How early is too early to go to bed?

Samuel T. Cogley · 04-02-2019 9:54pm #1

I'm out the door at 6:30am most days, about now it's hard not to just turn in for the night. How much sleep does the average AH denizen need? I find I need AT LEAST 8 hours.

Cushtie · 04-02-2019 9:56pm

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

I'm out the door at 6:30am most days, about now it's hard not to just turn in for the night. How much sleep does the average AH denizen need? I find I need AT LEAST 8 hours.

Usually in bed around 10. Up at 7.

Feisar · 04-02-2019 9:57pm

In bed now, up at four for a flight.

Flyingsnowball · 04-02-2019 9:57pm

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q85dw7osi4lebg · 04-02-2019 9:58pm

Bed at 1 up at 8 (live close to work )

LirW · 04-02-2019 9:58pm

I have a toddler, what is this sleep you're talking about?!

04-02-2019 10:00pm

Dawn.

Colonel Claptrap · 04-02-2019 10:01pm

OP, check out 'Why we Sleep' by Mathew Walker. It will change your life!

blackbox · 04-02-2019 10:01pm

Anything before 10pm is too early unless you are on shift or are sick.

frag420 · 04-02-2019 10:02pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Dawn.

Yawn

Ninthlife · 04-02-2019 10:02pm

Colonel Claptrap wrote: »

OP, check out 'Why we Sleep' by Mathew Walker. It will change your life!

Cant you just tell us and save us having to read the entire book

Kelvinwhalley · 04-02-2019 10:02pm

is cbd any good for sleep?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-02-2019 10:03pm

I aim for about 8 to 9 hours.

wakka12 · 04-02-2019 10:03pm

Id say before 10 is strange unless youre up earlier than most people usually get up

I feel bad if I get less than 7 hours sleep, feel perfect with about 8.5 hours sleep. Usually go to bed at 12 and get up at 8

Snow Garden · 04-02-2019 10:06pm

Try to get at least 8 hours sleep.

I go to bed at 11pm and rise at 8am. I might read for 15-20 mins.

twowheelsonly · 04-02-2019 10:07pm

My oul' fella always used to say " 7 for a man, 8 for a woman and 9 for a fool..."

I do a lot of shift work so most of the time I sleep for 4 to 5 hours but crash out maybe once a fortnight for 8 hours or so. Extremely rare for me to sleep any longer than that.

wakka12 · 04-02-2019 10:19pm

twowheelsonly wrote: »

My oul' fella always used to say " 7 for a man, 8 for a woman and 9 for a fool..."

I do a lot of shift work so most of the time I sleep for 4 to 5 hours but crash out maybe once a fortnight for 8 hours or so. Extremely rare for me to sleep any longer than that.

Do you feel tired usually? Id love to be able to run on four hours of sleep, youd get so much more stuff done!

But for instance doing an all nighter during college is a waste of energy for me because if I dont sleep 7 hours one night my body just makes me sleep for double the amount the next night or I never feel right, even I slept four hours one night Id need to sleep 7+4 hours the next night to feel back to normal again

Vote4Napoleon · 04-02-2019 10:24pm

Asleep by 12 up at 5.50. If I get more than 8 hrs sleep I'll be like a weasel!! Every1 is different

Greengrant · 04-02-2019 10:30pm

LirW wrote: »

I have a toddler, what is this sleep you're talking about?!

Get the toddler in a routine and it shouldn't be a problem.

Andrew00 · 04-02-2019 10:32pm

In bed at 12:30.

Don’t get to sleep until maybe 3am

Up at 8:30

OldMrBrennan83 · 04-02-2019 10:33pm

Bed by 23:00, up at 06:15.

Soulsun · 04-02-2019 10:34pm

6 hours sleep does me good
But each person is different
Broken sleep is a killer though

twowheelsonly · 04-02-2019 10:34pm

wakka12 wrote: »

Do you feel tired usually? Id love to be able to run on four hours of sleep, youd get so much more stuff done!

But for instance doing an all nighter during college is a waste of energy for me because if I dont sleep 7 hours one night my body just makes me sleep for double the amount the next night or I never feel right, even I slept four hours one night Id need to sleep 7+4 hours the next night to feel back to normal again

Generally I wouldn't feel too tired but if I'm at home and I do feel tired I'll lie down on the couch and tell herself to call me in 20 mins. Right as rain then again after that.
It doesn't mean I get more done though - just more time doing nothing !!

SeaFields · 04-02-2019 10:35pm

Have smallies that rise most mornings at 5-30. It's not worth staying up after 10 for me.

LirW · 04-02-2019 10:36pm

Greengrant wrote: »

Get the toddler in a routine ans it shouldn't be a problem.

I appreciate that you seem to know by just reading a one liner that I have no routine established

What's your hourly rate, Supernanny?

kal7 · 04-02-2019 10:39pm

I have it in my head that being in bed before 9.30pm is a bit sad.

No response why? Now we have a little one, I don't care much anymore

Day Lewin · 04-02-2019 10:40pm

"After Hours" means after pub closing time? That, then.

Anything before 10.30 pm is just undignified.

I usually retire between midnight and 1a.m. Waken promptly at 7.15, plus an afternoon siesta. Bright as a button at all times.

decky1 · 04-02-2019 10:40pm

very bad sleeper seem to get a lot of energy in the evening ,sometimes stay up till 2 or 3 am then lie in bed for what seems like hours before i nod off , find it hard to get up in the morning. Can't be right.? will continue to wear boxing gloves in bed till i can get a cure.

BrokenArrows · 04-02-2019 10:51pm

Usually between 10-12 and up at 7am.
Closer to 10 usually but if we end up watching something interesting we will stay up.

Greengrant · 04-02-2019 10:56pm

LirW wrote: »

I appreciate that you seem to know by just reading a one liner that I have no routine established What's your hourly rate, Supernanny?

What's the problem, why doesn't the toddler sleep through the night?

Neames · 04-02-2019 10:57pm

I was up this morning at 5.30...bed last night at 11.

Bed usually between 12 and 1. Up for 7.30.

Dakotabigone · 04-02-2019 11:00pm

Typical Irish thing to have to do the riding in the bedroom.

khaldrogo · 04-02-2019 11:10pm

Asleep around 1am. Up around 7.30am

Conor Bourke · 04-02-2019 11:18pm

Awake at 05:30, up at 6, out at 06:30. Don’t get home from work til ~8pm, need to wind down and chill out then. Should go to bed earlier but just can’t. Earliest I’m usually asleep is 11 which is too late.

I came home from work early once upon a time, had a splitting headache so went to bed at 6pm, woke at 7:45pm but thought it was 07:45am. Got into an awfully worked up state, washed face, brushed teeth, dragged on some clothes, jumped in the car and almost made it to work only for the friend I had text to say I’d be late ringing me to talk me down.. I had to pull over on the side of the road and it took a few minutes for him to reassure me that he wasn’t joking and it really was nighttime. So to answer your question OP 6pm is too early to go to bed IMO.

ForestFire · 04-02-2019 11:19pm

kal7 wrote: »

I have it in my head that being in bed before 9.30pm is a bit sad.

No response why? Now we have a little one, I don't care much anymore

Not old enough yet to stay up and watch Glenroe?

Dakotabigone · 04-02-2019 11:21pm

ForestFire wrote: »

Not old enough yet to stay up and watch Glenroe?

That trash was on at half 8.

uck51js9zml2yt · 04-02-2019 11:23pm

LirW wrote: »

I have a toddler, what is this sleep you're talking about?!

Don't worry about it...it's just a myth

amcalester · 04-02-2019 11:24pm

Up at 6 and in bed before 11:30, more likely to go to bed “early” at the weekend than during the week.

AllForIt · 04-02-2019 11:29pm

I'm always perplexed by the way this question is framed.

The specific time you get up or go to bed is entirely irrelevant. The specific times are irrelevant. It's about how many hours you sleep and if your getting enough for yourself. I think it's universally accepted that the amount of hours sleep one needs is completely individual.

Margaret Thatcher slept 4 hours per night it was widely reported. Preceded by a whiskey or 2 which I always found quite fascinating. I can't imagine Thatcher drinking at all least of all whiskey. Anyway, I digress. I was just alluding to the fact that ppl's sleeping requirements are individual and in some cases vary wildly.

04-02-2019 11:39pm

Rarely in bed before 12 and usually 30 mins at least to get to sleep, alarm goes around 8:20 and up around 8:30 or so in the morning.

The period from 9 to 12 or so is my favorite part of the day.

I’m a night owl so given the choice I’d much prefer to be able to wait up until 2 or 3am and get up around 11am or so.

04-02-2019 11:42pm

AllForIt wrote: »

I'm always perplexed by the way this question is framed.

The specific time you get up or go to bed is entirely irrelevant. The specific times are irrelevant. It's about how many hours you sleep and if your getting enough for yourself. I think it's universally accepted that the amount of hours sleep one needs is completely individual.

Margaret Thatcher slept 4 hours per night it was widely reported. Preceded by a whiskey or 2 which I always found quite fascinating. I can't imagine Thatcher drinking at all least of all whiskey. Anyway, I digress. I was just alluding to the fact that ppl's sleeping requirements are individual and in some cases vary wildly.

I imagine circadian rhythm or whatever does impact what time you sleep being beneficial though

Amirani · 04-02-2019 11:44pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Margaret Thatcher slept 4 hours per night it was widely reported. Preceded by a whiskey or 2 which I always found quite fascinating. I can't imagine Thatcher drinking at all least of all whiskey. Anyway, I digress. I was just alluding to the fact that ppl's sleeping requirements are individual and in some cases vary wildly.

I've heard some medical people hypothesise that this may have been a contributory factor to her mental decline later in life.

killanena · 04-02-2019 11:47pm

I go to bed around 11-12, get up at 5. 20 minute walk to work for 6.

Sometimes, maybe once or twice a month I do an "evening" shift. 3pm-11pm. I can't sleep for hours after them and usually just decide to stay up all night and go straight through the next day till about 10pm as these evening shifts are always followed by a day off.

Normal days off I might go to bed around 1-2am and get up for 9ish.

Dial Hard · 04-02-2019 11:47pm

bluewolf wrote:

I imagine circadian rhythm or whatever does impact what time you sleep being beneficial though

The individual's cirdcadian rhythm absolutely does. It's pretty much accepted at this stage that there are larks and owls. Owls in particular do quite badly when forced out of their natural rhythm, even when still getting their optimum amount of sleep.

I'm more fascinated by the number of people on this thread who only get up at 8am!

sdanseo · 04-02-2019 11:48pm

Usually in bed by 12.30, at least a half an hour to wind down, watch the telly and fall asleep. Up at 7.45.
Even with 6/7hrs a night I still play catch up at the weekends. Probably need more like 8hrs.

jester77 · 04-02-2019 11:53pm

Usually go to bed around 1:30/2 and get up at 6:30 unless the kids have me up earlier.

Snow Garden · 04-02-2019 11:57pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

I'm more fascinated by the number of people on this thread who only get up at 8am!

I grew up in the 70s and 80s in a small town and I reckon most people got up at 8am. It's always stuck with me that 8am is the right time to get up at. It would give you 1 hour to wash, get dressed, eat breakfast, maybe watch some TV and go to school. I remember thinking that only dairy farmers got up earlier than 8am.

I feel cheated when I am forced to get up before 8am!

Sleep deprivation has been accepted by society but we will learn soon enough the negative health impacts that will bring.

LirW · 05-02-2019 12:00am

Greengrant wrote: »

What's the problem, why doesn't the toddler sleep through the night?

The toddler sleeps, it's just a loud, tossy turny sleeper that I can hear (walls thin) and my own sleep isn't the deepest and best to begin with.

alloywheel · 05-02-2019 12:01am

7 or seven and a half hours should be enough for most adults, anything more is a waste.

orourkeda1977 · 05-02-2019 12:03am

8 hours all the way

Cheminho · 05-02-2019 12:07am

I can function on a minimum of 6 hours but not consecutively. More than 8 can have a negative effect on me.

How early is too early to go to bed?

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