Late to bed & rising early: Are you one among them?

Hi sree... According to my daily schedule, i sleep after 12 and rise nearly at 5:30... because i have to run to my job place .... so you may say that i am late to bed and rise early but if it is holiday or sunday then i am too late from bed in the morning. Have a nice day.

Hiya sreekala, Well I think that going to bed too late very late and then getting up very early does take it´s toll on your Health. However some seem to be very lucky and nothing really affects them at all even when they are way over sixty odd. Of which I am glad for them. I myself need a lot of sleep and I know that if I don´t get it and have to get up really early it does take me time to wake up say a couple of hours only joking of course. These in our House like to sleep a lot too and not too bothered about getting up early which they have to because they go back to sleep for a while in the Afternoons most Days. That is a custom here and I should imagine in a lot of other Hotter Countries to take shelter from the heat too. I suppose it would be the People that burn the candle at both ends the ones that overdo it at the Weekends for a long time that might just be victims of that sort of thing. Also we have to watch what we eat and drink too all of us. Your little Boy sounds really cute. They are at that age. I would have loved to have seen him. I used to get mine to do things like that too whilst they were still very small.

I believe this. Lack of sleep is one way to shorten life indeed. A person should have at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep otherwise his health will suffer. As your child recited "early to bed, early to rise makes a child happy, healthy and wise." And may I add that this does not only apply to a child. It applies to everyone, young and old alike. Nice day to you my friend!

Hi kala, Thanks God that I have least risk of stroke and all for now I no longer remain awake at night and do not get up early in the morning. It was my habit just until last year that even if I slept at 2am I would leave my bed at around six for I could not sleep beyond that. I fell seriously ill since I had my BP going too high and doctors asked me to sleep at least eight hours a day and I am doing that. I feel comfortable.

Going to bed late and waking up early - that may damage your health just because the sleeping is very important for our health. We have to sleep at least 7 hours per day. I go to bed late and I get up late also. I sleep 8 hours per day.

I am also one of the followers of the proverb "early to bed and early to rise makes a man happy,healthy and wise"recited by your son.Everything has to take some leisure say a computer mechanism,a computer may be hanged due to its busy works and so it should have a leisure.Our nervous system always keeps itself busy for to meet the demands of our body,as per my primary idea,acquired at my H.S(Sc.)level.Infact I am an engineering students having a little knowledge about Medical Science.According to the Experienced ones,a man should have a minimum of rest of 6 hrs to get his nervous system working properly.

I prefer to go to bed at a reasonable time and get around 6 hours sleep, which is more than enough for me.. I have already had a heart attack, but that was nothing to do with the time I went to bed, but more to do with the fact that I have a blood-clotting condition that is more to do with diet. _Derek

normally 6 hours is enough sleep for me,unless im very overtierd or stressed then i need 8-10 hours.

Yes they do say that insuffecient sleep leads to heart trouble and obesity. That may be the reason for me putting on a lot of weight. I have now made it a habit of sleeping early at nights and wake up before sunrise. Here in our city we spend so much of time travelling to work and back home there we have to cover up for our sleep while travelling most of the time!

This is very much my situation. Just like now, it is already 12 midnight here in the Philippines and yet I am still so wide awake and I will be damn awake until the wee hour for sure.But despite of that I'm pretty sure that when dawn comes I have to get up (if ever i'll get the chance to hit the sack tonight) because my kids will be awake then and that they need to have their breakfast of which I am the only one who is serving them that. Yes, I know that I am at risk of getting health issues because of lack of sleep but I'm maybe just so stubborn to sleep. Or perhaps, sleepiness is just so stubborn that it refuses to visit me early or at least on time.

Aww! I am guilty of sleeping late and rising up early. You know how it is to be a wife and a mother. I have to wake up as early as 3am to prepare breakfast and packed lunch for my husband and kids who go to school and work. And I am always the last to sleep because I have to make sure that everybody is home when I go to bed. And that makes me sleep for only 4 to 5 hours each night. That could be the reason why these past few days, I've been experiencing headache and palpitations. Maybe I should change this habit and have at least a nap of an hour or two in the afternoon. I hope it is counted. Thanks for sharing this and I'll be careful!

I wish I could go back to early to bed, early to rise like in my childhood. Now it's more of what you say - late to bed and eartly to rise. I feel it's effect on my body as I'm dizzy most of the time. Mostly, I sleep 6 hours, too, and feel that it is not enough. My best sleep is 7 hours. 8 hours is too much because I'd feel sleepy after an 8 hour sleep.

Is that so? I also get around 5-6 hours of sleep. Night time is the only time I can surf the web and here. But of course, i try to sleep as much if there is a chance with 2 kids around, who knows when?

I go early get up late but my other half goes late and gets up early. I told him off last night as he got back up and whent down stairs for a while not coming back to bed till after 1am and he had to be at work for 6am.

Hi Sree! I try to follow a disciplined routine and I go to bed early and rise early. I firmly believe that at least 7 hours sleep is necessary to recharge ourselves. I believe in the old dictum 'early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise'. I am not claiming that following a disciplined routine has made me wiser or richer , yet I feel that if I get up early in the morning, I am able to finish lots of chores and can go to my office in time. As you know that my 'better half' is also working, so we both get up early on working days to finish the chores. And moreover, one feels 'fresh', when one gets up early in the morning and go for a short morning walk. You can say that for some of us it becomes compulsion also to get up early because our kids go to the school early in the morning.. Have a great evening!

Well, sometimes I get hard to wake up due to good sleep at night. But sometimes I wake up early because I have something to think that I should do that day...

I think I'm safe, cause I still manages to sleep around 6 to 7 hours a day. I hate the feeling of lack of sleep, that's why I see to it that I have enough sleep at night, or I would catch a power nap during lunch breaks.

I am such kind of person doing very often 6 days in a week.. I will wake up early at 5am.. But i will go to bed around midnight 12 or 1 am only... I will went outing with my friends after my office hours somedays i may have heavy work at office..

Hi! i know first hand about the consequence about sleeping late and getting up early, I'm 25 years old and i look like 35+, some of the factors about that is because I slept so little since a kid i used to sleep like 4 to 6 hour max in a day and some days i wouldn't even sleep. Besides that I'm always restless and tired, if i want to hang out with family or friends late in a day I'd have to sleep like 2 to 3 hour during the day to be awake and alert in the night!

each person has their own unique "clock" -- meaning sleep hours. i for one know that 6 hours of sleep is ideal for me. lately, i've been practicing going to bed early in order to get up early since i notice that mt=y brain works faster at dawn - for some strange reason. i think as long as you know your body clock - there shouldn't be any problem - but do consult your doctor if you experience anything "off" with your health and body in general.