# If Allowed, What Time Would You Wake Up Everyday? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 18, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205 "2001-10-18T13:43:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/21 "2001-10-18T22:04:40Z")
On weekends and breaks from school, I usually wake up around 10. (Dependent on how long the break is and whether or not I’ve adapted to staying up later, of course…during the summer, I was going to bed at 3:30 AM and getting up at noon) So, I’d like to go to bed at midnight, wake up around 9 or 10. jessica ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/22 "2001-10-18T22:37:57Z")
Around 9 am. One thing I did like about working the evening shift was that I woke up between 9 or 10 am, got to schlep around till noon before I had to get ready for work. I went to sleep about 1 am. Never needed an alarm clock. ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/23 "2001-10-18T23:03:12Z")
8 a.m. is a great time for me, sleeping in would be 9 a.m. If I am out too late the night before I still wake up around the same time, but sometimes need a little nap…has anyone else noticed their bed is even more comfortablen in the afternoon? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/24 "2001-10-18T23:09:03Z")
Come on you, guys, where’s the adventure? **Bill** said _any_ time, and so… Maybe five or six PM. 🙂 Usually in the summer I wake up around twelve or one PM, though sometimes later. It would be really cool to just stay up all night and sleep through the day. Never done that, but it’s my ideal situation. On the Behind the Music, they mentioned the guys in Metalllica keeping similar hours, so I guess I’m not alone. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/25 "2001-10-18T23:48:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*Two hours later every day, with a corresponding going-to-bed two hours later every night. I need a 26-hour clock. Maybe I’m Bajoran. \*\* amen brother… maybe it’s the whole computer geek thing (not that you’re a geek, I am… during college I would occasionally `wrap’ days to adjust my schedule, eg slept till 2pm since I didn’t have class until 3pm, when I started to get tired at 7am I’d just drink some coffee, push through the day, and go to bed at 8pm, repeat cycle every couple weeks)… I’m constantly fighting to keep my sleep schedule right. but since even my current job with total flex-time etc wants me to have a somewhat regular schedule (not pushing it back one hour per day in an endless cycle), I guess I’d have to go with about 10 am (which work would be cool with, but then I’d be here til 10pm or so, and my wife works a normal shift, so I’d never see her after commuting, and then life would suck… so I have to drag my ass out of bed at 6:45, get to work about 8:30, work til 6:30, commute home until 8, then spend 4 hours winding down… you do the math) god bless weekends when I can sleep whenever I want ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/26 "2001-10-19T00:17:34Z")
If I had a choice, I would go to bed at 9:00 pm and get up at 3:30 am. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/27 "2001-10-19T00:24:43Z")
I’d like to go to sleep around 12-2 and wake up 10-12. I always function better at night and am definitely not a morning person. ---
**Author:** ![kirk280980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@kirk280980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk280980)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/28 "2001-10-19T00:31:11Z")
On a weekday, I usually go to bed at 3:30am, then get up at 7:30am for work. Most days I have to virtually scrape myself off the mattress, but by the time I start work at 9am, I’m usually fine. I do admit to falling asleep in the bath every morning, and sometimes dozing off for an hour or so when I get home from work, so I’m obviously not getting enough sleep. When my day off comes, I usually sleep in until any time between 11am and 4pm, depending on whether or not I have any plans. For some reason, I don’t really like getting out of bed on my first waking. I’d rather roll over, go to sleep again, then get up second time round. ---
**Author:** ![xanakis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7bcc69/32.png) [@xanakis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanakis)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/29 "2001-10-19T00:43:44Z")
You people are amateurs. I go to bed at 3am and wake up at 3pm (I start work at 4) and I still begrudge having to wake up. I love sleep. My whole life is a constant search for more sleep. All you people who are up and about at 6am ready to greet the day are always the tense, on-edge types. We professional sleepers, you will notice, are always laid back and stress-free. Sadly this is all going to end soon and I’ll be moving into a regular daytime job. sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Drake\_Christensen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@Drake\_Christensen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drake_Christensen)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/30 "2001-10-19T05:22:32Z")
I’m a 26-27 hour per day person. When I’m between jobs and I let myself do that it makes it really hard to plan a social life. I have no idea a week ahead of time when I’ll be awake. Playing in late night hockey games doesn’t help me get on a human schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/31 "2001-10-19T05:42:12Z")
For about 5 years, I was a go to bed at 6am, get up and go to work at 8:00 am… This would continue for about 3 weeks, at which point I would just crash, and sleep for, oooh, a whole 10 hours or so. At which point the cycle would start again. I liked it. I’d do it now if I had a decent internet connection at my house 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/32 "2001-10-19T05:49:01Z")
I would like to wake up just before sunset to watch it, and then fall asleep right after watching the sunrise. Ideally. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/33 "2001-10-19T10:53:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Amazing Tiki God \* > > \*\*It would most likely be 6:30 am. As it is now I get up everyday at 2:00 am. I go to bed at 10’ish so I’d get plenty of sleep that way. \*\* > > Are you sleep deprived. Sheesh how can you operate on 4 hours? \*\* You get used to it. 4 hours is enough for most people. My old schedule (during the summer) was to get home from work around 7:30 AM, stay up watching the kid until after I made her lunch (around 12:30), put on a movie for her that will keep her occupied until my wife gets home, then hitting the sack. I would get up around 4 or 4:30 usually, spend time with the wife until 9:30, when I left for work. I used to think that I needed 8 hours every night but discovered that’s not true. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/34 "2001-10-19T11:20:13Z")
If I don’t get at least 6 I’m insufferably cranky. On work days, I like to go to bed around 10AM and wake up at 6PM. But it doesn’t happen that way often enough. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/35 "2001-10-19T12:19:23Z")
Left to my own devices, I usually get up around 10. ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/36 "2001-10-19T12:21:51Z")
I LOVE staying up late and sleeping in, left to my own devices I get up at 1130 on weekends. Ideally, I’d love to stay up until 3-4 am then get up at 7am, but my body can’t handle that. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205/37 "2001-10-19T13:10:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by Amazing Tiki God \* > > > \*\*It would most likely be 6:30 am. As it is now I get up everyday at 2:00 am. I go to bed at 10’ish so I’d get plenty of sleep that way. \*\* > > > > Are you sleep deprived. Sheesh how can you operate on 4 hours? \*\* > > You get used to it. 4 hours is enough for most people. My old schedule (during the summer) was to get home from work around 7:30 AM, stay up watching the kid until after I made her lunch (around 12:30), put on a movie for her that will keep her occupied until my wife gets home, then hitting the sack. I would get up around 4 or 4:30 usually, spend time with the wife until 9:30, when I left for work. I used to think that I needed 8 hours every night but discovered that’s not true. \*\* Same here. I’ve found that I can get by just fine on 5 or 6. I usually wind up making up a huge sleep deficit on the weekends, though. If I got to choose my wake-up time, I’d probably go for between 8 and 10, depending on weather and mood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-allowed-what-time-would-you-wake-up-everyday/88205.md?page=1)