Do you go to bed....

[Micca]

Do you go to bed at a specified time, or when you feel tired? I know that if I'm not asleep by a certain time, I will feel it the next day. Sometimes though I am just not ready to go to bed. What works for you?

 

[paigevz]

I absolutely, positively MAKE myself go to bed by 1:00.

 

[Philadisney]

i try to go to bed a minimum of eight hours before i have to wake up, but that doesn't always happen because i just do not get tired and i often find myself tossing & turning for an hour trying to fall asleep. i would like to hear any tricks people might have! i have tried drinking herbal tea before bed, sometimes i take a tylenol PM if i am desperate but obviously that is not something i wish to make a habit of!

 

[Spoodleink]

I have had problems with insomnia for a long time. I go to bed when i am tired. If i dont i will just lay in bed and not sleep. One of the "tricks" to sleep easier was to only sleep ( and one other thing )in bed so your body asscoiates it with sleep. If i am not asleep in 1/2 an hour i get up out of bed and read on the couch until i feel more tired.

 

[momrek06]

I absolutely, positively MAKE myself go to bed by 1:00.

ABSOLUTELY BY 1:00AM...ME TOO, PAIGE!!!!

Some nights I say I will get to bed by 11pm but never happens...my days are so wicked long. DH and I are both up until 1AM!!!

We thoroughly enjoy watching Jay Leno and some nights we say we will only watch Jay's monologe and then we end up watching the entire show and a bit of Conan!!!

 

[Serena]

I need a set time.

 

[paigevz]

My dh is usually in bed about 9, when the kids go down. That time period from then until I go to bed is the ONLY time I can get the TV remote. I usually watch Iron Chef and the Betty Crocker Bake-offs and the Sci Fi, History and Discovery Channels!

 

[Aidensmom]

Kind of both. I go to bed when I am tired, but if I have not gone to bed by 1 am on a weeknight, I make myself go to bed so I can get up in time to take DS to school and get to work.

 

[tmt martins]

I'm always in bed it my little cave . My computer is her and the monitor slides out over the bed just off the TV . I can watch TV and Dis with no problem. I have a cordless mouse and keyboard .

I just love my select comfort bed so much I can just sit in it all day.

As far as sleeping I go to sleep when I'm tired but always wake between 6:00 and 6:15 reguardless if I have to or not . If we aren't doing anything on weekends I can go back to sleep around 9:00 or 10:00 for a bit longer but thats it.

Nothing for me to be up until 3 or 4 on any given night and always past 11:00 or I will get up in the middle of the night.Around mid-week I need to take a small nap when I get home from work.

 

[Saffron]

It depends on if it's a week night or the weekend.

 

[aprilgail2]

Depends on what is going on that day..but I go to bed and watch TV eventually and fall asleep with the TV on, can't sleep without it on.

 

[lovesmurfs]

11:00-11:30 most nights. When DH is out of town, I stay up later.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I get into bed, but I don't turn off the TV until after I've fallen asleep. I find it very difficult to just go quiet and sleep, so I put on Whose Line Is It Anyway and/or the religion channel and close my eyes. I'll usually fall asleep eventually and then wake up for a few seconds, maybe 15-20 minutes later. That's when I turn it off and go back to sleep for the night.

 

[pearlieq]

I usually wind up in bed at the same time each night--sometime between 10:30 and 11:00pm. Not coincidentally, that's when I'm tired. My rhythms are pretty consistent.

The older I get the more regimented I'm becoming about sleeping. I used to be able to sleep in until noon on the weekends, now I'm rarely able to sleep past 9:00am.

 

[candykisses]

I go to bed when tired. During the week I won't stay up later than 1:00. I always put a DVD in, but I'm usually asleep before the opening credits are done.

 

[LoraJ]

I go to bed when I am tired. Otherwise I will toss and turn for a long time and disturb DFi