# How long is too long to stay in bed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 18, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733 "2024-02-18T17:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/21 "2024-02-19T04:56:38Z")
It was inspired by a New York Times column. Even during Covid, or if feeling queasy, I almost always get up and get dressed. This wasn’t about someone I know. But if I am tired, I tend to trust that my body knows when I need rest. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/22 "2024-02-19T05:04:02Z")
How long is too long? When the Snooze button stops working. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/23 "2024-02-19T05:05:37Z")
I believe I would know as well. Some folks with fatigue syndromes might not. And teens, well they need to sleep. I preferred mine to be in bed, no devices, no music, no phone by 10pm. So they could function in the day time. Of course it didn’t always work out. And when they slept thru breakfast and lunch on a Saturday, like any discriminating Mom I said “told you so” I was nice like that.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/24 "2024-02-19T05:14:33Z")
If dogs could use a litter pan, then I would stay in bed even longer. I am not a morning person yet I worked for most of my working days as a baker. Now I stay up way late and get up even later. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/25 "2024-02-19T05:41:35Z")
If you’re not asleep you need a good reason to stay in bed. Being lazy is a perfectly good reason. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/26 "2024-02-19T05:42:52Z")
I wish I could put a thumbs up on your post. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/27 "2024-02-19T06:47:55Z")
👍👍 How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![LilXMo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lilxmo/32/4225_2.png) [@LilXMo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilXMo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/28 "2024-02-19T07:42:07Z")
Sometimes on a weekend, I might get up at 9 am and then go back to sleep at 9:30 am. For perspective, that’s 10 hours, up for 30 minutes, sleep for 4 hours. But I do love some of my dogs laying on the bed with me… ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/29 "2024-02-19T08:00:37Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Being lazy is a perfectly good reason. I suspect upthread I linked the wrong [song!](https://youtu.be/dqM5L5JQseI?t=257) Thinking of it, things are getting better: you no longer have to get out of bed to change the record or the tape with those new technologies. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/30 "2024-02-19T15:40:14Z")
I do not like laying around in bed after I wake up. Besides having to pee, the dogs having to pee and eat, I feel like I’m wasting the day. I’d much rather get into bed earlier in the evening and watch something on my tablet or read for a couple of hours. Into bed by 8:30pm, sleeping by 10:30pm, and up at 5am. 6am is the latest I can sleep. Even then I feel like my day is out of whack. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/31 "2024-02-19T16:48:30Z")
“Too long” is “now it’s too hot to go running so you are going to skip your morning run, AGAIN.” Sadly, it is that time right now. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/32 "2024-02-19T16:57:44Z")
> [@LilXMo](#): > > Sometimes on a weekend, I might get up at 9 am and then go back to sleep at 9:30 am. For perspective, that’s 10 hours, up for 30 minutes, sleep for 4 hours. But I do love some of my dogs laying on the bed with me… The dogs really make this appealing don’t they? Every day I wake up and feed them and let them out, then go to my office for work. They go lie in the sun, or on the bed in the dark. I always say “I wish I could join you!” and on Sundays sometimes I DO. But the same way you do it - wake up when the dogs say, feed the dogs and let them out, then we ALL go back to bed. Also, for the OP - one secret trick is that you can get out of bed and go sleep on your couch! I’ve tried it, it works! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/33 "2024-02-19T17:38:12Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > > [@LilXMo](#): > > > > But I do love some of my dogs laying on the bed with me… > > The dogs really make this appealing don’t they? It is very difficult to get out of bed when curled up against and/or on top of by several very comfortable sleeping cats. All of whom get to sleep as much as they want. But again – bladder. (Of course, if it already got me up in the night, this doesn’t work as soon in the morning.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/34 "2024-02-19T23:04:16Z")
IMO - the bed is for sleeping and for sex. If you’re not doing either of those things go somewhere else better suited to what you are doing. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/35 "2024-02-19T23:17:56Z")
I like reading the dope in bed. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/36 "2024-02-19T23:34:07Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > IMO - the bed is for sleeping and for sex. If you’re not doing either of those things go somewhere else better suited to what you are doing. My belief is that a quality foam mattress and a bunch of down pillows, nice sheets and a heavy quilt, is about as close as we can come to being in the womb since the day we were ejected out of it into the cold, cruel world. The convergence of the above fact with modern electronics that brings the world’s entertainment and information directly to our eyes and ears completes the perfection of said ersatz womb! Of course, it’s also possible that you’re not as ineffably lazy as I am! 😆 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/37 "2024-02-20T00:03:33Z")
When using a phone or tablet I’m typing almost as much as I’m reading. That’s damned inconvenient in/on a bed. Much better sitting upright in a chair or on a couch. And even purely reading with no typing is hard in bed; there’s no way to position your body to be comfy, _and_ have your head supported while your face addresses the screen straight-on , _and_ not be fighting holding the device as well. If there were lightweight non-bulky VR goggles then I could imagine laying on my back or side in a comfy bed watching a movie or a sporting event that way. But I watch very little of that, and such goggles do not yet exist. IMO a lot of the attraction for bed for many people is that they keep their house colder than they prefer; often for practicality’s sake. Living where I do, that’s not a problem as long as I control the thermostat. We usually have warm coming out our ears. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/38 "2024-02-20T00:14:01Z")
I haven’t slept for 10 days, Because that would be too long. Mitch Hedberg. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/39 "2024-02-20T01:11:53Z")
There’s a lot of “personal preference” type stuff going on here. I’m short-sighted, so I have a great view of my tablet at close range, where it occupies so much of my field of vision that the effect is quite literally theatrical (and the sound the tiny speakers put out is amazing). The 8" screen is a good compromise between image size and lightness of the device. Not wearing glasses means that I can shift position in bed without the glasses being a nuisance. I’m pretty sure that in the past year I’ve watched far more movies on the tablet in bed than I have anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733/40 "2024-02-20T01:20:45Z")
My mom has an older friend who stays in bed until 10:30 or 11 AM…says that she just has to make herself stay in bed on account of whatever activity she was engaged in the day before. I think this is brilliant. (Mom can’t figure out how her friend can be so tired after what seems to be such limited activity.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-too-long-to-stay-in-bed/997733.md?page=3)