I am alseep on the sofa every night by about 9.15pm - sometimes earlier.
I'm get up at by 7am even at the weekends, sometimes earlier. I feel fine all day but every night I just can't keep my eyes open from 9pm! I then wake up about 3 hours later and go to bed.
It's really annoying that something suddenly shuts down after about 9pm and I'm just shattered. I dont have kids or work ridiculously long hours or long journey.
Anyone else have the same problem as it's getting to the stage where I dont like giong out int he evening coz I'm so tired after 9pm! Also means I dont have much of an evening - and very sad as I'm not THAT old!!
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But as Thomas says, might be time for a trip to the GP if you can't get by with less than 10 hours sleep (9pm - 7am) and there isn't an obvious reason like alcohol/heavy exercise/some already-known medical condition
I very farely feel tired during the day or in the evening, even though I'm up fairly early in the morning.
I'll be sitting on the sofa, feeling fine and suddenly I'll just zonk out - no warning, no tiredness or that feeling of trying to keep awake - It's just like an off switch.
I'll wake up a few hours later and go to bed.
I'm sure I just need to try and re-train my body clock, but it's so frustrating. At least if I started to get that nodding-head feeling, I could make the decision to go to bed, but I've usually zonked out before I know it.
J.x
Worth a try?
I get up between 4.00 and 4.30 to go to work (in London) and at weekends normally up around 6.30-7. I find my 'sleepy time' is around teatime, but usually get a second wind at 8-9 o'c - thats if i'm out.
Otherwise try to get to sleep by 10.30, apart from those nights out when I don't roll in until 1am.....
I better somehow reverse this sleeping pattern cos I'm back in work on Monday. Groan!
I've tried regulating my sleeping hours by getting up the same time each day (work from home so have the choice...) and determindly staying upright and not laying down on the couch. I just got very tired... I'm finding the best for me seems to be to get up early some days, and some days allow myself to sleep in.
There is a theory that it's normal to have a sleep early afternoon time. I'm just putting it down to getting old: my mum always tries to get a nap in. I don't find it fits my schedule myself though.
I'm good with getting up at the same time every day (7am - even on weekends). Occasionally it's 6am but I like getting up early if I havent got to go to work!
Yes it's really annoying when you fall asleep watching something you wanted to watch. I've been doing this for years so very hard to break the pattern. I dont always zonk out - do have warning of feeling sleepy but just can't face getting up and cleaning teeth scenerio at that stage. Not that it's any better after 3 hrs sleep on a 2 seater sofa waking up with an achy back!! Programme with adverts are the worst as I just tell myself I will 'rest my eyes' during the ads which is lethal! ZZZZ
I just wondered if there was anyone who used to do this who now has stopped doing it and how they did it?
Like you, I'm trying desperately to break this habbit, not least because it is really annoying to just zonk out in the middle of a programme I was watching, wake up 4 hours later and find I've missed the end of the programme but also have a load of jobs I had intended to do before bed. Plus my electricity bills must be much higher than they need to be with half the lights in the house blazing away til the early hours.
I've tried setting an alarm clock so that, when I do fall asleep at least it won't be for too long, then I can get up off the sofa, finish the jobs I neede to do and get myself to bed properly. Trouble is, I'm such a deep sleeper the alarm clock has no effect at all and my body clock just wakes me up when it decides it wants to.
I think I do get plenty of sleep, it just happens to be on the sofa rather than in bed!
J.x
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you're meant to go out in the evenings to see people or do things because you enjoy it! if you don't, you don't have to go! if you're sitting in front of the TV, you're not really missing out on any social interaction or much else, so if you'd rather go to bed, then do!
if you zonk out in front of a programme when you weren't feeling tired before, maybe that says that the show wasn't as good as you thought it might be!
anyway, time is completely arbitrary anyway - the particular time points you happen to be awake between aren't moral issues - no need to feel sad or weird or need an excuse not to be out/up!! (saying that, i still have an irrational compulsion to only set alarm clocks for multiples of 15 minutes. i mean, 6:23 - what kind of time is that for getting up?!!)
I’m 50 years old, I get up every morning no later than 5am start my journey around 5.30, I try and fit the gym in between 6am and 7am, start work at 7.30 am and usually get home around 4.30pm, 6 days of the week. I make dinner and have a a glass of wine or two, then it’s lights out for 7pm, near enough the same time every day of the week, my nights are non existent, I always fall asleep on the sofa, it doesn’t matter if we have company in, I just zonk out, Recently I fell asleep standing up in my kitchen! Hence the reason I’m trying to find out if there is a cure for this!
I'm up generally by 4am to travel in to work and I don't actually get home until gone 7pm. By the time I've made dinner and eaten it, normally by 8:30pm, I'm dead to the world. The other week I played the same 5 minutes of a film three or four times because I kept falling asleep watching it. The bugger comes at the weekend when I still wake up before 4!!