# Your sleep schedule: waking up in the mornings **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sleep-schedule-waking-up-in-the-mornings/584538 "2011-06-06T19:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sleep-schedule-waking-up-in-the-mornings/584538/41 "2011-06-09T18:10:23Z")
> [@Khendrask](#): > > Goodness **Yog** … You would hate my schedule. > > Lessee - Monday, I set alarm to 12:30 AM (middle of Sunday night), so I can get to work by 2 AM. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the alarm is set to 3 AM so I can get in by 4:30. Friday is a free day, and I generally plan to do things early, but often end up sleeping till 9 or 10. Saturday, I have to get up at 7:30 AM, then I pretty much party all Saturday, stay up late, sleep in on Sunday till 10 AM or so, then party the rest of Sunday till I try to go to sleep sometime between 6 PM and the time I have to wake up the next Monday. > > Oh, yah, I’m a wreck, but /shrug… Yeah, no kidding. You and I are not compatible at all. I suspect my sleep schedule would be totally off kilter if I hung around you ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sleep-schedule-waking-up-in-the-mornings/584538/42 "2011-06-09T18:12:53Z")
Sleep schedule? Try mine. I start the work week at 11pm Tuesday night and get off at 9am. I stay up after I get off work until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon, eat breakfast and go to bed. Get back up at 8:30 in the evening and get ready to go to work again. I do that for three nights and get off at 9am Friday and have until 8am Saturday to go back to work for my 4th and final 10 hour day. Since I don’t want to waste Friday by sleeping all day, I force myself to lay down and close my eyes for 1 hour when I get home, just to make a transition from one day to the next. The short nap division between days is really important, I would be a wreck if I just tried to stay up, even though I really don’t sleep. Then I get up and am now a day shift type person and keep going as far into the day as I can, usually about 8pm and I am done. I get a good night’s sleep, get up and go to work during the day Saturday, and when I get off Saturday afternoon I’m off until 11pm Tuesday night. It is not hard for me to stay awake all night at all or to transition back to a day/night sleep schedule. The key for me was learning that I needed to sleep all in one block of time. I first tried coming home and going directly to sleep for a few hours and then trying to take another nap before I went to work that night. Doesn’t work. Once I have had a little sleep, even an hour or 2 I have difficulty going back for a nap. And I do not drink coffee, I think it tastes like burnt dirt. But I do drink a pop or maybe two during the night. And I actually love this 4 day schedule and enjoy the time off it allows. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sleep-schedule-waking-up-in-the-mornings/584538/43 "2011-06-09T18:17:56Z")
I’ve been at my job for 7 years. For the majority of the time I’ve had to be at work by 5 or 6 am. It’s only in the past year that I shifted my schedule so I could be at work any time between 8 and 8:30 am. You’d _think_ after all that time I’d be hardwired to wake up in the early morning, by 5:30 at the latest. Nope. Every night is a struggle to consciously remember to go to bed by 11, every morning is a struggle to obey the alarm clock, and every Friday night I’m out cold from midnight to 10 am. If I have even just a three-day weekend, by the third day I’m already back to a 2 am - 10 am sleep schedule. I’d probably be a lot happier if I had an evening job, but I really don’t have any desire to join the job hunters right now. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sleep-schedule-waking-up-in-the-mornings/584538/44 "2011-06-09T18:33:15Z")
Lately I have been going to bed at 2:15, settin my alarm for 10:15, and waking up around 10. Yay college! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sleep-schedule-waking-up-in-the-mornings/584538/45 "2011-06-09T20:42:05Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > My eyes snap open at 05:30 if it is a workday. For some unknown reason I can sleep late on weekends and holidays. Maybe it just requires more years of training. I’ve been working the same schedule for 30 years. Nah, that’s the way I do it too, but I’ve only been at this particular schedule for about 2 years. I just tend to wake up a few minutes before my alarm, regardless of when that is, and if I don’t set it, I don’t wake up. It’s kind of weird, but it seems to work. ---
**Author:** ![paul\_kamani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@paul\_kamani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paul_kamani)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sleep-schedule-waking-up-in-the-mornings/584538/46 "2011-06-11T08:13:12Z")
> [@paul\_kamani](#): > > I have no sleeping pattern and no schedule there for my sleep and rest… Because due to the job work and also some kind of the study with my job is continuing there… Also giving time to my family and friends in evening and night… Working and studying late night that’s why I can’t sleep well and properly… I have only 4 to 5 hour sleep from all the 24 hour’s… [Love Handle Workouts For Women](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CohEQ1ICL9g) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sleep-schedule-waking-up-in-the-mornings/584538.md?page=2)