68. I am a night person so I will be much different from others. I stay up until 2A or 3A watching old movies, reading, etc. Sleep pretty well until 10A or 11A. Then do stuff during the day. Take a nap sometimes in late afternoon.
As a kid, I would come home from school and go to bed and be up by 8P and awake most of the night. Drove my parents nuts!

I’m in bed by 10:30 pm. Read for a while before stuffing my Kindle under my pillow. Up at about 3 to pee. Back in the sack until 6 - 7 am. No daylight savings here so mid-day seems to come at about 6 am. I'm 74 years old.

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Almost 70.
Bed @9:30-9:45.
Up @ 6.
Dead people only ones that sleep better than me.

Turning 60 next month (how did that happen?). In bed between 9:30-10pm and up at 0500.

66 years young. Go to bed most nights around 01:00, get up at 08:30ish.

If I have a meeting or work the next day, go to bed earlier. I was born a natural second shifter and at this point of my life can pretty much live like one.

Not many night owls here but I am one of them.

Retired 68, my favorite regimen is 1-ish to about 9. I get up earlier to play softball in a senior league this time of year. Get up once about half the time, secret is to stop snacking and drinking at least an hour before turning in.

63. In bed between 10 and 11. Up at 5:45. During the weekend usually wake up at the same time, but I'll go back to sleep until about 8. Up once a night to pee.

67. Normally in bed at 9, up between 4 and 5 every day. Houseguests disrupt the evening routine but not the morning. I just like getting up early to enjoy the hour of two of solitude until the wife and critters get up.

49 years old. Usually in bed at 10 pm. Up at 5 am. (Current sleep schedule below)

As to what tatortodd was saying, I know I have sleep apnea. I was diagnosed years ago and couldn’t afford a cpap. Not really in the budget now. My wife says I stop breathing and gasp for air constantly. It’s to the point she stopped worrying about it. So I wake up every few minutes, all the while I am sleeping.

Then I hurt my back at work in May. Waiting to see a back and spine specialist. Appointment is July 9th.

Now I go to sleep at 10. Up around 1 am to stretch and heat the back with a heating pad. It relieves enough pain that I can go back to sleep around 2 am and sleep until 330 or so.
I have been surviving off of around 4 hours of sleep a night. I feel like Tyler Durden in fight club when he is asking the doctor for sleep meds.

I travelled to Boston on Wednesday night, 10 pm -6am flight. Didn’t sleep at all. Took a three hour nap Thursday morning. Last night I slept from 10 -130, then from 2-5. It’s the longest I have slept in over a month. I feel pretty good this morning.

55 and I go to bed normally between 2100 and 2130 and get up between 0300-0500. I never use an alarm, I get up on my own. I rarely get the full 8 hours and I rarely make it thought the night without walking up a few times. Even when I feel exhausted I will sleep a max of 8 hours. Melatonin and magnesium do not help.

I’ll be 52 in a couple months. Average is bed between 9-10pm and up 5:30-6:30am. Varies due to work schedule some days.

67 today,
10:30-11:25 .

Sleep to 4:45 most days

A great night is 6.5 hrs.

If you get a chance to move next to a cemetery, I highly recommend it.

80. In bed by 9:30, up at 5:30 to walk my dog. Then I lay down and get really up at 6:45.

40, typically 11 to midnight. I get up for work at 0630.

42, in bed by 20:00 up at 0345 for work or 0415ish for weekends.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
As to what tatortodd was saying, I know I have sleep apnea. I was diagnosed years ago and couldn’t afford a cpap. Not really in the budget now.

Long story short, if you're interested I'll instant karma you a CPAP that I received brand new on Dec 30, 2021, and only used 12.5 months (i.e. conservatively should have 4 years left on it).

Long version, I started out in 2007 with a BiPAP in Houston. Got a new BiPAP in 2012 when I was living in Alaska. In 2017, I had moved to Houston for the 2nd time about 40 miles from my old house so I found a different sleep doctor as I'm not willing to drive 40 miles in Houston traffic. Anyhow, 2017 is time for my 5 year replacement so I hit up my new sleep doctor and this is when the bullshit starts. *&^% insurance company says I have to have a sleep study to get a replacement because my 10 year old sleep study has been lost (i.e. they ignore paying for new hoses, masks, filters, BiPAPs, etc repeatedly for 10 years). New sleep doctor orders a 1 night sleep study where half the night they evaluate my apnea without a CPAP and the 2nd half of the night they optimize the pressure settings. *&^% sleep clinic doesn't tell me until I'm hooked up to all of the *&^% sensors that they have a BS policy of having to get so many hours of sleep without the CPAP before they'll switch me to the 2nd phase (i.e. only under perfect circumstances will it be 4 hours without CPAP and 4 hours with a CPAP, and it's possible to have a study lasting 8 hours without a CPAP). I struggled to stay asleep since I hadn't slept without a BiPAP for 10 years and I supposedly didn't get the requisite amount of CPAPless sleep until 30 minutes before discharge time. New sleep doc uses that piece of shit sleep study to determine that I only need CPAP, and despite my best efforts won't prescribe a BiPAP. Low and behold, I'm only getting mediocre sleep quality with a CPAP, the Phillips Respironics recall happens, and my CPAP is part of it. Eventually, my replacement Phillips Respironics CPAP arrives on Dec 30, 2021. December 2022, I talk my sleep doctor into a new sleep study and this time it's 100% focused on finding the right pressure instead of reproving I have sleep apnea. Low and behold, the right pressure is different for inhale and exhale so he writes me a prescription for a BiPAP (I might have snuck in an "I told you so" or two ). I received my new BiPAP in January 2023. In other words, I only used a higher end CPAP with auto adjust for 12.5 months and it's been sitting in my dresser drawer ever since.

Happy birthday Bendable!


For all you folks “waking up” 2 or more times a night to pee - are you actually making any significant amount of urine? The reason I ask is if you haven’t been tested you might want to see if you have Sleep Apnea.

Frequent nightly bathroom trips are a sign. Don’t ignore them - you aren’t necessarily waking up to pee. You may be waking up due to the SA and our bodies are programmed to void our bladders when we wake up.


Before CPAP, I was up 3-4 times a night and most times couldn’t fill a shot glass.



As for the question of this thread…


I am 61 and since I returned to work I am in bed by 2130 to be up at 0500.

If not working the next day, usually out by 2300 and awake with the sun or 0700ish, whichever comes first.


While on my “Trial Retirement” from 2021-2023, I was usually up by 0700, took a 2 hour nap 3-4 days a week, and in bed between 2200-2300. I’ll probably return to that routine upon my re-retirement in a few weeks.

74, bedtime is usually about 8:30PM, more because of fatigue rather than sleepiness, but can sometimes be as late as 1:30AM if I am engrossed in something, reading, coding, listening to music, etc. Up usually about 8:00AM, but it can be as late as 2:00PM. I get my best sleep in the last few hours before getting up, after my wife leaves for work (she's got the Jimmy leg). The first few hours of bedtime are occupied with various thoughts, mostly about how much "stuff" I have to do around the house, etc. Clark reliably wakes me about 3:00AM or 4:00AM for a bathroom break, and to check if the fox has left his scent in the back yard, that's maybe 15-30 minutes and we both go right back to sleep after the drainage has completed.

68 and in bed watching a move or series with the wifey around 6:30 - 7:00 PM I like to be asleep no later the 9:00, typically 8:00. I wake up around 3:30 and on the road to work by 5:00. My coding / managing work day ends between 3:00 PM and 5:00PM. I really like the routine but the wife wants me to retire by the time I'm 70 so this will come to an end. We'll see what some traveling after retirement will do to my schedule.

82, hit the sack around 10 and up at 5-5:30.