What time do you get up at?

[Flyguy330]

I worked my whole life in a 24/7/365 industry. I had a variable roster. One day I'd be working all night. A day or two later I'd be working all day. Constant shift changes, with crack of dawn starts, followed by middle of the night starts. All over the clock.

 

Now I'm retired and my greatest luxury is - a lie in. More than that is the freedom to set my own bedtime/wake up routine.

I've settled into one where I normally hit the sack around midnight and tend to read for an hour before sleep hits me on the head.

I wake most days at 0830, bit nap until 0930. I then catch up with the news of the day on my iPad until I roll out of bed for breakfast around 1000-1030.

I've been known to lay reading until 1100.

Like I said, this to me is luxury after decades of sleep disruption and deprivation.

The only drawback is that my days seem to fly by too fast. I sometimes wish I was more of a 'morning person' and was naturally waking (and rested) at 0700. I could probably get more done in the day.

But, I am what I am.

 

How about you? What's your routine?

[brianthainess]

I wish I could sleep longer, I try to put of going to bed as long as I can, say 11.30, but after I have eaten I get really tired, normally wake up just before 7am, and can't get back to sleep, if I'm lucky 7.30, if it's very overcast 8 - 8.30, even though my room has dark curtain's, raining helps me sleep, I think the latest I got up in a very long time was 8.40.

 I don't like to lay in bed awake, I'd rather make a coffee and retreat to my sofa. I'm 73, and I used to have early starts for work sometimes catching a 'red eye' flight 5.00am check in,... or truck driving with 3am starts. I thought I was in luxury one time when I got a job with an 8.30am start, most jobs I had were 7 - 7.30 starts, ...aged 15, I was starting work at 7.30am. had that job for 9 years. 

[brewsterbudgen]

Bed by 9.30pm and sleeping by 10.30pm.  Wake up at 6.00am to prepare my son for school.

[Will B Good]

 

 

 

Never sleep in later than 0500......but make up for it with a mid afternoon nap.

[SAFETY FIRST]

1 hour ago, Flyguy330 said:

I wake most days at 0830, bit nap until 0930. I then catch up with the news of the day on my iPad until I roll out of bed for breakfast around 1000-1030.

I've been known to lay reading until 1100

You are wasting the best part of the day. 

 

Crikey, I've had breakfast, a dump, run 3km, had a few coffees and lunch before 11am. 

 

Whether I'm on holidays or working I'm up around 4am. 

 

Unless I'm out with the mates (seldom) nights, I'm asleep by 9pm. 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

Sunrise - most of the time.

I like daylight. 

[Cameroni]

22 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

 

Never sleep in later than 0500......but make up for it with a mid afternoon nap.

 

Is that the time the snakes wake up in Isan and you have to be alert?

[LosLobo]

 

During my 12 years at my previous job, my routine was to wake up at 6 am, drive 30 km to a 50m pool near my workplace, swim 20 to 25 laps, shower, and then grab a quick breakfast before starting work at 8:30 am.

 

Now, as a retiree in Thailand, my schedule is to go to bed between 9:30 and 10 pm, wake up at 5 am for meditation, and then, weather permitting, take a 3 km walk at sunrise, which is around 6:10 am. This time is the golden hour for me, with minimal sun and the coolest temperatures of the day.

 

Following this, at 7 am, I have breakfast, shower, perform some flexibility exercises, and get ready for the day.

 

By avoiding alcohol and coffee, sticking to a fixed routine, and maintaining regular exercise, I find that I sleep well and thoroughly enjoy life after 75.

 

[Flyguy330]

Jeez - it sounds like hard work to me!

[KannikaP]

Alarm at 05.55. News on telly, BBC,SKY, GB News. 

5hit, 5have and 5hower. Cuppa Yorkshire tea. Muesli, yoghurt, fruit etc gets me to 8.30.

Take dog for 5hit. Then the day is all mine. Correct posters on AN for finishing their Headline with a preposition.

Lunch around 1pm, sarnie or noodles or whatever the Mrs brings. TV, movies, music, baking, cooking etc until it's 5pm somewhere. Glass of the home made vino, or a Singha x 2. Whatever I want for evening meal, only small though. 8pm is Countdown time, oggle at Rachel & Susie.

9pm do a couple of Sudokus. KIP!   Rinse & repeat.

[Captain Monday]

 

Working in a 24/7/365 industry I sleep when I am tired and get as much as I can. When I am on days off my social life in Thailand is at night and avoiding the heat of the day I become a night owl who gets best rest from 4 AM until noon. Then I putter until around 4pm exercise time or cycling. I like a late dinner.

 

When in a Farangland winter I avoid the dark and get up, at 4AM. 
 

Hopefully I can survive a few more years until retirement 

 

 

[brewsterbudgen]

14 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Alarm at 05.55. News on telly, BBC,SKY, GB News. 

5hit, 5have and 5hower. Cuppa Yorkshire tea. Muesli, yoghurt, fruit etc gets me to 8.30.

Take dog for 5hit. Then the day is all mine. Correct posters on AN for finishing their Headline with a preposition.

Lunch around 1pm, sarnie or noodles or whatever the Mrs brings. TV, movies, music, baking, cooking etc until it's 5pm somewhere. Glass of the home made vino, or a Singha x 2. Whatever I want for evening meal, only small though. 8pm is Countdown time, oggle at Rachel & Susie.

9pm do a couple of Sudokus. KIP!   Rinse & repeat.

GB News?  Surely not!

[KannikaP]

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

You are wasting the best part of the day. 

 

Crikey, I've had breakfast, a dump, run 3km, had a few coffees and lunch before 11am. 

 

Whether I'm on holidays or working I'm up around 4am. 

 

Unless I'm out with the mates (seldom) nights, I'm asleep by 9pm. 

 

Please realise that we are not all like you. We all have different circadian clocks.

[KannikaP]

6 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

GB News?  Surely not!

There are a couple of tasty weather girls on it!   555

If it's not Sam Naz on SKY or Helena Humphrey on BBC, I turn over......and meet  J Arthur !!!! 5555

[Ralf001]

2.30am has become the norm for me.

 

[KannikaP]

Just now, Ralf001 said:

2.30am has become the norm for me.

 

For what, sleeping or waking?

[Ralf001]

Just now, KannikaP said:

For what, sleeping or waking?

 

There is a clue in the thread title.

 

[KannikaP]

5 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

There is a clue in the thread title.

 

OK, point taken. What do you do between 2,30am and 6 am which I cannot do. Watch telly, online friends?

OK, I am UK based so I sometimes wake up to watch Footie at 2.30, but plenty of kip after.

[rocketboy2]

About 2am every night. only ever sleep 4 hours max a night.

since retirement.

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

6 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

There is a clue in the thread title.

 

 

5 minutes ago, rocketboy2 said:

About 2am every night. only ever sleep 4 hours max a night.

since retirement.

 

 

 

A good night's sleep is an indication of good health.

If you only need 4 hours, join the UK Government, Maggie was OK? on 4.

[3NUMBAS]

Diabetes means bad sleep

[bubblegum]

When the cat wakes me, around 4 a.m. 

[Lacessit]

Normal time 6.30 am.

 

If golfing, 5 am, hitting off at 6.30 am to avoid the heat.

 

If I take a Codiphen or amitryptiline to get a full night's sleep, 8.30 am.

[KannikaP]

3 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

When the cat wakes me, around 4 a.m. 

I always thought that cats were self sufficient. Solution........get rid of the cat.

Do you really need some pussy waking you at 4am?   555

[KannikaP]

4 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Normal time 6.30 am.

 

If golfing, 5 am, hitting off at 6.30 am to avoid the heat.

 

If I take a Codiphen or amitryptiline to get a full night's sleep, 8.30 am.

Give up the golfing, then no drugs needed.

[GammaGlobulin]

All hours, and every hour.

 

No point in sleeping one's life away...

 

Sometimes, I don't sleep for days.

 

Maybe I need some good black-out shades like we had during WW2.

 

During the war, with the black-out shades and curtains, one could really get a good night's sleep, unlike today.

 

Today, you have your grease monkeys and motorheads revving their engines, or pounding on them, trying to fix them.

 

Roosters are ubiquitous, and there are also planes flying overhead.

 

So much noise.

Really pointless to try to get any sleep around here.

 

Worse than the war years......with the Allied bombing.

 

 

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

23 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

There is a clue in the thread title.

 

At what time do you get up?

[KannikaP]

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Roosters are ubiquitous, and there are also plains flying overhead.

Plain whats? 

[KannikaP]

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Maybe I need some good black-out shades like we had during WW2.

 

During the war, with the black-out shades and curtains, one could really get a good night's sleep, unlike today.

As the V2s were dropping all around!

[KannikaP]

2 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Sometimes, I don't sleep for days.

That's obvious from the times you post a lot of your rubbish.