What time do you go to bed/sleep?
Posted by Bjc93Bjc@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 56 comments
Have you found it’s changed over the years or is it fairly consistent? I’m M32 and find it near in impossible to go to bed before midnight.
sandio90@reddit
Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I was a night owl staying up late.
I turn 41 this year, and it's anywhere between 21:00 and 22:00 and very consistent. I've been like this since my mid-30s
It's gotten earlier with age, I struggle staying up late, and I'm an early bird.
PumpkinsVSfrogs@reddit
6am on average, day sleep is much better for lucid dreaming and Christ knows I need an escape from this post apocalyptic hellscape.
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West_Yorkshire@reddit
It's also good for shortening your lifespan because you're interrupting your circadian rhythm and producing cortisol for no reason.
PumpkinsVSfrogs@reddit
I’m okay with that.
Jr774981@reddit
This is great, daytime sleeping from 6 am to 3-4 pm is real life.
greengrayclouds@reddit
Bless you. I’d be the same if not for shit work commitments
Nothing as interesting as sleeping for the entirety of winter daylight
Many_Hamster6055@reddit
Varies if there's anything good on TV I'm usually up until about oneish or after
MissRainbow18@reddit
I tend to go bed around midnight
mrhippoj@reddit
I generally go to bed around midnight. If I'm really tired I'll go to bed at 11 or maybe even 10:30
SamVimesBootTheory@reddit
11pm-1am
This is actually an improvement I have adhd and before I was medicated for it I used to have trouble going to sleep and would basically often find myself awake until the last possible moment often around 2-3am and then really struggle to wake up in the morning
Pyrex_Living@reddit
Between 9.30-10:00pm, I’m up at 4-5am to go to the gym before work
mightytonto@reddit
Bed: 11:30, sleep: 3am
Ry_White@reddit
Somewhere between 8-9pm.
Melodic-Lake-790@reddit
I’d like for it to be around 10pm, but I don’t get home from work until 7. So I feel like I get little to no downtime if I do that. So it’s 11.
slothsnoozing@reddit
It varies wildly. Sometimes 8PM, sometimes 8AM.
____JustBrowsing@reddit
Go to bed at 10pm. Fall asleep at 1am. Sometimes wake up at 3am unable to go back to sleep. If I had one wish it would be the ability to sleep, and sleep well.
kamiCanti@reddit
Week day. 11pm-12:30
Weekend. 2-3am
Weekend sesh. 6-10am
Forsaken_Bee3717@reddit
10.30 ish. Lie down in bed and I’m asleep. I usually wake up a couple of minutes before my alarm at 6.30.
anonymouse39993@reddit
21:00-22:00
kylehyde84@reddit
When I was your age it was always between midnight and 1am and prob closer to 3am in weekends even if I wasn't going out.
Now I'm 40 it's between half 10 and 11 religiously. Feel so much better for it too
CandidPaint9515@reddit
10 or 11but these days I can't sleep well
Redgrapefruitrage@reddit
Currently 8 weeks pregnant so bedtime is now 9pm for me. But prior to pregnancy, I’d normally go to bed 10.30pm on weekdays and 11pm at weekends. We wake up 6am most days.
yolo_snail@reddit
When I'm tired.
Theres no set time
Fun_Supermarket6769@reddit
Between 8:30 pm and 9:30. But we wake up between 4:15 and 5 due to work. I need my 8+ hour sleep/night so sometimes even 8:30 feels too late to be honest. We joke that we live in a different timezone than anyone around us :)
Smooth-Purchase1175@reddit
Dawn. I'm trying to go to sleep earlier so I don't die prematurely.
Full_Lion_9449@reddit
9pm up at 5am x
TheNotSpecialOne@reddit
Depending on toddler, lately he's been awful and all over the place. Me and him been finally able to sleep around 1am. But because he's toddler he ends up waking up around 11am which is a nice bonus for me. I do get a lie in or able to do a home workout done in the morning and shower before he wakes up
Super_Swordfish_6948@reddit
Right now about 3pm because I have to get up for work at 11:30pm to start at midnight.
northernblazer11@reddit
I have terrible ptsd and insomnia.
I stay awake 72 hours then I get about 8 hours on day 4. It's a vicious circle.
I'm on day 2 again so another 36 hours of this.
It's like clockwork and Been like this for over 5 years.
spLint3r990@reddit
Around 2300.
Usually up at 0530
Equivalent_Ask_1416@reddit
I'm also M32 and my sleep is all over the place. I don't have structure in my life and my sleep is erratic too. Sometimes I get 8 hours, sometimes it's split into two. Sometimes I go to bed at night into the morning and sometimes I go to bed in the afternoon and wake up in the evening and so on.
BabyNameBible@reddit
I’ve been doing really well recently with getting to bed between 11pm-1am but I’ve slipped back into the 4am bedtime tonight. Nevermind.
Leading_Exercise3155@reddit
I have a newborn, I don’t. 😂
Thestolenone@reddit
I'm disabled and chronically ill (aggressive autoimmune conditions) and my life is just a series of naps, my longest nap is through the morning until 12-2 pm. I often don't sleep at night at all. I've tried to change it to a more normal pattern but nothing has worked.
shelbee05@reddit
I had a good habit at the start of the year with sleeping at 12
Its now 3am, I have a busy day tomorrow and I am not even TIRED.
Sleeps always been something weird with me, am dying to get something diagnosed for the chance I have a healthy nights sleep but my GP office seem to be completely useless
TW1103@reddit
At this point, I don't know
Agreeable_Cow_7230@reddit
Its 3am and I'm staring at Reditt because I'm afraid to fall asleep. Too many sleep disturbances and nightmares every night. If I can make it til dawn I'll be ok, lol
shaneo632@reddit
2-3am most nights, up about 9:15
samo7230@reddit
When I can
LadyVonDrakensburg@reddit
F29. 1.30am on average.
luvrg1rll@reddit
Usually around 11pm-12am, currently though it’s 2am lmao
CraigL8@reddit
Used to be 2330 onwards. Now with a 2 month old baby, 2130-2230.
Rainbow_Lizzie@reddit
Now!! Goodnight 🤣
(After 2am just to clarify)
sloppy_johnson@reddit
Rarely before 2. I usually wait till I can’t stay up any longer
Equal-Competition930@reddit
Late as possible I hate sleeping because I suffer from nightmares. It catch 22 situation because less I sleep at night more sleep in day. Sometimes I go to cinema to sleep.. . It not help by fact I just maladaptive daydream. I started take sleeping tablets but one side effects is vivid dreams. And has most my of dreams are dark involving torture, captivity and mental illness that not good thing. I had one dream which end happy and that started as nightmare and even ending of that was fairly bleak.
1968Bladerunner@reddit
In colder months I tend to go to bed quite early (taking my last cuppa with me) just to be cosy while I read, knowing that I can snuggle down & fall asleep when I feel ready to do so... but that can easily be 2 or 3am if I'm engrossed in a good storyline!
During the warmer spells I'll often have been outside doing ground or DIY work, going for long walks or day hikes, so go to bed later (after 11pm), but be tired enough to fall asleep soon after (again current story dependent lol).
ImpressNice299@reddit
I work quite late into the evening (it's much easier to get things done when the working day is over), go to bed at 3 or 4am, work the morning and take an early afternoon nap to re-balance everything.
Leebles84@reddit
Whenever my brain shuts off or reboots, I don't control this...
ClarifyingMe@reddit
Having had lifelong sleep issues and episodes of insonmia, I go to sleep when I do.
BritA83@reddit
Work nights. Typically go to sleep about 9am and sleep until about 1pm, then get up until about 5 or 6pm and sleep again until 9pm
Drath101@reddit
I work a very random shift pattern encompassing basically every hour of the day and night depending, so really anywhere between 6pm and 10am depending
Norman-Wisdom@reddit
I'm really fighting my natural urge to go to bed late as fuck..
I lost that fight tonight.
Jr774981@reddit
6-7 am
Flat_Development6659@reddit
Based on the fact that you're posting this at 12:30am I would assume that most responses are going to come from people who stay up quite late.
welovetulips@reddit
Too late.
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