Getting up earlier as you get older

bainbridge

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At 44 I'm often going to bed at 10pm and waking up at 5am feeling refreshed, but last night I felt like turning in for the night at 9:30 and I awoke at 4:30 waiting to start the day!

What's going on? Is this a sign of getting old?

Oh yeah and I get up in the night for a wee most nights now!
 
bainbridge said:
At 44 I'm often going to bed at 10pm and waking up at 5am feeling refreshed, but last night I felt like turning in for the night at 9:30 and I awoke at 4:30 waiting to start the day!

What's going on? Is this a sign of getting old?

Oh yeah and I get up in the night for a wee most nights now!
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Your hardly old, I feel 20 still and same age as you. More likely you've got first world problems.
 
It is not a natural sleeping pattern for me but those hours are by far the days I feel most productive and most energetic.
 
not quite into that age bracket, but i still have the chaotic sleeping patterns of a teenager, at least when lockdown removed any routine that requires me to be awake in-sync with the rest of humanity.
 
Just hit 50 last year and I definitely get up earlier now, even though I don't go to bed any earlier. I usually go to bed between 11am and midnight, and I regularly wake between 6am and 7am, even at weekends. I generally try to 'doze' a bit but generally can't do that for long so just get up.:(
 
I’ve been going to bed around 10pm and waking before 6am since I was 30~

I’m far more productive in the morning than the afternoon, and in the summer months it also means I’m not wasting hours of daylight.

I don’t see the downsides if there are any.
 
paradigm said:
I’ve been going to bed around 10pm and waking before 6am since I was 30~

I’m far more productive in the morning than the afternoon, and in the summer months it also means I’m not wasting hours of daylight.

I don’t see the downsides if there are any.
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You miss the film that starts at 10pm of course. Then stop up just to watch the ending, even though you have seen it 3 times and wonder why you are knackered the next day.
 
BUDFORCE said:
OP do you drink?

I found reducing booze stops me waking up early, as odd as it sounds.
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Definitely this, if I don't have a drink I sleep all night and wake about 8.30 - 9.00 and if I've had a few beers in the house or whatever I'm wakening up during the night and up about 6.30 - 7.00
 
Bounce said:
I always understood 8 hours as been the recommended amount of sleep?
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It is. that's a good time to sleep even getting up early one is getting enough sleep as long as they fall asleep at 9.30.

@David Flett sorry to hijack this thread a little can I get your sig moved over to my new host please? I'm going to turning off the old sig server that's all.

sigrotor.ml - you can manage your own sigs then :)
 
platinum87 said:
Time between waking up and leaving for work = time between returning home and going to sleep.

You should try that out, it is great.
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Each to their own but that sounds the same as working a back shift...so you get up and limited on what you can do because you’re waiting to go to work, then when you come home and by the time you’ve had food/wound down etc it’s time for bed
 
51 here and am late for work (7am start time) multi times per week as i can't get up even if it was to save my life in the morning :o

I also use 2 alarm clocks every morning to try wake me up but that still doesn't work a lot of the time :(
 
I definitely need less sleep at 31 than I did 10 years ago but I'm still rubbish in the morning. I'd probably sleep naturally from 2am - 10am if life didn't get in the way.
 
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