BBC Sleep Census 🛌

Oh go on then, has to be worth a laugh, does it allow negative scores?

Oh you lucky person, I’m actually surprised mine was so high, but I had no way of putting ‘Get up let cat out, get up let cat in, take Kate to toilet at least once’ in the break-up for overnight sleep.

Your sleep score is: 2.8 
 

What does this mean? 

0 to 5.0  

Oh dear, it seems you may be struggling with your sleep. This is common: 25-50% of us will struggle at some point in our lives. It may be that you are having difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, or perhaps even both. Or perhaps you may have trouble getting back to sleep at all after an early awakening. If your sleep score is very low, you may be amongst the 10% of people whose difficulties have become frequent and lasted for a long time (My entire life according to the specialist). You may find that your sleep problems are also affecting how you feel or cope the next day. If sleep has been troubling you for a long period of time or is causing you problems (e.g. daytime sleepiness) you should consider having a chat with your GP or doctor (Been there, done that, now have a M.A.D.)
 

Your chronotype score is: 10 

What does this mean?

4 to 11: Owl
You are a master of the evening and night, if you could spend your life getting up and staying up late that would be perfect for you! You might be lucky enough to be able to get up when you please and if this works for you then stick to it! However, forcing yourself to live a 9 – 5 life may give you “social jetlag” where your body clock and your work/social clock don’t agree with each other! If you need to get up early then do consider the impact of your chronotype on your performance. You will be more alert later in the day (afternoon), so try and avoid complex tasks early in the morning or situations that require you to be vigilant. You may also find it harder to go to bed early at night and so may get less sleep than you need on the days you need to get up early.
Don’t worry too much if you are a late sleeper in your late teens and early 20s, this is perfectly normal and as we age you are likely to naturally prefer waking up earlier.

Well that sucks, I scored 3.3. 

Gosh our Notes🙀🙀🙀🙀, that’s excellent sleep routine. 

We can only improve Duppy! Think it’s not til we do such a thing, that we realise how poor our sleep is. Mine was fine til couple of years back then soooooo changed. Normal to need less as get older, and Michael was saying on One Show it’s common to wake up at 3am for many peeps 🤷‍♀️

I couldn’t get past I’m not a robot...

then I got half way through the survey and fell asleep……..

Will post score later if it doesn’t incriminate me...

Ah glad you liked it our Jo, gosh super score 🙀👍👍👍👍, It’ll all help the science, thanks for doing it 👍👏

Hilariois Woz!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 We all know you’re a night 🦉, hope you can finish it 😁👍👏

Thanks all

5.3 for me! Really interesting, thanks for sharing it @Bev  

I scored better than I thought I would actually… 

I think your score worsens if your weekend routine is quite different to your Mon-Fri routine, apparently that can cause lots of issues for your body clock. Same goes for working shifts @Angelabikerbabe! 

It took 10 minutes to do and I ended up with 8,9. I better go back to bed!

More often than not it takes a couple of minutes to drop off. My wife once timed it as just under a minute. I come round to an extent around 01:00, sometimes, not always Nature says I need to get rid of excess water. Wake up around 05:30 and don’t like lying in bed, I find it uncomfortable.  Like everybody I suppose I get the odd night when it seems I am awake a bit bit not common. If I find I am not going off  to sleep, which is unusual, I am usually working out a solution for something that needs to be done or how to help somebody else whom I may be in touch with. My wife is the opposite! She often wakes up during the night and is awake for ages. Not unusual for she to have read The Times by 02:00!

Don’t ask me how I do it, but it’s like a switch. I am in bed this where I sleep. Bang, off to sleep I go.

On that point there is some merit in not doing anything else (other than perhaps a little exercise if the mood takes you there!) but keep the bedroom as a place to sleep. As a student I learned the trick of never using the table or desk I used for study other than for study. Everything on the desk always the same and in the same place. After a couple of days the psychology works and when you sit down to study and revise the brain says “I know why I am here” and you are in gear immediately.. There is another interesting factor for those  heading toward exams. Stop revising about 3 or 4 days before the exam. You are likely to get better results.
 

“To sleep per chance to dream.” !!

@Bev Snap! I always was an early bird and still am but I go to bed shorty after 22:00. Often I would be in the office by 06:00 sometimes even 05:00 and it was quite normal to work none stop all day. When I retired and did consultancy work for the Local Authority I got told off by it for working longer than 6 hours at a time or not stopping for lunch!  Must say working in Local Government was quite an easy life - and the financial and other rewards far far better than being self employed! Frustrating though. 

However, early mornings are a wonderful time when you have a clear sky, sun has come up, all is a fresh wonderful  green and the birds are singing. You miss all that if you stay in bed!

We have digressed but for those who don’t always sleep through the night perhaps the best advice is not to worry about it. Accept it. How many are suddenly woken by something happening to somebody else who is close to them? It does happen.

I’m not sure whether I need to get some sleeping pills or invest in some strong coffee, my score was very low….

Happy sleepy Easter to all!

@Bev LOL, They didn’t capture the fact that I’m asleep but walking around during the day!

I’m just thrilled so many of us completed it . I just posted it here as a long shot🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 really, but thrilled we could all help with the research, so thank you