Do you get up real early?

I usually wake up between 3 and 4, don't really sleep much between then and 5:15 when it's time to get ready for work. On off days I try to "sleep in" to maybe 6:30 or 7.
 

When I was working, I usually had to get up at around 4-5am, sometimes earlier depending on my shift. Now that I'm retired, I like to sleep in and never get up really early. I would say I'm usually up around 8 or 9am. Sometimes I let the dog out and back in at 6 or 7, then go back to bed for a few more winks. :sleep:
 
Bullie76 said:
You must go to bed at 6pm. A little early for me.

This time of the year I'm up by 6:30 because its hot and my golf group plays early to beat the heat. Winter time I sleep to 7:30 or so.
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I usually take a nap around 1PM (wife watches soaps and I refuse to get hooked1). Go to bed around 9/10PM..

Work outside,weather permitting, until around 11/12 when it starts getting too hot...
 

Well it is now 7 AM and I have been up since 5 AM, had my coffee and have been on my puter checking credit card, banking, investments, facebook, email, calendar. Off to the shower shortly and then some fruit for breakfast.
 
Everyone here gets up so early. Since I don't start work until 12:00 noon, I stayed up late and got up about 9 or 10 am. I'd always been a night owl.

After I came home from the hospital after a surgery the end of April, I too, have been going to sleep early and getting up early usually between 6:30 and 7:30 am.
 
I'm a serial napper. I found I can't really sleep for more than about 4 hours at a time, so I accept that and work my days and nights around my need for a restorative nap.
 
To bed around 11, wake at 1:30 & go back to sleep around 4:30. Wake again anywhere between 6:30 or 8:25. The latter is an alarm. I don’t let myself sleep any later than this. Whenever I manage 7.5 to 8 hours I feel wonderful.

The only good thing about winter is the dark mornings. It’s easier for sleeping.
 
In my 20's I wasn't an early riser could sleep in til maybe 9,those days are gone
When I was working part time at hosptial,would get up around 5:30 have my breakfast then walk to work which started at 7
I now get up anywhere from 6-6:45am,love going out on my early walks perfect way to start my day
 
Solitude & quiet is why I like to rise before the rest of the world. Granted it only lasts for an hour before the millions jump in the buggies and streak to their place of work to earn money to pay bills. My second story balcony overhangs a two lane street so at 5AM it is empty and eerily quiet just waiting for the wheels to starting rolling over them once again. Another reason to rise before the sun is to go to stores and whatever before the crowds get there, especially important now.
 
I usually get to bed around 2-3am & get up around 7-8am. Sometimes, I'm unable to sleep at all, so I just walk around the house, watch TV or play the piano.
It's not easy for me to sleep because of severe tinnitus & blood sugar swings which means I have to get up to snack when I'm low, or get up to take more insulin when I'm high.
6 hours is a good night's sleep for me.
 
Jules said:
To bed around 11, wake at 1:30 & go back to sleep around 4:30. Wake again anywhere between 6:30 or 8:25. The latter is an alarm. I don’t let myself sleep any later than this. Whenever I manage 7.5 to 8 hours I feel wonderful.

The only good thing about winter is the dark mornings. It’s easier for sleeping.
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Have you tried wearing a sleepmask? I wear one every night so light doesn't affect my sleep. I'm irritable if I don't get enough sleep.
 
Thanks for revisiting this old post Aunt Marg. There are a lot of new interesting answers.

I have changed since I started this thread in 2015. I no longer stay in bed till 8 or so and drink coffee. Now I often get up about 7 and sometimes earlier and drink my coffee sitting on the couch. I can't remember why I changed. Possibly because my joints and legs get to hurting if I stay in bed too long.

Or maybe I started when we got live streaming internet speed at our house. I signed in on YouTube on the TV screen and got my husband interested in a seemingly never ending supply of outdoor videos and so he watches the news at 5 or 6 and doesn't mind if I turn it after I've seen 10 or 15 minutes of local news.
 
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