# Waking up is hard to do. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741 "2001-01-06T17:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741/21 "2001-01-08T10:17:11Z")
I’m in the third group. My preferred waking hours are from about 3 or 4 in the afternoon until 8 or 9 in the morning. The closer I stick to these hours the more alert and well adjusted I am. ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741/22 "2001-01-08T10:48:29Z")
I’m in there with **Commander Fortune**. Course, working from 11pm to 7am helps. 😃 I absolutely can’t stand day shifts, meaning I have to wake up for work. Afternoons and overnights are great. Get home, hit the bed, wake up whenever, assuming there is nothing to do (there usually isn’t). Vis ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741/23 "2001-01-08T12:58:46Z")
What was the thirds group? Anyway, i guess i’m the second group.I am most definately a night owl. I’ve been one since i was a baby, according to mom. I HATE getting up any earlier than 11 am, and i’ll sleep til 2 or 3 on weekends during school. However, during this break I was getting uo by 5 pm (i’d go to bed when the sun came up, and get up when it went down…keeping the hours of a vampire). God forbid you wake me up at 7 or 8 am and want me to do a chore for you.I remember kind of yelling at dad one morning because he woke me up to use my phone line. I grumbled him it was connected to my computer and would have to untangle it from some other cords. So there I was trying to untangle cords when he goes "Oh, i can unhook it from the hall (there’s a connector connecting the line running from the jack, to an extension running into my room). Suffice to say I was not happy. I’ll also grumble and moan while I hit the pillows and curse the morning. But after I get going i’m fine. And yes, I despise you morning people. Quit asking me what I think about the morning…i’d rather be in bed. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741/24 "2001-01-08T14:11:59Z")
I am NOT a morning person. Even before I got sick, I could never wake up on time. People tell me now “Go to bed early, get into a pattern, and you’ll be able to get up in the morning.” Well, if 12 years of school wasn’t enough to get me into a pattern of waking up at a reasonable time, then going to bed early isn’t going to help. Besides, if I go to bed when I’m not tired enough, I stay awake all night, and get into a foul mood besides. I stay up until I’m about to drop from exhaustion, and then I go to bed, and read until fall asleep - I used to sleep with my lamp on and my book under my pillow because I’d only shut down to sleep when I was too tired to stick the book on the bedside table. Since I got sick, I’ve been worse. I fall into bad sleeping habits easier than good sleeping habits, and I find that I always feel more alert and energetic at night. I tend to sleep from 5am to 3pm at the moment, but this changes all the time. I can’t cope with less than 10 hours sleep a night. I wake up feeling like I haven’t been to bed. I can sleep through alarms - don’t even hit the snooze button, my record is one and a half hours of the alarm going off, and I only woke up because the phone rang 🙂 I honestly wasn’t disturbed at all by the alarm. I think I have a serious sleep disorder! ---
**Author:** ![Davidbw1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@Davidbw1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davidbw1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741/25 "2001-01-08T23:16:00Z")
I’m impossible to get up…once, my bunkmates had to nearly dump me, and my matress into the lake to wake me ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741/26 "2001-01-09T00:13:30Z")
Definitely a night owl, forced by hideous circumstance (i.e. earning a living) into an unnatural pattern of daytime functioning. I _hate_ mornings. Dusk is beautiful; never seen a dawn yet that was. Oh, I get up but I hate every miserable, annoying second of it. I have to shower in the morning, because it’s the only thing that really wakes me up and persuades me not to climb a water tower with an assault rifle. Breakfast? Like in eating food? :::gags::: No way. Pump some caffeine into me quickly to re-animate the corpse but no food looks remotely appetizing for at least an hour. Let’s just say that cheery 7 a.m. breakfast meetings are the invention of hellspawn. Veb ---
**Author:** ![dustMagnate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dustMagnate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dustMagnate)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741/27 "2001-01-09T14:36:49Z")
First group definitely. I am so sorry that things won’t work out between us TV. First Martha Stewart, now sunrises. May I still harbor a crush?😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-is-hard-to-do/48741.md?page=1)