OT - Bedtime and wake time
After reading a number of complaints from various members of the board re: the 9:39pm EDT tip time for the game on Thursday, it got me curious about everyone’s normal sleep patterns.
So, the questions are: what time do you usually go to bed, and what time do you usually wake up in the morning on a normal weekday?
I have young kids and my adult time begins after they are all in bed - usually around 9pm. I usually get to bed between 12:30 and 1am and I wake up at 6:10am to make sure the big kids are up and driven to school on time.
No kids and mid to late 30's here.... go to bed around 1-2am and wake up around 8:30am.
Edit: Holy shit, some of you guys wake up early! I feel like a bum waking up at 8:30.
38, childless for another 5 months.
Bed 10-10:30, up between 4 and 4:30, and that's every day, including weekends.
Definitely a morning person who had to nap if there are late evening plans.
slacker!
Sounds like you have an easy life...in contrast...
"I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulfuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah."
- Monty Python
My wife takes the dog out at 8:30 who then eats and sleeps until Noon. I have a 25-30 minute commute to work and don't have to be in til 10pm so, I'm definitely not complaining!
Though, that 25-30 minute commute is changing next week to 50-60 minutes two days a week but the other three I'm working remotely. Again, not complaining at all!
Fair enough. :-) Question though...is it your wife who eats and sleeps until noon or is it the dog?
Hahaha my wife does love to sleep!
One of the best decisions when training the dog was after months of early wake ups and nonstop early morning playing, one morning I grabbed her and fell asleep for an hour with her in my arms. Took one week for her to want to sleep after breakfast. Now whenever I work from home, I don't see her til noon-is because she's passed out under the dining room table.
+1 for having a dog as part of your family. They are the best.
Dang. Just about five hours of sleep a night? That's possibly not healthy.
I go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at about 6:15 at the latest.
I tend not to believe people when they report 4-5 hours of sleep per night as their usual. You could get away with it for a couple of nights but you would be a zombie after a week.
For the most part, you're right. They either sleep late on weekends, nap, or just accept their sleep deprivation as the regular state of things. There is a small portion of the population that only needs a few hours a night though. https://www.businessinsider.com/sleepless-elite-2011-4
I think it more depends on how much deep sleep you get. The REM cycle thing. You could be in bed and collectively get like 9-10 hours total, but wake up a few times and you feel like you only got 4-5 hours. Or sleep right through for 6-7 and feel refreshed.
I'm that guy. I'd say I average about 5 hours of sleep during the week, sometimes a little more, but more often a little less. I try to catch up on the weekend and get 7 - 8 hours at least one of the nights.
I'm pretty much a walking zombie until 10am or so most days.
I worked full time (with overtime) for a few years while I was in grad school. Typical work week was ~95 hours (45 hours at job and 50 hours in lab). Some weeks 90 hours, some weeks 100 hours. 4 days a week i left the house at 8:00 am and didn't return home until 4:45 - 5:00 am. Sometimes, due to stress, i couldn't sleep and would be up for 2-3 days straight. Two days a week I did either just the job or just the lab (9-10 hour days) and one day a week I had totally off. Off days I would hang out with the kids then sleep for ~14 hours.
It can be done, and for long periods of time. I just do not advise it whatsoever.
I hope your making at least 250k a year now because you sure deserve it. I work 14 days a month, all on the road and am dogg ass tired when I get home.
Apparently I didn't get enough sleep last night and double posted.
Went through the nuclear power program in the Navy and would get about 4 hours/night during the week. Didn't take long to have a negative effect.
Heck, at sea that's all we ever got. I'm sure I never slept a solid 6 hours ever while underway. Ah, good times, good times.
The experts say all adults need 7-9 hours a night and you can't bank/make up for missing that by sleeping more on other days.
I aim for bed at 230 am and wake up at 915/930 then show up to work late around 1015. I'm a very happy man with all the me time I get after the kids go to bed.
I'm also on the west coast so these 630 games are making me skip gym time which is just not healthy, I wish they were 930pst, heh.
Go to bed 12-1
Wake up 6
5-6 hours of sleep isn’t as unusual as you think and many people function on it. Age is also a factor.
Maybe at four hours, yes, but 5-6 hours a night is pretty much my norm and has been for at least 10 years. Generally in bed around 12:30 And up at 6:15 every morning.
March 26th, 2019 at 12:22 AM ^
My wife gets 4 to 5 hours of sleep at least half the week. It's true. She has a bit of insomnia but also likes her alone time after the toddler goes to bed. She is fairly miserable during those days but that adult time at night is enough of a benefit to offset things. For the same reason I haven't gotten 8 hours of sleep in about 2 years. Typical for me is 5.5 to 7 hours.
Some of us just can't help it. I've been on about 5 1/2 hours of sleep since I was really young, even during my teen years. I got used to being the only person in our family to be up before 6, and am still that way even as a parent. I can't sleep more than 6 hours unless I'm really sick; even then, it's not much more. Bed time is usually midnight or so and rise by 5:20-5:45.
You would think that I would have done something greater for humanity with so much time awake, but there's no Nobel Prize for simply not sleeping.
Probably not incredibly healthy, but I have gotten used to it. I used to get 7-8 hours of sleep a night before kids. Now I can function pretty well on 5 hours.
~1% of the population is able to gain full rest on 6-ish hours of sleep, so most of the people who claim less aren't telling the truth.
I just finished the book "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker and it completely changed my outlook on sleep. I highly recommend the book to anyone who is interested. The author was a professor at Harvard Medical School and is currently a neuroscientist/professor at Cal-Berkeley. Really opened my eyes to the impact of foregoing sleep, which is a very modern problem (he calls it an epidemic).
Sleep impacts much more than we realize, and a large portion of our society intentionally cuts it short, which is damaging in so many ways.
I try for 8 hours per night (12:00am - 8:00am), but don't always get there.
I do the exact same thing (or try to) 12a - 8p. I just don't know how people can get away with less. Also I'm 34, no kids, and i don't drink coffee. Maybe the 5-6hr a night folks just drink a shit ton of coffee.... every day?
I don't know if I'm in the 1% because I am tired often; but I am getting between 5-6 hours of sleep every night. Do people with kids just not do anything ever if they get 8-9 hours of sleep a night? Get up at say 6:30, take care of kids and get to work at 8, get home and take care of kids until they're in bed by 9. Then 90 minutes before you have to be unconscious?
Now I'm wondering if I only took those 90 minutes (less with the time it takes to fall asleep) if that would make me more insane than sleeping only 5-6 hours does. What's the key take away from the book?
March 26th, 2019 at 10:40 AM ^
His point is lack of sleep can impact your life across the board. I think the best comparison is something like high blood pressure. 6 hours a night of sleep won't kill you in a day, or even a week, but years of chronic sleep deprivation can cause many health effects. For example, some of the linked outcomes:
- "higher mortality, risk of cancer, heart disease, weight gain, rate of infection, Alzheimer’s, irritability, inflammation"
His general opinion is that while you spend more time sleeping, your wakeful hours are more productive so you actually accomplish more, not less, by spending that extra time (re: 90 minutes) sleeping. As a sidenote, he also refers to "sleep opportunity" knowing that you don't immediately fall asleep when your head hits the pillow.
Here's a decent summary of the book if you're curious:
https://www.allencheng.com/why-we-sleep-matthew-walker-book-summary-pdf/
March 26th, 2019 at 10:58 AM ^
Thanks for the insightful response. I'm a generally stubborn person so my first reaction is to dismiss this as inapplicable to my life. I'm also a scientist and thus can't ignore actual evidence that I may be doing something suboptimally, so time for a sleep-more experiment, I guess.
Goodbye reading and exercise, hello more sleep.
Edit: Update, I slept for 8 hours last night for the first time in a long long time. I feel no different. I'm sure it will take some time for effects to kick in.
Mid 30's, young kids, jobs. Kids are 7 to 7, I'm 10 to 6, but I like to lay down earlier and watch some tv.
that is me to a T
This is me.
Shoot, sometimes I start the “lay down earlier and watch tv” portion in bed after the kids go down. However, in doing that, I have fallen asleep for the night at 8pm before then I wake up at 3am ready to start the day. Feels good at the time but ends up sucking.
If you've got exercise equipment in your home, then a 3 AM wake-up time sounds perfect for getting that daily work-out done.
Kind of reassuring to see a bunch of people like me. Put the kids to bed, clean up, watch 1-2 episodes of whatever (or a game) and zonk out.
This is exactly my situation to an almost creepy degree of specificity. Get out of my head, 2Blue.
Same here. Mid 30's, boys are 5 and 2. They're in bed by 8pm-ish and up between 6:30 - 7:00am. I'm 10pm to 3:40am during the week. I get up early to work out, because it may seem counter-intuitive but working out (running / stationary bike / some weights) helps my daily endurance more than sleeping an extra hour and no working out. I try to catch up some on the weekends. Parent life man...it's all good fun!
Normally, I'm out cold by 10pm and up around 530. Thanks to a flexible work schedule and the ability to work from home a few times each month, I don't have to worry too much about late starts for games/events.
Weekdays I go to bed around 10 PM and wake up at 5 AM sharp.
I don't think I have slept past 6 AM since my second son was born 3 years ago, weekend or weekday.
My son is finally old enough to let me sleep in a bit on Sat and Sun. He always gets up at 7:30 (no matter the day or what time he went to sleep), but he's been letting us sleep in lately.
He figured out that we're in a much better mood when we get some extra sleep, and he likes to stuff his face with junk food for breakfast without having us around to stop him.
11p-7a
late 30s, 7 & 10 year old kids. I'm usually in bed by 10:00 PM and read for 30-45 minutes. My wife's alarm goes of at 5:00, so that wakes me up. Depending on how busy my day is, I will either get up as well and head to the office or stay in bed until 6:00 AM at the latest.
Young and elementary-school kids here. They are generally in bed and down for the last time around 9. Bed for me can fall between 10 and 1 depending on what needs to happen. Usually up around 7. Teach the kids to dress and get breakfast themselves.
12-7
No kids so I’m a little more flexible. I try (key word) to get to bed around 9:30 and try to get up around 4:30.
I’m 100% a morning person and have to workout before noon or I’m not going to at all, which means I won’t be working out Friday morning.
I am 1130 to 7, but I shoot to sack by 11 so I can read a bit. Kids are 5 and 3 and are out by 7.
I am so conditioned to sports in the afternoon that I can't do morning workouts. Not sure if it's mental or physical, but I suck in the gym before 4pm. I envy you, esquire.
I live in Switzerland so this is a 2:39 am tip for me. Luckily, I have taken Friday off for signing a new lease and moving... so I can watch it live.
My wife says I can watch the game and take care of our 4 month old boy since he wakes up at all hours of the night...
Hit the sack shortly after the kid is tucked in at 8:15. Out by 10:00 and usually up by 6am.
My kids are 2 and 5, and I run MGoBlog. What's sleep?
and we (as your unwanted blogchildren) love you for that
I work late-ish nights and I usually work out after I’m done with work so I get out of work around 1-1:30 AM on nights I don’t have class. Then I eat, workout, eat again, go to sleep around 4. Wake up around 11. I’m in college and all my classes are at night and I only work at night so for now it works for me. I’m trying to sleep earlier but the late tip time doesn’t affect me at all.
When I have class I still fall asleep around 3-3:30 just cause that’s what I’m used to and I usually either do homework or grind out some destiny 2 then workout late anyways.
Late 20s, no kids. 11pm-7am is my normal sleep time, of which I'll stretch to 11:30 on occasion (read: "just one more episode").
Did the whole 4-6 hours per night thing while in grad school - 0/10 recommend. Excessive caffeine makes me a miserable person (heart palps, sweaty palms, anxiety, etc) so I've found that for at least me personally, getting more sleep is beneficial to my overall wellbeing.
Will probably just WFH Friday morning to compensate for the late finish to the game.