What time do you go to bed

I'm usually in bed by ten. Then I read a little and then put on my audiobook. I sleep badly, usually wake twice or more and up to the loo. Then I wake most mornings between five and six.

I’d make a hopeless owl. I hate the dark and only undertake tricky things in the morning.
To bed about 11ish but OH is a great dawdler. I could never read in bed in the morning. I get up at 6 wash and dress and have a couple of hours doing odd jobs until DH is ready for breakfast at about 8.30. He’d make an equally hopeless lark.

Many of us have a similar pattern, I also go to bed about 10, to sleep about 11, but wake up early, usually between 5 and 6. This morning, although I stayed up later to account for the clocks changing, I was awake at 4.30, aka 5.30 yesterday. It’s going to be a long day.

Unless I’m falling asleep in front of the tv, I go to bed at ten and read for an hour, or until the eyelids start to droop. I am usually up for the bathroom at about three or four and then if I’m lucky, I sleep until about seven. There are nights when I hardly sleep at all.

I think us night people are in the minority here!

I usually go up around half 11, read for half an hour or so or until my kindle smacks me on the nose, then sleep for about 7 hours. My MiFit tells me off if it’s five minutes less, seems happy if it’s five minutes more.

I occasionally wake up at around 4 or 5, and need another short read to get back off.

I go to bed just after 9, and read my phone for about 45 minutes. No games or interacting with people, just read.

Then I turn my dvd of series 11 of Frasier on down low, give the dog a small biscuit and compose myself for sleep.

I get up at 05:30 when the alarm goes off. I like being up early.

I Know what all the experts say about blue light and devices and so on but this is what works for me.

I used to be a championship grade sleeper until chemo 9 years ago, when I developed insomnophobia. I don't know if that's a real word but I became petrified of not sleeping - so of course sleeping got harder and harder, and my mental health declined to the point of "well, we don't like to call it 'breakdown' these days".
I tried all the "clean" sleeping methods but all lying in the quiet darkness did was give me hours of time to panic about not sleeping. I came to dr ad the dawn chorus.

A little background TV I've always found soporific, so I tried that. Now it's refined to the same dvd every night. If I've dozed and missed a bit of the now well known script, I can think, "Oh, I CAN sleep", and that relaxes me to the point of dropping right off. Sometimes I wake up 7 hours later to a blank screen. Sometimes I wake up, restart it, and off I go again.

It's not perfect - I wish I could just go to bed and sleep like I used to but better this and good mental health than how it had become.
Last month I had to have my beautiful old dog pts very late at night. When I eventually got back I went through the same bedtime routine, and surprised myself by getting some sleep.

Finding what works is a great blessing, and Tough to all the advice that says it won't!!

I try to be in bed by 11, sometimes fail. I don't like going to bed early. Then I read or play games on my phone, or go on GN, until midnight. Then sleep until my alarm wakes me at 7.45.
I sleep well most nights.

After we go on the last dog walk we're ready for bed, between 10 and 11, dog dependent. Neither of us read in bed . We wake up to happy dog feet scrambling to walk between 5 and 6.

I go to bed at 11pm and get up at 9 am. I fall asleep when my head hits the pillow and get up when I wake up. So 10 hours sleep. No loo breaks and no reading.

I have always been an owl and feel like death in the morning, even after an early night. It’s a real struggle. Apparently I’m a heavy snorer, so that must take it out of me, it’s a hard day’s night! I’ve been a singer most of my life too, so performing at night and travelling have made many mornings a write-off.

Ailidh I too have patches of fear of not sleeping, particularly if I have something important first thing the next day, catching a flight or similar. I can lie awake longing for sleep, it’s horrible.

Owl here . Up to bed by midnight, but I’m still awake , reading till about 2 a.m. Sleep till about 5.30, loo break, back to bed, sleep till about 8.30. Not a good pattern at all 😫

Running an international business that sells mainly to Americans I like to be awake when my customers are online. I rarely go to bed before 3 or 4 am and sometimes 5 am! Ive always been a night owl and prefer to sleep during the day unless I have a definite appointment. I usually have a 3-4 hour nap late afternoon to early evening. So I average about 7-8 hours sleep in every 24. Thats sufficient for an adult.

Thanks for all you replies , it’s good know I am not the only one awake and listening to audiobooks etc in the wee small hours .

I go to bed between 10 and 11. I do a mahjong puzzle or two and then read my book. I try to settle to sleep by 11:30, but if I'm engrossed in the book it could be 1am.
I usually rise by about 8:30, after 1 or 2 bathroom visits during the night.

About 10.30 and wake at 7. Up several times in the night and I say to myself it's 2.00 or 3.30 etc and I am usually correct.

Never before 1am,you'll often find us dancing round the living room at 2amWell I say dancing its more a slow walk ,OH isn't much of a dancer so its a cuddle to music.We've always been night owls ,up around 9am whatever time we go up even the 4am nights.

Looks like I’m the only ‘baby’ who can be in bed by 7! Mind you, that means reading or listening to audiobooks for a while, then sleeping fitfully from around 11, and up and doing by 7a.m.

I go to bed just after 9pm read or watch TV for about an hour or so before going to sleep. Usually wake up about 7am

Sleeping beauties - I envy you 🤢

No set time for me, it varies depending upon whether there’s something interesting on tv or if I get into a book, puzzle, etc. Some nights, I feel sleepy quite early, so go to bed, other nights I don’t so stay up longer. Sometimes I’ll read in bed a little before putting the light out, sometimes not. Waking up time varies, too. I rarely sleep all the way through the night, wish I could and rarely drop straight off to sleep, even when I feel sleepy.

I usually go at about 10.30-11. I get to sleep fairly quickly, wake 2 or 3 times in the night, and eventually get up between 7 and 8

We go to bed between 8pm and 8.30pm. It's just gone 9pm so this is a rare late night for me. I fall asleep within minutes and sleep through until around 6am when DH wakes me up. If he didn't then I'd sleep on and on and on. DH goes to bed. Gets up about 11pm. Comes back to bed about 12.30am. Gets up again about 2am. Comes back to bed about 4am and gets up for the last time at about 5.30am. I sleep through all his comings and goings.

It was a bit of a relief to read these posts! I have always been an owl and sometimes worry that I should be having the regulation 7 hours per night. I have the same routine, watch TV and then at 11.00pm I switch over to GB News for the newspaper reviews which finishes at midnight. I give the cat her late night snack, put a few bits in the dishwasher ready for the morning and go and have my shower. By the time I get into bed it is 01.15 which is when I watch stuff on my phone/ipad, usually sites I have subscribed to ending with a trawl through Gransnet! I make myself turn the light out by 0300 but rarely fall asleep for what seems like ages. I'm up at 8.30am as a rule when my OH usually starts moving around having been in bed since 10.30pm! He thinks I am mad but I just don't seem able to change this routine.

Went to bed at 12:30am last night and woke up at 7:30am this morning with one trip to the toilet. So 7 hours sleep in total but still feel tired.

My sleep pattern is so erratic, I usually went to sleep at 1am, lie awake up to 4am and get up sometimes as late as half 11. Since taking a teaspoon of cod liver oil with vitamin D, my body clock seems to slowly reset itself.

I have turned on the blue light filter on my Samsung tablet which I use to read my e-books. I found out that the blue light can stimulates the brain and makes the brain thinks it is still daylight when it is nighttime and interfere with falling to sleep.

Today is Halloween. Will be going to my Zumba Gold class this morning dress up as a witch. It will hilarious seeing the ladies in their 60s and 70s in their Halloween costumes exercising to creepy songs like Michel Jackson’s triller.