Up at 5:45 and I go to bed some time after midnight during the week. On weekends I wake up naturally around 7 a.m.
I fall asleep in under a minute and do not wake up until my alarm goes off.
Rare for me to go to bed before midnight. Fall asleep as head is hitting the pillow. Deep sleep through night (takes a lot to wake me up during night). Wake up between 6 and 6:30am. 7 days a week.
By the numbers I am sleep deprived. Don’t feel that way though at all. If I go to bed earlier, I either lie awake until about midnight or wake up earlier.
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Weekdays: Go to bed 12:00-1:00am
Up at 7-7:30am
Weekends:
Go to bed 12am-2am
Up at 8:30-9
I can’t nap.
Whole family are night owls, but some of them are better nappers than I am. I’m typing this at 11:49pm EDT and will probably be awake for at least another half hour. Spouse gets up early and feeds the cats but he can take naps. Our 21 yr old (out of the house now) used to stay up super late but now works the early shift at a coffee shop and does okay with that. The 18 yr old is a huge night owl and will stay up until 2 or later on the weekends.
My parents usually stayed up to watch the 11 o’clock news. My MIL is often up midnight. She loves to stay up and talk late into the night.
I pretty much have to be sick if I am in bed before 10:30. I will occasionally make it to the bed between 10:30 and 11 but won’t be asleep for another 30-45 min.
BTW, I don’t drink coffee at all and only occasionally drink caffeinated tea or one of those mini cokes. I do like dark chocolate, though.
Definitely can’t fall asleep the minute my head hits the pillow. Spouse can though. I have to read before I can go to sleep.
Right now we are both up watching Notre Dame and Rutgers in double overtime. 12:04am.
Go to sleep: 2-2:30 am
Wake up: 8:30-9:00 am
H is an early bird. Has been waiting for almost 40 years for me to go to sleep when he does.
Not happening. I just lie in bed and stare at the ceiling. If I could read in bed, I’d get to sleep sooner, but that can’t happen if he’s already zonked out.
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Are we separated at birth twins? 
My husband is an early bird, too.
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Bed between 2 and 3. Up between 8 and 9
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Can’t use a book light? That’s what I do if my husband falls asleep before me but he can sleep through a lot that I can’t. I gotta read though. I have to have my 20ish minutes of reading before bed.
Oh, it varies… but I sleep a LOT more now that I’m retired. It’s my favorite perk of this “job”. (My last job included stressful 3rd shift work, sometimes planned and sometimes unplanned based on automated “pager”/cellphone alert for software system errors.)
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Up at 10 am or so.
Go to bed between 3 and 4 but generally read for an hour or so.
I’m retired with a little bookkeeping job a couple of hours in the late afternoon. I have never in my life been able to fall asleep before midnight. I was sleep deprived all the years I was working and had kids in school, going to sleep at one and getting up at five.
I have to be awake for 18 hours before i can even consider sleeping. I never feel sleepy or drowsy. Now I can finally sleep on my schedule. I paid my dues.
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go to bed 10-10:30pm. Wake up 3am (hate it, but its been like that for years) then fall back asleep by 3:30-3:45am. Wake up again 7:00am, get out of bed 7:30am.
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My husband and I nap at least an hour every day too. Hey, that’s what you do in retirement.
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I have only been able to nap in the few weeks right after having a baby to if I’m ill. Otherwise, I can’t nap and try my best to avoid caffeine.
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If I had no husband, daughter, or cat, my perfect hours would be:
In bed at midnight and up at 9 (earlier in summer).
As it is…usually in bed 11 to 12pm, up at 6:45 - 7:30 depending on the weekday. Hate that.
Cat make a lot of noise through the early morning, so I always feel sleep deprived.
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I’m usually in bed by 9/9:30, and read for 30 minutes. I’m usually awake between 5:30/6.
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LOL As a seasoned night owl now retired I usually go to bed at 4 am and get up at noon.
Lately it has been 5 am and up at 11 and then nap before dinner. Have been known to sleep until late in the day. There is a specialness to these wee hours. I can be very productive. Once I learned to not worry about the lack of sleep I became much happier.
signing off at 4:57am
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I go to bed about 9:30 and read for 20-30 minutes, lights out about 10.
I have not used an alarm clock since I was in college. These days I wake up around 5 am, sometimes a little later (5:30 or 6 am) on the weekends.
When the kids were home I often woke up at 4 or 4:30 am without the alarm.
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So interesting! At first I thought 10ish was the standard - until our late nighters popped into the thread!
It’s true that my 10pm is a little hard to make in the summer when I will usually stay outside until after night soaking up ALL the daylight.
Those of you who stay up past midnight…are you channel surfing? Reading? Doing house chores? And is watching the 11pm (or 10pm someplaces) news still a thing for people. Honestly the last thing I want my eyes/ears to absorb before I go to bed is the news!!!
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I used to want 8 hours of sleep when I was younger. Nowadays I am happy with 7. It is rare I sleep through the night now. I’ll usually wake up between 2-4am and would need some background ZZ sound to put me back to sleep.
I generally go to bed around 10 and wake up before 5:30. I don’t use an alarm.
I can take a power nap on weekends sometimes - 2 to 3 hours, but it doesn’t happen often.
I like to be in my bedroom around 9 pm, but I read the WSJ, Bloomberg or (now CC!). I usually fall asleep by 9:30. I have insomnia as well and most nights I am up around 12/1am for about an hour. I get up at 5 am.
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M-F
Wake up 6:25
Bed Time 10:00
weekend
Wake up between 7:30 and 8 (whenever the dog wakes me)
Bed Time 11:00
I have always needed a lot of sleep. Of course, the older I get, the less unbroken the sleep is, but this amount/timing seems to still work for me.