How quickly do you fall asleep?

[bigjim]

I sleep well and can usually sleep anywhere, even on planes. But when touring I sleep badly if I am camping. Something I need to sort. Before I took early retirement I slept badly and suffered regular nightmares. My wife reckoned I was stressed and did not realise it. I sleep badly if I have had two much red wine [but that is a rare event] or if I have to get up at a predefined time for the airport.

 

[Andy_R]

Usually within 2 or 3 minutes for me...once i close my eyes, its quick.
Occasionally its a mare of course, you toss and turn, get jiggy legs, mind starts to go into overdrive...but thankfully thats rare.

I get the jiggly legs too, absolute mare cos you have to move them to make the feeling go away. Lasts for hours when it happens to me.

 

[Arch]

a) Comfy i am
b) much JD i have had
c) late it is

Yoda, you take English lessons from?

I generally get off to sleep within about 15 minutes, I think. On my own I sleep with Radio 4 on, so I often hear the start of the 11pm comedy, but not the end.

 

[potsy]

I sleep much better when it's an afternoon power nap, can't keep my eyes open then

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I have a baby daughter. Even when my lights appear to be on, it doesn't mean I'm at home.

I was quite the insomniac until I lived through that insane first month of parenthood, now I fall asleep reasonably swiftly and (bar the occasional nappy - baby's, not mine) I sleep very soundly. I think it's like self-defence for my brain!

 

[soulful dog]

I love my sleep (8hrs every night please!) but it takes anything from 20 minutes to an hour to nod off. Can't nap during the day either so last night when the dog woke me up at 5am being sick out in the hall, by the time I'd let him out, cleaned up the mess and went back to bed, I last looked at the clock at 6.20am and woke up 2 hours later. So I'm off to bed right now to hopefully regain an hour of what I missed last night.

 

[Archie_tect]

I fall asleep with 10 minutes of sitting down to watch a TV programme... usually read for a while before nodding off.

I was worse when the children were little. I once took them both to see a film and fell asleep in the opening credits- woke up to the closing credits... Luckily neither they or anyone else realised I'd been asleep.

 

[Glow worm]

Hopeless sleeper, only Nytol, or BBC World Service works for me!

 

[col]

Sometimes out like a light, others Im watching the clock, just depends how im feeling.

 

[citybabe]

I read before going to sleep. Sometimes this takes half an hour. Sometimes until the sun comes up the following morning.

I can sympathise with you Jo.....I know this one too well also