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Also, young cats seem to be more active at night.  As they get older, they seem to relax for more of the night.  At least that was true with my kitty.  When he was super  young, he would drive me crazy at night playing.  But towards the last years of his life (by the time he was 2 years old), he was content to just cuddle up and sleep with me at night. 

my cat has also relaxed since she was a kitten (she used to run around the apartment ALL night) not its a few hours but doesn't bother me. she is an indoor cat so we never have to let her out but i would recommend getting a kitty litter box for inside anyways 

My cats don't sleep all night but they do sleep for a big part of the night.

I think the cat door is a good idea or getting a litter box so it doesn't wake you up to go to the bathroom.

The other thing I suggest is wearing your cat out before bed. I play with Bruno and Mishka for a half hour to an hour before bed. I usually use a laser pointer becuase they go crazy chasing it. After half an hour they are exhausted. Then I brush them so they relax andgo to bed.

Mishka usually sleeps for most of the night in his bed but Bruno likes to sleep in bed on me (yes on me, I sleep on my stomach so he curls up on my back and just sleeps there till I stir).

Usually after all that playing they sleep for a couple of hours.

every cat is different and everyone has its own personality... i have 2 cats, brother and sister...they usually sleep through the night, but if they sleep during the day, they can get really annoying at night i.e chasing eacother up and down the stairs, making noises and begging for food like at 3 am lol.

i think it is up to you whether you are okay to leave your cat outside at night or not.. of course if you leave your cat out for the night you will get more sleep, but i consider my kittys as babies so i wouldnt never let them out cause im scared anything could happen to them.. if you decided to keep your cat inside lock him up in the basement or a different room with his litter box, food and toys, and hopefully it wont make too many noises. doing this could help your cat understand that at night time he needs to go in the basement and sleep. it is true that when cats are younger they are more hyper than when they become "adults"; it is only matter of time before the cat will understand who the boss is and the house rules... 

when my cats wake me up in the middle of the night for whichever reason, that could be chewing lamps cords and stuff, i usually spray them with a water spray bottle that i keep handy on my night stand, as soon as they hear it they run away and they leave me alone for most nights... ignoring the cat is a good option too, eventually he/she will stop meawing and leave you alone.... my cats know the drill now... they are not allowed to sleep anywhere on the bed but by my and my husband's feet (and im sure they get some pretty kicks in their faces too lol but they never move)

good luck to you! 

Cats have pretty irregular sleep cycles. I have just one kitten now, but grew up with a LOT of cats in the house, and they often slept part of the night (at opposite times as the other cats...).

With mine, she gets intensely hyper when I go to bed, and so I've tried different things like playing with her a lot to tire her out to try and avoid some of the middle of the night visits. I think because she's still a baby it doesn't always work very well - she sleeps usually from about 11/midnight to 3 or 4am, but then decides to come visit me and play and snuggle. If you ignore them, they generally will go back to sleep and let you sleep, too.

If she's waking up to have a specific need fulfilled - going to the bathroom, needing water/food - you might want to think about setting something up so she can take care of it herself. If you're comfortable with her going outside, you could consider a cat door, but you may want to just set up a litter box (she will learn to use it pretty easily). My kitten has access to her litterbox, as well as a full bowl of water and food and a number of her 'quiet' toys to play with at night if she really wants something to do. Most of the time though, she'll wake up, do whatever she needs to do, and then come to me to cuddle until she falls back asleep.

I have no idea how, but our cat sleeps when we sleep. We got her at the shelter, and we placed his satin pajamas in a box that she seemed to like sitting in and sometimes napped in. We put the box upstairs next to our bed.

We also say, "Toffee, bedtime!" before we shut the lights. I think that somehow preps her to know that it's time to sleep. Sometimes she doesn't sleep, but sit in the box until we're asleep! Then she goes downstairs to play quietly to herself.

But we've gotten her a felt hut afterwards, and transferred the satin pajamas in it. When we're pulling our covers over us we could see her shadow leaping into the hut. We've also discovered that she is enemies with Snoopy. I have a Snoopy plush that I got for my FI. We used to place him next to her to give her comfort when she was a kitten, but now she sees him as a rival!

She beats him up and drags him around. What's even more funny is that if we leave him in her hut, she'll drag him out and push him down the stairs! We tried using a different stuffed toy, but she seems to have some animosity towards Snoopy!