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View Poll Results: What Time Do You USUALLY Get Into Bed?
Before 6 p.m. 0 0%
6:00-7:00 1 0.78%
7:00-8:00 1 0.78%
8:00-9:00 27 20.93%
After 9:00 100 77.52%
Voters: 129. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-09-2018, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Western Colorado
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I go to bed when I am sleepy. It varies. Since I am retired, there's time now, time enough at last.
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Old 09-09-2018, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Middle of the valley
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I've been the same for decades.

I go to bed around 8pm and read for a couple hours.

I get up around 5-6 am naturally. If I go to bed at 2am...... I still get up around 6am.
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Old 09-09-2018, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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In bed before 10:30, up at 5:45.

On weekends I'm often up till 1:00 AM and wake up around 8:00.
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Old 09-09-2018, 09:22 PM
 
Location: Southern MN
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I'm so relieved not to have to follow schedules anymore. I've always despised having to live by a clock.

Most of the time I go to bed between eleven and twelve. Then there will be that occasional night when I'm tired out and go earlier.
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Old 09-10-2018, 05:59 AM
 
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Those poll options are awfully limited and skewed very low. Average bedtimes for adults are 10-12, roughly.
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Old 09-10-2018, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Verde Valley AZ
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Another thing they say old people do earlier and earlier.

Being unemployed right now I stay up pretty late. Working I was in bed by 10 PM but now I'm sometimes up till 12-1 AM. And sometimes it depends on whether I've had a nap that day. My naps usually last several hours. Never been a 'power nap' person. Yesterday I managed to 'sleep in' till nearly 7 AM...unheard of for me!...then a 2 1/2 hour nap and still in bed by 10:30! Not really a 'normal' day these days.
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Old 09-10-2018, 08:48 AM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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At 66 I go to bed between 9 and 9:30 during the week, 10-10:30 on Friday and Saturday. Since I get up at 4am to go to work, starting at 6am. Bed by 9:30 gets me 6.5 hours which is my comfortable minimum. Even on the weekends I'm up by 5:30-6:00, and rarely sleep more than 7-7.5 hours.
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Old 09-10-2018, 09:10 AM
 
Location: planet earth
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I said "get into bed" because I thought that perhaps many people would go to bed and watch TV or read or whatever - didn't say "what time to you go to sleep for the night . . . "

But maybe most people do "stay up" in another room and then just go to bed to sleep.
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Old 09-10-2018, 10:00 AM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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I go to bed around 1-2 am but fuss around on my phone and then listen to the radio. I keep the radio on all night long. Have always been a night person and haven't been able to change that.
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Old 09-10-2018, 10:14 AM
 
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In bed by 9:30, up by 4:15 every day. Even though I am retired, I have been doing it for so many years, no matter what time I go to bed, somewhere just after 4 am, I wake up and can't go back to sleep. 6 1/2 hours of sleep are good for me.

It is nice being up that early as I go to the gym, and usually have the place to myself.
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