What time do you get up and go to bed?

when I worked I had no choice but to conform and get up early. But retired I do as I please, tea in bed, scroll the news. From my bed I can look out across the common and watch people off to work and children off to school, I aim to get up at 10 and have no guilt in doing so.

We go bed about 11.30 and read or scroll till 12.20 or so. Sleep through generally until 7.15.
My DH gets up about 3x per night but I rarely do unless he wakes me up. I find I sleep better with a hot water bottle and a dimmer room. Also we now have single duvets so I am not woken up by him pulling it off me!

I go to bed between 23.00 and 23.30. I don't settle to sleep until I've done my puzzles and read for a while.
I get up when I wake up which is usually between 8.00 and 8.30.
I have always been a night owl.

In bed between 11 and 12pm - read my Kindle for a few minutes then lights out and drop off in seconds according to my DH.
Get up between 6 and 7 whereas DH will happily sleep in till 10 or so even though we go to bed at the same time.
I'm one of those that once awake - I get up - if I don't the cat will make sure I do!!

I could have slept for England before my darling dh died suddenly in our bed and so since then I have experimented with different bedtimes. None work. So I now treat my room as my comfort blanket and go up at 10 and potter. In bed by 10.45 to read GN posts (really I do) and read my book. Sleep by 12 and then wide awake at 2 thinking about stuff and how sad I am. And wishing he was here.

I go to bed around 11 ish, often read. Get up for the loo at least once a night but usually go straight back to sleep. I sleep till anywhere between 8.30 and 10, my DH brings me a coffee up and I watch the news, check emails etc and I get up around 11. I’m semi retired and we run our small business from home so I usually leave mornings to my husband and son then work through the afternoon, emails, answering the phone etc - whatever is needed really. I’m 75 this year and have some heart problems, keep promising myself I will retire but I know DH won’t and can’t actually work out how we’d do it logistically so I guess I’ll just keep going for now. At least I’m not bored 😜

I usually go to bed at 12.00-12.30. I get up between 7 and 8.- the dog whines to be taken out.

It’s crazy I know but I’m up till at least 2am, and up around 11am unless I have appt.
Then I have at least an hours zizz around 3/4pm. I’ve tried many times to go up at 10pm with husband, but always it creeps up again.Up in the night 3 times for the bathroom too
. I love the dawn chorus though, and lay listening to that about 4.30ish currently.
Also, I have bedroom window wide open all year long, bedroom is glacial!! but I’m cosy in teddy fleece bedding and electric blanket on all night, absolute heaven.

Absolutely swear by short ie 20-30 mins naps in the afternoon. Truthfully I sleep better at night when I’ve napped. Lights out 23:30, awake 7-8am. Often don’t get up in the night for the bathroom. I do go to gym a lot or walk most days, so tire myself out healthily

I get up around 8, having had a cup of coffee brought to me. My DH still gets up at 6.30! He’s a stickler for routine. I go to bed quite early around 9.00, but usually end up watching a film on my I pad.

I think the best thing about retirement is not having to get up and out by a certain time! I too suffer from nocturia which is a nuisance.

Totally agree RosiesMawagain - since being widowed 20 months ago I don’t have a sleep pattern. I go to bed when I feel tired, sometimes fall asleep sometimes not. Often fitful - not getting stressed about it.

Start making our way to bed at 10pm by the time we are both in bed it is usually about 10.30 ( I have to help DH because of his disability) read usually till 11.30 , get up at least twice in the night, up anytime between 6.30-7.00 make myself a coffee , have a scroll through my phone and if we don't have anything to go too early start getting up about 8.30/8.45 but never later.

Get your husband to help you to get up earlier. He can call you that your tea is ready downstairs! Force yourself to go outside, rain or shine, for a walk as early as possible. The morning light helps to set your sleep pattern.

I've invested in a bluetooth headset. It's comfortable to wear, no trailing wire, covers my eyes and I listen to stories through it. The story itself doesn't matter. I might only hear five minutes of it. I never get to the end! It's the connection your brain makes with the routine of covering your eyes, settling down and listening that tells you, "Now it's time to sleep." This routine has revolutionised my sleeping. If I wake in the night (I don't usually) I reset the story, lie down, eyes closed and covered and I'm away again because I've told myself I will sleep. I do make sure I go to the toilet right before I settle down.

I listen to bedtime stories on Insight Timer. I listen to Sherlock Holmes stories, read by Amadeus Astefanesei. I find his voice soothing. There are other sources of stories though. I also have Audible.

Unless I have a particular reason to get up very early I usually get up between 7.30 and 8.00. I'd sleep for longer but it's too light for me to sleep now the days are longer, and also I take pity on my husband who gets up around 5am most days and is ravenous by the time I stagger out. Somebody may suggest that he could cook his own breakfast, but sadly the mess and ruined meal is just nor worth the hassle.
He's normally back in bed well before 9.30, but I'm not ready until later, though have made more of an effort to go to bed earlier in recent years so that I'm not so tired at breakfast time. I don't sleep brilliantly but find that the 2 or three hours after he gets up are probably my best sleep of the night.

I watch TV downstairs till about 11 pm. Get into bed at 11:30, read for 1 hour. I know I need 9 hours sleep, always have done. So I sleep from 12:30 till 9:30. (5 minutes wee break at 4 am) My alarm goes off at 9:30 am, then I check emails and messages on my phone and do Wordle. At 10:30 I turn on Greatest Hits Radio for Popmaster. Usually leave my bed at 10:45 am. I don’t eat breakfast, so usually have a brunch type meal around noon.

win - I wish I could be like you ‘putting your face on ‘ - you remind me of my dear sister-in-law. Always dressed well, make-up, even heels, most of the day.
I am such a slob.😫

Upstairs at 9.15. Pamper myself with some body oils and slowly prep for sleep. Sunset on my lumie is at 10 and that sends me to sleep. Usually up at 3 ish, just for the loo and then sleep until lumie sunrise, it is fully bright at 5.45

I have spent some time working on my circadian rhythm and it is now set. My healing deep sleep and Rem sleep have increased. (Garmin ) I don`t have any screens in my bedroom

I have never worried about my sleep but have enough knowledge to put my circadian rhythm back together ie working for me.

Bed at midnight, read to 1am, get up latest 9am, when I start worrying about people coming to the door, it takes me at least 1 1/2 hours to do my morning exercises, shower and dress which includes putting my face on. I would never answer the door without being fully dressed including my daily make-up.

get up 6.30 go to bed 10/10.30

I go to bed between 10 pm and 10.30pm. I get up one or twice in the night and then wake up around 6 am and doze until about 7.15, when I usually get up. I usually have a nap in the afternoon

RosiesMawagain

Does it matter?
Does anybody care?
At our great age, can't we do as we like?

Hear hear
I have always hated mornings, in my job as a self-employed book seller ( think Antique Fairs) I had to get up at the crack of dawn often and drive to strange places. In those days I could get up on more normal days at c. 8/9/10 am.
Now however at 80 this year I have developed a terrible pattern of getting to bed c. 2 am, not sleeping til 3/4/5 am then sjeep through the morning, on odd occasions through the day! I have kidney disease and get very fatigued, but oddly this suits me, except when I have appointments. Because of sleep apnoea I daren’t take sleeping pills per se, but I do occasionally take a half dose of Nytol …because it’s light dose it doesn’t ’kick in’ for hours often and then leaves me dopey for the rest of the day!
So those of you worrying you can’t get up til 10 or so, think of me!

Night before last, I hardly slept…tossing and turning, thinking of, mostly, the past (distant and recent) and the mistakes I made. Can’t do much about it.
So, last night, I decided to count sheep rather than count life’s losses and I slept beautifully 💤 💤💤

So what if you want to get up at 10. What's wrong with that, if it suits you.
Perhaps see your doctor if you think you're getting up too many times for the loo each night. That's going to wear you out. If I have trouble sleeping in the wee small hours I listen to BBC Sounds on my phone. I usually drift off then.
I now go to bed about 8.30 and am awake from about 6am. I get a nice coffee and go back to bed with my dog. He's a great companion

I go to bed about 11.45pm, read until 1pm/2pm and get up about 10.30am/11am. The beauty of retirement.

I am very rarely asleep before midnight. So no point going to bed early as have difficulty dropping of to sleep.

I never have to get up in the night for anything, so lucky in that respect.

I always wake up around 6am. I don’t want to wake up that early, but I just cannot get back to sleep again.
It’s infuriating as would love to sleep to 9oclock or even later.

My body clock seems to have set itself.
I will lie there for so long, bored, and then have to get up for a cuppa. Then my day can begin.