How Long It Takes to Fall Asleep & Why Americans Are Burning the Midnight Oil

If nothing else know that if you’re the typical person – you need to get in bed about 40 minutes prior to the time that you know you need to be asleep.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Faith Freedom, Florida. This is the Brian mud Show. Have
a hard time getting sleep last night, all tired? Not me.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
You're feeling good, Joel.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I get about four hours, four hours maybe five sleep weeknights,
and then do.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Not know how you do it.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I will catch most days. I will catch a nap
an hour or more.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Sometimes that is not something I'm able to do. I
wish I could nap.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Just I have a hard time falling to sleep when
I need to, and so how long it takes to
fall asleep? And also why Americans are often burning the
midnight oil almost literally in many cases. So there's a
new study out that kind of pulls back. You might say,
these sheets on bedtime struggles and pretty interesting. First, when

(01:01):
is it that the average person gets into bed? Unjoel,
you're saying one around. I'm in bed around ten. I
would say the average person's probably getting into bed a
little bit later, but they're waking up considerably later than
we are.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Now, for you, what happens when you get to bed?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Typically, if I'm getting into bed and I want to,
I can put my head on the pillow in five,
maybe ten minutes, I'm gone.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I admire that, not the sleep deprivation on the bread
on the other end, but being able to hit the
pillow and go to sleep is something that I really
struggle with, and it turns out most Americans too. So
here's the first thing. And this goes straight to sleep
deprivation because you think about, Okay, well I want to
get x amount of sleep, and so I'm going to

(01:50):
go to bed at this time so I can get
this much sleep. Well, that only works if you're actually
going to sleep once you get in bed, right, and
so the average American gets into bed at ten thirty six,
but they're not falling to sleep until eleven eighteen, So
the average person is in bed for forty two minutes
before falling asleep. And a lot of that, of course,

(02:11):
can be you get in bed and you grab your
phone and you take a look at stuff there, or
maybe you grab a tablet and you're doing stuff there,
So that that contributes, but then you get into the
next level kind of stuff that also impacts. Get about
twenty nine percent of people to get in bed and
then they're like, oh, I forgot about this, and they
hop back out of bed. That happens a lot of

(02:31):
times chores, you know, common things, sided their laundry dishes.
Then you got twenty one percent who are kind of
intentionally doing I'm like, Okay, I know I need to
be in bed, but I'm not going to sleep because.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I just like that it's peaceful.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
People will talk about quiet at the night, so probably
people with larger families that are right. So, and then
you've got fifteen percent that admit that they actually get
in bed, but then they try to avoid going to
sleep because they don't want to get to the next workday.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
That you need to switch careers. If you're doing that,
it's bad.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Size, isn't it. That is pretty bad. It's bad.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now again, it's fifteen percent of people right there now couples,
This was interesting. We're at the point where only about
half are now sharing a bed. I found this to
be remarkable. We've seen that number declining for years. But yeah, first,
in this study, only about half shared to bed, and
of them less than half. Fewer than half said it

(03:30):
was helpful to them to sleep with their partner. Forty
nine percent said it was helpful, So a slight majority
are like, yeah, not so much.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Snoring the biggest issue.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Sided sixty three percent say snoring problem, fifty two percent
just general tossing and turning. Temperature twenty four percent of
couples cannot agree on the temperature and then mismatch bedtime
reutines twenty six percent of couples.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
By the way, that is very much me.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And I was thinking about this and the last time
that Ashley and I during the week slept in the
same bed would be around twenty twelve. We have not
slept in the same beds, and well it's somewhere only
the way, it was like, why are we doing this?
Our schedules are nowhere close to each other, And so
I say I move into the bedroom with her on

(04:19):
the weekends.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
I mean, thirteen years later, clearly it's not happy marriage.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, Ashley, I'll even tell you it might be the
key to a happy marriage.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, yeah, because you're not annoying her and waking her up.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
There you go, by the way.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Back to school also leads to fifty three percent of
people getting up earlier than they usually do.