# Sunrise: are you more likeky to see it because you're awaking or because you're still awake?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 14, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260 "2012-07-14T23:28:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/1 "2012-07-14T23:28:10Z")
See poll.
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### Author:  [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/2 "2012-07-14T23:37:07Z")
I’m an insomniac who works at home with some clients in time zones earlier than mine. So yeah, I’ve see the dawn more often as I go to sleep than when I wake.
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### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/3 "2012-07-14T23:51:02Z")
I voted for the first option because I was getting up in the AM as that’s the closest possibility but I believe that sunrise is either a myth or it should be. Not much that happens at that hour is worth losing sleep over.
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### Author:  [@Kasper1014](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kasper1014)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/4 "2012-07-14T23:59:34Z")
I voted for the first one…but mostly, I’d miss the sunrise altogether cause I’m still sleeping.
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### Author:  [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/5 "2012-07-15T00:14:29Z")
Yes, and yes.
I wake up before sunrise when I am on day shift. I stay up until sunrise when I’m on night shift. On days off there is no way I’m waking up that early or staying up that late so I miss sunrise.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/6 "2012-07-15T00:16:16Z")
Insomniac; voted ‘still up’.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/7 "2012-07-15T00:32:05Z")
During the school year, I’m up before dawn 6 days a week. No huhu.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/8 "2012-07-15T00:39:45Z")
Still up. I work at home, and can do my work any time I want. And there’s very little else in my life that has to be done at specific time. So I do my best work in the evening and all through the night. Lately I’ve been getting to bed within an hour or so of sunrise.
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/9 "2012-07-15T01:21:47Z")
I have insomnia but it’s the kind where you wake up at 2 or 3 and can’t go back to sleep. I am always up for the sunrise in the summer, and often am the rest of the year.
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### Author:  [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/10 "2012-07-15T01:32:01Z")
Parent of small children and also a working professional with a daycare drop off before commuting to work. So… sunrise, baby!
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/11 "2012-07-15T01:43:33Z")
In my flaiming youth, I believed that a sunrise was a lovely way to end an evening.
Now I’m an old fart, sleep a lot less, drink an AWFUL lot less, and my last job involved a 5:30 a.m. shift starting time.
Time is not our friend!
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### Author:  [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/12 "2012-07-15T02:03:38Z")
Work at night mostly, try to go to bed before sunrise sometimes the bod won’t cooperate
**CAPT**
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### Author:  [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/13 "2012-07-15T02:26:37Z")
Depends on the time of the year a lot - dawn is at 3-4am in the summer and 8-9am in the winter. In summer I see the dawn when I’m working, during winter I’m usually asleep by the time sun gets up. Often in December - January there can be 3-4 week periods I don’t see the sun at all. Last winter I think Christmas Eve or Day was the only day in December I saw any sun, for example.
Stuff like whether I wake up before or after dawn slowly loses meaning when you do eternal night shifts and often stop sleeping in one block. If I sleep 11pm-2am and then 7am-1pm, did I stay up to see the dawn or wake up to see it? If the 3 hours counts as a nap then its the former, otherwise it is the latter I guess.
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### Author:  [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/14 "2012-07-15T04:12:27Z")
I stay up to let the chickens out at dawn. This sucks during these 90-degree days because my sleeping quarters are not air conditioned.
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### Author:  [@listedmia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/listedmia)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/15 "2012-07-15T05:13:29Z")
My sleep schedule has been extremely garfed up lately. Both are equally likely.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/16 "2012-07-15T05:19:35Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> In my flaiming youth, I believed that a sunrise was a lovely way to end an evening.
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> Now I’m an old fart, sleep a lot less, drink an AWFUL lot less, and my last job involved a 5:30 a.m. shift starting time.
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> Time is not our friend!
This, but subtract the drinking and add a damnable cat that thinks 5:30 is a spiffy time for me to wake up. Stupid cat.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/17 "2012-07-15T05:21:39Z")
There is no snooze button on a hungry cat.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/18 "2012-07-15T06:37:03Z")
I voted ‘still up’, but I work 12 hour shifts, so I’m either at work, going to work, or recently back from work, depending upon the time of year.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/19 "2012-07-15T07:32:20Z")
Is this just a convoluted way to ask if we work nights?
It’s winter where I am, so the sun rises quite late in the morning. I get up early enough to see the sunrise during this season. In summer it’s less likely. Like most of the world, I’m guessing.
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-are-you-more-likeky-to-see-it-because-youre-awaking-or-because-youre-still-awake/628260/20 "2012-07-15T11:57:33Z")
When I was young and fun, I saw it because I was still up from the night before.
Now that I’m an old bag it’s because I’m getting up in the AM for work.
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