I woke zero times per night in my first two decades of life. Then once a night in my twenties, now twice a night in my thirties.
There were a few nights when the baby was young and my husband was on baby duty for the night–from the guest room–that I slept through without waking up once. That was awesome.
I almost never wake up during the night. I have a hard time falling asleep and I have a hard time waking up, but once I’m asleep, I’m going to stay asleep unless someone wakes me up. I often wake up and find that there is a child and three stuffed animals in bed with me that weren’t there the night before. I sleep soundly with cats draped over me and pointy little kid elbows in my back. On the very rare occasions that I do wake up, I hate it because it means that I am going to spend two hours being an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac before falling back asleep.
I think I wake up about every 1-2 hours. Joints get stiff and when I shift during sleep the pain wakes me up, I move around a bit and get more comfortable and go back to sleep. I never get up to pee.
Before getting pregnant I was one of those people who went to bed at about the same time every night, slept straight through, and then woke up 5 minutes before the alarm was set to go off.
Now? Minimally, I’ll get up 2-3 times to pee on a good night, but I usually wake up a lot more than that to readjust and stay comfortable. I’m trying to think of it as training for a baby.
Usually once, typically right before dawn (which means I get 5-6 straight hours of uninterrupted slumber).
Usually once, to pee. I don’t usually look at the clock, so I don’t know how much uninterrupted sleep I get on either side of the bathroom trip, but I’m a darned good sleeper, so “enough,” anyway.
Same here. Sometimes I do try to fight it, especially if it’s close to wake-up time. But if it’s at 4 AM or something I hop out of bed, do my business and get back to sleepin’.
A few times per night, usually, I am awake enough to look at the clock and calculate how many hours I have left to sleep. Occasionally (once or twice a month) I will sleep all night without any conscious awakening. I never get up to pee.
Nearly never. I rarely even have to pee in the middle of the night (which, for a 46 year old guy, is pretty good).
My wife gets up several times during the night, but I manage to sleep through that.
I wake up rather a lot. I guess 4-8 times most nights? I remember waking because I always check the clock. Then I go right back to sleep, probably within 5 minutes. This happens mostly in the later AM hours - most days I first go to sleep around 11 or 12, I rarely remember waking before 3AM but wake regularly the rest of the morning. I always open my eyes and feel more alert than usual around 6AM and stay awake for 10-15 minutes debating getting out of bed - but it almost never happens. I should go to bed a bit earlier and attempt to make that a regular wake-up time. As it is, because my schedule is very different day-to-day and week-to-week, I get up anywhere between 5 and 9.
I can’t remember ever having to get up to pee when I am sleeping. I also never wake up and then can’t fall back asleep.
I sleep until I wake up, and I do both easily (rarely have trouble sleeping and am wide awake when my eyes open). I don’t know if this is aided by the fact that left completely to my own devices I only sleep about 6.5 hours (I always wake up before my alarm and this regularity is kind of annoying on weekends when I still wake up at 5:30 in the morning and it will be approximately five hours before my wife wakes up because she only sleeps 6 hours a night during the week, but really wants 8 and catches up on the weekend).
If I don’t pee before going to bed I might wake up in the middle of the night but then go right back to sleep. I also never remember dreams and the concept of knowing how many REM cycles have passed is unknown to me.
One thing that amuses my wife is that once asleep I am out like a log. She can toggle lights, do whatever on the bedroom TV, run a blender next to my pillow and I’m still out. But if she whispered my name with a concerned tone, I’m awake.
I also don’t seem to move much in my sleep though I can’t be sure of that. I get the right 2 feet of our queen size bed. I go to sleep on my side facing the outside and that is almost always where I am when I wake up (but there are pretty extreme exceptions, once I woke up with clothes on I hadn’t worn to bed with my head at the foot of the bed).
This book says it’s normal to wake up at night, this says you should sleep through the entire night. I have no idea who is right but I tend toward the first one since I usually wake up a few times.
I wake several times a night. I generally get a solid two hours’ sleep to start with and then wake about every thirty minutes after that.
Time was I could sleep fourteen hours straight. I pine for those days.
I wake up many times every night. I’m pretty sure I have sleep apnea because I’ve been told I snore like a freight train and sometimes dream I’m holding my breath to keep from drowning in a tidal wave. If I manage four hours without waking up it is heaven. And rare.
I almost never wake up and remember it. If I do, it’s usually a half hour or so before I get up, and I roll over and go back to sleep for a little while.
If left to my own devices (i.e., no kids coming in to wake me up), I’ll wake up once, close to when my alarm usually goes off (so generally I wake up at 5 or 5:30 when my alarm goes off at 6), wondering why the hell no kids have woken me up yet. I’ll consider going to check on them, then realize that if I do, they’ll wake up, so I go back to sleep or pee then go back to sleep.
Far too often.
On bad nights, I call it “the spin cycle”. Wake up, roll over, go back to sleep, wake up 3-10 minutes later, roll over, go back to sleep, repeat all fucking night long.
Three times, on average.
I’m a horrible sleeper. Wake up several times every night. My animals often get me up. Also I tend to eat later in the evening and drink beer, both of which compound the problem.
So there are things I could do to make things better but I can remember when I used to fall asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow and not wake up untill the alarm had gone off for a couple minutes.
God on ya, t-bonham! At least SOMEBODY understands the rules here.
And, being 82YO, a trip to the bathroom is guaranteed at least twice a night.