Unlike most people I don’t find lying in bed all that comfortable when awake. I get in bed when I know I’ll be sleeping soon and then as soon as I wake up I get out of bed.
I’m also a person that, with rare exception, wakes up fully immediately. Hardly ever with any grogginess so there isn’t any gradual waking process (unlike my wife who will use the snooze button for hours, literally).
On my day off, I will usually shut the alarm off and sleep in a little, and lie there comfy for a while, but usually once I wake up, I’m awake right away (but needing a dose of coffee to get me thinking straight). My husband takes over an hour to “wake up” sometimes, and it’s irritating. It’s like having a teenager in my bed.
On my work days I have about a 50% snooze button rate, giving me an extra 9 minutes to lie there and enjoy the fluffy comforter over my head.
I am in the “Over 15 minutes” category. Depending on the time, with the bladder and pet cooperation listed in the OP, I will turn on the news, or pick my book back up, or rewind and catch the last half of what I fell asleep watching the night before, or knit, or turn on the laptop and check email, or do some of my physical therapy stuff so that my knees might support me when I finally do get out of bed. Usually my sister phones me on her drive in to work, so there is really no point in being away from the phone, and I don’t like to take it off the charger until I’m ready to actually get going. With all the pain I’m dealing with lately, the bed is the most marvelous place in the world. I don’t need caffeine right away, and I’m not ready to eat for an hour.
I tend to get up as soon as I wake, regardless of whether it’s a weekday or not. This morning was New Year’s Day, but I woke at around 7.00am and got up straight away.
Oh. You’re one of those people. Left to my own devices, I tend to sleep from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.
On a regular work day, Suburban Plankton brings me coffee at 6:30 when he leaves and I stay in bed until 7ish when it’s time to make sure Ledzepkid is up and getting ready for school. So about half an hour every weekday.
I’m a bit unique since I live in a studio apartment. My usual routine upon waking up at my usual wake up time (4 AM weekdays, 7 am weekends) is to make coffee and then lay in bed for an hour or so. I have my Apple TV remote next to me in bed so I will either play a podcast, put on a movie, play some music and read, or watch a lecture from iTunes U in the morning.
I voted “immediately,” because the time I lay in bed is after waking is* typically* less than one minute.
Weekends are another matter altogether. (I may spend five minutes trying to go back to sleep, repeatedly, until it doesn’t work anymore.) M-F. though, it’s OMG I NEED TO GET MOVING!
Ah yes, this right here. If I don’t have to be up for anything, I’ll sleep until 2 or 3. But if I’m sleeping that late it’s because I stayed up most of the night. I think I’m nocturnal by nature, because ideally I’d stay up until 5 or 6 a.m. and do my sleeping in the daytime. And upon waking in the afternoon, I might snooze it for another half hour or get right up, depending on my mood.
I normally have to be at work at 7:00am. On work days I sleep until the last possible minute (6:10). On weekends or other days I don’t have to work, I shut the alarm off and go back to sleep until 8:30-9:00. I then sometimes lay in bed, awake for another hour after that, listening to the news on the clock radio.
My dog used to get me up earlier but she’s getting old and now she can out sleep me.
OP asks: “How long do you lie in bed in the morning?”
By definition, the latest possible to lie in bed in the morning is 12:00 noon. You can’t lie in bed any later in the morning than that (which, by the way, I do as often as possible, which is often). In fact, that doesn’t stop me from staying in bed until 2:00 p.m. fairly often. (For purposes of this answer, I disregard the periodic peeing expeditions, as long as I go right back to bed afterward, which I usually do.)
My ideal is to sleep, or at least semi-doze in bed, for a minimum of 16 hours a day. My fantasy is to sleep about 20 hours a day. Actually, 10 to 12 hours is my typical.
I note PapSett’s remark above:
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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.
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This PapSett wrote, several days ago in another thread, of being all alone for Christmas. He confesses here, however, that he has the best companionship, even bedmates (plural!), that nature has to offer. Who is more huggable, kissable, and scritchable than a dog?
Left to my own devices, I tend to sleep about 3am to 1pm. Mornings are hell for me. I seriously think my internal clock is different from other people’s. When I have to get up early (before 8), I feel like death. I’ve definitely snoozed for 3 hours before.
Generally speaking, once I’m fully conscious, I’m up for the day, and usually get up and get to whatever it is that I’m doing that day.
This doesn’t mean that I wake up the same time on weekdays and weekends; I’ll sleep in somewhat, but when I’m up, I’m up. I don’t wake up for 20 minutes and fall back asleep or anything like that.
Whenever I perceive that there’s no sign of sleep returning, and that as long as I remain in bed I’ll remain awake so why not get up, that’s when I get up. I can tell the difference pretty quickly. So 1–5 minutes.
Once I’m awake there’s no way I’ll get back to sleep so I’m up and out of the bed immediately, no matter what time I awake. My girlfriend - and every other woman I’ve ever been involved with - loves to laze and doze for hours so when we’re not working I generally do my own thing for a while, drink coffee, have breakfast, read etc. then bring her breakfast in bed.
I can sleep an almost arbitrary amount of time, though I try to limit myself to 8 hours. And I’ve been known to hit the snooze button over a dozen times. But I’m actually sleeping: in fact, I get my best dreams from these 9 minute snooze cycles. I don’t understand just laying in bed. I wake up, look at the clock, and if I decide I should be awake I get up. From decision to execution takes 5 seconds.
Sometimes I’ll wake up naturally at around 7 or so. If that’s the case, I get up and pee, then go back to bed (having to pee in the morning doesn’t fully wake me up, and if I try to actually get moving then I just end up falling asleep on the couch a few minutes later).
When I wake up again at 9, I’m usually out of bed within a few minutes, unless I’m REALLY tired. I don’t like getting up later than 9 anymore.
Also, I HATE using a snooze button, because I hate alarms, period, and definitely don’t want to hear one more than once. I only set one if I need it, and make sure I get up after it goes off ONCE.
I usually drink a glass of water while in bed just before turning in. In the morning I always have to pee the moment I wake up - usually no laying around in bed for me. Then once I’m up all I can think about is coffee and what my day looks like. Of course there are exceptions to the rule. I have gone back to bed after peeing and listened to NPR, checked email on my laptop or whatever…
I know, eh? Pretty darn exciting …
I’m a morning person, and waking up poses no challenge for me unless I’m sick or EXTREMELY sleep deprived. If I wake up and have nowhere to go, I will generally raise the head of the bed (yay for adjustable beds!) and either grab my laptop (if my wife is still asleep) or turn on the TV (if she’s awake and reading) and veg in bed until such time as I get hungry enough to get up and do something about it.
As long as possible!!
If it’s a weekend, or end-of-year use-or-lose vacation time where I don’t have anything specific going on, I will sleep as late as the telephone and the kids let me. This, for some reason, gets me past the early-morning hungries - and I can kill most of the day relaxing, reading, watching TV etc. before the appetite forces me in search of food.
On a work day? none. That alarm goes off, I’m in the bathroom and in the shower right away.