I’m pretty old (31) and I still go to bed at 2 am during the week and get up at 9:30. I have to be at work at 10 am but I’m male so I can pull it off ( 5 minutes in the shower, 5 minutes to get dressed and get myself ready, 5 minute drive so I usually still arrive at work early).
On the weekends though, I go to bed around 5 am and sleep in until 1 or 2 in the afternoon.
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Oh I so get that segmented sleep thing. It’s how I live on weekends. Nothing like an afternoon nap to fill you full of zip for a nice long evening.
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Yep, I got into that habit after my enforced retirement.
I like to call it my “Power” nap.
After this I can really get to work writing angry letters to any company that springs to mind, just for fun y’unnerstand.
Seriously now: It’s surprising how many freebies are offered by said companies after you’ve harassed 'em for a while. 
I get up between 3:30 and 4:00 every day. And I’m usually asleep at 9:00 or so. It’s mostly due to the fact that we just got into the habit of bonding in the morning before work. I take a nap every day. This is my favorite thing about getting older.
I’ve read numerous times that old people need less sleep. I think it’s because they usually expend less energy than they did in their working/child rearing years. I’d bet that very active elders prolly sleep more than the more sedentary ones.
People are different and “old” means different things to different people. My sleeping patterens have changed througout my life due to a lot of factors and I’m sure some of those changes are related to changes in body chemistry. And just like everything else human, some people’s body chemistry changes more than other people’s body chemistry as they age.
It used to be very hard for me to get going upon rising regardless of how many hours of sleep I got. I was a slug-a-bed and what time I went to bed or how long I was there made no difference at all. Now, in my mid-fifties, I wake up and I’m ready to go immediately. Again, it has nothing to do with what time I went to sleep or how long I’ve been sleeping. I’m simply “more awake” when I wake up than I used to be. I don’t “sleep in” because I don’t feel sleepy.
Crap. I nap now, and still can’t stay awake past midnight. I’m 44.
Time was I went to bed around 0300 and woke up around 11 am. I was also unemployed, no kids, and an easy class load. Good times. <sigh>
My grandmother used to sleep until noon–her whole life. She had daily help for her kids, though. No such luck here…
This is rampant agism. This board is full of rabid anti geezites. I need a lawyer.
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This is rampant agism. This board is full of rabid anti geezites. I need a lawyer.
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Help me find my teeth and we can bite them.
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Help me find my teeth and we can bite them.
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Could allus give 'em a nasty gumming
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Could allus give 'em a nasty gumming
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That’s too close to sexual activity for us old geezers.
Speaking of geezers, where do I turn in my husband on his fortieth birthday? I’m told I get two twenty year olds.
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This is the most scientific answer to the thread and is likely one strong cause according to animal research. The pineal gland secretes less and less melatonin as you get older causing sleep patterns to change as well. A few years ago, some researchers suggested that reduced melatonin secretion played a role in the aging process itself. I am not sure if that theory is currently in vogue but you can buy melatonin over the counter and it often acts as a powerful sleep aid.
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I was always told that sleep as opposed to rest was for the mind to sort out its data input for the previous day.
Higher I.Qs require more sleep(and thats what I told the police and thats what Im going to tell the jury)
Older people need more rest but less sleep.
Teenagers have lots of sleep because they re lazy little sods Harrumph.
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That’s too close to sexual activity for us old geezers.
Speaking of geezers, where do I turn in my husband on his fortieth birthday? I’m told I get two twenty year olds.
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On the other hand four ten year olds maybe ?
Stick with the geezer just in case.
'Nother geezer here. (66) For me it’s 7 pm to bed and 6 pm to rise. Sometimes with an hour or two of reading around 2-3 am. I love to sleep, and then watch the sun rise. Early morning also gives me time for hatching plots against the youngsters!
Think I’ll take a nap now…
Kids are different. Everything they eat turns into hair. We do not waste time on such trivial uses of energy.
I always figured once I no longer thought of sex I could use more energy to concentrate on other things. Any day now . It has to come.
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Kids are different. Everything they eat turns into hair. We do not waste time on such trivial uses of energy.
I always figured once I no longer thought of sex I could use more energy to concentrate on other things. Any day now . It has to come.
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I dunno. I ain’t got laid in 11 years, and my hair keeps falling out