What time do you get to sleep?

[Brockas]

Just curious, as I know quite a few people like myself who seem to get our best sleep when we go to bed around 2am or so, and depending on work situations wake up anywhere from 7-9am.

What time do you go to sleep?

[mys1]

Normally Around Midnight - Much later and I find I can't get out of bed!

I need to be up around 6 though, seems to be the minimum I run on.

[duste]

I've been trying to go to sleep at around 11pm lately, but during Uni it used to be midnight at the earliest and 4-5am (if at all) when I had due dates approaching, and then waking up at 6am regardless.

Much better having a normal 8-4/9-5 job imo.

[SSICK]

same as Tyson, 6 hours sleep and im sweet. usually eyes shut at 12 -1am.

[MadDocker]

Usually asleep by 10-1030 on weekdays and up around 6-630. Weekends I run on a lot less depending on what's happening.

[Tocchi]

around 1am depending whats on TV / study needs ... wake up at 630am/7am unless i got the day off tafe

[shifted]

Try to get in bed by 8 for 4 am starts due to training but generally hit 10pm... during uni would be anywhere from 2-3am and waking up 6ish to keep up the study (exams or assignment due)

generally 4-6 hours sleep and I'll manage. hit 8 or more and i feel lethargic?

[farris]

Usually 10pm - wake up 5am on days and 8am - wake up at 2 or 3pm on night shift.

[VRX]

6am if i'm lucking then wake up between 4-6pm,still tired as shit though no matter how much sleep i get.

[XsQuiZiT]

I'm normally around midnight but with recent late night gym sessions, I'm struggling to get to bed until closer to 1-1:30.

I find 6 hours sleep is plenty and my body won't let me sleep much more, however anything less than 4 makes the day a struggle

[Cold Fusion]

bed at 10:30, then asleep by 11ish, wake up at quarter to 6

[INSINR8R]

Depends how I feel when I get home from work as I finish at 6am. So maybe 7am, maybe 11am-12pm.

I don't get much sleep though, trying to sort that out at the moment.

[Slow RB25]

Usually arround 11pm during week and 2-3am fri-sat nights, still seem to wake up around 6am most mornings alarm clock or not. :/

[Socrates]

11 - 12 for 6.30 - 7 wake up

[YOUR MATE]

Around mid day, wake up between 5-8. Used to get by on 6 hours, these days I'm a much happier guy after 7-8, and I don't get headaches or crook nearly as much.

[cplagz]

2130 - 2230 = head to bed
2231 = asleep
0430 = wide awake

[R3N]

Envy you guys. I try to sleep around 11pm, usually only go to bed around 12am if I'm watching something then wake up 8ish. I'm bad with sleep, need 8 hours min :(

[mav_vlt]

depends if im at work or not

[Fryman]

10.45pm ish wake up 7.45.

my theories are as follows (after many hours of self analysis, thinking it was depression/badsleeping patterns/health that was causing me to feel tired.. ALL THE TIME).

Sleep deprivation is real, but overstated. If you do the 9-5 job with 7-8 hours sleep and then fuck it up with the weekend (friday go out come home 5am, sleep to 2pm and then saturday go out come home 6-8 am) then it will take approximately 3 days for the body to get back into routine. Just in time to fuck it up for the weekend again.

Only after 29 years on this planet has it hit home that routine sleeping patterns (best done during night hours in combination with a full time hobby) is best for your overall well being.

Quality of sleep is paramount. using a 3rd party app to record your sleeping patterns and disruptions often help in self analysis. Snoring, sleep apnea, sleeping on your back or side, all affect your body request requirements.

Also something you may or may not have considered. Your nightly "omissions" (whether one is self employed or dining in for two or multiples of x) make a huge difference in your awakeness and general up and go. But not immediately, usually a day afterwards. I find that for every "deposit", it takes approximately 2-3 hours in sleep in "make up rest" or sleep debt to come back into normality. So if you smash out 5-6 sessions a weekend... its going to take nearly an extra nights rest to recooperate.

Also if you train weights cardio 2/3 times a week, you wouldnt believe how important extra QUALITY sleep is required for your body to repair and replenish itself.


One last thing. You know that snooze button. Disable it. As soon as your alarm clock goes off, jump straight the fuck out of bed. If you procrastinate even for a second, your body and mind will be in the tired condition for the whole day. Amazing how something so small can make an impact on your productivity. Get the fuck up immediately and do some stretches. Shits fucking amazing.

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[Tom]

Anywhere between 11-12 for 7.30-8am wake.

[Gurney]

I get to bed by 9:30 and have to wake up at 4:50, have been having a lot of sleeping trouble lately and wake up several times during the night. Always tired, always run down and never feel swtiched on. Getting pretty over it...

[Joe]

In bed by 10 when and where possible, up at 5.30 for gym during the week / sat morning work. Otherwise my human alarm clock (my daughter) gets me up by 7am sharp every other day.

You get used to broken sleep when you have kids.. not that you have a choice anyway.

[TheChad]

Im with r3n. Need minimum 8 hrs to feel good. Often live on 7 due to shitty work and Uni times. Do many days on 5 hrs or less during semester but really don't enjoy it...

If I have 10 hours I feel awesome!

[duste]

One last thing. You know that snooze button. Disable it. As soon as your alarm clock goes off, jump straight the fuck out of bed. If you procrastinate even for a second, your body and mind will be in the tired condition for the whole day. Amazing how something so small can make an impact on your productivity. Get the fuck up immediately and do some stretches. Shits fucking amazing.

QFT! Helps A LOT when you get out of bed straight away.

[Wozzernux]

In bed around midnight, up at 5am/5pm for work, shift worker spec.

Can function on 3-4hrs sleep for work but I'll be an irritable pingpingpingping... days off I sleep 10-14hrs to catch up.

Got better shit to do than spend time sleeping when I can get by on less than average, there's plenty of time to sleep when you're dead anyway.

[Macca]

Between 2-3am, awake again between 5-6am or earlier.

[colt75]

normally 11pm and wake up for 6am with a slight bit of struggle.

should really be trying for 10pm though!

[Brett_J]

I usually try to be in bed and dozing off by 11pm max
I'm up at 5:40am so try to get at least 7 hours sleep to function properly at work, if I don't have 100% focus I could drop some heavy expensive shit on me or fuck something up, so I try to be on my game.
I usually don't sleep in past 6:30 on the weekends regardless of what time I go to bed. I prefer to be up early on my days off anyway, feels like I've had a good weekend if I'm productive for most of it.Fuck laying in bed for hours, I'm old but not in a fucking nursing home, Live your life damnit :)

Oh and agree with Loopian on the snooze button, don't have one either, as soon as that shit goes off I'm up.

[Dr.J]

Bed between 12 - 1:30am
Up at 8am.
Walk to my shop from home - 300 metres away on next street across :)

[Alt_F4]

10pm (usually) sleep for a 530 wakeup

[DrKarl]

Sleep by 10pm wake up for 7. Still tired when i get up. When i can no longer snooze I reset alarms for say 3mins time. Will try to Gtfo method tomorrow.. I just don't get how people can do leedy on a weeknight, I just never pull up the next day. Not due to drinking either.

[Phyber]

Go midnight votes, we're winning!

Must try this get straight up thing. If I didn't have to use my brain and memory at work it wouldn't be so bad but I find a pretty direct correlation between letting myself stay up after 12 and doing shit at work. Forgetting the little mundane things that could cause big problems! Alarm is set for 7:30 but I often wake up earlier as the missus is up and about then :/ Do really need my 8 hours.

[Adr3naL1N]

anytime before midnight is usually a win for me, i voted 11 coz its my ideal time to try get into bed. up at either 630 or 645 depending on wether im starting work 730 or 8.

weekends im shit, rarely up before 10 unless im working sat morning

[Buckets]

At home it's usually around 1am and I drag my arse out of bed at 8-9am at work usually around 10pm and I'm up at 4am. <- 4am is fucking gay BTW !

[monk_13]

8pm at work, rise around 2:45.
When at home sleep whenever, usually up around 6.

[Nic_A31]

In bed @ 11, up at 5. Sometimes go to bed a bit earlier if I've worked 12+ hours.

Since starting my current job, I've found I can't sleep in past 7:30 on weekends, which to be honest is a good thing. Get more out of the weekend when you're actually awake.

[ED40]

Few times a week I have 330am wake-ups so usually can't stay awake much past 10pm these days :( Getting old.

[Passage GT]

i work days and night shift either 4 or 5 starts, i just change it to make sure i get minimum 8 hours sleep, even when i'm on nights i stay up for a few hours in the morning before going to bed, then get up an hour before work.
atm i'm starting at 1700 and finishing at 0500, so been going to bed around 0730-0800 and sleeping till 1600.
missus is lucky in that she only needs 5-6 hours sleep and she's fine.

[Scaf]

I'm usually in bed by 10 - work mentally fucks me, and after a gym session I'm physically stuffed so I need 8 hours. Wake up at 5.30.

Having said that, weekends I can run on almost no sleep. Massive night get home at 5 and I'm up by 7 - I can't sleep in. I have to make sure I'm in bed early Sunday nights though or it throws out my week sleep routine.

[TJ]

11 - 12 for 6.30 - 7 wake up. Been having dramas sleeping well lately due to medicine.. it fucks with your life.

[Gurney]

Even after a full working week and being up for 20 hours, I still only managed 5 hours solid. Tried the usual over the counter stuff like Restavit but taking anymore than half makes me feel written off all day, work out 4-5 times a week, very healthy diet and only have stimulants before my workouts. Might see if I can get a doctor to give me something decent, but my guess is that they would have much the same side effects that Restavit have.

[mr_mike]

my old job i would go to bed about between 10:30 and 11:30 usually and be up at 6:45am for work. New job i am up at 4:50am and most nights i am finding myself dozing off on the couch about 8:30-9ish.

[mantou]

There needs to be a box for anyother time. By the time i finish work its already 4am or 6am.

[1JZVL]

2-3am

Wake up at 7:35am, get to work around 8:20-25am.

Feel like shit everyday.

[Butcher]

BF3 is fucking my shit up royally.

[TJ]

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HTH

[Grug]

Usually goto sleep around 5am, wake up around 12pm

[RELEASE]

bed by midnight, up at 6am-7am

[DRIFT13]

Well first 3 nights of my shift, bed at approx 10pm for 4am wake up.
Next 3 I have night shift so , bed approx 7am and get up at 2pm.
Then I have have 6 days off so Im in bed whenever and get up when the kid wakes up!

[beefcake]

QFT! Helps A LOT when you get out of bed straight away.
gonna have to try that, i go 20 mins on that fuckn button , i hit the sack after 12 nearly every night , depends on quality of porn or tv viewing, pretty much a boring old fart nowadays ....
damnit rude tube just came on TV ... gonna be a late night now haha

[protecon]

Point to thread?
Figuring out what time to steal your keys?

[beefcake]

yesss please, need insurance pay out ....

[RS_Gav]

In bed most nights anywhere between 12am - 2am. Up at 7am. Working from home is a massive trap for me. "Im just nicking out to the office to sort some emails or paperwork..." 5 hours later...
Having "a few" young kids normally throws my sleep out even more. It seems there is always one that is sick / teething or just generally not interested in sleeping at night. I can sit up for an hour with them trying to get them back to sleep.
I have this thing where at about 11pm I get a second-wind and feel wide awake. I can stay up for another 2 - 3 hours easy. Brockas and I discussed this at length one morning... at about 3am!
Anyone have a spare new body clock? Pretty sure mine is faaarked.

[Risk10k]

I USED to be able to do that, now its 7pm is my second wind! 4am wake up, out of bed at 6am....

[Buckets]

Scotch & Tramadol Gav, you'll go the fuck to sleep real quick anytime. :)

[ovaxitd]

bed about 11pm up at about 930-10am.... i can fkn sleep forever if im allowed to...

when im at work its up at 5am bed about 830pm... good 8.5hrs sleep...

hell at work i sleep through fire drills haha..

[Lonewolf]

Varies how i feel but fits between the following ranges:

finish work 7-9pm
gym 10-12pm
dinner 11-1am
sleep 2-4am

[cplagz]

In bed most nights anywhere between 12am - 2am. Up at 7am. Working from home is a massive trap for me. "Im just nicking out to the office to sort some emails or paperwork..." 5 hours later...
Having "a few" young kids normally throws my sleep out even more. It seems there is always one that is sick / teething or just generally not interested in sleeping at night. I can sit up for an hour with them trying to get them back to sleep.
I have this thing where at about 11pm I get a second-wind and feel wide awake. I can stay up for another 2 - 3 hours easy. Brockas and I discussed this at length one morning... at about 3am!
Anyone have a spare new body clock? Pretty sure mine is faaarked.

Or one more map to finish in Battlefield 3........ :D

[confuzion]

My neighbours ruin my life by getting up and making a racket at 5AM every morning (even on saturday) so I try goto bed about 10pm. Otherwise I get up at about 7:15 if I can help it.. that's a 'sleep in'..

[fourseven]

2/3am most nights.

[ReaperSS]

2am for me, wait till im dead tired then sleep like a baby till i get up at 6.45. Fine as during the day. Im i got to bed any earlier in tired as all day

[Nickevox]

Bed @ 11pm for me, 4/4:30am wake up for a quick workout at home then work at 7am.

[Sebdullah]

usually in bed by anywhere between 11 & 12 up at around 6-6:30
Hate sleep patterns after years of starting work at 7:45 I can no longer sleep in on weekends latest I've woken up after a hard night is about 8 :(

[Kaido]

In bed most nights anywhere between 12am - 2am. Up at 7am. Working from home is a massive trap for me. "Im just nicking out to the office to sort some emails or paperwork..." 5 hours later...
Having "a few" young kids normally throws my sleep out even more. It seems there is always one that is sick / teething or just generally not interested in sleeping at night. I can sit up for an hour with them trying to get them back to sleep.
I have this thing where at about 11pm I get a second-wind and feel wide awake. I can stay up for another 2 - 3 hours easy. Brockas and I discussed this at length one morning... at about 3am!
Anyone have a spare new body clock? Pretty sure mine is faaarked.

wtf is with the second-wind? i get it to and find it impossible to go to bed once it kicks in

[RS_Gav]

Or one more map to finish in Battlefield 3........ :D

Shoosh you. I blame 4slide. I said I was going to bed early at 1.30 the other morning and he told me to pull my skirt up. I played for another 2 hours... WTF else was I mean't to do?!!



wtf is with the second-wind? i get it to and find it impossible to go to bed once it kicks in

Exactly! Brockas had a name for the condition. Don't worry but, he tells me it is easily fixed with drugs!

[Mad_Aussie]

Don't worry but, he tells me it is easily fixed with drugs!

Completely depends on the content and dosage... :P

I've been finding since starting to crunch through Fallout New Vegas, my normal 12-1 o'clock curfew is getting later and later...

[JME]

Minimum 6 hours sleep, preferably 8 hours.10pm-5am on average. Cardio/gym in the mornings keeps you charged all day!!!

[Nickevox]

Cardio/gym in the mornings keeps you charged all day!!!

So true that, I enjoy the early morning workouts.

[AGIT8D]

then sleep like a baby

So you wake up at 3am cause you shit the bed? :)

[Kaido]

Exactly! Brockas had a name for the condition. Don't worry but, he tells me it is easily fixed with drugs!

be interesting to know...

ages ago i use to take Melatonin tables (not the off the shelf type but ones made up for me) and i use to take between 2-6 a night, an hour before i wanted to sleep and would knock me out

[Torquen]

11:00pm-12:00am most weekday nights. Doesn't matter what time I have to get up, still go to bed 'normal' time.

[[Jacek]]

I think the solution to sleeping problems is routine. If you go to sleep at XXpm and wake up at Yam every day no matter what (within reason), you wont have problems

Also I cant stand sleeping with block-out curtains - screws with my mind. I have the blinds closed enough to keep the moon out at night, but open enough to let the sun wake me in the morning. Once slept ata backpackers with no windows/natural light and consistently slept in until stupid times of the day 1pm, 3pm etc...

Remember we are all cavemen deep down - Cavemen didnt have clocks or alarms, they went by the sun.

[DRKWRX]

who you calling a caveman pingpingpingping, usually try to get to sleep at about 9 30, 10 now waking up at 5am because of the sun.

[Niva]

sleep? withe quality of crack these days..

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[thrtytwo]

;928693']
Also I cant stand sleeping with block-out curtains - screws with my mind. I have the blinds closed enough to keep the moon out at night, but open enough to let the sun wake me in the morning. Once slept ata backpackers with no windows/natural light and consistently slept in until stupid times of the day 1pm, 3pm etc...

no shit, when I stay at my GFs house, she has one, I just don't wake up, then I get all shitty at her for wasting the morning hahaha. Normally though........



go to bed at midnight, probably don't fall asleep for 30 mins most nights

get up at 5:30am

work 10 hour day

repeat

[Lonewolf]

;928693']I think the solution to sleeping problems is routine. If you go to sleep at XXpm and wake up at Yam every day no matter what (within reason), you wont have problems

Also I cant stand sleeping with block-out curtains - screws with my mind. I have the blinds closed enough to keep the moon out at night, but open enough to let the sun wake me in the morning. Once slept ata backpackers with no windows/natural light and consistently slept in until stupid times of the day 1pm, 3pm etc...

Remember we are all cavemen deep down - Cavemen didnt have clocks or alarms, they went by the sun.

yeah cavemen didnt have jobs to work either...
I cant sleep without curtains that block out most of the light (getting up at 10am does that), even a clock radio display can give me a shit nights sleep. Dark FTW.

[DBLDOSE]

Bed at 8 up at work, up at 4.30.

When I'm on break, usually in bed around 1 or 2 am, up by 7. Try to make the most of my week off.

[SSICK]

Was looking for this thread last week and just came across it afters searching for something else.

Anyone use natural sleeping pills? Ive been getting a maximum of 4 hours sleep for a while and its having a major shit house affect on my work and general life.... Next step is prescriptions which im not overly keen on.

[Yakky Bear]

restavit is good but can give you a sleep (hangover) if o use the dozile liquid capsules, i find these alot better. You still wake up really tired but as soon as you get up you feel pretty normal.

[Fukushima]

restavit is good but can give you a sleep (hangover) if o use the dozile liquid capsules, i find these alot better. You still wake up really tired but as soon as you get up you feel pretty normal.

Both of them are junk - old school antihistamines with lots of side effects (like the hangover you described). I'd rather take temazepam if I had to. (Script)

You can get a script for melatonin (circadin) that's pretty good for natural sleep, reestablishing rythyms.

Sleep ezy type supplements are okay. And sleepy time tea.

Google "sleep hygiene" for all the non drug stuff to make sure you are giving yourself best chance.


Irony of this thread I'm trying to get a few hours sleep before midnight these days as the baby wakes up at 1am. They say two hours sleep before midnight is worth three after... Seems to help the next day. Woke up at 12:30 and wide awake now though :/

[Miggy]

When ever I have taken Melatonin it will wake me up in the middle of the night.

[DT95WA]

Tried a heap of different ones with shitty results. Gave Blackmores Sleep sound formula a try with good results. Take 1-2 about 30mins before planning to go to bed and sleep to my alarm. No hangover like the restavit.

I used them until i got into a half decent sleep pattern and rarely take them now and sleep great.

[Damo 69]

usually use Valerian take 1 when i finish work, and one around 8pm and i will be out by 8:30 when i am working upnorth. otherwise i dont get to sleep till 10pm and wake up at 5 and i am fucked.

[evoeata]

ive been taking half a restavit instead of the full one or even 2 i was taking. half seems to be just the right amount to get me to sleep but wake up with no hangover from it.

[ReaperSS]

cant beat "The green" for a natural sleep mediacation. No side effects ;)

[Chivalry]

Anyone use natural sleeping pills?

Melatonin tablets work well as long as you don't have any caffeine within X hours before you plan to go to sleep. From my experience so far, if you do have something with caffeine in it and take a melatonin tablet you can have a restless sleep and then easily oversleep because of it. My mum sent me a bottle of melatonin from the States as it is cheap and sold over the counter in the US, I'm not sure what it's like here aside from needing to be prescribed.

Do you stay mindful of general 'good sleep' practices like not using computers or anything else that winds up your brain before you decide to go to sleep?

[tmz_99]

When I'm at home usually go to bed around 2-3am, wake up around 10-11am
When at work, sleep at 11pm, wake up at 5:24am.

[Simon]

When working im in bed at 3am then up at 10am ready to sit around until 4pm when work starts again.

Joys of working night shift. On my days offf its bed around 10pm and up again at 7am.

[VEE KA]

another vote for restavit, works well but as others have said, can wake up felling pretty tired. there is another pharmacy brand similar to restavit that works well too, jus cant remember the name of it.

[Turboesky]

Tried restavit but used to suffer from the sleep hangover as mentioned above.

Stilnox used to work awesome for me when doing nights. Just make sure you go to bed straight after taking them. i waited about half a hour once and could barely climb three stairs to get to my room.

And don't take too many as Heath Ledger found out.

[PHIL]

bed at 8:30 9 pm, up at at 2:30am. shit house but pays bills

[turboknapp]

When working in Perth aim for round 9:30/10 for a 04:45 wake up

Site in bed at just after 8 for a 04:00 wake up.

Wkends well depends on how many firebugs or drunk drivers are around, that entails on how often the bat phone goes off disturbing sleep