# How often do you sleep in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972 "2016-01-23T15:35:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/41 "2016-01-24T21:16:18Z")
On a regular work day, my Wife gets up at 4am. I get up at 5am. So sleeping in is 6am. Which I do on the occasional weekend. I have a SIL that sleeps into 10 or 11am regularly, and just can’t imagine that. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/42 "2016-01-24T22:20:03Z")
Leet the Wonder Dog[sup]TM[/sup] has not mastered the concept of “weekends”. "It’s 6am, Grandpa. I’m hungry and I would like to Go Outside as you have taught me to do. I have a cold wet nose, and a large pokey paw. Don’t make me use it!" Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/43 "2016-01-24T22:57:02Z")
We have kids and cats - so never. If the kids spend the night at their grandmothers and we lock the cats out I’m still conditioned to wake up around 6am, even if I want to sleep in, I can’t ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/44 "2016-01-24T23:21:41Z")
I’m a morning person whether I like it or not, apparently. Sometimes on a long vacation, I’ll start sleeping until almost 6:30am. Even when I’d really like more sleep, it’s just not going to happen in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/45 "2016-01-25T10:54:52Z")
Speaking of which, here I am. I’ve been awake for over an hour, even though I won’t have to go to work today on account of the blizzard. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/46 "2016-01-25T10:58:23Z")
I’m unemployed and live with my mom I sleep in every day ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/47 "2016-01-25T11:34:19Z")
Any early risers who want to see all the visible planets at once, [the next few weeks are your chance](http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury). I was just out, and Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter were arrayed across the sky. (I couldn’t find a place within walking distance where I could have a good enough view of the horizon to see Mercury as well. Mercury’s a bit of a PITA to spot because there’s such a short interval between when it rises and when it gets washed out by daylight well before the sun rises.) Venus and Jupiter are can’t-miss-it bright; Mars must be on the far side of the solar system because there are stars that are just as bright right now, but its reddish color (and the fact that it’s exactly where the link above says it should be, along the arc of the ecliptic between Venus and Jupiter, a bit closer to Jupiter than Venus) help identify it. And once you’ve got Mars, you can pick out Saturn, which is about 2/5 of the way from Venus to Mars along the arc of the ecliptic. Kinda cool really. Next weekend if we get a clear sky in the early morning, I think I’ll drive down to the beach along the Chesapeake one early morning, and get an unimpeded view of the eastern horizon. Should be able to pick out Mercury with no problem. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/48 "2016-01-25T12:19:33Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Speaking of which, here I am. I’ve been awake for over an hour, even though I won’t have to go to work today on account of the blizzard. Me too–I was awake around 5:30 even though gov’t offices are still closed and I wouldn’t have to go farther to get to work than the laptop downstairs. I didn’t bother getting up until after 6:30, when the little kitties started crying for their breakfast. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/49 "2016-01-25T17:57:38Z")
On workdays I get up when I need to, whether that’s 3am or 10am. On my copious off days I wake up when I wake up. Today that was 5:45. Yesterday is was 7:45. So far this year the range is 5am to 755am with the average around 6am I normally wake early as in before dawn but sometimes I don’t for no apparent reason. I’m almost always refreshed and alert and vertical promptly after I do wake up; lazing in bed is for losers and ill people. By far the worst years of my life were spent with a fixed 8-5 MF schedule and everything about my body is happier when it’s away from that schedule. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/50 "2016-01-26T21:53:26Z")
Sleeping in for me is sleeping until 7 a.m. or later. So I do get to sleep in on weekends. I usually get up with my kids (9 and 6 years old) for a few reasons. 1. If I sleep later than 7 or 8, I feel terrible for the rest of the day. I don’t know why it is, but I feel vaguely hungover and headachey for the rest of the day if I sleep too late. 2. I haven’t yet put parental controls on the TV, so there is a possibility they would be able to hang around and watch something I don’t want them seeing. 3. I feel like I’ve lost half the day if I sleep in and I don’t like it, even if I don’t do anything particularly productive the first part of the day. At least I had the option. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/51 "2016-01-26T22:12:07Z")
Every Sunday. I draw the curtains before bed as my bedroom window faces east and then get up when I wake up - which is usually around 9 am. Then I get up, make a pot of tea, grab something to read and toddle back to bed for another hour to sit and read and sip tea. ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/52 "2016-01-27T02:25:53Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Every day. > > I am not a morning person to make the understatement of the year. My preferred sleep schedule is 4 am to noon or 1 pm (that is what I did today because it is a weekend). I finally got a job 6 years ago with sensible hours. I am on call most of the time but only have to be on-site by 10 am and it is 28 miles away. Thanks to Eisenhower, I can wake up at 9:20 am, take a shower, dress and be there exactly on time almost every time. > > I suffered through early schedules all through high school and many jobs and I am simply not doing it again. It makes me physically ill over time and I have never adjusted to it well. That isn’t a failure of will on my part. It is just the way my body works. > > I am not an activist type in general but that is my one true cause - discrimination against those with alternate biological clocks. I am awake as many hours a day as anyone else but it is offset. I find it extremely difficult if not impossible to fall asleep before 1 am let alone 10 or 11 pm like many people do. > > It takes all types though. If you want someone to show up at 7am every day to do a routine job, I am not your guy. However, I am the person that you can call at midnight to take care of something complicated because that is when I am at my most alert. > > There is nothing special about the early morning hours as opposed to the very late night. Both of them give you quiet time to do things when there aren’t many other people are around. My body just strongly prefers the latter. Bro, you just wrote my manifesto. To everyone else: what do you consider “sleeping in?” I work second shift, so I get up every day around 9:30 or 10:00. You morning glories might consider that sleeping in, _ **but** _ I get up at 9:30-10:00 on the weekends too, so for me it’s my normal daily schedule. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/53 "2016-01-27T16:02:40Z")
I routinely sleep until 8:30 or after. My normal bedtime is around 1 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:** [January 27, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/54 "2016-01-27T17:06:59Z")
> [@funky\_little\_lee](#): > > … To everyone else: what do you consider “sleeping in?” … I wondered the same thing. And how much of “sleeping in” is about simply getting more hours of sleep, rather than which timespan holds the extra hours? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972/55 "2016-01-27T19:12:18Z")
> [@funky\_little\_lee](#): > > To everyone else: what do you consider “sleeping in?” To me, it means I don’t have to set an alarm the night before, or get up at any particular time the next day. That usually translates to sleeping till at least noon on Saturday, sometimes later into the afternoon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-sleep-in/743972.md?page=2)