Today, 0505, to get up to workout at 0530. I normally have “cawfee tawlk” with the wife before I go, so we can say “Howdy!” before she goes into work while I’m at the gym.
On non-gym weekdays, it’s normally 0530, with the same “cawfee tawlk.” I’m in the office by 0730.
On weekends I slouch it up to 0700.
Tripler
Yes, I still work on military time.
Today I was out of bed at 0610. If not driven by work or some appointment it’s generally between 0530 and 0730, skewing heavily towards the early end of that range.
As we used to say in the service.: “We get more done by 9am than most people do all day.” Of course another military saying on Friday afternoon was “Just think; only 2 more workdays til Monday!”
So maybe not the ideal system to model your life of hedonism upon.
Retirement has made me lazy. I didn’t wake up until 7 am.
I’ve tried things like that. I’ve tried the “use the bed only for sleep, nothing else.” When I undertook that one, I bought a new mattress, pillows, and sheets, and moved the bed to a different position in the room. I DID NOT get into bed for anything bed sleep (I wasn’t married at the time, and didn’t even have an SO). No success.
I have a bedtime routine. Not sure to what degree the routine helps, but I think going to bed at the same time every night helps.
Something I’ve always been told is forbidden is having the TV on, but noise helps; a familiar show helps-- a new show where I’m excited and following the plot intently is wrong, but a playlist on the DVR of favorite episodes of a variety of shows-- or even several episodes of just one show, helps. My TV has two features that are great: one is automatic shut-off (can choose 6, 4, 2, 1, or 1/2 hours); it also had a “screen black.” When that is on, there’s no picture, just the dialogue. It resets when the TV has been off, so if I have it blacked and set for a 2-hr shut-off, the next time I turn it on, the picture is back.
I need some kind of noise, otherwise my thoughts race. Occasionally I play music, but music tends to get me thinking about things more than the 30th time with the same TBBT episode. If it’s raining really hard, especially if it’s storming, that will put me to sleep. I just recently discovered that there are YouTube channels that will play 10 hrs of recording of rainstorms, because they help a lot of people fall asleep.
'Course, what really helps is medication. I take an insomnia cocktail, none of which are sedatives, narcotics or hypnotics. One is a seizure medication I take a pretty high dose of, and I’ve never had a seizure, but I have irregular brainwave just before I go into REM sleep, which frequently rouse me enough to prevent me from going into REM sleep, and the seizure medication seems to fix this. I have an antipsychotic, taken in a minuscule dose, that wouldn’t actually help if I were psychotic; I have a tricyclic antidepressant, also in a small dose-- my REM phases last longer when I take it.
I also have a dose of short-acting Wellbutrin in the morning, that I take at a specific time in the morning to make my point of greatest wakefulness occur at a certain time in relation to my bedtime. The idea of it is to make it predictable when I will be the most ready for sleep-- too early, and I’m not depleted of the neurotransmitters that make me wakeful, nor producing sleep hormones, but too late, and I experience the “second wind” phenomenon.
I also take OTC melatonin.
I used to take Detrol so I wouldn’t wake up to pee, but after I had a procedure on my bladder, I didn’t need it anymore.
I check my blood sugar before I go to bed. I want it a little over 100. I have discovered that if it falls below 60 while I’m sleeping, I wake up.
Today I got up just before six. Tomorrow I’ll get up at 04:30.
If those times are PM, that’s pretty close to my schedule! 
When I had a regular job, before I retired, I would have to force myself to struggle out of bed before noon. It was rough!
No, I am not a “morning person”. To quote Dave Barry, my role model is Dracula.
Today, around 6. Yesterday, at 5. Typically, anywhere between 4:30 and 7.
I usually wake up by 3 a.m. or so, struggle to go back to sleep, fail, and then give up and get out a book and read until 5 a.m.
Today I woke up at 3:45 with a splitting headache. I’ve grown sensitive to caffeine, with the result that every now and then I wake up with a bad headache, despite having switched to tea. After some Tylenol and a mug of tea, the pain eventually went away and I went back to bed at 4:30 and slept until 6 a.m.
I usually get up at 10:00 am. Yeah, another retiree. The wife and I are late people, often watching movies until 2 or 3 am.
Alarm goes off at 8:00, I usually snooze and get up by 8:30 or so. Not a morning person lol, I like to wake up gradually and those few extra minutes of snooze are luxury to me.
I also cover my windows with aluminum foil… I figure a little bit of this, a little bit of that, could make the difference between going back to sleep or not.
The most common thing I heard on a Friday afternoon was, “Sir, housekeeping and repots are done. Can we ring the barbecue bell?”
Tripler
This was routine at 1201 every Friday.
I was definitely in the wrong unit or AFSC! Weekends were for more work.
I’m another one of us weirdos. My alarm’s set for 6:30 am, but I tend to wake up between 6:15-6:25 most mornings. This morning it was 6:18.
Weekends are basically whenever I wake up- I still tend to wake up at 6:20-ish, but I just roll over and go back to sleep for another 2-3 hours.
We got duty on the weekends in AIT if stuff came up, which is why, if nothing was assigned as of release on Friday, the people who had phased (passed a PT test, and were not on punitive restrictions), absented themselves as quickly as possible.
Once, I had a mild cold on Friday. Slight temp, like, 100.4°F, a cough, and a runny nose. It might even have been allergies. The medic asked me if I had weekend duty. I said I didn’t, but sometimes they continued to assign it all weekend.
He put me on quarters (you can’t leave you room, except for meals) for 24 hours, and on an A profile (can’t do anything other than walk to a classroom-- you can’t even carry anything over 20lbs) the rest of the weekend. I couldn’t be assigned any detail, not even CQ (you sit at the front desk in the barracks for a six-hour shift overnight, and then you get 12 hours recovery-- no duty or detail for 12 hours; you don’t even have to show up for formation).
Thank you, medic, wherever you are. Happiest weekend of my life.
Which time? I’ve slept three times already, and the day isn’t over.
10:15, though that’s earlier than usual. The landscapers have started in with the leafblowers and such, and I haven’t gotten used to noise yet this year. A week or two and I’ll be able to sleep to my usual 10:45 again (it’s an annual retraining thing). Last night I was reading until 3:30, which is pretty typical.
Yeah my normal waking time is around 10:45 AM as well, and yeah a number homeowners in the neighborhood hire someone to cut their lawns. Ergo: super loud mowers and even more annoying backpack blowers. They’re not supposed to do this before 9AM but all too many ignore this. I usually get my sleep cycle messed up because of this and if I get any sleep at all before 11AM ( for work ) it is fitful and unrestful and I’m groggy and pissed off. Not every day, but seemingly every day that my workday will be the most challenging. Earplugs help, but not enough.
The next time I’m on stay-cation and they do that I’m going to bolt out of bed, dress, and confront them. If they give me any shit I’m going to rat out the homeowner to the HOA.
2 pm. Don’t shoot me. 
I’ve struggled with insomnia for decades
and lie awake in bed for more hours than I sleep.
According to Ye Olde Fitbit, I fell asleep at 1109, woke at 539. There were 10 periods of wakefulness, mostly between 3-4. I know at least one of the brief eye openings was due to… the Fitbit lighting up.
That’s about average, it seems. Five to six hours, lots of wakefulness from 3-4.
The last time I used an alarm was almost two years ago, when I had to be awake three days a week at 415am. For someone who used to be a night owl, this whole waking up early is stupid.
Now, if I could just wake up all refreshed and chipper like is portrayed in mattress commercials, life would be swell.