According to HealthDigest, the average American goes to bed at 11:39 p.m. Across the globe, that time is just about the same: 11:40 p.m. on weekdays, and 12:10 a.m. on weekends.
Where do you fall in that spectrum? What time do you most often go to bed at night?
After you vote in the poll, please feel free to be more specific in the comments. Thanks!
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Now poll on when we awake and actually leave the bed.
Lol! I thought when I retired I’d finally be able to sleep later – not so! I get up at six, but I’m usually awake at 5.
Anytime between 5 and 6:30 I’m up. Even when I was working afternoon shift I got up at 6 to spend an hour with my son before he left for school.
For 6 years it was 9PM, now after 6 1/2 years it’s anywhere between dark and 11PM
9PM is bed time. it doesn’t mean I fall asleep then that doesn’t come till 10 or after.
Used to be between 9 & 10 when I had to get up at 5am for work. Now, tens months into retirement its 11 to midnight. Kept waking up at 5 am for a few months but eventually that faded away.
The earlier it gets dark, the earlier I go to bed.
10:30 pm after the news, but I always read for a bit. so answered 11pm.
Usually around 10:30, then maybe read for 15-20 minutes to help me fall asleep.
Am an around Hr. ahead but do same & read!!. Enjoy the quiet time. Called “Peace in The Valley!!
Before the wife and I retired from the insurance business, we were in bed by 10:00pm. But now we both work a mini casino. The nights we work we don’t get to bed till 1:00 or 2:00am. The off nights usually mid night.
At home, we watch TV and go to bed midnight or later. On the road we usually read for a while and go to bed by about 10:00.
I wonder if it is the time a person is born that influences their adult sleep patterns!? I was born around 2 a.m. – I am a nite person! Now, retired, I go to bed at 1:00 a.m.. Rise between 8:30 and 9:15 routinely. I have never had any problems adjusting to the start or the ending of daylite savings time. (Of course I am not mentioning the :15 to :30 nap after supper – or my recharge slumber!)
Right on ! I have worked mostly second shift, and since retiring 10 yrs. ago, it is still bed at 2:AM and up at 8:30AM. Sometimes bed is a little earlier or later (no more than an hour usually difference). If I need a nap my body will tell me. 6hrs. a night has always served me well. By the way I was born at 6:36PM. Happy Trails
Going to bed and going to sleep are two different events. We go to bed around 8pm. Maybe watch a movie, youtube or read books. We turn in for sleep at 11pm. Wasn’t sure which one you were asking about so I answered literally, we go to bed before 9pm. We have a truck camper, the bed is the most comfortable place but it’s the same habit at home.
Wife goes to bed around 10 and gets up between 6 and 7. I go to bed around 2am after I wake up on the couch having fallen asleep around 12. I get up around 8:30ish.
we both hit the sheets between 11-11:30. wife falls asleep fairly quickly whereas i’ll watch TV for about an hour. Maggie the Wonder Beagle gets me up around 7 for her breakfast. Wife sleeps till 9:30 or so
I don’t have a “set” bedtime. My body tells me when I should turn in. Being retired, if I don’t have to wake up for a particular reason / event, I sleep until I wake up naturally. I LOVE retired life! Now if Covid could be reined in, I could go back to my RV treks.
Same here, on bedtimes!
It has, start trekking. Everyone else is.
Most of the time around 10:00. But I have a book to read. Usually turn the lights off around 11 unless it’s really good then until I fall asleep.
I go to bed around 1AM I read the RV news till 11 then go to face book till 12 then listen to the oldies from your Sundays news letter then go to bed till around 6 – 6:30 AM
I chose “After midnight,” which is typically true. The real answer is when I get sleepy. Additionally the time I have to get up affects when I go to bed. Our typical time to rise is 8 or 8:30 AM and I try to get at least 7 hours of sleep.
For 48 years I worked a job that went from 7am to midnight 6 days a week (sometimes 7 days) for 3 weeks every two months, the rest of the time I worked the same job from 2pm to midnight the rest of the time of the month. Going to bed at 11 pm after I retired just seemed like a dream. And I still get up at or around 6am. But I did get 6 weeks of time off every year.
Currently (pre-retirement), I work a night shift. So it’s perfectly normal to walk in the door at 2 a.m. and finally go to bed between 4 and 5. Then sleep till 11 or 12 and start all over. I have NO IDEA what kind of hours I’ll keep once I’m on the road in another year or so. Most likely I’ll still be night-owlish, but on travel days will have to be earlier to bed & rise because driving a trailer long distances at night is a definite no.