What time do you go to bed

Go to bed between 1 and 1.30. Play a game on my phone until I'm really tired usually around 2.30 Fall straight asleep then wake between 9am - 10.30.
Tried many times to sleep earlier but can't.

I live alone. Go to bed around 9 to 10pm.
Wake every 2 hrs, and sometimes can't get back to sleep due to Arthritic pain. Get up at 6.00am by the latest. Sometimes I am tired enough to nap in the afternoons.

Well when my back is bad, it upsets all my sleeping patterns, and so it is more how comfortable I can be sat up or lying down. About midnight or a little before, always read in bed and hope to get off to sleep reasonably quickly. If I am in too much pain and cant sleep I read for another while, if I lie there wide awake it doesnt help me and I gete annoyed because I am tired but cant sleep!!

Usually we head to bed around 12.30, husband is asleep immediately. i read for an hour or so. We get up anywhere between 5.30 and 7. Last night was a bad night, I didnt fall asleep until after 3 so I am a little fuzzy this morning

I usually go about 11pm do some exercise on top of the bed, then get Ito bed and read a chapter of my book, then lights off. sometimes I'm straight off to sleep, other times it can take 1, 2, or 3 hours to finally get to sleep. The later I get to sleep, the earlier I wake up - life just ain't fair!!

What does anyone consider to be a "decent night's sleep". A decent night's sleep to me is not waking up with bags under the eyes....and feeling refreshed. I have about 5-6 hours a night. It's getting less as I get older....I need less, but rather than twiddle thumbs in bed or worse, lie awake awaiting the dawn, I get up. I can do all sorts of jobs during the night which I don't want to tackle during the day. I write at night too. As 3a.m. seems to be the "ping" (and wee) time I do wake at that time and move around.....going back to bed again around 5a.m. and having a snooze and a read until ....6-7ish. I can go to bed anything between 8p.m. till 12p.m. depending on what sort of day I have planned. Days are incredibly busy as I also work as well as being retired. I confess....I don't actually want to stop and it is a pleasure to get out of bed in the mornings. I also have an afternoon nap if I want one and it's the whole caboodle.....strip off....into bed and the minute my head hits the pillow, I'm gone. I never ever lie awake thinking "I can't sleep". Just get up and do stuff.......I gave up on conventional sleeping patterns years ago.

I go to bed about 11pm - read for about an hour and get up at 8.00-8.30 - may have one or two loo visits during the night. I go to sleep again afterwards- no problem at the moment.

It seems to be commoner to be a night owl than a lark and old people seem obsessed with their sleep.
I fall asleep as soon as cats, dog and self have found suitable spots in the bed. I’m a restless sleeper but they’re all very tolerant as I’m their outsize hot water bottle. Sleeping alone must be so lonely.
We go to bed at nine and get up at fivish.

I go to bed about 9 because I get fed up with my elderly cat miaowing for hours! Then I watch telly in bed for an hour or so and set the timer to turn it off when I get sleepy. Go to the loo 2 or 3 times and try not to wake up fully and mostly get back to sleep straight away then awake at 5 and read for an hour until the telly goes back on at 6.

Seems to be common to read in bed that’s what I love too. Love to snuggle in bed nice and quiet away from tv hubby stops up bit longer. Aggravating as he disturbs me and cold

@GrannyRose15
And anyone else looking for something to help them sleep....Google The Honest Guys on your phone when you are in bed and listen to their guided meditation. It's not at all 'woo'.... The first time you'll probably need to listen to it twice. Works well for me!

11 pm. 8-9 hrs

Gundy

I’m a morning lark, not a night owl. I do segmented sleep. Unless I’m socializing I’ve been known to go to bed as early as 6:30-7:00. But usually by 8:00 for sure. I don’t fight it.

I’ll sleep for 3-4 hrs but seem to wake up anywhere from 11:00-1:00 (my witching hour!) and I get up. I don’t fight it. Some nights I make a cup of coffee. I’m awake for 2-3 hrs. I start making notes and plan my day, my week, my life and read a lot. Then I get drowsy again.

Back to bed for another 3-4 hrs. I sleep even more soundly on this 2nd flight. It’s not how long you sleep at a stretch but how many hrs you get during your 24 hrs. I’m up I’m up by 5:00 or 6:00 AM.

I have all my energy in the morning and do my housework, then go out and play.
Cheers!
USA Gundy

This is interesting, apparently this pattern is what people used to do naturally centuries ago. You can imagine that they would go to bed when the sun went down, then apparently they woke for a meal in the middle of the night, then slept until dawn.
I think that you are doing the natural thing.
Many people seem to wake in the early hours and lie there thinking for a while and I gather that some recommend that insomniacs get up for a while until they feel like going back to bed.

9.30 to 10.00. I'm naturally a night owl but my husband goes to bed early and gets up very early so I decided a couple of years ago to try to adapt my sleeping hours more to his - though I don't wake naturally at 5.00 am as he does!
It seems to suit me fine and works well at the moment as I now give my grandchildren breakfast and take them to school three days a week.

Husband 12 ish then reads me 1 ish then he reads to me and I’m out like a light to his dulcet tones.

I go to bed in these chilly nights about 8. Listen to LBC on the Alexa
The talk hosts have become my company if alone debating and talking about all and everything ( phone ins are wonderful) especially Clive Bull

Good days? Bed by 10, sleep till morning...bad days...go to bed 9.30, 11pm get up and take a sleeping tablet. Go back to bed, get up at 1am (when it doesn't work) and spend the night awake.

Spend the next 2-4 days like this (minus the sleeping pill on alternate nights) Eventually go to bed 9pm on night 2,3 or 4 and sle 18 hours. Then sadly it's Eat, Sleep, Repeat.

Usually 11pm, read for around half an hour and we get up around 7.30 - 8.00 Then out around 9.30 to walk our dog.
I have stopped having audible on at night as I found I couldn't get to sleep, so sticking to reading ebooks.
Sleep quite well unless the dog wakes up and wants to go out.

I'm an owl, bed around 2am, read till 3am. Get up around 10am. Don't sleep in day.

Usually go up just before midnight, but I could quite easily stay up till gone 1am.
Write my diary in bed - or my chat to late DH, as I like to call it.
Then do the Wordle, Worldle, and listen to BBC World Service till I fall asleep.
Get up between 7.30-8.30.

Bed about 11 but earlier if I’m especially tired. Normally asleep as soon as head touches pillow, up for loo breaks a couple of times but usually straight back to sleep. Wake and up ( cant lay in bed awake) between 6 & 7am. Have been known to have an occasional afternoon hour nana nap. When I listen to other’s disturbed sleep patterns I do feel fortunate

MamGu12

I live on my own bed about 10-30 always listen to audio book set timer for 45mins usually drop off and find I have missed a few chapters of book sometimes I can get back to sleep other times still awake and have to replay the missed chapters ,

So rather erratic sleep pattern wish I could sleep just 6hrs right through🤷‍♀️

This is exactly me , I love my audio books at bedtime but it isn't always conducive to sound sleep !

I’m a morning lark, not a night owl. I do segmented sleep. Unless I’m socializing I’ve been known to go to bed as early as 6:30-7:00. But usually by 8:00 for sure. I don’t fight it.

I’ll sleep for 3-4 hrs but seem to wake up anywhere from 11:00-1:00 (my witching hour!) and I get up. I don’t fight it. Some nights I make a cup of coffee. I’m awake for 2-3 hrs. I start making notes and plan my day, my week, my life and read a lot. Then I get drowsy again.

Back to bed for another 3-4 hrs. I sleep even more soundly on this 2nd flight. It’s not how long you sleep at a stretch but how many hrs you get during your 24 hrs. I’m up I’m up by 5:00 or 6:00 AM.

I have all my energy in the morning and do my housework, then go out and play.
Cheers!
USA Gundy

I dont have a phone or any screens in the bedroom. I go there to sleep in 3-4 hour bursts. If Im not asleep after about 30 minutes I get up and do things until I am absolutely dropping with exhaustion.

usually go to bed between midnight and 1am . Live alone so dont disturb anyone else. Always read when I go to bed, Have a lot of pain especially my back so often dont wake because I have had enough sleep but have turned over or something and the pain in my back wakes me. Try to stay in bed especially on these cold dark nights but if I cannot doze off give up and get up sometimes about 4.30am. But it is a good time to do emails and read, and then try to go back to sleep. At the moment getting up about 6.30am and went swimming on sunday very early , which did help my back a bit. Eventually I will be so tired I will get a decent nights sleep, but that tends to make me feel like a zombie when I wake up after extra sleep. I cheer myself up with the joy of Bach before 7 on radio three so will be sat with my coffee to hear that in peace and quiet and that improves the day whatever the weather.