Do you sleep well? They say we need less sleep as we become older.

I generally sleep like a log for about 9 hours with getting up to the dratted loo 2 or even 3 times a night depending on how much I drink during the evening. Saying that I do get the odd sleepless night but now that I am retired it doesn't bother me as I can if I wish sleep on - in fact I never do - I think the secret is not to get in a lather about not sleeping, and I know it sounds boring but a sort of winding down routine seems to send the right message to your brain.

I need, and usually get, my 9 hours. World Service on earphones sends me off when I wake up too early.

If I go to bed early I conk out like a light for 4or 5 hours then waken and can't get back , then when it is time to get up I am sound asleep ! If I stay up late at least I get up when I waken after the 4, 5 or 6 hours . Like other ladies I have to go to the loo in the night , I have been told on no account to cut down on liquids except for tea and coffee after 6 pm

Does that mean is OK then?

I normally get a good 7/8 hrs, just occasionally I wake in the early hours and then can't get back to sleep , I don't stress I get up and make warm drink and read till I feel sleepy again.. happily I don't need the loo in the night.
I think the secret is not to worry about it as it just makes things worse.

The secret for me is to go to bed at more or less the same time - 11 to 11.15, read for 20 - 30 minutes(something not too challenging) and usually I fall asleep quite quickly and wake up around 7. Usually but not always repairing a trip to the loo.
I have the occasional sleepless night but no longer worry as I don't have to go to work.
I think it helps to not have too much alcohol, and not to eat too late too. I try to avoid being on the computer after about 8.30 too.

Requiring

Alas I am tee total and know not the joys of the vine I do drink water , and have a glass of tap stuff here at the moment

I have read that screens ......... puter tablets phone kindle....... are not a good idea if you want to get to sleep , so back to the paperbacks

I find the opposite. If I stay on my 'puter until I'm practically dropping with exhaustion, I get to sleep quickly and sleep for the nine hours.

I use my iPod to listen to an audio book until I drop off to sleep, unfortunately only sleep for a couple of hours so I then have to start the whole process again usually manage about 6 hours a night. Am used to it now and am reconciled to the fact that I never seem to get the sleep that I think I need.

9 hours......I wish
I need 9 but rarely get 6 or 7......

I am just off now - so scrub teeth quick wipe around with flannel - night cream on face - in the hope it will make me beautiful - flop into bed and read - tonight it is the Kashmer (spelling) Shawl usually manage a couple of pages before turning off the light.

If you aren't suffering from night sweats sometimes a low heated blanket is very pleasant.

Good night all, sleep tight, mind the bugs don't bite

Night night whitewave.

If I went to bed now I'd either a) not be able to get to sleep until about 4 a.m. or b) go to sleep but wake at 4 a.m.

I'm always amazed at how many early-morning posts there are on here (I'm talking about those 6 and 7 a.m. bright and breezy posts...)

Too early for me. If I started reading I would be asleep in twenty minutes, and then probably wake up at one am.

I like to stay in bed until at least 8.30. Sometimes 9 o'clock.

That early...?

Our bedroom is east facing and we put up a blind as well as curtains in the summer or I'd be awake at 5am. DH can sleep through anything!

The dawn chorus - when it starts - always wakes me early but I don't mind lying there, snoozing and remembering how awful it used to be waking up too early when I had to go to work.

I normally get a good 8hrs sleep without needing the loo but when the dogs wake us up at 7am I'm on a mission!!

I remember my aunt saying, 'When you're old like me, dear, you'll go to bed early, wake up early and have all the housework done by 6 o'clock.'

I also remember thinking, Shoot me now.

I find that I need a lot less - it always seems a waste of time.

Crikey!

I go to bed about eleven and watch TV for about an hour before going straight to sleep.
I often wake before five but I can't usually get back to sleep.
Get up between seven and eight. I don't like to stay in bed in the morning and I never sleep during the day.

No, me neither! That would signify the beginning of the end for me...

(Sorry, I know some swear by a daytime snooze, but it's not for me)

Like someone above I rely on the good old World Service on headphone to lull me back to sleep if I wake early. It always annoys me that they don't say the time until 5am. Is it because of different time zones or what?