How much sleep do you get?

Far more since my hip replacement as I’m no longer woken by pain at regular intervals. I’m rarely asleep before midnight, generally wake for between one and three hours about 3am, and then back to sleep for another three to five hours. So somewhere between 6 and 9 hours, I guess, but it’s not the same amount every night. I am very rarely tired during the day, so assume it’s enough.

I have been very fortunate all my life in being able to sleep soundly for at least 8 hours a night; longer if allowed; in a bed, in a chair, on the floor or on the ground with some padding/insulation. I never read in bed, and have generally fallen off the sleep precipice within a couple of minutes of my head hitting the pillow. For many years, my work involved extensive foreign travel, and I found that my sleep pattern adapted seamlessly to wherever in the world I landed. Now well into my 70's, I do sometimes have to get up to go to the lavatory, or to shake off the dreaded leg cramps, but I still manage to drop off again as soon as I return to bed. Long may this happy state continue; I cannot imagine how awful it must be to be an insomniac, and I fear I will not cope well with not sleeping.

In bed about 12.45 am try to read my kindle with all lights out as this usually makes me fall asleep ( kindle generally falls on my face to let me know I'm almost asleep). Then it's wake about 4 am, not for toilet or anything. Read kindle again, fall asleep wake again around 6.30. Sometimes I just get up, sometimes I just hunker down and try to sleep until about 8 am depending on what I have on that day or just read.

According to my watch between 7 and 9 hours of which around two hours is restful sleep (whatever that means)
I do like to read and according to DH when I'm done with reading I fall straight asleep whereas he lays awake for ages before nodding off - which annoys him!!

Glad I’m not alone with sleeping issues- so dull. I go to bed about 10.30 - read for half an hour - wake up once for loo and finally get back to sleep only to be woken at some point by partner’s snoring. Eventually get back to sleep only to be woken by bloody pigeons on roof at sunrise (5.30) and then commercial planes coming over from 6am. I have to keep all windows closed even in summer.

It usually takes me ages to fall asleep, always been the same even when I was a child. Once I am asleep I am a very deep sleeper so am rarely woken during the night except when I need to visit the lavatory. I am usually in bed by 10.15 and read for at least 45 minutes. Probably get between 7 - 8 hrs but always feel I could do with a wee while more. I never nap during the day no matter how tired I feel - have never managed to sleep unless I am tucked up in bed and envy those who can catnap. Suffer from frequent migraines which leave me feeling very tired and washed out (possibly due in part to the medication) so right now I could happily go to bed but it is just after 7pm so I will hang on for a couple of hours.

I must be very lucky, as I never have to get up in the night for the loo.
However, I rarely fall asleep before midnight as I like to read and listen to LBC radio,
Then I always wake up at same time between 5 and 6am.
I might be able to doze of again if I’m lucky.
Consequently, I get very tired the next day and have little energy.
Even if I’m tired, I cannot get to sleep before midnight,
I would love to sleep for 7 to 8hours a night. Bliss!,

Always read in bed and used to put light out by about 11, but took ages to sleep. I now let my body tell me when I need to sleep, so I read till ab 12.30 to 1/4 to 1, usually yawning by then use the toilet, wake up again sometime in the night, back to sleep, and alarm goes off at 8 o'clock. I often wake about 6, I then put on a eye shield against the morning light, and go back to sleep. This routine now works well for me.

After getting a fitbit watch I realised I wasn' t getting enough sleep. Have since made an effort ( and watch reminds me! ) to be in bed ready to sleep at 11.30pm, and up at 7.30.If I wake up during night to go to loo, I deep breathe myself back to sleep.

Sleep varies. I like to get up before 9 , if I can depending on the night I’ve had as I have pain issues due to life long disability. My OH is not a morning person- anything but so I leave him to get up when he surfaces. If I wake up in the early hours , I listen to BBCR4X - a play or book . It’s very comforting and usually send me off again unless it’s a thriller !

What saved my sanity due to insomnia is listening to an Audible book on my iPod with EarPods. I set mine to half an hour each time and it will automatically switch off and it’s easy to put another half an hour on if I haven’t dozed off. I probably do this 4 or five times a night. The book has to be an autobiography or diary so it’s not too exciting. When I went into hospital I don’t know what I would have done without it.

Yes. I started listening to podcasts during the pandemic when my mind kept racing at night. My favourites are Backlisted about books and The Rest is History. They’re good because when one episode ends they go onto the next one. I fell asleep the other night learning about Gawain and the Green Knight and woke up to Agatha Christy. Not sure what my subconscious listened to Inbetween, I wake up exhausted, though, because I seem to need to go to the loo several times which then can wake up the dog who also needs to go. She’s then got into a habit of wanting her breakfast at 6 ( sometimes earlier). I eventually nod off again and lose most of the morning. My mum always said that one hour before 12 was worth two hours after but I’ve always been semi nocturnal. I seem to spend a lot of time trying to catch up on sleep. If I don’t sleep enough I can’t function at all.

Sillynanny you could try listening to podcasts, they’re better than the world service as you can choose the topic rather than bleak news! I usually listen to a bit and then I’m asleep.

I am normally in bed by 10pm, read for around 45 minutes and turn off the light to settle down to sleep. If I am still awake after 30 minutes or so I get up again but normally I am asleep by then.
I generally wake around 6am and have tried sleeping in but have discovered that this gives me a pounding headache so I have decided that once I am awake I get up and make a cuppa. This doesn't mean that I get a regular 7 hours but that is what I aim for. Any less and I need an 'nana nap' as my daughter cheekily calls it.

For years now I do not get enough sleep. Bed between 10 & 11 then read for an hour or so. Sleep for couple of hours then up for the loo then no more sleep as mind just starts racing. Then about an hour before the alarm goes off magic sleep! Only for an hour or so. Have no idea how to stop the mind going through what seems like problems but in the light of day never so bad! Tired most of the day but if I sleep in daytime no sleep at night. I just blame my age as pushing 80, at least I can blame that🙄

I'm a night owl and my husband is a lark, but I've managed to adjust my sleeping hours slightly closer to his by dint of going to bed 15 minutes earlier every week. I now go to bed an hour or so after him and get up a couple of hours later in the morning - just enough time for him to have done the dishwasher and laid the breakfast table for us and our grandchildren. He says he likes a couple of hours of peace before the hordes arrive!
I do really need eight hours but don't always get it due to hip and back aches and pains.

I go to bed about 10pm and usually wake about 6 or 7 am apart from at least two trips to the loo in the night. I usually have a short siesta after lunch and often drop off in front of the TV in the evening. I used to be able to check how many hours sleep I had with my Fitbit but it doesn't work any more.

Sleep has been a problem all my adult life as I have high levels of cortisol. Improved dramatically for 7-8 years when I went gluten free. Then I was put on anti-oestrogens after breast cancer and it mucked my hormones up again. I usually get up to wee once or twice in the night, as I've been encouraged to drink so much water during the day! It's not too bad at present and I have zopiclone for those nights when I really can't get to sleep. I have an after lunch nap every day I'm at home.

I go to bed at 11, read till midnight, do Wordle. Go to sleep immediately, but usually have a loo trip around 4 am, straight back to sleep till 9.30, so usually get at least 9 hours. I have motion sensor night lights for going to loo so I don’t put on a main light or lamp. If I can’t get back to sleep I listen to a podcast on BBC Sounds - The Rest is History is very soporific!

Ditto

In bed by 10.30 - 11.0p.m. - sleep until 8.0 a.m. - - discovered years ago I need 8 hours sleep to be a 'nice person' in the day.
I drink a glass of wine early to mid evening having eaten at 6.30 -ish - - - and never wake up for the loo. I am lucky it seems.!
I appreciate my comfy bed.!

Katyj

I’m asleep by 9.30 pm. Very much a morning person. At the moment I'm very tired. DH is waking twice in the night for the toilet. The second time being about 3am and I can’t get back to sleep, so I’m getting 5.5 hours, not enough at all. I get up about 4.30.

I’m sorry but if I was sleeping with someone who disturbed my sleep I would be sleeping elsewhere! I need eight hours minimum.

am lucky if manage 3 or 4 hours, have tried all sorts, including having used Sleepstation on drs recommendation, really envy people who can go to bed, fall asleep quickly and sleep for at least 6 hours.

My worry is that I sleep TOO much!
I sleep around 8 hours a night and nap for around an hour in the early afternoon.
I do wake up at least once in the night to go to the loo but usually fall back asleep.
Since Long Covid I really struggle without my afternoon nap, despite getting a good night's sleep

I "sleep" (ha,ha!) with a snorer on one side and traffic noise on the other .... and I can still hear both in the spare bedroom!
I have sleeping tablets for when desperation sets in, otherwise I don't know how I'd cope. I always feel tired.