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Demographics (age, gender, married, kids?)
33, female, married, 2 kids (5 & 11) -
What is your usual bedtime/wake time? How different is it from your preferred bedtime/wake time?
usual: 12:00am - 6:30am
preferred: 1:00am - 9:00am -
How do you feel when you first wake up?
tired and annoyed -
From your first wakeful moment in the morning, how long does it take you to feel awake and functional?
15-30 minutes, about the time it takes to get a shower -
Do you use an alarm clock? Do you hit snooze? Does it annoy your bedmate, if you have one?
I do
since the kids started school, I can only hit the snooze button once. Any more than that and we’ll be late
My husband isn’t generally home when my alarm goes off. He has his alarm set for 3:00am and I set mine for 3:15am (which I change to 6:15am after he’s up & out of bed). When our schedules were switched, he rarely noticed my alarm going off. -
If you could take a pill that would eliminate the need for sleep, would you take it?
I would take it occasionally when I have the need or desire to stay up all night. I enjoy sleep, though, so I would most likely opt not to take it. -
Do you have any nightly rituals that comfort you or help you sleep?
it’s not really a ritual, but I sleep so much better if I have air blowing in my face. It can be from a fan or from an outside breeze, I don’t have a preference.
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Demographics (age, gender, married, kids?)
56, male, M, none live with me -
What is your usual bedtime/wake time? How different is it from your preferred bedtime/wake time?
1-2 AM til 6 AM, it is perfect and rarely varies -
How do you feel when you first wake up?
Stiff, creaky, but wide alert, stretch immediately upon rising -
From your first wakeful moment in the morning, how long does it take you to feel awake and functional?
Seconds -
Do you use an alarm clock? Do you hit snooze? Does it annoy your bedmate, if you have one?
I do not use one, my wife wakes at 7 with one and it doesn’t bother me at all. -
If you could take a pill that would eliminate the need for sleep, would you take it?
If by eliminate you mean always be refreshed and aware…sure. -
Do you have any nightly rituals that comfort you or help you sleep?
Usually read 1 hour before sleeping, butI sleep with a CPAP machine, that I turn on when I start reading.
1. Demographics (age, gender, married, kids?)
33, male, married (9.5 years), no kids, two fish.
2. What is your usual bedtime/wake time? How different is it from your preferred bedtime/wake time?
During the weekdays, I usually go to sleep between 10:30pm and 11:30pm and wake up at 6am. I’d prefer to go to sleep a bit earlier, as I’m not a night person at all, but it’s the best compromise since I am married to a night person. Ideally, I’d go to sleep between 9:30 and 10:30pm, and wake up between 6am and 8:30am, depending on how tired I was.
3. How do you feel when you first wake up?
Unless I had a really crappy night of sleep, I usually feel pretty good in the mornings. I’m a morning person, so I snap to pretty quickly. My wife sometimes finds me annoying perky in the mornings. I can’t help it. I like the morning.
4. From your first wakeful moment in the morning, how long does it take you to feel awake and functional?
See above. If I have no obligation to be functional, it might take me 20 minutes. If I’m getting up for work, I’m fully functional within two minutes. Sooner if need be.
5. Do you use an alarm clock? Do you hit snooze? Does it annoy your bedmate, if you have one?
We use my wife’s alarm clock. I hate the concept of snooze, but since she uses it, I’ve started using it more, which I hate. Earlier in our marriage, we used our alarm clock. I never used the snooze button, but it was my responsibility to make sure my wife got up eventually, and we found that didn’t go so well.
6. If you could take a pill that would eliminate the need for sleep, would you take it?
Probably not. Sleep is part of a comforting downtime that I enjoy. I wouldn’t want my life full for 24 hours a day.
7. Do you have any nightly rituals that comfort you or help you sleep?
Nothing concrete, although I suppose we almost always watch 30 minutes to an hour of TV before we pass out.
1. Demographics (age, gender, married, kids?)
27, female, married. No kids.
2. What is your usual bedtime/wake time? How different is it from your preferred bedtime/wake time?
I don’t have a set schedule right now - I get up anywhere from 7am-11am and go to bed no earlier than midnight and usually much later. I’m a natural night owl, in a diurnal world.
3. How do you feel when you first wake up?
Like crap. Sore, tired, hate the world and everyone in it unless they’re bringing me coffee.
4. From your first wakeful moment in the morning, how long does it take you to feel awake and functional?
As long as it takes for me to drag myself to the kitchen to make coffee and imbibe. At least half an hour. Try as I might, I don’t really feel right until the early afternoon.
5. Do you use an alarm clock? Do you hit snooze? Does it annoy your bedmate, if you have one?
I have an alarm clock and use it. Sometimes I even get up when I optimistically set it for the butt-crack of dawn. I am pretty disciplined about the snooze button use - I only use it once, at most. As for annoyance - well, my snooze button use is a tradeoff with his ability to ignore the alarm for 5+ minutes at a time.
6. If you could take a pill that would eliminate the need for sleep, would you take it?
No - I actually like sleeping.
7. Do you have any nightly rituals that comfort you or help you sleep?
Nightly hygiene stuff - wash face, brush teeth, lotion my feet. Carefully sandwich my head in between the foam pillow with the feather pillow over my head to drown out the world. Ah, sweet oblivion!
For the two of you still reading this, I wanted to clarify this. I meant that we use my wife’s alarm clock, and she’s in charge of the snooze, but I’ve begun to rely a little bit on her hitting the snooze. We used to use MY alarm clock, but she hated the sound of it, and I hated having to worry about getting ready AND making sure she was awake enough to get going as well.
- 26, female, married, no kids but two cats
- Usually head to bed around 2-3am, wake up anywhere between 8am and 11am
- Depends on if I’ve woken up on my own or been woken by external forces (alarm clock, husband, construction, etc.). On my own is good and ready to roll, external forces create zombie grouch.
- See above - zombie grouch will usually last until I get through a shower.
- Yes, sometimes, and no, the husband gets up around 5 am. I have totally perfected the art of sleeping right through his alarm and morning routine.
- Depends on the side-effects, if any, but I am generally in favour of less time spent unconscious.
- Not really. I stay up until I’m tired.
**1. Demographics ** 44, female, married, kids are grown and gone, cats
**2. What is your usual bedtime/wake time? ** 11 pm to 4:30 am, if I’m lucky. How different is it from your preferred bedtime/wake time? About an hour short.
3. How do you feel when you first wake up? Surly. Speaking to me is not suggested.
4. From your first wakeful moment in the morning, how long does it take you to feel awake and functional? 1 cup of coffee, 1 cigarette. 2 cups of coffee before I start to resemble any form of happy.
5. Do you use an alarm clock? Yes Do you hit snooze? Oh hell yes! **Does it annoy your bedmate, if you have one? ** No, he’s already been up and around for at least an hour.
6. If you could take a pill that would eliminate the need for sleep, would you take it? No. If I could take a pill that would make me sleep or at least fall asleep easily, without any side effects (like addiction), I’d take it every single night of my life, and twice on weekends. I love to sleep.
**7. Do you have any nightly rituals that comfort you or help you sleep? ** I’m more into my bedtime rituals than an OCD toddler is.