Bed time?

[jbsoonerfan]

After posting the DST thread and reading threads about what time people leave to go fishing, it got me to thinking. Do you have a "set" bed time, or a time you at least try to be in bed by? I have a hard time falling asleep so it really doesn't matter if I go to bed at 9, 10, 11, etc. I never know when I will fall asleep. I am 42 years old and spend a lot of my time on the go, ballgames or whatever. I don't have to get up till 6:45 on work days so I "try" to at least be in bed by 11:00 every night. Some nights I may go to sleep at 12:30 and some nights it may be 3:00. I have never been one to be an early riser, always a night owl. Do you have a set time that you go to bed or do you just wing it? For example, we are on Spring Break so I don't have to get up at any certain time in the morning so here I am posting random stuff on the internet. But, my wife's internal clock told her it was bed time at 11 and she has been asleep since. She will also wake up without an alarm at 6:30 in the morning and I might wake up at 7 or it might be 10 since I don't have an alarm set. 

[Bluebasser86]

Well today I got up at 7am, worked 9am-5pm, in bed by 7pm, back up at 9pm, back at work by 10pm until 2am. Hope to be back in bed by 3am and I'll be back up by 7am for work tomorrow ?

[jbsoonerfan]

1 minute ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Well today I got up at 7am, worked 9am-5pm, in bed by 7pm, back up at 9pm, back at work by 10pm until 2am. Hope to be back in bed by 3am and I'll be back up by 7am for work tomorrow ?

That sucks man. I feel for you. One of my best friends (actually my Son's step-dad. Weird, I know). Worked on a rotating shift and there were times we would go fishing or golfing together and he would tell me he got home at 5 am and slept till 7 am and we left at 7:30 am and golfed till 3 pm and he had to be back at work at 5 pm to work another 12 hour shift.

[Bluebasser86]

I'm on pretty regular hours now with my new position at work, but I sign up to work OT pretty often and the 10pm-2am is the easiest shift for me to make work so that's the one I sign up for. 

[Catt]

Dealing with severe back problems for 15 years it's a constant rotation of standing, sitting, & laying down. I can do neither one for more than 4 hrs max so I sleep when I can.

 

Before ruptured disc I was one of those weird guys who never set an alarm & never had a problem waking up regardless of when I went to sleep.

 

Raising 6 kids may have influenced that a tad!

[Jig Man]

I’m an early riser.  I’m usually up by 5 am.  I go to bed when I am sleepy.  I used to have trouble getting up until I ran a bread route that required me to get to work by 3 am.  That broke me from sleeping in.

[Way north bass guy]

I am not a night owl, never have been. Most weeknights we’re in bed by 9:45, 10:00 at the latest and up around 6:20 or so. Weekends I might stay up till the wee hours of 11:00 ?, and “sleep in” until 7:30 or so, at least in the winter. In the spring/summer I’m usually up and raring to go by 6:00 at the latest on weekends. About 99% of the time I’m sound asleep within about 5 min of hitting the pillow, and barely move till morning, except for a trip to the washroom of course. 

[A-Jay]

Hard water season, I'm usually in the rack by 10 and up at 6.

Open water - all bets are off and I'm all over the place.

I can sleep when I'm dead.

A-Jay

[DitchPanda]

I'd say normal hours would be bed by 10-1030 and up by 6. Weekends it may vary...not uncommon to stay up til 1 and sleep til 9 or 10 unless I plan on fishing early.

[padlin]

For health reasons I wake up every 2 hrs max. I crash between 9 and 10 pm, and get up for the day by 6:30 unless I'm going fishing, then it's up 90 min before sunrise. Don't remember the last time I slept past 7 or stayed up till 11.

 

[Mobasser]

I've .mostly retired now but still get up at 5 30 each day. So many years of this makes my internal alarm clock work. I'm usually in bed by 10 or so.Unless I'm going going fishing at sun up. Then I'll go to bed earlier.

[Mike L]

I’m in bed at 10 every night. 
But like @Catt because of 2 fusions I can’t lay, sit or stand longer than 2-3 hours at a time.
Doesn’t really matter tho, as nowadays nature calls about those times anyway. 
 

 

 

 

 

Mike

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39 minutes ago, Jig Man said:

I’m an early riser.  I’m usually up by 5 am.  I go to bed when I am sleepy.  I used to have trouble getting up until I ran a bread route that required me to get to work by 3 am.  That broke me from sleeping in.

That will do it, my dad had a cake route, and he was out of the house by 4 am, sometimes on weekends, and Holidays, I'd ride along with him as a kid.

As far as sleep, it's changed as I got older, but I would never go to bed until I felt tired, and somehow, I'd usually wake up a few minutes before the alarm went off, or the time I wanted to get up, I also somehow was able to know the time, usually within 10 minutes if I got up in the middle of the night without looking at a clock. When I first met my wife (who takes for ever to go to sleep, and is a really light sleeper) she couldn't believe how I literally fell asleep almost as my head hit the pillow. She says I snore terribly, I've never heard it.....  

[Captain Phil]

Sleep is very important to your health, especially when you get older.  One of the best things about being retired is take a short nap in the afternoon.  If you are going to nap, set your alarm and never nap over 30 minutes or you will disrupt your night time sleep pattern. I go to bed every night around 9:30.  I'm up at 5:30.  If you can't sleep in the middle of the night, don't get up or you will regret it the next day. Fishing at dawn is not necessary.  The best fish of the day bite between 11 AM and 2 PM.  

[Catt]

I went to bed last night at 1:13 am & was awaken by back pain at 4:17 am. I will probably take a 30 min to a hour nap at some point today.

 

The biggest help for me was when I purchased a Puffy Lux Hybrid Mattress. I have on several occasions slept 5-6 hours.

[Jigfishn10]

My day used to start on a project site at 5:00 AM and I'd be in bed by 8:00 or 8:30 pm. For the most part I've been out of the field - save for a few times where I'd cover vacations or took over for a person who quit - for 5 years now and have never been able to adjust to the new schedule.

 

Today I was up at at 3:00 AM to do the old guy thing ... pee.  

[Mobasser]

If I wake up to pee at 3:00, I might as well stay up and make coffee. I'll have a hard time going back to sleep. Some nights I can stay up later, other times I'm lucky to make it through the 10:00 news.

[Jigfishn10]

11 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

If I wake up to pee at 3:00, I might as well stay up and make coffee. 

If I did that, I'd be driving to work with yesterdays old coffee cup as a back-up or name your brand incontinence under garment.  

[Mike L]

43 minutes ago, Catt said:

 

The biggest help for me was when I purchased a Puffy Lux Hybrid Mattress. I have on several occasions slept 5-6 hours.

Interesting, never heard of that. 
?

 

 

Mike

[Captain Phil]

I suffered with Spinal Stenosis for years.  This is a common condition that causes severe nerve pain.  My doctor prescribed Gabapentin.  I take the minimum dose at bedtime and it helpes me greatly.  It also helps me to sleep.  Last year I underwent back surgery to fix this issue and am now much better.  Everyone is different, but you might want to ask your doctor about taking Gabapentin at night.

[gim]

I try to keep my core hours of sleep between 10pm - 6am most nights.  Quite often there is a football or hockey game on that keeps me up past 10pm though.  During the night the dog usually has to go out so I get interrupted.  Sleeping in until 7 or 7:30am every once in a while is a treat.  When I was a teenager I'd sleep in until 10 or 11am on the weekends, easily.  No way I could do that anymore.

 

When its midsummer fishing season, I usually get up around 5 or 5:30am so I can be at the lake shortly after sunrise.  When I deer or turkey hunt, I'm up in the darkness at 4am so I can get into my blind or stand 30 minutes before legal shooting time.

[DaubsNU1]

Wife is a nurse practitioner...and works six 12 hour days...then if off for 8 days. When she is working, the alarm goes off at 4:15 AM...I'm usually awake by then any way. We are generally in bed by 9:15-30 daily. When she's not working, I am still usually awake by 5:00 AM. 

 

Got a yellow lap puppy January 9th...he's been getting up 2-3 times a night to pee. Will be nice when I can get a full night's sleep again : ) 

[TnRiver46]

I’m usually nodding off on the couch around 9, my wife is usually waking me up at midnight saying time to go to bed. For this brief moment I’m typically unaware of what planet I’m on, but she’s telling me what to do so it feels normal ? 

[Catt]

36 minutes ago, Mike L said:

Interesting, never heard of that. 
?

 

 

Mike

 

Best $1,500 I've ever spent!

 

That's for a queen sized mattress & you get 2 pillows, a mattress protector, & a set of sheets.

 

The sheets are 100% bamboo & are as amazing as the mattress.

[A-Jay]

33 minutes ago, DaubsNU1 said:

 

Got a yellow lap puppy January 9th...he's been getting up 2-3 times a night to pee. Will be nice when I can get a full night's sleep again : ) 

Congrats !

I need pictures.

The puppy not the pee.

A-Jay