Does anyone here go to bed really early?

[DawnM]

I was reading about Melissa McCarthy and she says she goes to bed at 7:30pm.

 

How would anyone actually be able to do that?

 

I guess if you have to get up at 3:30am you would get used to it, but I have to get up at 6am right now and I have a hard time going to bed at 10.

[Slache]

I try to go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 5:30. I'm usually not asleep until 9 between getting in bed late and chatting with my husband, but that's the goal.

 

Pregnant me sleeps from 8:30-8:30.

[Pawz4me]

I generally go to bed between 8:00 and 9:00 and read for awhile before nodding off.  But during the winter it's not unusual for me to be asleep by 8:30.  I'm usually up by 5:00 a.m.  I've tried staying awake longer but I just can't do it.  Well, I can stay awake if something's going on (social event, really big/important breaking news event, etc.).  But I'm just naturally a lark.  My brain starts getting mushy around 4:30-5:00 and everyone knows to not ask me anything that requires much mental agility after 7:00.

[Annie G]

We go to bed at ten because dh gets up at four.   We can stay up late if we're out with friends or something but that doesn't happen often enough to throw off our sleep schedule. 

 

 

[DawnM]

This year is winding down and I am so glad.  I overcommitted, AGAIN, and was out almost every single night of the week.  I don't even get home until 10 some nights.

 

Starting this summer, my commitments are going down to almost nothing, and I will not be volunteering for anything other than my Tue evening group.  

 

I am heading back to work and I need at least 6 months to really acclimate to working full time again.  But even then, I tend to not commit on week nights.  

Dh has agreed to do scouts with our youngest.  I have done it for 10 solid years and I am TIRED.  

 

And, can I just share that I CANNOT wait for my middle son to get his license!!!!!!  Oldest refuses to drive (Asperger's and some other issues so we are leaving it be) and can help out with driving!

 

 

[amy g.]

I start reading to my little girls at 8:00 then go to sleep around 9:00. I wake up without an alarm before 6:00. I have always needed a lot of sleep and don't like to feel tired.

 

We have houseguests right now. Two nights ago we stayed up until 1:00 then 10:00 last night. I slept until 11:00 this morning and still feel like a truck hit me.

 

I love my family, but I'm ready for everyone to leave so I can be in bed by 8:00 again.

[Katy]

When DH was doing this thing where he had to leave for work by 4:30, in less than a week I was consistently out by 7:45. 

[Soror]

We aim to be in bed before 9, ideally 8:30, dh gets up early and I am an early bird. TBH the way I hear most people talk they stay up too late and it interferes with their sleep. Personally, I like sleep and do not like to feel tired. I hate waking up late in the morning. On Mondays, Tues and Wed this past semester we've had activities keeping us out later and it has been brutal. Scouts will keep on until June but we are dropping out Wed commitment and Tues should be moved earlier, I can't wait.

 

[Pawz4me]

I start reading to my little girls at 8:00 then go to sleep around 9:00. I wake up without an alarm before 6:00. I have always needed a lot of sleep and don't like to feel tired.

 

We have houseguests right now. Two nights ago we stayed up until 1:00 then 10:00 last night. I slept until 11:00 this morning and still feel like a truck hit me.

 

I love my family, but I'm ready for everyone to leave so I can be in bed by 8:00 again.

 

My problem is that I can't sleep late.  It doesn't matter what time I go to sleep, my internal alarm clock goes off around 4:30 or 5:00 and I can't go back to sleep.  The only time I ever sleep past 5:00 or so is if I've been sick with the flu or something similar that totally zaps me.

 

 

 

For those early sleepers, do you not have evening commitments? It's not unusual for us to have meetings that begin at 7:00. Tomorrow night we have a concert beginning at 7:30, and when it's over, there's an hour and a half drive. When dd does the musical this fall, she'll have swimming until 5:30, then orchestra, and then won't even start practice until 7:30. When dh worked at the airport, he wasn't even off the clock until 10:30. How do you do this?

 

We try out best not to. :)

 

Our kids are older and at this point have very few activities that require our attendance in the evenings.  Thank goodness. ;)

[Slache]

For those early sleepers, do you not have evening commitments? It's not unusual for us to have meetings that begin at 7:00. Tomorrow night we have a concert beginning at 7:30, and when it's over, there's an hour and a half drive. When dd does the musical this fall, she'll have swimming until 5:30, then orchestra, and then won't even start practice until 7:30. When dh worked at the airport, he wasn't even off the clock until 10:30. How do you do this?

Nope. My kids are young and I like getting up early so that I can work out and read before they get up. I figure when they're older I'll be able to work out and read while they're awake so staying up later will not be a problem.

[creekland]

Add me to the early to bed and early to rise club.  I tend to head to bed between 8:00 and 9:00.  Whether I hit that goal or not I'm always up by 5am and usually closer to 4am.  I can not sleep in.  Even if I stay up to 1am, my body will not sleep in, so I'll just end up with 3- 4 hours of sleep and be tired/cranky later.

 

My family is different, so if I'm doing something where I need to stay up to be social, even like last night when hubby wanted us to watch WaterWorld, I hit the caffeine.  Then this morning around 10am I took a nap.  Naps only last 30 - 45 minutes though as my body physically can't stand being still for too long (pain issues).  At night, if I go to bed early enough I can get into a deep enough sleep to ignore it.  By morning or while napping that doesn't happen.

 

As with others, my kids know the best time to play games with me (hoping to win) is after 8:30pm.   :glare:

 

We do attendance in the evening things when we want to.  I just know I'll have to have caffeine and try to work a nap in the next day.  I try NOT to do them on school nights when I'm working the next day.  When traveling I get pretty darn sleep deprived, but I tell myself I'm still young and can handle it.

[VaKim]

In the summer, I am usually in bed by 8, but I read for a half hour or so. In the winter, sometimes I go to bed at 6:30 (same thing about reading). I generally go to sleep for a few hours, then am awake most of the night until almost time to get up, when I am finally sleeping good. I have tried going to bed later, but all that happens then is I miss my "sleep window" and can't even fall asleep for hours. 

[J-rap]

I generally stay up late and get up around 7:30pm, but I've always admired people who could go to sleep early and wake up early.  It just seems like you can get so much done in those early morning hours, whereas late evenings can be kind of lazy.

[J-rap]

In the summer, I am usually in bed by 8, but I read for a half hour or so. In the winter, sometimes I go to bed at 6:30 (same thing about reading). I generally go to sleep for a few hours, then am awake most of the night until almost time to get up, when I am finally sleeping good. I have tried going to bed later, but all that happens then is I miss my "sleep window" and can't even fall asleep for hours. 

 

That's an unusual sleep cycle!

[Joules]

For those early sleepers, do you not have evening commitments? It's not unusual for us to have meetings that begin at 7:00. Tomorrow night we have a concert beginning at 7:30, and when it's over, there's an hour and a half drive. When dd does the musical this fall, she'll have swimming until 5:30, then orchestra, and then won't even start practice until 7:30. When dh worked at the airport, he wasn't even off the clock until 10:30. How do you do this?

 

I'm an extreme morning person.  Advanced Sleep Phase Disorder runs in my family.  Dh and I head up 7:30 or 8:00 to watch a show before bed, and I usually fall asleep halfway in.  Dh is usually up 'til 10 or so.  I'm up around 4am.

 

I simply can't do nights anymore.  If ds had an evening activity, usually dh would take him, or I would drop him off and dh would pick him up, or I'd get a friend to take him.  Fortunately for me, ds has the same affliction so evening activities are rare.

 

For me, it's like asking a normal person to be at an activity at 4am.  I can do it if I absolutely have to, but I'll feel like crap for a couple of days.

[Heart_Mom]

 

 

For me, it's like asking a normal person to be at an activity at 4am.  

 

Yes! 

 

I go to bed at 8:30, then read for about 30 minutes before going to sleep. I wake at 5 A.M. Events that go past 8 are really tough for me. I sometimes wish that the rhythm of my family was different so an event that lasted until 10 didn't feel like it was the middle of the night! 

Edited May 7, 2016 by Heart_Mom

[Joules]

My problem is that I can't sleep late.  It doesn't matter what time I go to sleep, my internal alarm clock goes off around 4:30 or 5:00 and I can't go back to sleep.  The only time I ever sleep past 5:00 or so is if I've been sick with the flu or something similar that totally zaps me.

 

 

 

Same problem here.  If ds was asleep at 6:00 am, I'd go ahead and send e-mails to cancel activities, we knew he was sick.

[Pawz4me]

I'm an extreme morning person.  Advanced Sleep Phase Disorder runs in my family.  Dh and I head up 7:30 or 8:00 to watch a show before bed, and I usually fall asleep halfway in.  Dh is usually up 'til 10 or so.  I'm up around 4am.

 

I simply can't do nights anymore.  If ds had an evening activity, usually dh would take him, or I would drop him off and dh would pick him up, or I'd get a friend to take him.  Fortunately for me, ds has the same affliction so evening activities are rare.

 

For me, it's like asking a normal person to be at an activity at 4am.  I can do it if I absolutely have to, but I'll feel like crap for a couple of days.

 

:iagree:

 

The running joke in our extended family is that if something needs to be done at midnight my sister in law gets to do it, and if something needs to be done at 4:00 a.m. I'lll handle it. :lol:

[creekland]

I simply can't do nights anymore.  If ds had an evening activity, usually dh would take him, or I would drop him off and dh would pick him up...

 

Ditto.  Our kids were totally used to me taking them somewhere and dad picking them up - except for overnight deals that started at 10pm and ended at 6am.  Then dad would drop them off and I would pick them up.  It worked quite well actually.

 

We also have no need for an alarm clock in our house.  I'm it.  We have one to tell time, but it very, very rarely gets used.  I usually set it as a backup for something important - just in case - but once I forgot to turn it off and found out I have no idea how to turn it off when it's actually ringing as it's different than turning it off before it goes off!   :lol:   (Hubby was not amused.  He had no need to be up that early.  I usually wake him up when I leave for work, but I'm not sure how often he gets up then.)

[Joules]

:iagree:

 

The running joke in our extended family is that if something needs to be done at midnight my sister in law gets to do it, and if something needs to be done at 4:00 a.m. I'lll handle it. :lol:

 

It's good to have people with different hours.  My parents lived with dh, ds and I for 8 years.  It was funny because someone was always awake at our house.  My dad takes morning person too far and was usually up around midnight, about the time dh and my mom went to bed.  Ds and I sleep the more "normal" hours between 8 and 4.

[Soror]

I'm an extreme morning person.  Advanced Sleep Phase Disorder runs in my family.  Dh and I head up 7:30 or 8:00 to watch a show before bed, and I usually fall asleep halfway in.  Dh is usually up 'til 10 or so.  I'm up around 4am.

 

I simply can't do nights anymore.  If ds had an evening activity, usually dh would take him, or I would drop him off and dh would pick him up, or I'd get a friend to take him.  Fortunately for me, ds has the same affliction so evening activities are rare.

 

For me, it's like asking a normal person to be at an activity at 4am.  I can do it if I absolutely have to, but I'll feel like crap for a couple of days.

Huh? That's a disorder? That doesn't seems normal to me! What time is considered normal to go to bed? Ideal to me is to bed at 9 and up at 5:30.

 

I'm a morning person anyway but between nursing babies, thyroid and hormone issues my sleep has taken a hit so people think I'm crazy militant about not staying up but I don't care. We have a lock-in for our AHG group, I think that is about the stupidest idea in history(let's mess up everybody's sleep- why does that sound like fun?). I didn't let the girls do it for awhile but now dh does it and sleeps in the daddy room. We did camping a few weekends ago and I ended up not in bed(tent) until 10 and with all the busyness and a nightime hike I was wired. I finally fell asleep around 12 and then woke up at 4 having 4 very wakeful hrs of sleep. I finally fell asleep at 6 and slept til 7(after taking my thyroid meds)- we then did about 12 miles of hiking and biking. Oh, vey. I should have came in the morning instead of staying that night, it took days to recover from that. 

Edited May 7, 2016 by soror

[SparklyUnicorn]

I wish.  My sleep is so screwed up lately because 2-3 nights a week I get home late.  Mondays I don't get home until 9:30.  I hate that because it throws my whole sleep schedule off.  And BTW my kid is the only homeschooled kid doing this activity.  So all of those kids have to get up for school the next morning.  I think it's ridiculous. 

 

Ideally I get to bed no later than 10 and fall asleep by 11.  Lately though I've been in bed as late as 1 am.  I don't have to get up super early, but I would prefer to get up earlier so I have more time to do stuff.  I do a lot better on enough sleep though. 

 

 

[trulycrabby]

For those early sleepers, do you not have evening commitments? It's not unusual for us to have meetings that begin at 7:00. Tomorrow night we have a concert beginning at 7:30, and when it's over, there's an hour and a half drive. When dd does the musical this fall, she'll have swimming until 5:30, then orchestra, and then won't even start practice until 7:30. When dh worked at the airport, he wasn't even off the clock until 10:30. How do you do this?

We just adjust and stay out when we need to. When we are home, however, we are in bed by 8:00 pm. In the winter, when it gets dark by 4:45 pm, I am often in bed reading a book by 6:30 pm.

[goldberry]

Between 9-10 here.  But I still can't get up early!

 

My sister goes to bed between 8-9, but gets up at 4:30-5 when her DH leaves for work.

[nd293]

My husband is often in bed 8:30. He gets up around 4:30 to run before work.

[Joules]

Huh? That's a disorder? That doesn't seems normal to me! What time is considered normal to go to bed? Ideal to me is to bed at 9 and up at 5:30.

 

 

I think it has more to do with the complete inability to stay awake in the evening and inability to sleep after the wee hours rather than the hours slept.  It gets worse with age.  My dad is asleep by 6pm no matter where he is or what he is doing, and is up by midnight.  Normal people can adjust to a new schedule if necessary, people with sleep phase disorder (either kind) really can't.

[Lady Florida.]

If I went to bed that early I'd never have any time for myself. Night time is when I relax and do what I enjoy -reading, crochet/knit/sew, other crafty stuff, or just doing little things around the house. I've always been a bit of a night owl though. When I was teaching and school started at 7:15 with teachers having to be there 15 minutes before the bell, I had no choice but to go to bed by nine. I hated it, and though I learned to tolerate it I never really got used to it. When I don't have to get up too early I usually try to go to bed by 11 or 11:30 but it ends up being more like 12-12:30. I get up around 8-8:30 without an alarm. 

 

I'm an extreme morning person.  Advanced Sleep Phase Disorder runs in my family.  Dh and I head up 7:30 or 8:00 to watch a show before bed, and I usually fall asleep halfway in.  Dh is usually up 'til 10 or so.  I'm up around 4am.

 

I simply can't do nights anymore.  If ds had an evening activity, usually dh would take him, or I would drop him off and dh would pick him up, or I'd get a friend to take him.  Fortunately for me, ds has the same affliction so evening activities are rare.

 

For me, it's like asking a normal person to be at an activity at 4am.  I can do it if I absolutely have to, but I'll feel like crap for a couple of days.

 

Ds 18 is dealing with the opposite, Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, and has been seeing a sleep specialist. Part of his DSPS comes from his ADHD, but part I truly believe (and the doc does too) is blue light from his computer. He does gaming with friends most nights. We ordered him blue blocking eyeglass clips that are supposed to help, but they're back ordered. The sleep doc also told him he needs to gradually change his bedtime - try to go to bed just 10-15 minutes earlier each night. He's always been this way; even as a tiny baby he was unable to sleep properly so while the computer screen exacerbates the problem it's not likely the cause.

[Lanny]

I was reading about Melissa McCarthy and she says she goes to bed at 7:30pm.

 

How would anyone actually be able to do that?

 

I guess if you have to get up at 3:30am you would get used to it, but I have to get up at 6am right now and I have a hard time going to bed at 10.

 

Sometimes I want to come in here, very early in the morning, to work on a web site or something, when it is very quiet and I can concentrate, without any distractions.  I will probably do that tomorrow morning, because I am working on something for a web site and am about ready to finish that..  Before DD was a TTUISD Distance Learning student, for  four (4) school years, I had to wake my wife and DD up at 450 A.M.  DD was out of the house at 550 A.M. on school days.  It is very unusual for me to stay in bed until 6 A.M.   When we were in Orlando, one morning my wife was sleeping and I didn't want to wake her up. DD knocked on our door at 723 A.M.     In general, my understanding is that people who are up early in the mornings, as a group, are more successful than those who  like to sleep late.  "Morning people"...

[Pawz4me]

If I went to bed that early I'd never have any time for myself. Night time is when I relax and do what I enjoy -reading, crochet/knit/sew, other crafty stuff, or just doing little things around the house.

 

You'd probably be like the rest of us larks and have your quiet time in the mornings. :) 

[T'smom]

Well, I go to bed early, but I don't fall asleep early. After I put the 2 year old to bed, I just don't have it in me to walk back downstairs, so I usually just lay down. (Dh is in charge of putting the other 2 to bed, and he's usually still doing that.) But I play on the computer, watch Netflix, or read. If I can talk myself into walking back downstairs, I get a snack to bring back up. Sometimes, I try to talk dh into bringing me something!

[creekland]

You'd probably be like the rest of us larks and have your quiet time in the mornings. :)

 

:iagree:  Morning is my "me" time.  I can get resentful when it gets violated - except once - while at the Dry Tortugas when my youngest also got up early and we walked around on the moat watching the stars get erased from the sky together.  That was an awesome memory we both share.  He would have been 11 at the time.

 

But normal days?  It's just me and the cats loving our mornings together for a few hours.

[UmMusa]

In the summer, I am usually in bed by 8, but I read for a half hour or so. In the winter, sometimes I go to bed at 6:30 (same thing about reading). I generally go to sleep for a few hours, then am awake most of the night until almost time to get up, when I am finally sleeping good. I have tried going to bed later, but all that happens then is I miss my "sleep window" and can't even fall asleep for hours.

Is it dark?

In the Pacific Northwest the sun sets after 9:00 and there's light in the sky till 10:30 or so.

[Lady Florida.]

You'd probably be like the rest of us larks and have your quiet time in the mornings. :)

 

 

:iagree:  Morning is my "me" time.  I can get resentful when it gets violated - except once - while at the Dry Tortugas when my youngest also got up early and we walked around on the moat watching the stars get erased from the sky together.  That was an awesome memory we both share.  He would have been 11 at the time.

 

But normal days?  It's just me and the cats loving our mornings together for a few hours.

 

In the morning I wander around in a daze, shaking the cobwebs out of my head. Rarely does anything productive happen before 10 am.

[SKL]

Yeah, I usually go to bed really early in the morning!  :P

[creekland]

In the morning I wander around in a daze, shaking the cobwebs out of my head. Rarely does anything productive happen before 10 am.

 

That would be me after 10pm.  ;)

 

8pm to 10pm is pushing it, esp if I haven't had extra caffeine.  I don't need caffeine in the morning.

[Melissa in Australia]

10 pm. it is the earliest I can get to bed as Ds12 does his next day's morning school work form 8.30 - 10 in the evenings as he has Dyslexia and cannot concentrate with twins around.

 I get up between 4-5 am.

[abcmommy]

I really need 8-9 hours of sleep and rarely get it.  I try to go upstairs at 9 and get in bed and have lights off by ten.

[mamiof5]

I'm horrible at getting enough sleep. My wake up time varies between 6-7:30am, but I rarely ever go to bed before midnight. A bad habit I've had for a looking time

:(

[Prairie~Phlox]

I am usually asleep by 10 & up at 5:00.

[DawnM]

I will add that my body clock is really 11-12 to bed and 8-8:30am rise.   But that doesn't happen now.  It did when the kids were all homeschooling and we didn't need to be anywhere.  

 

I didn't even know that was my body clock until I stopped working and didn't have to get up in the am.

 

But now middle son has to be out the door by 6:45am for school, so I am up around 6:15.    Some of the jobs I am looking at will require me to leave the house by 6am.   I think the plan is to have my lunch packed and clothes ready and get up at 5:30, shower quickly, while the coffee is making, and get out by 6am.  My hair can dry on the way.  That is how I did it when I worked 12 years ago.

[VaKim]

That's an unusual sleep cycle!

Well, it's not exactly on purpose. I used to go to bed that early, but would actually sleep and get up around 4am. I am a morning person. However, since my hysterectomy years ago, I can no longer sleep well at all, so I end up sleeping in "snatches." 

 

Is it dark?

In the Pacific Northwest the sun sets after 9:00 and there's light in the sky till 10:30 or so.

 

In the summer, the longest days stay light until around 9 or 9:30. In the winter, it is dark here by 5 on the shortest days. My bedroom is always totally dark though, as I have so much trouble sleeping and the slightest bit of light bothers me. 

You all have very late sunsets! I am in the mountains, so the sun sets much earlier here. 

[Guest]

I have been going to bed no later than 10 and my alarm goes off at 5am. I do hit it a few times, but it also wakes the dogs, who start to get restless. I am generally out of bed by 5:15 to potty them and walking one of the dogs by 5:30.

 

I will often fall asleep while DH is watching TV at night if the show is boring or if I am not knitting. I wouldn't mind going to bed a little earlier, but I really relish the time to be quiet and alone (w/o kids).

 

I avoid evening commitments at all cost. We do Awana, but DH drives to it and it is our one night out. Occasionally I will have a church meeting or Pampered Chef-type party, but I really avoid going out at night, if at all possible.