I’m a night person—if left up to my own devices, I go to bed around 2:00 a.m. and get up around 9:00. I do my best writing late at night on weekends.
But, dammit, I have to get up at 6:30 to go to work, so I try to be IN BED by 10:00 every night; I read for 30 minutes to an hour, and LIGHTS OUT by 11:00, whether I like it or not (and I do not).
How about y’all? What time do you generally go to bed?
Generally, 10:00 or 11:00; up at 5:00, at work by 6:00.
Midnight, even if I have to get up at 6.30am.
In my carefree single days:
I would come home from work, eat dinner, fall asleep, then wake up around 9:30 or 10:00 PM, go to a late movie showing or watch some corny late-night movie on television, then read myself to sleep around 1:00 or 2:00 AM. Then I would drag myself out of bed around 8:00 AM and rush to work.
Now that I’m married, I have the regular schedule - to bed around 11:00 PM or midnight, get up around 7:00 - 7:30 AM to go to work.
If left up to my own devices, I would probably sleep all day, read all night, get quickly fired for not showing up at work, get a job painting houses because after a while the word would get out that this DBA is never at work and I would be unable to find employment in my field; and then one day an art dealer would walk by, admire my masterly work on some millionaire’s facade, and ask me to paint a couple of canvasses for her gallery. Fame and fortune would ensue, and I would be too good to hang out with the folks at the SDMB.
Just another example of how marriage destroys artistic expression and freedom.
During the week I go to bed at around 2:00 am, then get up around 6:30. I’m always tired during the week, but I really need a certain amount of solitude to stay sane, and night time is the only time I can enjoy the quiet. On the weekends, I go to bed anywhere from 2:00 to 6:00 am depending on my mood/how tired I am. But then I get to sleep till noon usually. What really gets to me is the one weekend a month I have to go to drill for the Air Guard. 12 days of work in a row on short sleep seems to pile up on me, and I sometimes have to take an early night on that stretch.
I have no set schedule. I work nights, sleep during the day. When I get off of work Monday morning, I stay up till about noon, then sleep straight through to Tuesday morning. I will usually be up by 6AM on Tuesday, and I try to stay on a day schedule, going to bed at midnight.
I usually feel best when I’m in bed between 10 & 11, and let myself wake up naturally at around 7am. I’m miserable if I try to use an alarm clock - it just doesn’t work for me.
When the wife and kids are out of town, I tend to stay up until 3 or 4 am reading, and then try to drag my sorry self into work by 9:30 or so the next day.
Most nights, the kids are asleep by 10 or 10:30, I’m in bed by 11:30 or so, and typically put down the book and turn off the light around midnight. My son usually wakes me up between 7 and 7:30.
I’ve seen what happens when I have no external constraints on my schedule, and it ain’t pretty. Between my first and second year of grad school, I sublet an apartment from one of my professors, who was spending the summer in England. I had no job, no classes, no money, and only a few friends who were in town during the summer. I also had both my books and the professor’s at my disposal. I would typically stay up for around 30 hours at a time, reading until I simply couldn’t stay awake any longer, and then sleep for 16-18 hours. I finished Eco’s The Name of the Rose essentially in one sitting (I ate and moved around from time to time, of course). I’d read two or even three Dashiell Hammett novels in one “day”.
Regardless of how much sleep I’ve had or what time I got up, I’m typically at my most alert and productive between 8 or 9 pm and about 4 am. Unfortunately I haven’t found any sufficiently remunerative occupations that allow for such a schedule.
midnight, one, two, three…
I used to have to go to bed at 9 so I could get up at 5 to commute and be at work at 7. Now I have an office across the street from my apartment so I can get up at 8:15 to be here at 8:30. This is a very good development since, without outside influence, I would stay up all night and sleep all day. I would prefer not to be like this, but I can’t help it. I toss and turn until morning starts to creep in and then I’m dead to the world.
It’s just about my bedtime now. I usually go to bed at about 1 or 2 am then wake up at about 7 or 8. If I had my way, I’d stay up til 3 or 4 and wake up at noon.
I sleep very little . I usually stay up till around 1 or 2am and get up to go work at 5:30am. Sometimes I just don’t go to sleep at all.
When I’m working nights which is every 2[sup]nd[/sup] month the am changes to pm .
Every few months however my body just gives up for a day or two . I also think I’m quite depressive so that may have something to do with it.
Wow, I’m the first “lark” to post in this thread. My whole life I’ve gone to bed around 9:00, read for half an hour, and then I’m up by 5 or 5:30 a.m. Can’t change to save my life. However, you can sure get a lot done in the early morning before anyone else is awake (except vacuuming or lawn-mowing).
I’m a night person. Bedtime before I moved out here, when I had to be up at 7 am to get to work was usually no earlier than 1 AM, as many a SD Chat visitor can attest to, and sometimes as late as 4 AM. Ironically, now that I am currently not working(for another couple of weeks, at least), and I can sleep in until 9 AM or so, I am in bed by 12. Well, I’m in bed by 12, asleep by 1 or 2.
I’ve always been a night person. I am never alert in the mornings, even when awake and pumped full o’ caffeine. I often get tired between 6-8 PM (good nap time!), followed by being very awake until at least 3 AM. Been that way since I was born. I also have had to get up early for regularly scheduled jobs, but never was at my peak that way. And even if I got up early, I still seem to get a second wind when the sun goes down. When I did freelance work, I’d always schedule meetings late in the day, and commonly worked until dawn.
Funny, I was born and raised on East Coast time, and just recently moved to the Northwest, and yet after only a few days here I had adjusted to being up late at night. Obviously the biological clock is relative to the sun.
I cannot get to sleep before midnight, and usually closer to 1 am. Unfortunately, I have to get up by 6:30 (at the absolute latest) in order to make it to work on time. Bleah.
I fall asleep anywhere between 11:30pm-3am, and i wake up for school at 6:20am. its not fun aloit of the times, but one can train themselves to function on little sleep
If I’m going to be in my office for the day, then I generally go to sleep anytime between midnight and 2 am. I get to work about 9:30 and try to leave by 7:00 pm. If I end up staying longer, then my bedtime that night usually gets pushed back. I guess I need time to decompress.
If I’m catching birds, then it varies according to sunrise and how long it takes me to get to the study site and set up my nets. When I was catching birds up at High Point State Park during the fall or spring, I’d leave at 2:30 in the morning to have the nets open by sunrise. Yuck. This year sites have been closer and I’ve been leaving about 4:30 am. Thank god I live in central New Jersey and that it is a small state.
“Fifteen minute afternoon naps” are words I snooze, er, swear by. And since I’m catching birds tomorrow…Goodnight everybody!
Major brain fart - obviously I haven’t been getting enough sleep. Spring or fall should read summer. Now I’m really going to bed.
My recent victory over insomnia saw me establish a pattern of going to bed around midnight for a 6am rise, but alas the victory was short-lived. Now sleeping time is 4am-6.30am.
With you on that, dpr. It’s now 5.20am and bed is just calling. Can’t seem to do good work in the daytime no matter how hard I try.
My mind doesn’t particularly want to be a night owl (hoot, hoot) but my body says it does. Hey ho.