Sleeping Habits

[goldensun]

I only go bed early because i have to get up at 4 am to go to work....i need my sleep and now that my RSL is under control i am sleeping better

[Nekomata]

When I sleep it usually has to be dark, minimal noise except maybe a fan - because if I die if it's too hot I think a person or two might have a problem with that - and it's usually around 1am that I go to sleep. I don't take naps either except when I'm sick... I usually sleep in enough so naps would become irrelevant xD

[SpaceDustbin]

The first 2 really depend on how tired I am. But usually a bit of light and a bit of sound is OK. Excessive noise not so much.

And I love naps. Used to consider them a waste of time, but times change :p

[One Winged Angel]

I can pretty much sleep in any set of conditions to be honest. I prefer it to be completely dark but I can also sleep with the lights on if needed. I never have trouble sleeping and I usually go to bed about 11pm, no matter if it's a weekend or not. I can jump out of bed at 5am if I'm going somwehere, and be awake and ready to go in a matter of seconds.

[Grace Barton]

I like it to be completely dark in my room, as well as completely silent. Any noise and my mind automatically focuses on it, meaning I can't get to sleep. So I really struggle with noises in the street or when people have parties where they are loud and play music until 7am. I used to sleep with some music on low but I stopped because I was paranoid about the wasted electricity.

I usually go to sleep between 10pm and 11pm both weekdays and weekends. Sometimes a bit later if I'm watching something.

Sometimes I'm a morning person, sometimes I'm not. Depends.

I adore naps. My Saturday routine involves me going to my mother's, we go out for tea, then go back to hers for about 4pm and then have a sleep until 7pm when the evening shows start. It's bliss. Especially in winter because the heating is on and the spare room where I sleep is incredibly warm and cozy and I have to drag myself out of bed. I've been off work this week and most of my afternoons have been spent napping, which to me is a perfect use of free time. Can't sleep at work, can I? :D

[Yinlotus93]

I'm in college, so I tend to stay up late doing work or reading my textbooks. On weekends though I will stay up and play with my computer for a bit, catch up on shows, and then sleep till almost noon the next day. (precious weekends..zzzz) I am a tad nyctophobic, IDK just never out grew it. So I do panic if I find myself in pitch black unable to know what's around me and where I'm going. (and watching late night shows about murder investigations doesn't help that ^_^"")

[Tholomyes]

I put "It Varies" for both week and weekend, because I am terrible at being on a good sleep schedule. In general I'm often on one of two sleep cycles: my "good" cycle, where I fall asleep at or around 10pm, and wake up around 6:30-7:30, with plenty of time to go through my morning routine and my "Bad" sleep cycle, where I fall asleep anywhere between 2am and 5am, and wake up exhausted, and often with barely enough time to put on some clothes and rush out the door (if I don't entirely oversleep, that is). The problem is I'm naturally more of a "night person", so even though I know my "good" sleep schedule is better in a variety of ways (More sleep overall, time in the morning to brew coffee/shower/ect, no fear of oversleeping), my natural tendency is to sleep from about 4 or 5 am to noon, so fighting that is hard and it doesn't help that I've often gotten into a bad habit of overestimating how long my body can function without sleep, so if I can't by, say 2-3 am, I just sometimes decide to just stay up through the day, and supplement my lack of sleep with caffeine, and that has the tendency to either (in order from most to least manageable) a) reduce my productivity/information retention to near 0, b) give me panic attacks from the excessive caffeine or c) cause me to pass out around 5am anyway, resulting in me oversleeping.

So, all in all, I'm a bit of a wreck, sleep-wise. The only good thing going for me with regards to sleep is that if necessary, I can force myself back to a good sleep schedule on the weekends, if I have to, by forcing myself to sleep through most of Saturday; by doing that, I can get myself to stay up until about the time I'd get back from work, and from there, it's a lot easier to get myself to progressively get to a state where I sleep an hour or two later each day, until I get back to my 10pm bed time.

[anzu2snow]

I prefer it to be completely dark. Even a small lamp that's on in a different room on the other end of the hallway gets to me. It's hard to get complete darkness. I can't stand noise during it either, hence why I wear earplugs to bed. Also, Rosie, one of our cats, loves to scratch on furniture when she's done with the litter box. Great when it's at 3am. So, those earplugs are much needed. I try to go to bed earlier during the week than I do during the weekend. I don't really care when I go to bed during the weekend. It tends to be around 11pm or 12:30am. I wish it were earlier. During the week it's about 9pm or 10pm. If I go to sleep and fall asleep early, I'm a morning person. If I don't, I'm not. I'm only a napper when sick. I was brought up that when you're sick, you rest/nap as much as possible. Other times, I don't really like it.

Lately, I've been having a hard time sleeping. I'm in a lot of pain, and it's radiating from my entire abdomen and back. Hard to find a comfortable position to sleep in. So, I tend to just sit there for hours waiting to pass out. I do see a new gastroenterologist on the 20th. Maybe she'll be able to help with it. It might be related to my IBD (things like Crohn's), I'm not really sure. With whatever it is, it certainly messes with my sleeping schedule.

[.lannah.]

I usually turn on my fairy lights in my bedroom and listen to music to help me relax and wind down. Then I turn off all the lights to sleep. I also take a regular pill that greatly improves my quality of sleep. I like it quiet and on a 'normal' day I prefer to be in bed by 2100-2200, but I have shift work so it varies day to day.

[Sea Lemon]

I'm scared of the dark, so can't sleep in complete blackness - I need some kind of low light (usually the streetlights from outside are fine).

Same with noise, I'm used to living in urban environments (I spent the entirety of my life until I was 18 living directly behind a petrol garage, and my current flat is about 10 metres away from a pub), so I'm used to background noise and I find it comforting to be able to hear 'signs of life' in the outside world.

(Although to be honest, I can sleep almost anywhere and everywhere if I'm tired enough)

I try (quite often unsuccessfully) to be in bed by midnight on weekdays, but on weekends and holidays it's usually around 2am.

Mornings are evil, and I love naps more than life itself.

[Evergreen Faun]

I work shift work, so every week my sleep schedule is different. Having black out drapes and a box fan really help; I also sleep in ear plugs sometimes.

[RK800]

My sleeping situation is a little odd. I'm a chronic insomniac so I take a sedative. Also my house is small and I share it with three people so I sleep in the living room on this Japanese mat bed. As far as lighting goes I leave the TV on (cable box off so it's just a backlit black screen with that little box saying "check connection") because my 70 year-old Grandma sometimes comes to check on me and I don't want her to trip.

For sound I usually listen to ASMR stuff because I have PTSD and it makes me feel safer. Plus I'm a really light sleeper so it helps drown out distant car alarm, my dog snoring, my neighbors yelling, cars going by, etc. I usually fall asleep between 11:30 PM and 2:00 AM (weekends and weekdays), without the sedative I'll go a couple days or fall asleep at 4:00 AM and wake up every thirty minutes to an hour. I rarely take naps.

[Starbogen]

I have really fucked up and irregular habits, especially during the weekends and vacation time. I prefer sleeping with all the lights turned off but I apparently have no problem falling asleep with all of them on either, usually it's an unintentional nap but sometimes I've consciously decided to just go to sleep with them on. As for noise I don't need any, and I would dislike stuff like people sounds, but nature sounds aren't an issue though I guess the ideal would be for it to be mostly silent aside from some soft background noise like a light fan or something.

On weekdays I probably go sleep at around 2 or 3am on mondays and wednesdays but a little earlier at about 12 or 1am on tuesdays and thursdays because of my classes schedule, but the thing is that sometimes I take naps or I do homework at the last minute or sometimes I hadn't slept enough the night before so I might go to sleep later or earlier than those hours. And in weekends I really don't know, I mostly just take several short naps or a couple long naps instead of one full sleep per day so I'm never sure what time I "go to sleep" and what time I "wake up" because I can do it several times in the weekend at very varied hours. But if I had to say some type of average for when I fall asleep in the weekends it probably starts around 4-8am, though because it shifts as I stay awake longer the next day it can end up moving up to 12pm or later.

[LadyBear]

My friends know I can fall asleep with tv, music and even people talking, as long as it's loud. If the tv/people/music is in my room great, no problem. If it's background noise (like cars, or neighbours, or even a tv/family talking in another room) then no, I just can't.

Either there's a lot of noise or there's total silence.

[Nebulous]

I prefer sleeping in pitch blackness, because visual stimulation makes it hard for me to sleep - though I don't mind a tiny bit of light, so long as it doesn't get through my eyelids too much. If I need to get up in the middle of the night, muscle memory / touch / visualization suffices for navigation. Where sounds are concerned, I hate hearing myself breathing when I'm trying to sleep, so I like having some kind of white noise. This usually means having the fan in my suite running. My bedtime is 1-3 AM on both weekends and weekdays; suffice to say, I'm definitely not a morning person. :P

I avoid naps when possible, because I always oversleep during them, which makes me even more tired than before.

[Maiflower]

I'm pretty flexible on sound and light, but it's usually very dark except the back light of the building right outside my window is on (which I can't control and got used to), and my dad might be watching TV in the next room. On weekdays, I usually fall asleep around 11:30. Weekends vary. I HATE naps. I always wake up confused about the date and time, and way more tired than before.

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