It's often said that as we get older we need less sleep and tend to wake earlier in the morning. Has anyone experience of this please? When does it start to happen? I presume its a gradual thing
It's often said that as we get older we need less sleep and tend to wake earlier in the morning. Has anyone experience of this please? When does it start to happen? I presume its a gradual thing
Poacher turned game-keeper
before 'middle age' for me: I certainly have lost the ability to sleep in late as I've got into my thirties - although it depends a bit how late I go to bed ....
Andy Robinson
Runfurther committee member
Helsby Running Club
I'd like to think that I've not quite reached middle age yet, and I don't know about needing less sleep, but I do go to bed later (normally 12ish) because I'm too busy helping tidy up the mess/piles of washing up/laundry (what a 'new man' I am!) largely caused by the kids (4 of them) and get up earlier when my 2 year old son runs into the bedroom some time around 6am and jumps on top of my painfully full bladder. If having kids is a symptom of middle-age, then you definitely get less sleep, whether or not you need less.
At 54 I reckon that I'm middle aged for sure, and I agree that I seem to need less sleep these days. That should in theory leave me more time to be active and busy through my waking hours. The trouble is that I seem to be getting more and more bloody useless at doing anything active before about mid-afternoon! I look back with wonder at the days of early starts and having the fells to myself and a few like-minded souls. These days I feel like my legs and lungs don't wake up until long after I do. Luckily headlamps make the days so much longer so late starts don't mean short days.
Survive on 5-6 hours sleep a night, any more than that and i feel crap, 12 years of working shifts knacked me body clock up though.
Hills and Guinness!
Forget to say, am i middle-aged
Surely you've got to wait till your dead before you can determine your middle age
Hills and Guinness!
43, so I guess I'm middle aged.
I've noticed that I'm getting less sleep over the last decade. The reason is Chris (8), Nick (6) and Alex (18 months)
Whats an eight year old doing, getting up at 5:30-6:00!!