bed time

[Strawbs]

I was out with some forumites last night and it came to my attention that I seem to go to bed the earliest.. Im a strict 8 hour of sleep a night girl and past 10.30 I start to get a little crabby..

Aforementioned forumites all seem to push the envelope and dont get to bed before midnight whilst only getting up slightly later than me! ::o

Am I the only one that needs a good 8 hours or are there others like me?

:))

[georgia]

No I'm the same :))

[Bellenden Belle]

I need to get to bed early at least a couple of times a week - 10 ish - but I never ever do if truth be told.

And sleeping in just doesn't work for me - I don't feel the benefit of it at all, whereas an early night will always have me waking up feeling rejuvenated.

[karter]

A good nights sleep is very important for the rejuvenation factor BB.

I too need a good nights sleep but i still think the mobile phone masts closeby are frying people brains and keeping them awake.

[Cassius]

I too am a lark - if I stay up much later than 11.00 I really suffer, and wake up at around 6.30ish not matter what.

[Keef]

I'm a late one, usually up well past midnight even when at home. I do however like to get the occasional early night to recharge.

[HonaloochieB]

As long as I get about five hours, I'm as well as I'm likely to be.

[Strawbs]

BB I totally agree with you on the recharge.. I rarely have a lie in my body just seems to wake up early naturally hence my lovely early bed time..

If I could be in bed earlier than 10.30 I so would but my better half would have something to say about it.. :( Damn those late to bedders!! ;-)

[Ladygooner]

As my mother used to say, an hour before midnight is worth two after!

[Cassius]

Sadly early to bed and early to rise hasn't made me healthy wealthy or wise!

[Hannah6_6]

Well I love 8 hours and I'm probably capable of more at least once a week! I like an early night but probably more often go to bed around 11 if I am home and not doing much. I would prefer to sleep in than go to bed early though, I hate early mornings!

Ladygooner - my mum always said that too, how can it be really true though, surely sleep is just sleep? Perhaps a ploy to get us into bed early....

[Jah Lush]

I'm a lazy git who likes to stay up late and get up late but as I get older I do find that the odd early night during the week helps my general equlibrium after too many late nights.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

[citizenED]

I am burning the damnable candle at both its sodding ends. Thats why am forever "powernapping" at my desk.

[PeckhamRose]

I need at LEAST eight hours every night.

I can only exist on less if what is occurring in the day is very exciting for example a good day of my work or a day trip, but then the next night I need more!

I HATE hate HATE early mornings, specially in this cold weather, and rarely get up before 9.00am even if I have gone to bed at 11! Friday I have to be at court in Kent at 9 and panicking already!

Really impressed at those who say they can exist on 4 or 5.

I read people need less sleep as they get older.

When does that start then; I'm older than I was!

[citizenED]

They say that Winston Churchill survived on 4 - 5 hours per night which was true except he also frequently went back to bed in the afternoons. Thatcher claimed to survive on 4 - 5 hours per night, which is true, but doesn't count on account of the fact that she was not exactly human.

[Cassius]

I hate getting up late - I always feel I've missed the best of the day. We are often eating our breakfast at 9.30 on Saturday morning having already done Pretty Traditional, Sainsbury's AND Moxon's. Then the chores have been done and the day is ours................

[Bellenden Belle]

citizenED Wrote:

> Thatcher claimed to survive on 4 - 5 hours per

> night, which is true, but doesn't count on account

> of the fact that she was not exactly human.

Mmmm, every so often I go into a period of surviving on 4 hours sleep a night. The adrenalin kicks in and I feel absolutely marvellous - and I think I'm terribly productive and performing at my absolute peak.

I usually realise about two weeks in that I have actually become absolutely barmy and could well be sectioned at any moment!

I wonder if that was the case with Thatcher....

[Ted Max]

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[HonaloochieB]

Perhaps I'm being dim Ted, but what's Malcolm McLaren got do with it?

[indiepanda]

I'm sure I would feel better when the alarm clock went off if I got a good 8 hours in first. However, I like to have some time to myself before I go to bed in the evening, and I often work late, so it's not unusual for me to only get to bed 11.30-12, and then I often read in bed, and if I get really gripped by something it might be well past midnight before I get to sleep.

I reckon most of the week I get by on 6-7 hours max, and I can still function at work on 4. Have done so on less when I've been working especially daft hours, though I can only keep that up for a couple of days before I start to get a bit dizzy with exhaustion.

[bon3yard]

Surely you mean his female alterego, La Westwood.

[giggirl]

In my 20s and 30s I needed 8 hours a night. In my 40s I can manage on about 5. Someone recetly told me that I was "getting a bit like Margaret Thatcher". That person is currently residing beneath my patio with a large bump on their head.

[SeanMacGabhann]

"I need about 8 hours a day. And then 10 at night... then I'm good"

Hicks

[lozzyloz]

I'd like 8 hours. Currently I get 2 then 4 followed by possibly another 1.

[Strawbs]

last night Mrs Strawbs was slightly poorly and was in bed super early so I was nicely tucked up in bed by 10.15pm (after wrapping her bday presents) and didnt stir til 7am, feeling completely rested and fabulous!!