What time do you get up in the morning?

I didn't sleep last night either, which isn't unusual sadly...my DH is brilliant and woke me for lunch at 12.15...so I know how you feel xx

I don't go to bed until about 1.30 - 2.30 so early mornings aren't something I'm known for. If I do go to bed earlier, I tend to wake up in the early hours of the morning and have to read to go back to sleep. I was up and 9 this morning but usually it is somewhere between 9.30-10-30.

I’m a lark & my husband is an owl. Suits us perfectly.

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I really sympathise with you. I too have chronic neck and back pain. I've also had Polymyalgia rheumatica since last July and am on steroids for that. I take a combination of painkillers which make me sleepy, but I'm often awake 3 times during the night. I find that a Tempur original pillow (I use the medium size 10/7) which has curves at each long length really helps with my neck. The pain obviously doesn't vanish (we should be so lucky!) but it does alleviate it. It takes between 2&6 weeks for most people to get used to it but I've had one for more than 20 years.
You can get them from Amazon for around £72 and they also sell brilliant pillowcases which go on and off so easily, much better than the first ones which were a bit of a struggle to get on sometimes. The jersey cotton pillow case is £35 for 1. It may seem a lot when you'd likely want a spare but they wash and tumble dry brilliantly. For just over £100 for pillow and pillowcase it's well worth it!
I've got a Tempur adjustable bed too which is indispensable for me but the cost of that is very high. I got mine with the money from an Industrial Injury which made my neck much worse and has made walking incredibly difficult due to the back problems it gave me.
I wake several times in the night because of back pain and am usually up between 9 and 10am.

Wake up about 6am but never get up til 8. Like to read the papers, drink tea, do half an hour of Greek and some mediation. Absolutely savour not having to hit the floor the moment the alarm goes off. Love retirement! Bedtime between nine and ten, love to read in a warm bed and tv is such rubbish sometimes.

I used to be a lark as I had to take 2 buses to work and start at 6:45am as my work life continued it became harder and harder to do this as I got older and my kids were grown. I switched jobs and began one that I did not have to leave until 11am and it suited. When I retired from that I find because I am a diabetic I have to get up if I do not eat something very late (or early depends on your view) so now except for the days I go to take care of my granddaughter which is 3 days a week I will let my body decide when it will wake up but usually it is around 8:30. I used to feel guilty about this as was raised to think it was being lazy but now I just don't care it is how I get enough sleep and I feel much better all day for doing it.

Between 5.30 and 6.30 but I do go to bed early. Anytime from 8.30 but I generally read until 10.

I got up every day at 6am for years DH left at 6.30am me at 7.30am .We are enjoying waking about 7am getting a coffee reading listening to radio etc.Get up about 9am unless appointment or something planned.
Love retirement go to bed about 11pm

If we’ve nothing to get up for, I normally wake up at 7ish, doze for an hour, read/browse for an hour and haul myself out of bed soon after 9, unless I’m offered breakfast in bed, when I sometimes just make it downstairs for Popmaster at 10.30. I was rudely awoken by the recycling crew at 7 today, so had to get up, and I feel proper crabby now. I’m rarely asleep before midnight and it was a lot later last night (this morning?).

What do you mean by ‘morning’ ? I try to get up before noon but don’t always make it ? I also try to go to bed before ‘midnight’ but don’t always make it. I always thought there was only one 8 o’clock in the day ????

My DH and I are both Owls. We go up to bed around midnight, watch TV in bed until 1.30-2a.m. Then wake around 9.30, have breakfast in bed and get dressed around 10-10.30am. The only exception is when we look after our GC, when we set a clock radio to wake us at 8a.m. The night before we try not to watch TV in bed, but often can't get to sleep then and have to catch up with a nap the next day.

I have a dog! Depends how he feels and when my daughters dog sleeps over, I’m completely at their mercy ??

I’m both a lark and an owl !! Awake and up at about 7 am, go to bed at between 3-4 at night ( morning really) , which is why I never seem to see the end of a program in the evening- I usually doze off !!

I am an owl who was forced to live as a lark during most of my younger years. My husband is the complete opposite and is a lark, but recently he wakes more in the night so we occasionally meet at the kettle in the early hours. Fortunately we have separate bedrooms so we no longer disturb each other.

When I was working and the children were at home, I loved the private hour I gave myself before they got up. No need for that now! I've certainly noticed the general feeling on camp sites that those who turn in late must be totally quiet, but as soon as the larks and their dear darling offspring are awake, so everyone else should be and no effort is made to stop clattering of pans, loud discussions of whether to have tea or coffee etc whilst their little darlings roar around everyone else's tents whooping at top volume.

I am an early bird, always have been. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.

I usually wake around 5.15ish. Bathroom and back to bed to listen to my little radio which I keep under the covers.

I’m almost always first up around 6.45/7am and get on with making breakfast then it’s out for a nice walk with the dog. This morning DH and I were remembering the wonderful long walks we used to have with the 2 dogs in North Cornwall for many years. I miss it so much and absolutely hate getting old..er?.

Depends whether I have slept well, by well means not needing a visit to the bathroom more than once during the night.

I used to get up at 6 and showered, hair done, breakfasted and left by 7.30 be in the office by 8 (any later and I couldn't get a car space, which, as I needed the car for work, was more than a little annoying...)
When I went back to college 20 years ago, I did the same, to be in college by 8.15 ready for Morning Prayer. Lectures started at 9.

Now, (and particularly this past year) I find it difficult to leap out of bed much before 9am...

But I am an Owl...lights out not much before 11.30 - 12 and often later. So I suppose if I went to bed sooner I would wake earlier and get up earlier?

Its going later and later, I hate the dark yet seem to come awake on evening and into the small hours....most frustrating.. If I go to bed early just sleep longer. Used to be 8 ,then 9 etc now often dinnertime...northern style that is noon

Somewhere between 6 and 7.30 depending on what time I went to sleep or if I know something is happening early that I need to be up for. As I sometimes dont go to sleep til around 3.30 the 6 one is sometimes difficult

Whenever I've had enough sleep

It's not that I don't sleep well, I usually get my 7 hours but I'm definitely a night owl. I'm a writer and inspiration generally reveals itself in the late evening/early hours of the morning. So it's bed around 2am and awake around 10am, sometimes later. I'm also a movie addict and find most of the best are shown very late at night.

Also a night owl. For the past five years, or so, I've found it hard to sleep before 1.00am, and I might be up to the toilet twice after that. I'm in my soundest sleep after 5.00, so I'm not up till 9.00 some days unless I'm going somewhere. Like a previous poster, I wake with my stomach turning as a result of stress. Last night, I went to bed at 8.30, because I wasn't feeling well, but still wasn't asleep till 1.00ish, then only slept for a couple of hours. At almost 5.00, I gave in and had a small brandy and coke to ' settle me '. My DH died in December, so I can please myself, to some extent, but I still feel guilty.

I still work, so during the week I get up between 6.15 and 6.30. At weekends I usually lie in until 8am. Once I wake I have to get up. No reading playing games for me. During the week I usually go to bed around 10pm and then read for half an hour or so. At the weekends I go whenever I feel like it. Since hitting the menopause over 10 years ago, I rarely sleep more than 5 hours a night.

Don't like going to bed, and don't like getting up. I like the status quo. If I ever see 4am-6am, it will be the end of my day not the beginning!
I tend to sleep reasonably well and my deepest sleep always seems to be in the morning.
I am capable of getting up in the middle of the night if needs be to collect family from airports or stations, and then going straight back to sleep when I get back into bed!
I love not being ruled by the clock!!! I'm in my mid 70s but feel like a teenager!!!!