What time do you go to bed and wake up currently?

SLEEPING AND WAKING

As an advancing septuagenarian, I find there are two kinds of sleep. The first is that sleep one has at night when going to bed and then waking up again the next morning.

I try to go to bed by about 1030 each night and aimto wake up and get up about 7 am the next morning. Sometimes the latter does not succeed in coming to pass but it often does. The exception is that on Thursday mornings with the rubbish trucks coming by our place from 7 am (we are the first in line for pick up) On Thursday’s I jump out of bed at 6:30, get the bins ready and put them out. Putting them out and leaving them overnight might make sense, excepting for the fact that dogs and people can come along and go through bins, pulling them over and strewing rubbish all over the road.

Being old, however, and retired, I find that there is another sleep pattern that creeps up on me. It usually happens after lunch when I’m sitting, having eaten and watching the news on TV.

All of a sudden I can wake up and find it’s two hours later. After dinner at night, the same thing sometimes happens if I’m watching a program.

During my scheduled night time sleeping, I often dream; it is rare if I don’t and many of my dreams are very very vivid and remembered the next day. The majority of my dreams focus on fixing up schools where I’ve been asked to go in and tidy things – as was the case on occasion during my professional life as an educator. There are other dreams as well that stand out. No night goes past when I don’t dream.

Juxtapositionally if I doze off during the day as described I never dream.

So I suppose you could say I have a double approach to sleeping but sleep is important.

As a young man, I could skip sleep and had to at times in the interests of work and professional development – but that’s another story.

As an old man, I can assure all readers that sleep is critically important. I could no more go without adequate sleep than flying in the air.