 6.something. My god the difference it makes!

Go to bed a little before midnight, asleep before 1am. That was always the case, I can't sleep any earlier and also wouldn't have had time to actually do anything between (SEN) DC bedtime and mine.

DH goes to bed at similar time and would naturally sleep until well after 9 but realises we have responsibilities. He doesn't speak until after 9 though!

I go to bed about 9-9.30, asleep by 11.30.
Awake by 7.30 latest during the week, normally closer to 7.

Weekends I’m awake by 8.

10 till 5

Sleeping from 1130-7 is fine for me, that's all I need. I'm not sure how saying that this helps you though?

But the elephant in the room here is your husband saying he's "off duty" until 10am every day. That's absolutely not OK when you have children. My wife and I nominate one day each weekend when one of us sleeps in until 9ish so we each get one "lie in" a week, but other than that from 7am until kids bedtimes it is teamwork.

Im in bed by 10pm all devices and tv go off then Ill read for an hour or two then Im up at 6am for work.

Around 2pm and get up around 10am. Might be awake for a bit before I get out of bed.

Roughly 11pm-7am - I find less sleep hard. Weekends I’ll easily sleep till 8.30am

That's how my husband and I tend to arrange things post army (everything was a bit more sporadic then!). We alternate getting DS organised for school in the morning. He does his long cycle on a Saturday with me doing my long run on Sunday so we know the house/kids etc are sorted and there is a decent meal prepped for after.

100%, why should DH get to opt out of parenting duties just because he's a night owl? So am I, but I've had to readjust so that I can get up at the same time as DH and the kids so I can do my part and be involved in family life.

Go to bed 12.30 am - wake up at 8.30 am - whereupon I start work at 9.00 am!

In bed about 10.30, aim to be asleep by 11pm. DH wakes me up after his shower, usually just before 7am

Usually lights off by 11pm in week, alarm goes off 6.30am.
Both numbers an hour or so later at the weekend, so about the same amount of sleep. I'm almost always awake when the alarm goes anyway.

I dont have much trouble going to sleep, but always wake up after a couple of hours and often struggle going back to sleep these days. I reckon I average about 5 hours a night. But I manage ok so I don't worry about it too much. I "rest" in bed for 7-8 hours which I think is enough.

Go to bed at 10pm, probably sleep around 11pm but get up at 4.45am to walk dog, get children up, ready for school so I can be in work for 7am.
Mon-Fri (Not in UK).

I go to sleep at around 11:30 and get up at 6:30 on a weekday.

If there is no alarm then I generally wake between 7 and 7:30 so I guess I could do with getting a bit more, but there’s no way I could go to sleep earlier! I’m not tired by then as it is!

I usually go to bed about 11pm (though I am for 10.30pm twice a week) and get up between 5.30am and 6.30am

I've done that for many years now and it's what I'm used to. I set an alarm but I often wake up naturally before it goes off.

I've got atrocious times. I go to bed as soon as we close/finish up so 11.50pm in the week and Friday Saturday is usually after 1am. I can never sleep though for at least an hour.
I get up in the week at 7am. Yes it's mental. I get my teens up. Yes they get up themselves but alive got them up for school for years and years (we are in year 13 now). I do go back to bed but usually give up after about an hour and do admin from bed.
I am permanently exhausted but cope well with it after a while now.

I go to sleep at 9pm and get up at 2am (start work at 3am) and sleep 2 hours from 1pm to 3pm.
More or less than 7hours is not good, I end up tired.
I should say I have ADHD and I am extremely hyper, I don't fall asleep I crash, I can fall asleep anywhere and anytime.

Im a night owl and dont have any set time to go to bed. Im also self employed on international projects. I often go about 3-4 am and get up 8-9 am. Then I have a 3 hour nap in the late afternoon. I love being up and awake when everyone else is asleep.

I’m awake anytime between 6-7 depending on what time I need a wee. I’m up at least twice in the night so if I wake at 5.30 it’s unlikely I’ll fall back asleep.

Usually go to bed at 10 and read for half an hour so I’m guessing my average is 7.5 hours - I’m not sure whether I feel “refreshed” or not 😂 I usually stagger out of bed and it takes me a few minutes of walking around before I’ve loosened myself up.

I have to say I’ve never not been able to function, even when I had responsibilities to kids and puppies who were getting me up in the night or early doors. Have you got other health issues at play?

I try to be asleep for midnight and am up about 7.15am, about 7 hours and I can cope. Any less and I would be shattered.

I totally get why you’re asking OP. I used to ask lots of little things like this when I was questioning the fairness in my relationship, it helped me to stay sane and say to myself ‘all these people thought x,y and z like me so I’m not crazy.’ It doesn’t help in the long run though if he’s unfair he’ll most likely remain unfair. Sorry, you’re describing me in terms of shouldering responsibility for the children and it’s 100% not fair and we deserve better.

I go to bed about 11 ish ( take an amitriptyline so rarely wake up now , sleep was horrendous before ) asleep by about 11.30 then alarm goes off at 6.30 and get up at 6.45. At the weekend I go to bed about midnight and lie in til 10ish

It might be the sunlight affecting you. Try a sunlight lamp?

For many years now, I've gone to bed between 11pm and midnight and woken by 4.45 - 5.30am. It was fine when I was younger, but I'm feeling the strain now. The thing is, I've always needed very few hours of sleep. My mum says that even as a toddler, I'd wake up at 4 or 5am and just start singing or reading out loud.
I'd give anything to be able to sleep until just 7am once or twice a week but, once I'm awake, that's it, I'm awake!