# What time do you go to bed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 24, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756 "2009-01-24T03:37:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/21 "2009-01-24T15:10:24Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > What’s really scary is I never need the alarm to wake me up anymore, I always awaken spontaneously a few minutes before I need to get up. > > Decades of habit still cause me to set the alarm “just in case”. Me too. I woke up this morning at 5, realized it was Saturday (that’s a great feeling) and went back to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/22 "2009-01-24T16:47:14Z")
Varies wildly. Occasionally as early as 10pm. Midnight to 1am is more usual. If I’m out in the bars, I won’t even get home until 2 or 3am, sometimes 4 or 5am, sometimes crawling in at at daybreak. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/23 "2009-01-24T16:57:49Z")
Between 10 & 11 p.m. If I have nothing to do on Sunday, I stay up all night on Saturday, go out around 4-5 a.m. for food and coffee, then fall asleep when I get home and sleep all day Sunday. A hangover (hee-hee) from my days of trying to quit drinking, cause Sunday afternoons were the worst. I no longer drink, but I still sleep all day Sunday if there’s nothing doing. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/24 "2009-01-24T17:31:19Z")
On weekdays, generally between 11:30 and 11:45, but I should probably get to bed before 11:00. On weekends, usually between 1:00 and 2:00. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/25 "2009-01-24T18:06:22Z")
I try to get to bed around 3:00 or 3:30 am. I’ve always been a night owl too, and now that I work from home, I just can’t help myself. Sometimes I’m up until 4:30 am. Then I’ll rise around 10:30 / 11:00… take a nap around 3 or 4 pm, and the whole cycle repeats. The nights are so quiet and I’m really relaxed. The early morning hours (between 1:00 and 4:00 am) are my favorite, especially now that there’s a lot of snow on the ground, sometimes I’ll just go outside for 10 minutes when everyone else is asleep, and soak in the still, cold air, and how the light reflected from all that snow makes it feel like another planet… especially if the stars are out. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/26 "2009-01-24T18:11:11Z")
11:00 on weeknights is pretty normal. I’d prefer about 2AM, but I need eight solid hours of sleep, and they don’t let me stumble into work at 10:30, so… _shrugs_. Just another one of those little things in the world that’s annoying but not worth getting worked up over. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/27 "2009-01-25T09:55:50Z")
Usually sometime between 2 and 5 am. I wake up around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/28 "2009-01-25T14:12:42Z")
Noon-2 pm if I have no classes that afternoon/evening, 8-9 am if I do. I wake up at 2 pm if I have afternoon classes, 4 pm for evening classes, 9 pm if I just have to work that night (third shift). This leads to days where I wake up at 2 pm to go to school, and don’t get to bed until 2 pm the next day. Luckily, this semester, that happens just once a week, rather than two or three times like it has in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/29 "2009-01-25T14:40:04Z")
I’m up at 3:30, work a little, at the gym by 4:45, working again til 5pm, and then make dinner, do a little household drudgery, and doze in front of the TV til 9-ish, when I finally go to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/30 "2009-01-25T16:01:19Z")
I usually stay up until 2AM - sometimes I retire a little earlier if I’m particularly tired, or have some significant task to do the next day. I get up at 6:30. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/31 "2009-01-25T16:59:14Z")
I get up at 5 AM, because I need to be home again by 4 PM in order to have some contact with the wife who is at 7 hours time difference for the coming year(s). Which means I have to hit the sack by 10 PM or so. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756/32 "2009-01-25T21:51:51Z")
Usually between 11:00 and midnight, used to be 1:00 or 2:00 AM. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-do-you-go-to-bed/482756.md?page=1)