SLEEP - when do you start, how long, and when do you get up?

I've been thinking off sleep lately as my father suffers from being kept awake as he is such a light sleeper and recommended white noise to help. That got me thinking about what white noise would OCUK submit if ever needed or branded a white noise machine. Key presses? 8 Pack pumping? Fan noises? Shop floor? Customer support? Well all that thinking did lose me 1 hour of my norm 5 - 7 hours sleep.
 
i can be a light sleeper as well, and someone on here recommended me a few earbuds from ebay, dirt cheap and they worked for me.
dont know the name just know they look like rhubarb and custard
perhaps someone else will enlighten us :)
 
When you're a child, your sleep gets in the way of your life. When you're an adult your life gets in the way of your sleep.

I try to get six hours minimum but if that goes on for more then 3 nights I get grouchy. I rarely find I can sleep for more than 7-7 1/2 hours without waking up. Sure I can probably turn over and go back to sleep but it's never as restful and deep as the initial sleep and rarely lasts for more than a couple of hours.
 
ELiTECH said:
Re-reading what I wrote, I can understand why you took it the wrong way, sorry, I didn't mean it like that at all, I wasn't being sarcastic, I genuinely meant you get a lot done. Sorry if it offended you.
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Written word can be hard to interpret, so I'm probably just as guilty as you for misreading your post. My apologies.
 
I'm normally in bed by 10pm, awake and getting up around 5:30am. I've always been a morning person and I really enjoy the hustle and bustle of breakfast time, the food/smells etc. I like to get on with the day. I'm dead after 9pm however :D
 
I'm usually in bed by around midnight and up at 7am. 7 hours sleep seems enough for me to not be tired and getting up at 7am gives me enough time to row and walk the dog in the mornings before leaving for work.
 
adolf hamster said:
dunno, guess its down to the individual to define what "worth it" means, personally I couldn't be having with that.
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It's not as if he is getting up that early really. He doesn't say what time he gets home. But whilst I do a long day, I love my job, and I do feel as though it is worth it.
 
I have a simple rule - if I feel tired, I'll go to bed, which would normally be somewhere between 22.30 and 23.00. If I'm not, I stay up and then go to bed between 1am and 2am - it's pure 'me' time ie. gaming, just generally messing about on the computer or reading.

Regarding the mornings, I have three alarms that go off on my phone: first at 6.30, another at 6.45 and the last at 7.00 - I like to just doze for half-an-hour before getting up, although just recently I've been trying to discipline myself to get up when the 6.45 alarm goes off.

Wifey is a typical "7 or 8 hours sleep or I'm like a bear with a sore head" type, so it's very rare for her to be up past 22.30

No doubt a sleep analyst would have forty fits having just read that, but it seems to work for me - although if I'm honest, I seem to go better with less sleep ... if I go to bed at 22.30 several nights on the trot, I don't feel any better for it the following day. Presumably because my body clock is permanently kept guessing ...
 
Freefaller said:
It's not as if he is getting up that early really. He doesn't say what time he gets home. But whilst I do a long day, I love my job, and I do feel as though it is worth it.
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About 6.30pm so not that long by London standards. As you said 6 isn't that early.

Likewise I enjoy my job. The kind of strategic, non repetitive work I do only really exists in Head office type locations so London is a great place for that.
 
Royal Fleet said:
About 6.30pm so not that long by London standards. As you said 6 isn't that early.

Likewise I enjoy my job. The kind of strategic, non repetitive work I do only really exists in Head office type locations so London is a great place for that.
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Similar to what I do. And London is great for it, toally agree - my commute is quite long, and get home after 7pm typically. But I don't care, I don't work weekends, and actually enjoy my work. Despite it being hard and tough at times. I can also pay my bills and look after my family - so it's kinda nice too! :D
 
Soon I'll be starting at 7am and finishing at 2.30pm, I can't wait. Pretty much flexi hours, as long as I do 7 hours a day I'm good. All 4 miles from home as well rather than the current 150.
 
I generally go to bed around midnight and get up between 6.30am and 7.30am.

I don't understand how people can wake up naturally at those times because if I didn't set an alarm I'd still be in bed at lunchtime even if I went to bed at 8pm the night before.

I've tried training myself to naturally wake up at 6.30am by getting to bed a 10pm and getting up the minute my alarm goes off but after 8 weeks of this the first time I didn't set an alarm I still woke up at lunchtime. Maybe I just need it do it for longer.
 
Freefaller said:
It's not as if he is getting up that early really. He doesn't say what time he gets home. But whilst I do a long day, I love my job, and I do feel as though it is worth it.
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it's not so much the earliness, but 1h25mins each way means you're effectively giving up 12.5hrs a week of being neither at home/enjoying yourself or at work earning money.

or in other terms, thats 27 days a year, nearly a whole month spent commuting rather than earning money or having quality time with family/freinds. and that's before you counter in the fact you're paying for the privilege of spending this time on a packed commuter train.

i realise that statements obviously soaked in my bias against wasting time commuting, but that's the numbers as to why i don't like the idea.
 
Start work at 2am every day so up at 1:15am.
Usually go to bed around 9pm, but i nap for a couple of hours in the afternoon.
If i dont nap ill go to sleep 7-8pm.
 
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