Bedtime

[monster]

What time do you go to bed?
What dictates your bedtime?
Do you find it easy to get to sleep?
Has it changed during your adult life?

I guess this could be in the health forum, but really I'm just being nosy. I'm up kinda late tonight (11pm) because there was a late meeting at the school. I need to chill a little before I go to bed. But I can't leave it too long. It changed with my kids' routine. I used to stay up past 2 most nights and went to bed when I started falling asleep.

[Clodfobble]

Generally I try to go to bed by 10:30. But I'm usually futzing around on my phone for another 30 minutes or so. Exactly like right now.

Like you said, it's the kids' schedules. They get up at 6:15 every single day, so I have to, too. But I've never really been a night person anyway. Generally it's been before midnight most of my life.

[Flint]

Usually, despite my efforts to the contrary, 2am and I get up at 6am. Around 1pm in the workday I drive home for 'lunch' and take a 20-30 minute nap. This sustains my cognition though the afternoon, and I generally work until 6-7pm.

Sometimes I sleep 4 hours with a 20-30 minute nap, sometimes two 3-4 hour shifts, sometimes I sleep 2-3 hours for several days, then 'catch up' with a 12-hour sleep. My sleep patterns are extremely erratic, possibly contributing to my being almost completely unhinged much of the time lately.

To further explain, I'm living in an apartment completely in isolation, there are no other living beings to help regulate my cycles.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Flint

To further explain, I'm living in an apartment completely in isolation, there are no other living beings to help regulate my cycles.

In my 20's, I was unemployed for a few months and also lived alone in an apartment. I wound up on a 30 hour day schedule. A normal person might have slept for 8 hours and stayed awake for 16. I would stay awake for about 18-20 and then sleep for 10-12. I would see my friends in the evening, but depending on how our cycles were lining up, it might really be morning for me.

Now, I wake up at 6am during the week, and without setting the alarm, about 7am on the weekend. I go to bed at 10 pm during the week, and usually am in bed before 11pm on the weekend. I've been in this routine for the last 10 years, so it's pretty carved in stone.

[infinite monkey]

i sleep like a baby, whenever i want to. mostly. every now and then i'm sleepless but i could lie on a rock in the desert during a snowstorm and find a way to sleep.

oh hell, what time is it?

[Griff]

I try to be in bed by 10pm so 5:30 doesn't come too soon.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Griff

I try to be in bed by 10pm so 5:30 doesn't come too soon.

How do you do it, though? If I ever make it to bed that early I lie there thinking about what I should be/would have been doing. I know I have to get up at 5:whatever, but it doesn't help me fall asleep any earlier. Ugh. nearly 11 again. really. Must. Go.....

[Griff]

Originally Posted by monster

How do you do it, though? If I ever make it to bed that early I lie there thinking about what I should be/would have been doing. I know I have to get up at 5:whatever, but it doesn't help me fall asleep any earlier. Ugh. nearly 11 again. really. Must. Go.....

My bedtime ritual is to start out reading switching to something calming, maybe some Thích Nhất Hạnh, if I think sleeping will be difficult. He is particularly good for putting the mind in the right place. It isn't easy and it takes patience. I try to empty my mind focusing on nothingness. Inhale count 1 exhale count 2, inhale count 1 exhale count 2...

[Gravdigr]

I've been an insomniac for most of my life. When I was a small child, I couldn't sleep. As an adult I still rarely sleep for more than an hour or so at a stretch. I wake up dozens of times in any given sleep period. When I've worked third shifts (10-11pm - 6-8am) I only slept every other day/night.

[limegreenc]

I hate going to bed period. I always think I'm missing out on something but if I have to be up for work, 10:45-11 is the latest for me. If not I'm dragging my ass all day and I've got absolutely no patience for anything.

[monster]

Lack of willpower in some fields. But even immediately after the stroke when I knew I needed as much sleep as possible to heal fastest and had the willpower to force myself to go to bed early..... I just lay there.

[Aliantha]

Reading the comments here, it would seem that the more level headed, less emotional posters have better sleep habits.

I wonder if there's anything in that.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Reading the comments here, it would seem that the more level headed, less emotional posters have better sleep habits.

I wonder if there's anything in that.

nice.

[monster]

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Reading the comments here, it would seem that the more level headed, less emotional posters have better sleep habits.

I wonder if there's anything in that.

I am no way more level-headed or less emotional than anyone who has posted here and i posted that i sleep very well.

maybe that's the disconnect.