Sleep Patterns

OH & I normally go up to bed at about 10pm, in bed about 10:30pm, I am probably asleep by 11pm and then sleep until 7:45am. I do probably wake up a couple of times but normally fall back to sleep straightaway!

That's a good shift Beck!

This.

I normally go to bed about 12 and wake up anywhere between 6.45 and 7.30 depending on what time I am starting work and if I need to get the train.

I am always tired regardless of how much sleep I have. I could literally stay in bed ALL day and sleep if I know that I don't have to be anywhere/ do anything. I've always been the same since I was little! I think the technical term is 'lazy cow-itis'..

What time do you get up Harvo?

I need an awful lot of sleep - I'm like a teenager!

Ideally, I'll have 9 hours a night if possible. I live right across the road from work and don't take long to get ready in the mornings so I normally get up around 8.30. I'm usually asleep by 11.

Since being pregnant though, I nap at lunchtime, after work and still sleep the same amount! I've found the only thing that helps me with that mid-afternoon tiredness slump is a walk outside. I normally pop out to buy a drink from the cafe down the road, so I'm only 5 minutes away from my desk, but that bit of fresh air really perks me up. Also drinking more water throughout the day helps me stay awake.

I have the sleep cycle app on my phone that monitors your movement through the night to measure when you are deep sleep and light sleep (and maybe no sleep at all!). This thread had reminded me to use it!

We go bed around 11pm and get up at 7.50. Like you I wake at least two or three times and get up for a wee. Sometimes I eat biscuits too, but I have stopped that now as my bum was spreading.

7am ish usually but I'm often still awake at 1am.

I think my perfect sleep time would be 1am - 9am if I had that luxury. I am so much more productive in the evenings and am definitely not a morning person.

God Knees that's a hell of alot of sleep, when you got 9 hours before being pregnant did you still get tired later on in the day.

I've tried drinking water but it doesn't seem to help, I just need a good nights sleep. I would hate to think how much I woke up in the night.

In an ideal world I would be in bed by ten and up at 6.

However it is more like go to bed when I can so last night went to bed at 7.30 and was up a lot of the night with my daughter.

I used to get up at 5am every day and take the dog out for an hour, ahh to be young and have energy!

We sleep in three hour cycles (in terms of levels of consciousness, dream state etc), which is why the "eight hour" thing is a myth. It is far easier for you to wake up at the end of a three hour period. This means that, in theory, you'll be less tired after six hours sleep than after seven hours sleep, because after six hours, your body is ready to wake up, while after seven hours, it has settled back in for another sleep cycle.

I can go to bed anywhere between 9 pm and 12 pm. If I go at 9 pm, it's usually to have some quiet time on my own. I tend to fall asleep around midnight but have been a bit up and down since Christmas. The night before last, it was around 4 am before I dropped off (I had removed myself to the spare room to read).

I don't get up until 8 am, so not overly worried about getting a really early night.

It is but I'm still alway tired but they do say you can get too much sleep can't you?!

I would love to get up in the morning, enjoy a cuppa, walk the dog, have breakfast it just never happens like that. It's a mad rush, by the time I've got to work I've given myself a headache with all the running around, all because I snooze the alarm 6 times before I actually get out of bed. It was meant to be my new years resolution, to be more organised in the morning, first day back at work I woke up at 8am! Totally slept in!

I'm an owl too!

When I was writing my thesis, I was "free-running" i.e. waking/sleeping/eating whenever I wanted to. I gradually shifted through the day, getting later and later with everything, until I settled at 2 pm wake-up, 6-7 am to bed.

I used to get a really good amount of sleep pre Christmas, probably going to bed around 10, falling asleep by half past and getting up at 8am.

Since Christmas and Thailand I am falling asleep about 11, waking up at 3am, 4am, 5am, and then laying awake for an hour, then falling asleep and getting up at 8am. Because of this I feel like poop!

Interesting. I might start setting my alarm for 6 seeing as I fall asleep around 12 and see if after a few weeks I feel any better.

It's amazing how your body shifts like that, isn't it? You'd be suited to night shifts! H hates them. He's lucky though as can sleep whenever he needs to. There's no way I could go to sleep for a couple of hours at 5pm like he does.

No Claire, I was fine. H and I have bad evening habits though, we eat late then go straight to bed (combination of being cold in our living room and having the better TV in the bedroom!). Watching TV in bed probably settles me into the "sleep" frame of mind, hence going to sleep reasonably early.

If I'm out on the weekend, 3am would probably be the norm for us coming home (4am to sleep maybe), then I'd be up at 8 or 9, so it's only weeknights I have a lot of sleep.

Solution - give up work!

Pre pregnancy id have to have a solid 7hours sleep, if not more to feel right|! I go to bed at 10pm but either ready, watch tv/dvd for 45mins or so, normally falling asleep by 11ish. Id then sleep through to 7am when the alarm went off no interuptions.

Although the last time I remember a night like that was prob around April time. Now im up at 2am religiously, and then 33ish, and 5am...and then couple hours nap in the afternoon so im all over the shop!

I need at least 7 hours else I'm a right rat bag! At the weekends, I can sleep for up to 10 hours.

I'm not as bad as I used to be though, I used to sleep from about 10pm to 2pm the next day!!

I was starting to wonder where you had got to today...

im calling it sleep stocking ?

Altho Mr F is panicking that if I don't reply to his email staright away somethings amiss and im in mid labour hahah!

I go to bed at 10 at the latest and it's normally straight off to sleep once I'm in bed and my alarm goes off at 6. I would go to bed earlier if I could but I don't get in from work until 6.30pm at the earliest so think I need a bit more time awake before going to bed. In an ideal world I would genuinely go to bed and be asleep by 9 every night.

Not enough! An early night for me is around midnight usual night 1-2am my alarm goes off at 7am

I have roughly 4-5 hours disturbed sleep per night. I have learnt to function on it, but I don't like it.

Go to bed between 10 and 12, try to fall asleep which usually takes til about 2. I will wake up throughout the night either due to H snoring or me needing a wee. Then I hear Mr Noisy Balls next door's alarm at 5.30, followed by him noisily getting ready, followed by him slamming the door shut and revving his diesel van for a bit under our front window at around 6. Then I get up at 7.

OH has read a theory like this somewhere, except the one he read was about 4 hour cycles. Doesn't stop him sleepig all day though.

The irony of my sleep pattern is that it is mainly OH disurbs me and is the reason for my constant tiredness, yet he falls asleep the second his head goes down on the pillow and every morning he is lazing in bed pushing it later and later to get up while I am stumbling around to get ready. Grrr.

I go up to bed at 10, but start getting ready at about 9.30.

fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow and wake up about 5:30ish to do packed lunch and take the dog out.

am absolutely pooped by 3:30/4 in the afternoon.

My hours are all over the place so my body clock is as well. I try and get 8 hours of sleep a night but have noticed that sometimes I can feel more awake after 3 hours of sleep than 8. I remember this happening when I didnt get to sleep until 2am and woke up again for 6.30. Yet I go to bed at 6am, in work again for 4pm and I feel completely shattered and my eyes feel all gritty.

I would much prefer to have the same shift pattern so my body could get used to it.

Variable shift work is a dreadful idea, with real health implications. If I worked somewhere that tried to impose it on me, I'd oppose it on the grounds that it endangers me!

They're trying to make it even worse too, with them finishing one set of shifts at 7am after a night shift then starting on an early shift at 7am only 48 hours later for the next set.

I need a lot of sleep and can be quite irritable if I don't get it.... not sure how I'd ever cope if we had children or stated having a problem sleeping!

So I generally go to be about 9.30, although I would rather it be more like 8.30 - 9. I'm told by H that I pretty much fall to sleep straight away. My alarm goes off at 6.30 and I aim to get out of bed at 7am. I rarely wake up or get up in the night. I always struggle to wake up and get up in a morning.