Sleep time?

connundrum

Just wondering what the accepted time to go asleep on a weekday is... I share a house with 3 others and maybe once a week someone comes home late (11.30 onwards) and decides to make food/clean up/have a full blown phone conversation/talk to themselves. Now this wouldn't be a problem normally, only I'm in the room beside the kitchen so if someone in the kitchen is breathing too hard - chances are I'll be woken up.

What is the reasonable cut off time for all this messin round though? This is probably just me needing to justify complaining to the people involved, but I feel I'm right in saying that anything after 11.30 is taking the piss.. I gotta be up at 6.30am like and sleep is vital after all

The person who woke me up at 12.30 last night got a call from me this morning.

Ring Ring..
Me - Hiiii
Person - Ugh, what you want dude, its like 8.30 or something
Me - Oh nothing really, just wanted you to know that I'm awake
Person - What? Are you for real?
Me - Yup, ok bye now.

Maybe I'll punch the head off him tonight.. who knows :rolleyes:

Femelade

yeah anything after 11.30 would be kinda uncalled for alright.

my sister has gotten into the habit recently of making/recieving all phone calls on her mobile at the top of the stairs, right next to my room. maybe i'll try ringing her when i get up at 7.45, just to say hiii.

beat him up in his sleep every morning you are up before him, he will finally gett the hint i think.

CountryWise

I think 11.30 is generally the accepted cut off time, no need to have showers, dishwashers/washing machines going, phone conversations or make geneeral noise after this

nialo

Time is irrelevant, especially when you're a bat.

Hmm usually around 12 - 1.. anywhere in that ball park! Sleep used to be irrelevant but then i finished college and started workin!

Jahula

12am

CountryWise wrote:

no need to have phone conversations

Sometimes you may want to say goodnight to a loved one

mise_me_fein_V2

1am

Since I started working I get fcuk all sleep.
Go to bed between 12 and 1 and get up around 7.

It's no too bad now with the morning being brighter but it's was very tough a few weeks ago.

BoozyBabe

12am

I can't get enough sleep (imo) so the sleep I do get is V precious to me. Also, I'm an extremely light sleeper, so a spider wlaking across the floor will prob waken me.
After 11 if there's noise still in the house, I start to say FFS to myself, after 11.30 I'm fuming & about to lose the plot. Thankfully it normally quietens down around then, Before I take out my shotgun!!!

Siogfinsceal

1am

id be annoyed at him having music or TV very loud that late etc but I dont think its fair to be anrgy with him for coming home late and wating some grub! its not his fauklt you are a light sleeper and up early. I can never sleep before 12 am im up at 7am but I just cant go to sleep early my brain doesnt shut off!on the odd occasion I do go to sleep earlier an dmy dad still has the telly on really loud I just stick some cotton wool in my ears it does the trick

xzanti

Well if you live with me.... Sun to Wed @ 9.30pm is *shut the fcuk up* time..

Thurs to Sat is a different story

Somnus

Time is irrelevant, especially when you're a bat.

Weekdays I'd usually go to bed between 12 and 1. Get up around 7.45 in the morning. Am usually grand getting up in the mornings.

Nightwish

12am

Ideally its 11 or so but, of late its 2:30 or 3am. Last year I had a great sleeping pattern where I was asleep at 11:30 and up at 7:45, but my flatmate was nocturnal and slept during the day and was awake all night. He used to watch movies, play the playstation/xbox/gamecube at all hours of the morning, which did my head in.

Stark

1am

connundrum wrote:

Just wondering what the accepted time to go asleep on a weekday is... I share a house with 3 others and maybe once a week someone comes home late (11.30 onwards) and decides to make food/clean up/have a full blown phone conversation/talk to themselves. Now this wouldn't be a problem normally, only I'm in the room beside the kitchen so if someone in the kitchen is breathing too hard - chances are I'll be woken up.

How hard is too hard when it comes to breathing? Get earplugs or something.

connundrum

Stark wrote:

How hard is too hard when it comes to breathing? Get earplugs or something.

Sorry, sarcasm doesn't translate well in text. :rolleyes: I do put up with it to a certain extent but is there not a common decency policy that we could all adhere to? Like if you live with people then try to keep the racket down after 11.30pm? Its the way I've lived, but that may soon change.. fire with fire etc :v:

Cosine

1am

At the moment I am usualy going to bed by 11 and sleep by 12 to be up at 5am. The lads in my house dont usually come home from the pub/friends house till about 3 or 4. I dont mind since I sleep like a log but every now and then they play music in the living room (right below me) which bugs the hell out of me :mad:

Still getting used to the early wake up. At least I get a sleep in on thursday

stevenmu

In fairness when you're sharing a house things like the kitchen, sitting room, bathrooms etc are common areas and people are free to use them whenever they want, it's their home too. Their schedule may be inconvenient for you, but yours may be just as inconvenient for them.

If you don't get so worked up over it and just ignore it, sleep will come, it's only because you let it bother you that it keeps you awake. You could always try swapping rooms with someone to get a quieter one, or else move to a quieter house.

LegacyUser

connundrum wrote:

I gotta be up at 6.30am like and sleep is vital after all

:rolleyes:

You lying Baxtard, 6.30 My Ass!!!! Connundrum rolls out of the bed whenever he feels like it

(and I am sure he will appreciate me informing you all, ha ha ha!)

connundrum

sillysausage wrote:

You lying Baxtard, 6.30 My Ass!!!! Connundrum rolls out of the bed whenever he feels like it

(and I am sure he will appreciate me informing you all, ha ha ha!)

6.30?? Oh.. I mean't anywhere between 8.30 and 11.30, but sleep is still vital!

*SS, yore dead.

LegacyUser

connundrum wrote:

6.30?? Oh.. I mean't anywhere between 8.30 and 11.30, but sleep is still vital!

*SS, yore dead.

Ah, and your ragin!:D

Rb

I would HATE to have to live with some of you.
Half 9 at night is "stfu time"? ok GRANDMA!

My God.

skywalker

1am

connundrum wrote:

The person who woke me up at 12.30 last night got a call from me this morning.

Ring Ring..
Me - Hiiii
Person - Ugh, what you want dude, its like 8.30 or something
Me - Oh nothing really, just wanted you to know that I'm awake
Person - What? Are you for real?
Me - Yup, ok bye now.

Haha, maybe the answer is to be more noisey in the mornings for a while, your guaranteed that if you wake them up for a few mornings, you'l hear about it & it will all come out in the open.

Rb

xzanti wrote:

Thurs to Sat is a different story

Half 10?

Use the phrase "it wasn't like this in my day" much?

el tel

CountryWise wrote:

I think 11.30 is generally the accepted cut off time, no need to have showers, dishwashers/washing machines going, phone conversations or make geneeral noise after this

I must pass this on to my flat mate. I've been very reasonable by suggesting a 12.30

xzanti wrote:

*shut the fcuk up* time

but she insists on carrying on conversations until 1 am. I've told her to go to another room after 12.30 so I won't hear her (we've a phone in every d@mn room) but she's too dumb to combine telephoning and reading the clock.

Tobias Greeshman

1am

Ah from about 11:30 to Midnight on is fairly out of the question and is just plain uncalled for. I don't mind the microwave going after this is you're just in the door from whereever and need to heat up/cook quick tv food/chippy (often been there myself). But don't try and cook a proper meal at that time or have a full blown conversation with someone or have the tv very loud.

xzanti

rb_ie wrote:

Half 10?

Use the phrase "it wasn't like this in my day" much?

Ooh ye cheaky young pup ye

Tar.Aldarion

Anytime, I usually try to sleep at 2am or 3am if i have to be up at 8am.
Don't care about noise etc, people can do what they want, it's their house too and if I asked them to quiet down they would, plus I'm the noisy one-constantly singing and listening to music really loudly.

Kojak

I usually go to sleep aroung 1.30 a.m and get up at roughly 7.00 a.m.

Stark

1am

Threads like this are the reason why I'm seriously considering paying double rent for my own place.

connundrum

Stark wrote:

Threads like this are the reason why I'm seriously considering paying double rent for my own place.

As soon as I can rub two shillings together, I am outa there! The problem arises when I've to get up early, and other people feel like having a late one - as in coming in at 2am and having a chat/drink etc. I wake up and then lie there for ages deciding whether or not to be the tosser who goes in to quiet down the situation, I know that it's their house too like. A solitary living arrangement seems to be the way forward! :rolleyes:

dundalk cailin

1am

i go to bed round 11.30, and either have to get up round 6.30 or afternoon, depending on classes my housemates keep weird hours,they stay up on internet til the wee hours and get up round mid afternoon..it does wreck me head when they decide to ccok food and have a chat in the kitchen round 1 or 2 am!! but in general they dont keep me awake, although ive had complaints from the housemate in the room next to me for my sleeptalking/shouting/singing

NotMe

Normally I go to bed late so I dont mind noise at night but the nights when I do have to get some sleep it can be annoying. My room is next to the kitchen aswell and there's often people cooking/eating/talking/watching TV in there after midnight and I can hear everything. My solution is to put a cd on and turn it up loud enough to block out any other noise. Then I can sleep

bounty_hunter

In my previous house we had a general cut-off point of about 12 midnight right from the start. I think the very fact that such a rule was in place was incentive enough for several of my house mates to attempt to break it. Two of them used to roll it at around 2/3 am every night, often with friends, bang doors, turn the telly on at full volume and go about making middle of the night snacks as loud as they possibly could with no regard whatsoever for anyone else in the house.

It's all very well if your housemates just happen to keep different hours to you and need some food in the middle of the night, etc. as long as they're making a conscious effort not to disturb your sleep. Possibly mention in a jokey way how you're awake all night due to their "bizarre snacking habits" or something like that and see what kind of response you get.

In my current house I'm the nocturnal one, but luckily my nighttime activites make no difference to anyone else as I sleep in a converted garage out the back of the house.

LegacyUser

I think I would be a house mate from hell tbh.
I was in connundrums house one night, and we had dozed off, when the herd of elephants that he lives with arrive back to the house at about 3.30am, full of life.
They headed straight for the kitchen, as you do after a night on the tiles, but instead of making their munchies and heading for the bedroom/living room, they stayed in the kitchen, enjoyed their feast, shared a few songs, jokes, and from what I can tell, carried out their own drunken version of the river dance.
Now as connundrum has mentioned, his bedroom is right next to the kitchen.
Well, I was fooking wrecked, but as its not my house, and I dont pay rent, I decided to go home to my own house rather then give out to them, or put up with it.
So, the next day, all the lil hung over sleepy heads are in bed by 10pm, and I am thinking, wouldn't it be great craic to head upstairs, armed with pots pans (and a pretty much any other noise making tools one could expect to find in their own home,) and get comfortable on the landing, whilst carrying out our own version of Metallicas 'whisky in the jar'?

Well, wouldn't that be just the best laugh, and obviously, we would be doing no wrong (did I mention no one apologised to connundrum for all the noise the previous night? cos if you have nothing to apologise for, then you have clearly done no wrong.) So, I am all set to break into song when I am stopped by the ever reasonable connundrum, pleading with me not to cause a scene!

A scene, ha, I had no intention of causing a scene, I was hoping to make herd of elephant housemates ears bleed! Or at the very least, I was hoping to give them one hell of a head ache.

Anyhows, bottom line, I didn't do it, for connundrums sake, but If it was my house, and I was paying rent, you can be bloody sure herd of elephant housemates would have known exactly how pissed off I was.

slipss

connundrum wrote:

Just wondering what the accepted time to go asleep on a weekday is... I share a house with 3 others and maybe once a week someone comes home late (11.30 onwards) and decides to make food/clean up/have a full blown phone conversation/talk to themselves. Now this wouldn't be a problem normally, only I'm in the room beside the kitchen so if someone in the kitchen is breathing too hard - chances are I'll be woken up.

What is the reasonable cut off time for all this messin round though? This is probably just me needing to justify complaining to the people involved, but I feel I'm right in saying that anything after 11.30 is taking the piss.. I gotta be up at 6.30am like and sleep is vital after all

The person who woke me up at 12.30 last night got a call from me this morning.

Ring Ring..
Me - Hiiii
Person - Ugh, what you want dude, its like 8.30 or something
Me - Oh nothing really, just wanted you to know that I'm awake
Person - What? Are you for real?
Me - Yup, ok bye now.

Maybe I'll punch the head off him tonight.. who knows :rolleyes:

Jaysus buddy, you sound like a barrel of laughs.
I'd understand ye if they were coming in at 2am and playing drums or something but making themselves something to eat at 11:30 or talking on the phone isn't exactly inconsiderate, maybe if your that light a sleeper you should buy a set of ear plugs or take a couple of Stilnoct or something.

Goodshape

I'd say 3am would be average sleeping time for me in the past while. Get up anywhere from 11am to 3pm...

I do try and keep the noise to a minimum though, if there's others in the house asleep (which there usually is past 11:30).

tbh

12am

I used to live with someone similar - my room was between the kitchen and the sitting room, and the other two bedrooms were upstairs. I had to listen to washing machines, sex, air (the band, which actually was a plus really), tv all night every night. When she left her job, her workmates gave her a stereo which she started to set-up in the sitting room, so I had a word then, and she was fine. Most people would agree that you're being reasonable. The fact that they didn't apologise suggests they don't think they are doing anything wrong, so maybe have a word. Good luck anyway

connundrum

slipss wrote:

Jaysus buddy, you sound like a barrel of laughs.
I'd understand ye if they were coming in at 2am and playing drums or something but making themselves something to eat at 11:30 or talking on the phone isn't exactly inconsiderate, maybe if your that light a sleeper you should buy a set of ear plugs or take a couple of Stilnoct or something.

I generally am a barrel of laughs tbh But there's a difference between allowing yourself to be walked over and being reasonable. Up till now I've pretty much put up with it with little or no complaint ~live and let live~ but now its like a constant drip of water on my head.

I know that the location of my room is terrible, but there's fook all I can do to improve it. But I don't go in and have a shower at 12am cos I know that the person in the bedroom next to the bathroom will probably be asleep/trying to get asleep.

Trust me, when I was a student I couldn't give a fook what anyone did cos I was usually up till 3-4 anyways, but now things are different.

tbh

12am

thats the worst thing about it - the longer it goes on, the worse it gets and the more you get wound up. It can be a real problem. Its probably better to deal with it now, before it escalates in your head too much, you're in the right - don't worry about that.