Lights on. I have no trouble waking up or getting out of bed the vast majority of the time (even if I’d rather not, I’m typically awake, and don’t go back to sleep in the morning well). If it’s summer and already light outside, I’ll leave off the lights for my bathroom visit, then turn them on when I get to the living room (we have a roof on the porch that means I don’t get as much sunlight there, and I like to be light when I’m reading, even on a screen). If it’s dark, then I have to turn on the lights to see, even if I hate the bright lights for a minute until my eyes adjust.
You’re not the only poster to have said this.
I find I’m sort of the opposite. I prefer rather dim lighting in the evening. But I absolutely cannot tolerate a TV or computer screen in an otherwise dark room. The screen light is so harsh and glary and nasty it makes my brain hurt. If I turn up some room lights the screen is no longer this bright blue beacon blasting blazing beams into my bean. Then I can watch it in comfort.
I guess it takes all kinds.
I have a now older TV in the bedroom; back when I got it, it was more state-of-the-art. One of the first things I noticed on the remote was a “night” setting. It makes the screen a little darker and softer. All my problems with watching in the dark went away. My new issue is the more modern flat-screens I’ve seen don’t seem to have such a setting - but I must admit to not having shopped very hard since the old one is still working fine.
For starters, it takes me the better part of an hour to drag myself out of bed in the morning. Any bright light in that period and I get verrrrrrrrrry grumpy. Once I’m out of bed, it’s another hour or so before I wanna deal with any bright light. If it’s sunny outside, the blinds stay closed. If it’s partly cloudy to cloudy, they get opened. And then my day starts. 
Lat 6 months I’ve been working nights so I wake up to mid-afternoon daylight. The 15 years before and the weekends now, I wake up and have enough nightlights to make it out of the bedroom without turning on the lights. We’ve a motion switch that turns on the hall light so I get dressed out there. My wife works evenings and gets to bed near midnight. I don’t want to be waking her. I then typically go downstairs to work at the computer with a desk light on or walk out to get the paper.
Definitely lights off. As a matter of fact, if not for my SO I would probably never turn on the lights. I have good night vision and am much more comfortable in the dark.
Lights on actually pisses me off. It feels very aggressive and confrontational, probably stemming from how my mother used to do it. And I suffer from migraines, so such jarring, harsh light can set my head off to hurting in the blink of a sleepy eye. So…
Lights off, please!
However, since it’s just me these days anyway, the dogs follow my wishes and the cat, although a Lights On type, saves her domination for other evil pursuits.
I rarely wake up before 11, so the question is irrelevant.
If I have to wake up when it’s dark out, it’s guaranteed that I didn’t get enough sleep, and that I have somewhere to be. So the lights go on to jar me into wakefulness.
In general, lights don’t seem to make a difference when I wake up. And since my husband is recovering from back surgery, he’s still abed when I get up for work, so I dress by the light of the TV. In general, I don’t like lots of lights turned on. I can accomplish most tasks by natural light, but I’ll add more if necessary.
Spousal unit, on the other hand, would turn every light in the house on all the time. He sees nothing wrong with 6 bulbs burning in the kitchen while he sits in the living room with 2 more lights on watching TV. Drives me crazy!
Just have him put a dollar in your tip jar ever couple hours to pay for the wasted electricity.
Then you spend the money on something nice for you. Perhaps a massage or such. To relieve the stress he causes. 
“Save Army Energy” is still a saying at our house 30 years after we stopped having to watch AFRTS.
I’m more of a lights-off person, but not for the reasons listed so far. I simply don’t need the lights right away.
If you can’t get at least partly dressed by feel, there’s something wrong with you.
As Bill Cosby used to lament: “Have you ever tried to *feel *the difference between a blue and a brown sock in the dark??”
I was really hoping this thread was about sex 
Me, too. (Except we don’t have dogs.)
That always got me too. They never have to adjust to it, either. I need that superpower.
I hate bright lights first thing.
We sleep with light blocking curtains facing south and west, so the bedroom is pretty dark. He wakes up an hour earlier, and comes back in to wake me up by opening the curtains. Unless it’s the middle of winter it’s bright enough to fill the room but not so bright it blinds me. Then I take 5 minutes to accept that it’s morning already and I need to get moving.
ETA: also, sometimes I’m still not all the way up before the shower so I turn on the one dim bulb across the room and shower in the half-dark. The main bathroom light is like a thousand suns.
I don’t turn on the lights in my bedroom when I stumble out of bed, but I do turn on the light in the bathroom as there is no window in there. I flip on the lights to the living room as I get there on the way to the kitchen to get my coffee. This was never a problem until my daughter and her family were staying with me for a few weeks while their house was being built. Turns out my son in law was sitting in the dark in the living room ON PURPOSE. To his credit, he didn’t mention how much it ground his gears until much later.
If one does not read the quote boxes and just reads the relpies, one is likely to be jarred by such as this:
Lights off at home. I go to bed after everyone else in the house, so I navigate to my bed by dead reckoning in pitch darkness. I get up before everyone else - and in the winter (well, from about now through to April really). it’s dark, so I get up and get dressed in the dark with just the aid of a small LED light in the bedroom.
I’m pro Lights Off. Maybe I’ll have one light on. I don’t need the inside of my house to be awash in the noonday sun. Can you not see with the one light on?! What is the matter with you?
My wife, on the other hand, is an All Lights On All The Time person. She’ll turn on every light in a room if she’s just walking through.
I’m generally a lights-off kinda guy in most circumstances. 1) I tend to be a bit photophobic and bright light sometimes hurts my eyes; 2) harsh artificial light makes for rude awakenings; and 3) Charles Dickens perhaps said it best “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”