What time is bedtime?

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My bedtime is around 11pm..no later than 11:30pm. I fix a cup of Chamomile tea, grab my Kindle Fire in case I want to read a little in bed. Put the tv on my favorite channel.. get ready for bed..lights out:sleep:
 

Ladybj said:
My bedtime is around 11pm..no later than 11:30pm. I fix a cup of Chamomile tea, grab my Kindle Fire in case I want to read a little in bed. Put the tv on my favorite channel.. get ready for bed..lights out:sleep:
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I don't have any set bedtime..I'm a night owl and since I retired I can stay up as late as I want, and I do. It's 1.20am here, and I'm having a cuppa tea, and I'll go to bed when I'm tired, not before, it would be pointless. 🛌
 
hollydolly said:
I don't have any set bedtime..I'm a night owl and since I retired I can stay up as late as I want, and I do. It's 1.20am here, and I'm having a cuppa tea, and I'll go to bed when I'm tired, not before, it would be pointless. 🛌
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I love it hollydolly...no set time. Nothing like that nighttime cuppa tea. Retired also but my engine slows down around 11pm..lol. Prior to hubby and I getting back together, I use to go to bed pretty early and get up early. He is a night owl due to his job..so I got in the habit of staying up a bit late.. I call 11pm late...lol I use to go to bed around 9pm..and get up around 8am. I try to sleep in but the latest I sleep is 10am.. I get up around 9-9:30am. I love it because I am on my own time.... PRICELESS!!
 

hollydolly said:
I don't have any set bedtime..I'm a night owl and since I retired I can stay up as late as I want, and I do. It's 1.20am here, and I'm having a cuppa tea, and I'll go to bed when I'm tired, not before, it would be pointless. 🛌
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I am with Holly. Unless I have something specific planned, like an early appointment or something, I do not set a bed time since retirement. Though I often TRY to be in bed by 2. LOL
 
I, too, have no set bedtime. My sleep/wake cycle varies a lot. I don't have to get up for anything like a job but do get up and feed the dog and sometimes go back to sleep if I feel tired still and often I am.

For some reason I awake after 1, 2, 4 hours of sleep and it's hard to fall back. Then I sometimes take another melatonin hoping it will put me out. And it usually does little good.

There was a time when I had a set bedtime but don't recall what it was:D but I used to always get up at 7:45 am. Long are those days gone!:ROFLMAO:
 
My hours, for anything, is all over the place. "Usually'' I go to bed at 11pm, but it can be as early as 8 if I didn't have a nap, or as late as 2am if I'm not sleepy at all (watch Alfred Hitchcock). There have been a few insomnia episodes where I stayed awake until 4am, but usually I'm a good sleeper.
 
Somewhere between 8:30 to 9:30 ish. Used to stay up really late. Sometimes as late a 2:00 am. I never felt good and my health wasn't good. Changed to this early schedule and things got better health/feeling wise. So looked around and found some research that there are some key anti-aging hormones that the body releases between 10:00 pm and 2:00 am only iF your body is asleep. We sleep in roughly 90-minute cycles, shifting from deep sleep to lighter rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The latter tends to occur more in the second half of the night, closer to daybreak - so if you often go to bed super-late, you are getting more REM sleep, and less of the restorative deep kind that rejuvenates fixes and repairs the mind and body.
 
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Homeschoolie said:
Somewhere between 8:30 to 9:30 ish. Used to stay up really late. Sometimes as late a 2:00 am. I never felt good and my health wasn't good. Changed to this early schedule and things got better health/feeling wise. So looked around and found some research that there are some key anti-aging hormones that the body releases between 10:00 pm and 2:00 am only iF your body is asleep.
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Any links to this "research?"
 
We both usually shut out the lights around 11pm, we really have no particular time set though. I always have a tiny am/fm radio under my pillow and usually listen to a talk show until I dose off. I'm generally up around 7am to let the dog out, so even if I don't fall asleep until midnight or later, I will get a good night's sleep.
 
Ruthanne said:
For some reason I awake after 1, 2, 4 hours of sleep and it's hard to fall back. Then I sometimes take another melatonin hoping it will put me out. And it usually does little good.
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I was taking Skullcap herb before bed for sleep, recently switched to Valerian. The Valerian is good so far with just one dose before bedtime. A bottle like this costs around $10.

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My sleep correlates with my hip pain. Right now it's pretty good so I am able to go to sleep around mid night and generally sleep through the night.

When I am suffering major pain I drop off around ten pm but wake up after just a few hours and then I am awake the rest of the night.
 
I'm a creature of habit and a morning person, so I'll usually be in bed by 10:30. Then I'll listen to an audiobook or noodle on a tablet for another hour before sleep arrives...
 
I usually go to bed around midnight M-F,after watching my favorite cable news show,"The 11th Hour with Brian Williams' on MSNBC.If he is off,then I won't stay up to watch
On the weekends I'm in bed around 10:30 or earlier depending how tired I am
 
In bed about 11 and read with Kindle in dark room until it falls shut. Sometimes I'm awake enough to get it closed and tucked under the pillow, other times I find it among the sheets when I wake.
 
Homeschoolie said:
Somewhere between 8:30 to 9:30 ish. Used to stay up really late. Sometimes as late a 2:00 am. I never felt good and my health wasn't good. Changed to this early schedule and things got better health/feeling wise. So looked around and found some research that there are some key anti-aging hormones that the body releases between 10:00 pm and 2:00 am only iF your body is asleep. We sleep in roughly 90-minute cycles, shifting from deep sleep to lighter rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The latter tends to occur more in the second half of the night, closer to daybreak - so if you often go to bed super-late, you are getting more REM sleep, and less of the restorative deep kind that rejuvenates fixes and repairs the mind and body.
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Interesting.

I'm an 'early to bed, early to rise' person. ... have been that way my entire life.
 
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