For years, I rose at 5 for work, so come 9pm, I was usually dragging. I’ve been retired for just over 4 years, and I still wake early, so I’m still beat by 9 or so. I may stay up later reading, but it’s extremely rare for me to be awake after 11.
I’m not a night person - an early bedtime suits me fine. Heck, when my husband would be out of town, I would crash as early as 8!
Who’s with me?
I usually aim for 10.
I have an alarm that goes off at 9:30 every night to remind me that I’m probably getting sleepy, and I should start winding down if I’m not already. Because sure as all get out by tomorrow at 5:30-6am I’ll be waking up, so math says I need to in bed by ~9:30 to get my desired 8 hours.
So here I sit at 10:40pm trying to get in one last post as my eyes get noticeably heavy. Dumbass!
Thanks for the reminder; it’s past my bedtime. G’night!
I’m 100% with the OP. If I’m alone, I’ll get in bed with a book/TV show as early as 7 or 7:30, with the intent of staying up until 9 or 10 but often drifting off sooner.
Some nights I’ll wake up and read in the middle of the night for 1-3 hours; otherwise I’m awake by 4:30 or 5am, ready to greet the day and start the cycle over again.
Huh. I start thinking about bedtime around 11, unless I’m tired and want to get to bed early. I also wake up later than most of you. Right now, my alarm is set for 7:30.
these days I fall asleep around 2-4 am but I don’t try to stay up if I don’t have to as that sets off my insomnia cycle which took forever to break …
If there was no work, no school, or any need for interaction, I’ve found that my natural pattern ended up with me feeling sleepy around 2am and wakeful around 10am. Not particularly helpful for normal living patterns. Still, since the real world does exist, I generally make myself get in bed (often reading) by 10pm and with luck I fall asleep before midnight. My alarm gets me up at 7:25am work days, and aches, pains and cats by 8:30 most non-work days.
You need to work a second shift, like me. I typically don’t get home until ~11 pm and need to wind down. So I’m generally asleep at 1-2 am, awake 9-10.
Oddly enough I have historically been a “morning person” in that I’m usually pretty alert and in a good mood almost immediately after waking even at a very early hour. When I was a teenager it drove my step-mother/step-siblings to thoughts of murder because I’d be naturally chatty and cheery in the early morning. Which was like a splinter in their eye 
- they didn’t really stop dragging ass until after 10.
Even now if I get up at 5 or 6 to do some photography on a day off, I’m still alert pretty much instantly and good for several hours. I just pay for it later in the afternoon.
Between 10:00 and 11:00. Even though I’m retired, my alarm is set for 7:00 am.
I get up at 9:30am every day, usually go to bed around 2am.
Even though I am a night person, as soon as I wake up I am fully awake.
I wish I could make myself go to sleep at 3:00 AM and wake up at 11:00 AM. These days it’s more like 5:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
I don’t fight it. It’s impossible.
I maybe be dead tired. I’ll have had an early dialysis but if I lay down I don’t sleep.
If I get up it stirs the pets. I end up turning the TV or computer on. Done.
It’s at the point I just fall asleep. Might be half sitting up slumped over. Light on. computer on. Glasses on.
I’m outta control.
Between 8-9 pm. Up at about 4am.
It’s weird, I work from home I don’t need to get up that early at all. No alarm or anything. I’m just awake.
Wait - how can you use retired and alarm in the same sentence? Does not compute!!
I’ll set an alarm only if I have an early appointment that I need to make (like the dentist at 7:30, tho I’m usually up and dressed by then anyway.) If I’m not being too nosy, why set an alarm when you’re retired?
I wake up at 4am, or close to-- since the time change, it was 3, and then gained 5-10 minutes every day until I was back to 4am.
I don’t know why.
I am an inveterate insomniac, and take several medications to deal with it, including 2 PRNs for times when I travel, my schedule is otherwise disrupted, or unusual stress is keeping me up.
I was going along on a combo of meds I’d been on for years, and waking up around midnight, falling back asleep between 12:30 & 1am, waking back up at 2:30 unable to go back to sleep, so taking a small dose of something-- what I took depended on how much longer I could sleep.
Then, my doctor added one more medication, and now I fall asleep almost immediately after I go to bed, and as long as I go to bed after 7pm, sleep until 4am, almost on the dot.
I shoot for going to bed at 8:30. 8 would probably be better, but just isn’t realistic; some nights it’s 9, and I feel fine the next day, but a few nights of 9pm-4am in a row, and I start to feel tired all the time.
I usually take a nap on Saturday afternoon for about an hour, but not on Sunday. I never sleep otherwise during the day unless I am sick-- in fact, the first sign I am sick is quite often napping on a weekday, falling asleep after dinner, or sleeping past 4am. In fact, on days I have to work, I set an alarm, even though it isn’t necessary-- except that 1 time in 1,000 that I’m coming down with something.
If I’ve had a hard day or have gone out and come home “alcoholically compromised” 
, I’ll go to bed as early as 9:00 or so 'cause I get up at 5 am on a work day. Other than that, my bedtime is usually between 10:30 and 11:00.
When I was younger I was a night owl.
Now that i’m an old i’m asleep at 9pm baby. Even on weekends.
Typically some time between 11 p.m. and midnight. I am up most days at 6:30 a.m.
I have a nightly routine I’ve had for the past few years. Since I wake up between 5 and 6 every morning no matter what time I go to sleep, in order to get 7 1/2 to 8 hours of sleep I now have to go to bed early.
I let the dog out to pee at 8:30 and do my evening weights. At about 8:45 I let the dog back in and give him his nightly treats and a stomach pill while I put on my pajamas, brush my teeth, and take my meds.
I’m in bed with the lights on by about 9. I put in my eye drops and either start reading or watch a documentary on TV. I usually read for about 20 minutes. If I’m watching TV, I usually doze off by 9:30, but wake up briefly to turn off the TV and the lights. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Midnight. Pretty consistently no earlier than that anyway.
I my late 20s/early 30s I used to stay up until 2, and only required about 4 hours sleep, but I typically get about 6 now