getting up in the morning

[cacian]

How easy or difficult is it for you to get up?

I am fifity fifty, depending on the sleep I got the night before.

[Alexander III]

Horrible, I can literary count on my hand the number of times I have woken before 12 this year.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Horrible, I can literary count on my hand the number of times I have woken before 12 this year.

Lazy get!

Hate getting up, really struggle with it every single day. It is made somewhat more bearable with the hotter weather of late but overall it is usually a struggle for me.

[cacian]

Horrible, I can literary count on my hand the number of times I have woken before 12 this year.

before 12!!!! how do you manage that? the rest of the world is up at Five AM usually!!!:Yawn::biggrin5:

[cacian]

Lazy get!

Hate getting up, really struggle with it every single day. It is made somewhat more bearable with the hotter weather of late but overall it is usually a struggle for me.

True it is much easier to get up when it is hot/summer time.

[Paulclem]

I'm an annoyingly cheerful riser. In the week it's about 6-6.30 am, as i have lots of chores to do and i need to be at work for between 8 and 8.30.

I have to say though that the edge has been taken off my early rising cheer as I leap from my bed and once more look into the abyss of the future and mentally scratch another mark on the etheric tally chart of my declining years....

A cup of tea usually perks me up again though.

[Buckthorn]

During the week I wake at 5:30 and crawl down the stairs, after 3 cups of coffee I start feeling half human again and then go for a swim before work.
During the weekend I have a lie in until about 8.

[Alexander III]

before 12!!!! how do you manage that? the rest of the world is up at Five AM usually!!!:Yawn::biggrin5:

I guess being an idle university student has a lot to do with it. I have few lectures a week, and all of them before 12, I always miss. Also every night there is a party, or poker, or a drinking/smoking session, so most nights I end up in bed when the **** rises. But it is not just me, all of my friends at uni are more or less the same. I suppose we ought to offer some prayers and offerings for the God's who have ensured that the majority of our lectures do not take attendance records.

[Sbright23]

Depends. In the summer, since I'm out of school, I could lay in bed for hours. However, during the school year, it feels as if the bed is embracing me, whispering to stay in its comforts and forget about my day. It is becoming harder and harder to ignore my beds calls.

[Snowqueen]

I’m a very light sleeper and I usually get up early even on Sundays, though I sleep late at weekend nights.

[cacian]

I’m a very light sleeper and I usually get up early even on Sundays, though I sleep late at weekend nights.

what's the latest you have slept?

[kiki1982]

Oh, don't talk about it! I used to be awake very quickly, but then in my mid twenties it all changed. I have changed into my father who can't get out of bed and would sleep all day, if no-one woke him up.

Because my occupation revolves around my living room/office, I get u fairly late every day :blush: and it hasn't got better since I use a smartphone... Now I don't even have to get my computer started to check my email...

I wouldn't make it as bad as Alexander, but I do have to confess that some days it's like 11?!

:biggrin5::coolgleamA:

PS: Paul, I HATE cheerful risers! They make you feel so inadequate...

[JuniperWoolf]

Horrible, I can literary count on my hand the number of times I have woken before 12 this year.

I'm usually exactly the same way, except this year. This year I haven't been to university and have been working a weird job so I can count on my hand the number of times I've gone to bed before 12.


what's the latest you have slept?

I once slept for 21 hours. I was awake for about 72 hours, then I passed out at about 6pm on a sunday and woke up at 3pm on monday. It was a personal record, so I made a note of it.

[Lokasenna]

I'm very much a morning person. I usually wake up around about 6:30, though it is nice to lie in bed listening to the radio first thing in the morning. I'm always up and about by 7:00 though.

[JuniperWoolf]

I'm very much a morning person. I usually wake up around about 6:30, though it is nice to lie in bed listening to the radio first thing in the morning. I'm always up and about by 7:00 though.

Eugh, my friend Rosie is the same way. Nothing keeps you from falling asleep at 5:30 am like an inexplicably happy girl in the kitchen, making coffee and singing along to the radio.

What time do you usually fall asleep, to wake up so early?

[Snowqueen]

what's the latest you have slept?

I slept at 11:30 PM last night; it’s not very late is it?

[Lokasenna]

Eugh, my friend Rosie is the same way. Nothing keeps you from falling asleep at 5:30 am like an inexplicably happy girl in the kitchen, making coffee and singing along to the radio.

What time do you usually fall asleep, to wake up so early?

Yep, that sounds like me!

I usually go to bed around midnight or so - 6 hours sleep ain't too bad...

[cacian]

I slept at 11:30 PM last night; it’s not very late is it?

Nahhhh that is perfectly ok I guess, it depends on how tired you are I suppose.

[cacian]

I'm usually exactly the same way, except this year. This year I haven't been to university and have been working a weird job so I can count on my hand the number of times I've gone to bed before 12.



I once slept for 21 hours. I was awake for about 72 hours, then I passed out at about 6pm on a sunday and woke up at 3pm on monday. It was a personal record, so I made a note of it.

wow....were you partying because that would be three on a trot isn't it?:skep:

[JuniperWoolf]

wow....were you partying because that would be three on a trot isn't it?:skep:

I was working for this big 24 hour race thing that comes to town, it's called the Death Race and it's internationally famous among the racing community. My dad's the head of security, so he put me in an oversized yellow coat and plopped me down in a chair by a gate with a walkie talkie and a book, that was a boring day. Everyone who's moved away from town comes back for the Death Race, the locals treat it like a big reunion party, so yeah for the next two days I was pretty much just all over the place.

[Paulclem]

PS: Paul, I HATE cheerful risers! They make you feel so inadequate...

Oh so would I, but I'm always the first up. So, in the greatest tradition of winders the world over, I flip the usual morning grumps and sing this tune whilst clattering the dishes. Wahey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLhtvUU64xc

[Alexander III]

6 hours sleep ain't too bad...

Wow, you have a good body. I can't stand to sleep for less than 8, and on average I sleep 10 hours a day. Sleeping 6 hours only would be to much of a strain on me.

[Desolation]

When I was struggling with depression last year, and early this year, waking up in the morning became some sort of hell. I'd often sleep for 10-12 hours, and wake up feeling like I hadn't slept a minute.

Now that life's coming together, it's getting easier to get out of bed. I'm still sluggish and half dead until I have my morning coffee and cigarette, though.

[papayahed]

I'm an annoyingly cheerful riser. In the week it's about 6-6.30 am, as i have lots of chores to do and i need to be at work for between 8 and 8.30.



Me too. I usually pop out of bed around 5:30 - 6:00 am and greet the coming day with a cheery "Hello Day, Glad to me you".

ok, maybe I just wake up around 5:30 - 6:00, but I am always the first one up. Even in college I'd stay out until all hours of the night and I'd still wake up early, at least by 7:00.

[Paulclem]

Wow, you have a good body. I can't stand to sleep for less than 8, and on average I sleep 10 hours a day. Sleeping 6 hours only would be to much of a strain on me.

As you get older you sleep and need less.

One odd consequence of this was that when Napoleon was marching his army back through Russia, the extreme cold killed younger men more often as they would fall into a deeper sleep and freeze to death more readily.

[JuniperWoolf]

^Funny you should mention cold nations. I read somewhere that Canadians sleep more in Winter, it's our biology because the darkness lasts much longer (the sun rises at about 9am and sets at about 4pm). That's true for me, I sleep for about ten hours in the winter, any less and I feel sick. I can't go for more than 24 hours without sleep without getting sick either. In the summer I wake up after about eight hours on a normal sleep pattern, and if I have to stay awake I can do 24 hours without even feeling it and can last for days before getting sick.

[Sancho]

^ I can tell ya that also holds true for those of us who grew up in southern latitudes and then moved north. (I lived in Alaska a while back) Driving into work at 5 or 6 in the morning during the summer I’d be anxious because the sun was already high in the sky and my subconscious told me I was late. In the winter, by contrast, I’d be fat-dumb-and-happy driving in at noon.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

How easy or difficult is it for you to get up?Hard to tell, because I just get up, that's all. If that happens at 5 am, (during the week), or a bit later (weekends) is of no significance: It is the waking up part that is the near death experience... Apparently, the morning paper cushions it a bit. I am not really awake when I get the paper, and by the time I have read it I usually am. I therefore conclude that waking up occurs while I'm reading it, and if said morning paper is late (I.e: my morning routine gets trashed) I get thoroughly peeved. Oh, I forgot to say that my alarm is set to 5 am, but I usually open my eyes a couple of minutes before it starts making noise.

Of course, both getting up and waking up is a lot easier during the summer, with sunrise somewhere between 3 and 4 am.

I usually go to bed around midnight or so - 6 hours sleep ain't too bad...Likewise, and if I get the chance I catch a 15 minutes quick nap during lunch.

Sometimes the pattern gets upset, of course. This last week is a case in point: We were audited by a very important customer, and I have spent a lot of time preparing for it in the last couple of months. So, last week I came to work at around 7 am and left at 8 pm. All went well, and now I'll unwind and stick to a more humane schedule again.

Things like this are usually the reason when I don't post here for a while.

/Claes

[cacian]

^ I can tell ya that also holds true for those of us who grew up in southern latitudes and then moved north. (I lived in Alaska a while back) Driving into work at 5 or 6 in the morning during the summer I’d be anxious because the sun was already high in the sky and my subconscious told me I was late. In the winter, by contrast, I’d be fat-dumb-and-happy driving in at noon.

That is confusing indeed although I am not clear about the afternoon bit.
Do you mean you drove late thinking it was early?

[TurquoiseSunset]

I have trouble getting up in the mornings whether I had enough sleep or not. It's a will power thing.

I usually go to bed around 23:30 and 00:30 and my alarm is set for 05:30 or 06:00. That's enough for me to be happy with, in fact, I usually wake up about an hour to half an hour before my alarm goes off. I'm wide awake then... I look at the clock, smile, turn around and sleep for another hour at least. I never really get up when my alarm goes off...I lie awake in bed and think about my day. If I do this long enough I fall asleep again, wake up with a start and shoot around like a rocket trying to get ready. I work flexi time, so that doesn't really encourage me to get out of the bed on time.

And then, even if I'm wide awake, I'm still grumpy in the mornings. I feel overwhelmed by noise etc. easily and get irritated quickly. I'm a total night owl. Most nights I have to force myself to turn off the light because I'm not usually tired (or I get over the tiredness after a while...if that makes sense).

[The Dilettante]

I almost cry when I think of the horror. I am quite the night owl. When I have no obligations I sleep very very late.

[Paulclem]

I wonder if sleep affects the length of life? I'm thinking about the lifespan limits of animals that have been tested/ measured etc so that they used to think that a mouse or a fly would have so many heartbeats in its life and then expire. I read somethng to that effect somewhere, some time ago. I wonder if it's true for humans?

For example, my wife always goes to bed earlier than me, and consequently sleeps a little longer. Her heart rate will have slowed during sleep, whilst mine will have been raised during debates on litnet. I wonder if that will mean she will live longer?

[Helga]

I wonder if sleep affects the length of life? I'm thinking about the lifespan limits of animals that have been tested/ measured etc so that they used to think that a mouse or a fly would have so many heartbeats in its life and then expire. I read somethng to that effect somewhere, some time ago. I wonder if it's true for humans?

For example, my wife always goes to bed earlier than me, and consequently sleeps a little longer. Her heart rate will have slowed during sleep, whilst mine will have been raised during debates on litnet. I wonder if that will mean she will live longer?

sleep long and prosper

[Annamariah]

I hate waking up. It never seems to be easy for me, no matter whether I've slept 4 hours or 14 or anything in between. Staying awake at night is easy, though. If I have to wake up early, it's a struggle keeping my eyes open for the first few hours (at least till noon), but after that it gets easier and I can stay up easily way past midnight. Of course, if I've been sleeping only 4-6 hours a night for several nights, staying up will be much harder. When I'm sleep-deprived enough, I may go to bed at 7pm and sleep 17 hours in a row, if I don't have to wake up earlier. Otherwise I rarely go to bed early.

When I was younger, I used to get up early. During elementary school I woke up half an hour earlier than I had to on purpose so that I could read for 30 minutes before I had to get up. Now I just can't do that...

I've been tired almost constantly for a couple of years now. Then I realised I've been taking antihistamines constantly for the past couple of years. I think there's a connection there... when I have to take double the amount in the spring during the worst pollen season, I need to sleep like half of the day in order to be functional.

I can't give up my antihistamins, though. I had to live without them for a week before allergy tests last autumn, and that week was hell. I was itching everywhere all the time.

[Lulim]

Due to my working times starting at 6:00 am, I get up at 4:00 – 4:30. But I like to watch the sun rising and sometimes on weekends, I get up even earlier.

[JuniperWoolf]

Aww, I think I'm the only litnetter who works nights. I'm always here same time as the litnetters in Europe.

[cranberry]

i used to wake up at 7am in the morning work or no work ... :) Now i just cant have to sleep back again ...dunno it also depends if ive been working my a** off then night b4.

[TheBaron]

I was awake for about 72 hours

You are aware being awake so long can kill you?

I'm either up at 4am fresh as a daisy, or I'm struggling to get out of bed at 11 and feel like hell. Some consistency would be nice, previously the former.

[Helga]

for some reason I wake up at 6 every morning now and force myself to try and sleep more but it never works cause I have to get up at seven. But this morning I didn't have work and my son was with his dad so I got up now at nine, and that was just because my dog found out I wasn't really asleep.

[PoeticPassions]

People always tell me that I'll get used to waking up early for work, but I tell you all now that I will NEVER be used to waking up early, and in fact, I will always hate it, and always want to throw my phone against the wall when the alarm rings. Unfortunately, my body has seemed to get used to it, as I cannot sleep in on weekends anymore, and wake up around the same time as I do on week days, regardless of when I go to sleep. But I always feel like I could sleep a few more hours on week days... And I don't even get up that early by most people's standards (I rise at 8 am).

I don't know... I definitely think some people need more sleep than others. I can't function well with less than 8 hours of sleep. And I have this BBC article to back up my hunch:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15999489

Genes matter!

''Experts, who studied more than 10,000 people across Europe, found those with the gene ABCC9 need around 30 minutes more sleep per night than those without the gene.''

[JuniperWoolf]

You are aware being awake so long can kill you?

Being awake for three days can't kill you. Anyway, from lack of sleep you'll go blind and deaf before you're anywhere close to dying. Trust me, if I go blind and deaf, I'll notice and make some swift changes in my immediate behaviour.