Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise

[pne]

In response to a recent entry I read, I thought I'd make a poll on bedtimes during the week.

I decided to use a scale with "decimal" hours, so 5:30 in the morning = 550, 11:00 at night is 2300, and 2:30 in the morning = 2650.

[Poll #1087168]

Edit: I'm amused by the ditemid of this entry! (The number part of the URL.)

Comments

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

It looks like I get up/go to bed when I mean to, but that's just because of rounding. My alarm clock goes off for the (third and last) time at 5:54 and that's when I intend to get up (there's a whole routine involved), but I usually get up between 6:05 and 6:15. I do wake up each time my alarm clock goes off if I'm asleep (I'm not always asleep when it goes off for the second time) so I counted that.

I'm really strict about going to bed because of my sleep disorder so I start getting ready between 10:10-10:20 with the goal of being asleep as close to 10:30 as possible.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I'm really strict about going to bed because of my sleep disorder so I start getting ready between 10:10-10:20 with the goal of being asleep as close to 10:30 as possible.

I think I should do that, too.

Without having measured it or kept a sleep diary or whatever, it seems to me that less sleep correlates with less motivation at work, a greater tendency to leave home late (which means coming home from work late, making it more likely to go to bed late), and a worse mood. And 10:00 seems to be about as late as it can comfortably get.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I believe studies have shown that the ideal amount of sleep is however long it takes you go to through 4 complete sleep cycles and waking during Stage 1 of the 5th cycle. For most people that's between 7½-8½ hours of sleep.

I try to make sure that, even if I get up exactly when my alarm goes off the first time, I get at least 7 hours of sleep. Eight is better (and nine is ideal) but who has time?

[pne.livejournal.com]

but who has time?

It's a matter of priorities, I suppose - most people make time to eat and go to work, and many people make time to exercise or play sports; similarly, they could make time to sleep if they considered that part of their life (or their health) important to them.

Though I'll admit that it may suck not to be able to do someting else you previously enjoyed (say, reading a good book for an hour every evening) because you decided that your body is better off using that extra hour for sleeping - or telling people that no, you can't attend your party, because you need to be in bed at X hour and your body is more important to you right then that that person's company, which might be hard to explain if they have different priorities.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Who has time to read? *g* Between the dog and, well, the dog, I usually have just enough free time in the evening to drink a glass of water after our walk and before going to bed—and that's with getting only 7 hours. I could probably eke out another 30 minutes, but two more hours? No way.

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

I feel like a bum because I have the latest "intended to wake up" time, along with the latest "actually woke up" time. My "going to sleep" time isn't much later than most peoples', so... :\

[afuna]

The time I actually head to bed isn't available on the list. These days, I'm lucky if I'm asleep by four; I usually am awake until five (that shall probably change when I start work.)

[lampetia.livejournal.com]

Haha your poll doesn't go late enough for the time I usually end up going to bed.

[pne.livejournal.com]

When's that, then?

And it wasn't easy deciding what time range to put - I could only cover about nine hours if I wanted to use a range with half-hour resolution, and I didn't really know when the latest is that people tend to go to bed! :)

[lampetia.livejournal.com]

That's ok. I'm an oddity because I work between second and third shift. It usually depends on when I get out of work and how soon I wind down. Usually I'm asleep by 4 or 4:30. Every now and again I get restless and can't fall asleep until 6 am. I'm always up before 11, despite how late I go to bed.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

Your earliest time listed for getting up is after I get up. I get up between 3:30 and 3:45, but I picked 4 because that was closest

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

Ha! This makes me appear terribly lazy, HOWEVER! I live in GMT +1 and often sync with an EST sleeping schedule. Those long distance relationships!

Also, I am currently busy studying for my MA exams, so I can pick my waking-up time. I can best study between 6pm and 1am.

[pthalo]

one problem that started recently is that i can't hear the alarm clock. it's set right, i just don't hear it. i also wake up to find that my phone has been beeping loudly every five minutes since 8am (at noon, or 4pm or whatever the hell time i manage to get up.) I just don't hear it.

I'm currently working on resetting my schedule. Which means I've been up since 4pm Tuesday, which I think of as "this morning". It is almost 4pm Wednesday right now and I'm hoping that if I go to bed around 8 or 9pm I'll be all set.

Unfortunately, I tried to reset my sleep schedule last week by getting up at 9:30am (after going to bed around 7am), but I slept from midnight to 4pm after that. So I'm not sure how well it will work.

I'm a light sleeper until I fall asleep and then my hearing shuts off completely, apparently. It started about a month ago. Maybe 2. But I'm thinking it might be getting better (my hearing), because I've had the new baby animals for a few weeks now, and in the past few days I've started to hear them. Degu's make a very high pitched bubbling sort of noise, and I'm usually not sure if I can hear it or not, it's just on the border of my hearing range, but I've been definitely hearing it, and I hadn't heard a peep out of him for the first week or two. I don't think it's that he wasn't talking because he talks quite a bit now that I know what sound to listen for and he chatters while doing activities that he's been doing since the start (like climbing the cage bars and prancing around and pouncing on the guinea pig (who tolerates it well, they roughhouse but nothing that I'd call fighting, probably because they were newcomers to the cage at the same time)

So if I can hear the degu when I'm awake, when I couldn't before, it might follow that I could hear the alarm clock. But I'm not sure.