What time do you get up and go to bed?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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!

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.

Why does it matter, OP? If you’re retired and aren’t missing deadlines or other obligations, do what suits you. I have never understood why old people of the past generation, made such a virtue of getting up mega early. To do what? My husband jokes that the only things that get me out of bed early are hospitals or holidays!

After years of being up at 5.30 I now naturally awaken then.
I’m so tired much of the time I am in bed by 7.30, often asleep by 8 and on a good night I get 9-10 hours sleep. It’s not restorative though, I’m a very restless sleeper. Just as well I have the bed to myself!

Fairlandia

Why does it matter, OP? If you’re retired and aren’t missing deadlines or other obligations, do what suits you. I have never understood why old people of the past generation, made such a virtue of getting up mega early. To do what? My husband jokes that the only things that get me out of bed early are hospitals or holidays!

And it’s clearly not just the «past generation» if the Good Morning thread is anything to go by.
I often wonder what people who are up it seems before dawn, round the supermarket and home again by 7 actually do* the rest of the day!

I suppose people make up their bed, wash face, brush teeth, walk dog, make breakfast and tidy kitchen, clean house, water plants and garden, laundry, order food, put up deliveries, and begin making lunch....

And so it goes all the day.

I go up to bed around 10pm. I’ll then read for about 1/2 an hour. I do tend to drop off to sleep fairly easily and then sleep well until anywhere between 6.30-7.30am. Occasionally I will need the loo, and it always seems to be around 3am. I never nap during the day.

I usually go to bed between 10.30 and 11, struggle to get comfortable arranging pillows to help hip pain, wake several times a night either with pain or to use the bathroom, and get up when the dogs ask to go out around 07.30.

Norah

I suppose people make up their bed, wash face, brush teeth, walk dog, make breakfast and tidy kitchen, clean house, water plants and garden, laundry, order food, put up deliveries, and begin making lunch....

And so it goes all the day.

And the rest of us don’t????

RosiesMawagain

Norah

I suppose people make up their bed, wash face, brush teeth, walk dog, make breakfast and tidy kitchen, clean house, water plants and garden, laundry, order food, put up deliveries, and begin making lunch....

And so it goes all the day.

And the rest of us don’t????

I assume we all work though the day at one task or another.

Our home each day is full of tasks that begin at early wakeup and end at late bedtime. Imagine it's the same for most people.

I often wonder what people who are up it seems before dawn, round the supermarket and home again by 7 actually do* the rest of the day!

Asked and answered. Stay as busy as is possible.

Up at 5.30 to get my lot ready for day services, taxi arrives at 7.30. Routine jobs completed by 9.30! By 21.00 I am ready for my bed!