If Allowed, What Time Would You Wake Up Everyday?

[Wildest Bill]

If you could sleep as late as you wanted. You know not have to go to work, get the kids ready or take out that smelly nasty garbage before the truck passes your house. What time would that be? For me it would be 9:30ish 10:00 am. I could stay up past midnight and not be tired the rest of the day after I woke up.

What about y'all?

[vanilla]

9 a.m.
Which is when my son and I would wake up during summer vacation.

[Amazing Tiki God]

It would most likely be 6:30 am. As it is now I get up everyday at 2:00 am. I go to bed at 10'ish so I'd get plenty of sleep that way.

[Wildest Bill]

Originally posted by Amazing Tiki God
It would most likely be 6:30 am. As it is now I get up everyday at 2:00 am. I go to bed at 10'ish so I'd get plenty of sleep that way.

Are you sleep deprived. Sheesh how can you operate on 4 hours?

[Barbarian]

Yesterday I work up at 8:52 pm. The day before it was 9:24 pm.

I'd like to wake up a little earlier than that.

[Eonwe]

how about, "if you could get up as early as you want?" I seem to have a problem that no matter when I go to sleep I can't seem to get out of bed before 10ish without an alarm. Seriously, I could go to bed at 11 and not get up until 10. If I could I'd get up at 6AM, so I could have breakfast and read the paper in the morning sunlight.




While I'm wishing I'd also like a pony.

[tevya]

The ideal wake up time for me is between 9-10:00AM. I'd occasionally wake up earlier but the 9-10AM time slot is really my wake up comfort zone. Unfortunately I have to wake up between 6-6:30 AM every weekday.

[Tygr]

When I was done sleeping.

That way I could go to bed when I was tired and wake up when I wasn't tired any more. And if I was doing something and wanted to stay up a little later, I'd be able to sleep later, too.

It's really a shame, ain't it? Never getting all the sleep you really need. Sucks how sleep has become a luxury.

[tapioca tundra]

~7 or 8

I get up now at 5:30..anyway, sleeping late doesn't work
for me because if the sun is up, I'm up

[Bartman]

7:00am. That way I see the morning, and can do some light reading before work.

Lucky for me that is when I do wake up nearly every morning.

[RickJay]

Probably about 9. Any later than 9 and I get a headache.

[Ethilrist]

Two hours later every day, with a corresponding going-to-bed two hours later every night. I need a 26-hour clock. Maybe I'm Bajoran.

[FairyChatMom]

I won't know the answer till I retire. I think I'm a morning person by nature - I don't enjoy being up late at night. But even if I have a late night on the weekend, I'm up early because the idiot dogs have to be let out.

Wild guess - 7-ish. That'll be sleeping in compared to getting up at 5 like I do now.

[Stiletto]

Definitely 10:00. As it is now, I usually go to sleep between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m., and I have to be up by 7. But on weekends, I generally am up by 10:00.

-Stil

[TheNerd]

Most people are on a 16 hours up / 8 sleeping cycle, which works out nicely for getting up at the same time every day.

When I'm allowed to set my own sleep times, I get on a 27 hour schedule. 17 up / 10 asleep. So every day I move a little bit further around the clock. I think I could also do a 24 up / 12 asleep cycle, which would be interesting.

[Ike Witt]

If I had the choice, I would never sleep. There are things that I could fill all those wasted hours with.

Left to my own devices, I seem to get up at about 9:00 am if I goto sleep between 1:00 am and 3:00 am.

[Politzania]

Seriously - I am a late sleeper... 10-11am when I was in college & had nothing to do that day. Gimme at LEAST 8 hours to be a happy camper.

Mr Pol's an early riser tho - even on weekends he's up by 7, usually.

He's learned over the years.... sometimes he wakes up grumpy, other times he lets me sleep... :)

[Lodrain]

A few hours after sunset-3 AM. I'm the penultimate morning person - I metabolically collapse after about 9 o'clock. I instinctively get sleepy when the sun sets, too. About an hour after the sun sets, I feel the need to shower (depending on the time of year - summer, I often shower during daylight hours).

'Course, if I had my choice, I'd take my sleep in 3-hour intervals - an hour and a half asleep, three awake, hour and a half asleep...

[Poysyn]

About an hour and a half after I do now - Around eight-thirty. It's still early enough that you have time to do stuff with your day.

[FisherQueen]

Well, during the summer, when I don't have to work at any set time, I generally get up at about 8 or 8:30.

But I don't really mind getting up at 6, most mornings, as long as I've gotten to bed at a decent hour the previous night.

[JessEnigma]

On weekends and breaks from school, I usually wake up around 10. (Dependent on how long the break is and whether or not I've adapted to staying up later, of course...during the summer, I was going to bed at 3:30 AM and getting up at noon)

So, I'd like to go to bed at midnight, wake up around 9 or 10.


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[JavaMaven1]

Around 9 am. One thing I did like about working the evening shift was that I woke up between 9 or 10 am, got to schlep around till noon before I had to get ready for work. I went to sleep about 1 am. Never needed an alarm clock.

[Angkins]

8 a.m. is a great time for me, sleeping in would be 9 a.m.
If I am out too late the night before I still wake up around the same time, but sometimes need a little nap....has anyone else noticed their bed is even more comfortablen in the afternoon?

[Freudian Slit]

Come on you, guys, where's the adventure? Bill said any time, and so...

Maybe five or six PM. :) Usually in the summer I wake up around twelve or one PM, though sometimes later. It would be really cool to just stay up all night and sleep through the day. Never done that, but it's my ideal situation. On the Behind the Music, they mentioned the guys in Metalllica keeping similar hours, so I guess I'm not alone. :cool:

[bobo]

Originally posted by Ethilrist
Two hours later every day, with a corresponding going-to-bed two hours later every night. I need a 26-hour clock. Maybe I'm Bajoran.

amen brother... maybe it's the whole computer geek thing (not that you're a geek, I am... during college I would occasionally `wrap' days to adjust my schedule, eg slept till 2pm since I didn't have class until 3pm, when I started to get tired at 7am I'd just drink some coffee, push through the day, and go to bed at 8pm, repeat cycle every couple weeks)... I'm constantly fighting to keep my sleep schedule right.

but since even my current job with total flex-time etc wants me to have a somewhat regular schedule (not pushing it back one hour per day in an endless cycle), I guess I'd have to go with about 10 am (which work would be cool with, but then I'd be here til 10pm or so, and my wife works a normal shift, so I'd never see her after commuting, and then life would suck... so I have to drag my ass out of bed at 6:45, get to work about 8:30, work til 6:30, commute home until 8, then spend 4 hours winding down... you do the math)

god bless weekends when I can sleep whenever I want

[Mudshark]

If I had a choice, I would go to bed at 9:00 pm and get up at 3:30 am.

[Kayeby]

I'd like to go to sleep around 12-2 and wake up 10-12. I always function better at night and am definitely not a morning person.

[kirk280980]

On a weekday, I usually go to bed at 3:30am, then get up at 7:30am for work. Most days I have to virtually scrape myself off the mattress, but by the time I start work at 9am, I'm usually fine. I do admit to falling asleep in the bath every morning, and sometimes dozing off for an hour or so when I get home from work, so I'm obviously not getting enough sleep.

When my day off comes, I usually sleep in until any time between 11am and 4pm, depending on whether or not I have any plans. For some reason, I don't really like getting out of bed on my first waking. I'd rather roll over, go to sleep again, then get up second time round.

[xanakis]

You people are amateurs.

I go to bed at 3am and wake up at 3pm (I start work at 4) and I still begrudge having to wake up. I love sleep. My whole life is a constant search for more sleep.

All you people who are up and about at 6am ready to greet the day are always the tense, on-edge types. We professional sleepers, you will notice, are always laid back and stress-free.

Sadly this is all going to end soon and I'll be moving into a regular daytime job. sigh.

[Drake Christensen]

I'm a 26-27 hour per day person. When I'm between jobs and I let myself do that it makes it really hard to plan a social life. I have no idea a week ahead of time when I'll be awake.

Playing in late night hockey games doesn't help me get on a human schedule.

[Khadro]

For about 5 years, I was a go to bed at 6am, get up and go to work at 8:00 am... This would continue for about 3 weeks, at which point I would just crash, and sleep for, oooh, a whole 10 hours or so. At which point the cycle would start again.

I liked it. I'd do it now if I had a decent internet connection at my house :)

[Nocturne]

I would like to wake up just before sunset to watch it, and then fall asleep right after watching the sunrise.

Ideally.

[Badtz Maru]

Originally posted by Wildest Bill
Originally posted by Amazing Tiki God
It would most likely be 6:30 am. As it is now I get up everyday at 2:00 am. I go to bed at 10'ish so I'd get plenty of sleep that way.

Are you sleep deprived. Sheesh how can you operate on 4 hours?

You get used to it. 4 hours is enough for most people. My old schedule (during the summer) was to get home from work around 7:30 AM, stay up watching the kid until after I made her lunch (around 12:30), put on a movie for her that will keep her occupied until my wife gets home, then hitting the sack. I would get up around 4 or 4:30 usually, spend time with the wife until 9:30, when I left for work. I used to think that I needed 8 hours every night but discovered that's not true.

[Typo Negative]

If I don't get at least 6 I'm insufferably cranky.

On work days, I like to go to bed around 10AM and wake up at 6PM. But it doesn't happen that way often enough.

[lolagranola]

Left to my own devices, I usually get up around 10.

[Vinnie Virginslayer]

I LOVE staying up late and sleeping in, left to my own devices I get up at 1130 on weekends.

Ideally, I'd love to stay up until 3-4 am then get up at 7am, but my body can't handle that.

[slortar]

Originally posted by Badtz Maru
Originally posted by Wildest Bill
Originally posted by Amazing Tiki God
It would most likely be 6:30 am. As it is now I get up everyday at 2:00 am. I go to bed at 10'ish so I'd get plenty of sleep that way.

Are you sleep deprived. Sheesh how can you operate on 4 hours?

You get used to it. 4 hours is enough for most people. My old schedule (during the summer) was to get home from work around 7:30 AM, stay up watching the kid until after I made her lunch (around 12:30), put on a movie for her that will keep her occupied until my wife gets home, then hitting the sack. I would get up around 4 or 4:30 usually, spend time with the wife until 9:30, when I left for work. I used to think that I needed 8 hours every night but discovered that's not true.

Same here. I've found that I can get by just fine on 5 or 6. I usually wind up making up a huge sleep deficit on the weekends, though.

If I got to choose my wake-up time, I'd probably go for between 8 and 10, depending on weather and mood.