I have a 15-year-old dog and a 16-year-old dog with their original bladders. Sometimes I get out of bed before I even wake up in order to get them outside in time.
What is this concept you speak of called “getting up”?
After I wake up (anytime between 0700-0830. After that I start to feel dirty) I’ll lay in bed for a couple of minutes, checking my phone for any emails. After that I usually start singing as I get ready for the day. My wife hates that, as she is NOT a morning person.
If I have somewhere to go the moment my eyes open I sometimes literally jump out of bed.
Right away, as long as it’s after 4 am.
My dogs don’t let me sleep in past 6 am. They start circling the bed like sharks, huffing and snorting and getting curious about breakfast.
Record on days I need to be awake is eight or nine snooze cycles (accompanied by loud cursing each time). I think (but am not sure) my next-door neighbors’ bedroom is next to mine, so I bet they think I’m insane. They don’t make eye contact much anymore. “Goddamnit shit motherfucker, so fucking early, fuck you SLAM.” And, no I can’t chillax or else I’ll fall back asleep, probably for the rest of the day.
It still takes me two or three hours to be “awake” – whether sitting up at my desk or lying in bed – so it doesn’t really matter much to me where I spend my time waking up. If it’s freezing in my apartment (as it often is), not getting up. Otherwise, maybe watch a movie while I get my stuff together, maybe shave or shower, and be sure I won’t have an accident if I need to go anywhere first thing in the morning. Smoking a bowl of tobacco, having a cup of coffee takes care of that. Also, when it’s a lot of pollen in the air, I need a good two hours of sitting upright to stop coughing, vomiting, and nose-blowing. Plus, it takes a little moment to fix some breakfast.
Often it’s better to just stay in bed and skip breakfast and let all the pollutants get ready to exit my body when I rise.
Until it’s the afternoon. 
If I’m not working or have no errands it’s more than 15 mins- I love my bed.
I love to lounge around in bed. To me that’s luxury. I normally have to be to work at 5:45 AM and I’m not by nature a morning person. By now my body doesn’t let me sleep late. So the luxury is knowing that I don’t have to get up if I don’t want to, when it’s my day off.
I’m in the 5-15 minute crowd. My dogs all sleep with me, and lazy pack that they are, all I have to say is LAY DOWN if anyone wants up before I do, and they do. I usually lay there for a few minutes and give everyone hugs and kisses and scritches before we begin our day.
If completely left to my own devices, I will usually lay around in bed for about ten minutes or so after I wake up. The problem is that I am an anti-morning person, so, these ten minutes of lallygagging would occur at about 2 in the afternoon.
I linger in bed longer when I have to wake up at a particular time (whether on the weekend or not), but no more than about half an hour. Or I will be late for whatever it is that is getting me up before 2.
If I don’t have anything I have to do, or anywhere I have to be…I’ll just lie about slug-a-bed, daydreaming, for an hour or two.
Best part of the day…
I have a dog. Somehow she knows when I am awake. Once I’m awake, she makes me get up and let her out.
Often 20 minutes to an hour. If I need to pee, I’ll do that and get back under the covers before they’ve cooled. I pick up my phone, check emails, check the Dope, surf a little, maybe play a video game or watch a short Netflix show. My cats, somehow, are just about the least food motivated that cats can be, and they just hang out until I start to prep their food. So when I go back to bed, or don’t get up right away, they’re all over that idea, and I usually end up with one or two of them under the covers, and the other two at the end of the bed, happy to curl up and sleep and purr.
I voted other. I wake up at about 5 am, but then go back off to sleep. I then wake up again at 6.30 am and check the clock, then set my head for another half hour. I will get up around 7 am, unless I am freezing, then I will tunnel under the covers until I realize that I will miss my ride.
Weekends, I am usually awake by 7 am, but lollygaggle until 8 or 8.30 am. Not one for sleeping in any more…but I will fall asleep watching tv at night.
My bladder usually wakes me up early. If I ignore it, I will get up on time. If I go to the bathroom after 4.30 am, I will have to drag my carcass out of bed to get up in time
The funny part is that when I’m able to get as much sleep as I want, I’m a morning person.
I think work schedules should be adjusted so we can sleep longer in the winter. Until this year I never realized quite how much I hate getting up while it’s still dark outside. It’s the only thing I really hate about living here; this time of year the sun comes up around 8:00 and is gone by 4:00, so I’m commuting in the dark both ways. If I don’t make a deliberate point of getting outside during my lunch break, I never see the sun. It sucks!
There’s nothing to do in bed! Plus I nearly always have to whiz right away when I sleep in (my bladder wakes me up if an alarm clock doesn’t). So I usually get up right away and use the bathroom. Then I’ll make lunch and jump on the computer.
Unless I am ill, I am up in about a minute.
If the stranger in my bed starts asking questions I will lie until I am out of my depth. Then it’s time for a shower.
It’s now 6:38. As predicted, I’ve been awake for exactly 38 minutes. And like a moron, I popped right out of bed like I have to be somewhere today.
But I did have to pee, so I guess that’s a better alternative than wetting the bed.
Just lying there and staring at the ceiling? Not long at all. Like, less than five minutes. I have really bad restlessness that’s always worse in the morning. I go crazy if I just lie still with nothing to do (which sucks because I’m usually a daydreamy person).
But if I can wake up (and pee) and then bring my lap top into bed with me to divert my attention, it’s not so bad. Maybe 30 minutes before my stomach starts rumbling for breakfast.