Could you go bed every night at 8pm?

I often go to bed by 8 pm, but that is my natural sleep cycle. I wake naturally around 4 am (though this week the dogs have been waking my around 3 am, they haven't quite adjusted to daylight savings time yet, lol). Even on weekends. it is my quiet 'me' time, and I am always awake and in a good mood.

I can stay up later for special occasions, but I prefer to go to bed earlier and get up earlier. I like not ever having to wake up to the shrill sound of an alarm clock.

I seem to go into REM sleep (if that is the only time when we dream) easily and frequently. No matter how long I sleep, even if it's a fifteen minute nap, even if I've gone to bed and been awoken during the night, I wake from a dream. I don't know if I have ever woken up from sleep and not been coming out of a dream. So if that's the 'good' sleep I guess I get it fairly easily.

I don't know if I could adjust my sleep habits though if someone told me that I needed to stay up til midnight every night, and sleep later, in order to get a better, healthier sleep. I do this because it is just what my body is comfortable with and what comes naturally. If I had to fight that, I think it might be very stressful and unpleasant.

Maybe adjusting your sleep times wouldn't be helpful if you were still constantly being roused from sleep. Is there a way to keep the pets in another part of the house so as not to disrupt you at night?

My soon to be 6 yr old goes to bed at 7 on school nights. My 9 yr old goes to bed at 7 on non dance nights but 7:45 on dance nights. Both of my girls will sleep 12 hours before waking.

I would love to go to bed at 8 but then I'd have no down time. On good nights I'm in bed by 9/9:30. On bad nights I'm in bed by 10 or 10:30. I sleep until 6 and then get up to help the day go smoothly.

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I think the pre-midnight thing is bunk, but I do go to bed by 8:00 every night. Upstairs at 6:45-7:00, 7yo DD in bed and me leaving her room by 7:30, then I go straight to my room and get in bed and read until 8:00. I get up at 4:00 daily, DD gets up between 5:30-6:00. The pets are your real problem (I have 2 cats and sympathize). If it's just the howling making you put them out, get a noise machine, fan, ear plugs, etc. If they'll make messes, well, I don't envy you. Our cats used to sleep in the room w/ us until the 3rd (now deceased) got senile & deaf. We carried on for a while, but in the end, we needed to be more functional than we could be with loud caterwauling in the room waking us up every night.

Some nights I could, but not every night. I go to bed at 9:00 during the week. I read until I'm sleepy. Sometimes that's 15 minutes and sometimes it's a hour and half.

I get up between 5:00 and 6:00 every morning.

Yes! I have been doing it for years. And I totally agree that I get the best sleep from 8-11 p.m. or so!!!

i would love to but my dh doesn't like us going to bed at different times so he will come to bed too and turn on the tv or try to talk to me... i have to get up at 5 for work so i need some zzzzz's

I might be able to now that I'm getting up at 5:30 for work. It might not work with the teens still being up and making noise (nothing excessive, just regular living). I usually go to bed late but I feel like I'm always tired.

No, because I get the same amount of sleep whether I go to bed early or not. We are up at 5:10 a.m. Monday through Friday.

I function well on 5 hours per night, but usually get about 4 hours on weeknights. And it's really hard on me. By Thursday night after work, I am absolutely exhausted.

I use a fitbit and an app that DH downloaded for me, to measure my sleep patterns. I figured by using two different things to do it, if they matched, it would be pretty close.

Alright it is 7:40 pm right now. I haven't cleaned up from dinner yet and I want to watch some shows I have recorded. There's no way I'll be in bed before 10 pm.

I rarely go to bed before midnight. On the weekends, I stay up until about 1 or 2.

I'm also a night owl, so it's hard for me to get up in the mornings. 

I do...almost every day. I'm a morning person   and I'm usually up around 5:00 without any alarm.  I just naturally get tired around 7:30-8:00 at night.  I'm fortunate that my sleep schedule works with the "rest of my life" schedule.

If HE doesn't like differing bedtimes then maybe HE can go to bed when you do. Sorry, but it's a complete dick move to come in later and purposely try to wake someone up just because you don't want them to go to sleep at a different time. DH stays up (and gets up) much later than me, but he comes in for "bedtime" to talk or just hang out together and read, then he gets up and goes on about his evening.