I’ve always been an early riser. Sleeping in until 7 is good for me. Weekdays the alarm goes off at 3:50am. That’s just how I’m wired. Some people sleep late. I’m not one of them.
That is annoying about the time!!! Ugh!
Mother’s Day on a sunday is never a good thing in my house. Sundays are the blechy cleaning days and getting ready for the work week. My kids gave me a gift yesterday right before we left them after younger S’ graduation festivities. It was sweet, but I’m always in a super down mood leaving them and going back home. The graduation of my last kid was a double whammy. So yesterday pretty much sucked.
I think rather than a focus on wake time you should monitor how much sleep you’re getting in terms of hours. 7? 9? What does your body say is enough? And how do you feel during the day? Do you have energy all day or are you dragging and foggy?
Most days I’m in bed by 10 - often 9:30 and then reading. 11 or 11:30 is LATE for me and rare - probably only when my kids are home to visit. In bed by 10 and up at 5:30 gives me 7.5 hours of sleep several days a week - that works for me.
I do commiserate with you on the late start to your “date”. This would drive me crazy. I think I would have had to say “can we compromise on a start time? I really want to be back home by 2pm…” or whatever.
Just for a contrasting point of view - I often stay up late and have no trouble sleeping late. If I wake up early - which if I’m getting enough sleep I often do (though for me early is 7-8 AM) I have to keep myself from going back to sleep. I also nap easily. I almost never have trouble going back to sleep if I wake in the night and can usually go to sleep relatively quickly at night. My problem is staying up way too late (I can stay up until, 1, 2, 3 AM if I’m not careful) and then being sleep-deprived since I still have to go to work. I’m also struggling with what time I want to get up in the mornings and then sticking to that now that I have an empty nest - I think it’s much healthier to have a regular sleep & rise time, regardless of what they are - it’s the inconsistency that’s an issue.
Well, we went to the fair at around 10:30. It got hot and crowded. Ran into friends there, had lunch with these friends and in 15’ the original “sleep til noon” folks are picking us up to walk at the walking trail by the river. It’s all good (it’s partly in the shade there, but it’s already 88 degrees!)
My husband and one daughter are early risers. Always have been. Another daughter and I are night owls and could sleep until 10 easily. We also seem to need more sleep. But it is an issue when working jobs that require early rising.
At one point when my night owl was the only one left at home, she was sleeping 12am-6 am and 3pm-5 pm. My husband was sleeping 9pm-4am and often a nap from 5-6. I was sleeping 12pm-6am, and then 7:00am-9am. It was crazy. We were all awake for only 9 hours a day!
Now that we are retired my husband still sleeps from 9-4 and I sleep from 12-8. I love those 3 hours when I’m the only one up in a quiet house.
It’s 89 degrees and very humid. Just started to drizzle. I let my friend know if we walk again in the summer we will have to compromise on the time. This was miserable.
We’re in Vicksburg, MS tonight, very humid (compared to AZ). Need to start adjusting as our son’s wedding is in June in GA (what the heck was he thinking!), and I know I’m going to be miserable.
As for sleep, I got up at the crack of dawn (4:30-5:30AM) most of my working years. When I retired in 2017, I turned off the alarm never to turn it on again. My body seems to have adjusted to roughly 8.5 hours of sleep. I go to bed between 9-9:30, read until 10:30 and wake up every morning between 6:30-7AM. However, I DO get up almost every night to use the bathroom around 2AM, but I fall right back to sleep.
It’s not just June in Georgia … it’s June in Augusta. The swampiest place I’ve ever been in summer! Drink lots & lots of water, @ChoatieMom. My H passed out from dehydration at 10 a.m. at the Masters one April - he hadn’t been drinking alcohol, but he also hadn’t been drinking water.
I sleep incredibly well, and I set an alarm every morning in retirement simply because I don’t want to sleep past 7. My H is pretty jealous. He wakes up in the middle of the night every night & has difficulty getting back to sleep. He saw a sleep therapist for quite awhile, and he’s “better” … but he still wakes. He just doesn’t stay awake as long normally (he still has bouts when he stays awake a long time). He has to go to bed at the same time & wake up at the same time every day, and he has to leave the bed & go to another room for a “break” when he wakes up. I know how lucky I am to sleep anywhere, anytime. I wake up at night to use the bathroom, but I fall asleep again immediately afterwards.
Yes, I am retired and often sleep in til 8 or 9 (sometimes later). There can be awake time around 5am, but when I do fall asleep again it seems to be a nice deep sleep. After chaotic schedules my last decade of work, it is a cherished perk of retirement.
I spent my kids’ school years getting up at five and then being unable to fall asleep before 1 or 2. I was seriously sleep deprived for 20 years. Now that they’re grown and I’m mostly retired I stay up till 2 or 3 and try to get up by 9 or 10. I try to go to bed earlier but 20 years of lying awake knowing I had to get up at 5 and would be tired all day took its toll. So I dont go to bed until I’m yawning and my eyes are watering. This is only a problem when there’s something I want to that requires getting up early. Sometimes I stay up all night so I can get wherever it is on time.
My mom doesn’t get out of bed until later. She likes to watch tv in bed and dozes on and off. So it’s not so much sleeping but liking to be in her bed.
I dislike laying in bed in the morning. I like to get up, make my coffee and enjoy the peace and quiet. My husband likes to enjoy that peace in quiet laying in bed. I am very uncomfortable laying in the bed. We don’t have a tv in our bedroom, which I don’t mind, but the laying around isn’t comfortable. To me.
Hence why this post is at 5:30 am.
I personally wouldn’t waste the cool part of the day to enjoy my latte but that’s me.
We have friends in their 70s who stay up until 2 or 3 am and then sleep until early afternoon. Every day! Sometimes they go to their 24 hour a day gym at midnight. It works for them but I can’t imagine doing it myself.
