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What time...

What time do you get up?

  • 6am

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • 7am

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • 8am

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • After 8am

    Votes: 5 41.7%
  • Total voters
    12
When I was unemployed for a little while, I kept staying up later and later every night. So I guess if I had no commitments, I'd be on a rotating sleep schedule, going to bed and waking up about two hours later each day.

This also used to screw me up on the weekends until I started forcing myself to go to sleep at a decent hour Friday through Sunday nights so that it wasn't so hard to get up on Monday mornings.
 
Well i have to be at work for 6 am every second week, and i still dont generally go to bed til gone midnight!! :D

Phil
 
Mort said:
When I was unemployed for a little while, I kept staying up later and later every night. So I guess if I had no commitments, I'd be on a rotating sleep schedule, going to bed and waking up about two hours later each day.

This also used to screw me up on the weekends until I started forcing myself to go to sleep at a decent hour Friday through Sunday nights so that it wasn't so hard to get up on Monday mornings.
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I actually think it is natural for humans to do this. sleeping on a regular 8-hour schedule each night isn't natural, and not usually the best way to feel rested. Unfortunately, work dictates life so that we must do everything on a schedule, even if its not the best for us physically.
 
Actually, I work best on an 8-hour a night schedule. Naps just make me feel groggy, and it isn't ever a good, restful sleep.

Everyone's different, I suppose. *shrug*
 
naps make me feel groggy, as well. I think what is supposedly the ideal is to sleep in four hour shifts. They've done studies with humans cut-off from the outside world and amost all end up sleeping in four hour intervals. Its rather interesting.
 
I could do that. I frequently sleep six hours or less and wake up rested and refreshed. And years ago I discovered the benefits of power naps -- short 15-20 minute naps that don't leave me groggy upon waking. I LOVE those. LOL
 
I read that it was a myth that the body needs 8 hours. Some people do but apparently everybody is differnt. Some need few hours and some need more than 8.

If you are sleeping 6 and you feel you need more, do you find yourself catching up and sleeping later on the weekend? I know I do tend to have a little catch up time on the weekend and sleep longer :)
 
The only time I sleep more on the weekends is if I go to bed earlier. I refuse to sleep in on the weekends, because it makes it more difficult for myself to wake up on Monday morning. If I don't set the alarm on the weekend, I will usually sleep about 7 hours. My needs have changed over time, though. I needed between 8-9 when I was in my teenage years, then began to reduce that time to between 7-8 during college, and now seem to be reducing that time again to between 6-7.
 
Caffeine is bad! I was addicted for a while (not to coffee, but to diet dr peppers), and when I cut back in a major way, I was exhausted for days. Now that I hardly drink any caffeine at all, I'm much more awake during the day. Surprising, but true. I don't have that much trouble getting out of bed in the mornings and I rarely feel tired anymore. I was surprised by the difference....but those first few days without caffeine were torture.
 
It is physically impossible to 'catch up on sleep' - sleep you miss out on, you miss out on for the rest of your life.

Cheers, Martin
 
VTChEwbecca said:
I'd rather miss out on a bit of sleep than a bit of life, though.
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I had a friend once who used to say, "I can sleep when I'm dead." That's been my Code every since. LOL
 
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