What time do you normally go to bed?

@p1kef1sh (45681)
February 11, 2008 2:54pm CST
As I get older I feel the need to retire earlier and earlier. I am usually in bed by 9.30pm. I don't always sleep immediately as I usually have a book on the go. However, I am beginning to feel very middle-aged (I shall be 50 in a few weeks). Currently I am taking a year off work and so have no excuse to leap out of bed at the crack of dawn to hare off to the office. Do you go to bed early; or are you a night owl?
9 responses
• United States
27 Mar 08
Pike, I find when I am at home and not the shop that an afternoon nap is always in order... rotflmao now what does that say about me? Even if it is a half hour I feel so much better. But the thing with me and always has been the closer it gets to midnight the more wide awake I am. I would much rather sleep in until 10 or 11 in the morning then go to bed early. But alas when I am in do have to go to the shop I have to be in at 9 so I must retire if I can by midnight. This is not always so easy for me to do. Sometimes I fight with myself untill the wee morning hours and just about the time I am sound asleep the alarm is going off at 7.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
27 Mar 08
Afternoon naps tell me that you are an eminently sensible person. I believe that the human body is designed to take a nap after lunch. We have messed it up with our work ethos. So well done. I do too sometimes. I tend to have an energy sag about 9pm, but by 11 I am raring to go. Similar to yourself, I do try to get at least 7 hours sleep otherwise I not only am tired the next day, but feel physically ill too. In the bookshop and ice cream parlour that Nova, Sparks and I are going to run, we shall ensure that afternoon naps are compulsory for both staff and customers. Suppose that I'd better tell them or they'll accuse me of being to big for my boots. LOL.
@idowrite72 (2213)
• United States
27 Mar 08
I have always been a night owl and even when I was working I went to bed late. Now that I am retired it is usually 2am before I go to bed and then I am up anywhere between 10-11am unless I am babysitting for my granddaughter and then I am up around 8am to get her until her mother gets home from work anytime between 10am-2:30pm, depending on how long she has to work that day. I usually still go to bed at 2am no matter what time I have to get up in the morning.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
27 Mar 08
My in laws used to be like that. I ought ot go to bed about 10, but am rarely there before 11.30. When I was working I was a bit more disciplined, but now it has all gone to pot.
@ozkid92 (549)
• United States
12 Feb 08
I'm still in highschool so i should really be getting at least 8 hours, but I only get about 5 (12-5 am). I just can't get to sleep or I have too much to do left over from the day's work that I hafta force myself to stay awake. But I'm trying to get as much as I can now so lately Ive been goin to sleep about fifteen minutes earlier each night. I've gained about 2 hours of sleep since i started doing this a week ago.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
12 Feb 08
Sounds like a plan to me. Keep it up.
• Malaysia
23 Feb 08
usually on working days i go to bed at around 11, if not i cant wake up the next morning to go to work haha. but on weekends i usually sleep late like maybe 2-3am or later than that hehe.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Feb 08
You sound like my daughter. Enjoy it whilst you can.
@tinkerick (1257)
• United States
11 Feb 08
I've been a night owl ever since I was allowed to set my own bedtime (high school after my mom passed). Unfortunately it's a bad habit during the work week as I tend to stay up until 1 or 2 AM. I do that until I get my "special" headaches, then I know my body is saying "get some sleep girl!". When I'm on a good streak I go to bed at midnight regularly. On the weekends my husband and I often stay up til 3 or 4 AM playing on the computer (as I've said before Puzzle Pirates is addicting - plus all the Europeans are on during our early morning hours). My 10 year old daughter is also a night owl. She'll stay up til 10 on school nights when we let her. On weekends if we're watching movies she'll stay up with us until we get to the movies that aren't appropriate for kids. -Tink
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Feb 08
I know that headache well. I used to have trouble sleeping for days before a big meeting and would often pore over the computer until the small hours. My daughter is a night owl too. She now stays up to watch the movies that aren't suitable for her parents!! She is 19.
@ruby222 (4847)
27 Mar 08
Im ok as long as im concentrating on something,as soon as i just relax..oh dear..the eyelids start drooping,and the next thing im snoring!! But if i stay on the computer im wide awake!! I cant seem to get used to a book in bed..i can never get it in the right position...i think my glasses get in the way!!!!.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
27 Mar 08
Glasses are a blooming nuisance in bed. I don't have to wear mine to read thank goodness. But myLot keeps me up far too late to read when I do get there.
• China
28 Mar 08
I used to sleep early when i was in the middle school. but now I usually go to bed at 00:00 a.m. I don't need too much time for sleeping, 7 hours a day is enough. when i am hanging out with my friends or my girlfriend at the weekends, i may not go to bed until 3:00 a.m. or just stay up the whole night.
@Wario_1 (965)
• Sweden
11 Feb 08
Often i go to bed around 00:00 am, sometimes a little more late than that but mostly around that time.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Feb 08
When I was younger I also went to bed about midnight. Sometimes much later. I cannot do it now though. Thank you for your response.
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@TasaF7 (38)
• United States
11 Feb 08
When I was younger I was an early bird, early to bed and early to rise. I got tired around 8:30 and was in bed by 9:30. But then my schedule got all messed up, I had to get up early for school and stay up late for homework and other stuff. Now I usually go to bed some where between 10:30pm - 12:00am.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Feb 08
I am afraid that life does this to you. You pop off early when you are a child and again when you are older. But school and work intervene and in a rather curious way, you end up staying up late when really you need all the sleep that you can get.