What time do you wake up?
What time do you wake up?
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SouthernBoy

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4,121 posts

239 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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I've started to wake up really early most days, about 3-4am. I'm usually in bed at 10pm and get straight off to sleep about 10.30pm after a couple of chapters in a book.

I'm not sure why I'm waking up; no stress or anything important on the brain. I don't think there is any external noise factors.

I tend to lie awake not being able to sleep until about 5am, before I give up and read the news on the phone. Up at 6am for work.

Curious if many others are awake early on a regular basis. I'm starting to think I may as well get up at 3-4am when I wake and do something productive!

13m

28,176 posts

253 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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SouthernBoy said:
I've started to wake up really early most days, about 3-4am. I'm usually in bed at 10pm and get straight off to sleep about 10.30pm after a couple of chapters in a book.

I'm not sure why I'm waking up; no stress or anything important on the brain. I don't think there is any external noise factors.

I tend to lie awake not being able to sleep until about 5am, before I give up and read the news on the phone. Up at 6am for work.

Curious if many others are awake early on a regular basis. I'm starting to think I may as well get up at 3-4am when I wake and do something productive!
I have the same problem, usually around 04:00. If I can get to sleep again all is well, if not I feel awful all day.

Rawwr

22,722 posts

265 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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5.50am

Normally with an erection.

ApOrbital

10,592 posts

149 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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3 am then 7am.

GTIAlex

1,935 posts

197 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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4pm today

Phil Dicky

7,194 posts

294 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Normally I'm awake at 5am every morning weekends included..weekends I can normally get to sleep again but normally I'm out with the dog so not an issue...although I'm just recovering from a nasty bug so sleep pattern is jiggered at the moment.

megapixels83

843 posts

182 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday I am up at 6:30am

Tuesday and Thursday I am up at 5:15 to go training before work.

Pretty much go to bed at 11pm every night unless I am out somewhere.

SouthernBoy

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4,121 posts

239 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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I do feel a bit tired by the end of the day if I have been awake since 3am, but not awful.

I am in work from 7.30am to whenever I finish, which is usually 6.45pm or so. Office based job, so I can drink as much coffee and have as many meetings during the day as I need!

SouthernBoy

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4,121 posts

239 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Rawwr said:
5.50am

Normally with an erection.
rofl

myvision

2,132 posts

167 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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5:00am then toss around until I get up at 06:00am.

paolow

3,262 posts

289 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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In bed at tennish.

Lights out at half past

Usually wake up at 3-4:30 for the gents

Woken finally by alarms at 07:00 that get snoozed for up to half an hour.

Work at 8 - first call of the day is for a latte

Usually back home by 17:00 to play games and cook / eat dinner etc till the whole dismal process begins again

maxdb

1,547 posts

188 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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About 7:30am. I'm not really a morning person.

SBDJ

1,335 posts

235 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Bed around 3-4am, up around 7-8am.

Disastrous

10,217 posts

248 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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paolow said:
In bed at tennish.

But I don't have a racquet!


I'm usually in bed at 1am, sleep anywhere between 2.30-4am (suffer quite badly from not being able to sleep) and up at 6.30am for the gym. This will be hellish if I didn't get to sleep until after 4 or bearable if it was more like 2.

Rinse and repeat. I'm of course utterly fked all the time but no amount of exhaustion makes me fall asleep earlier. The only things that do are a day on the mountains skiing or a day on the sea sailing/diving/surfing. Then I sleep like a baby.

GroundEffect

13,864 posts

187 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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In bed by 2200 hopefully. Asleep by 2315. Alarm at 0600. Actually get up, 0630. Work for 0715 latest.


Axionknight

8,505 posts

166 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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On a work night I'll be in bed for around 22:30 latest. In the morning I'm up and about for 5:30am for a start time of 7am at work, on occasion I'll have to be in for 6am though so I'll roll that back to a 5am wake up, argh.

21TonyK

13,380 posts

240 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Hydration? I'm normally asleep by 10, awake at 3-4 thirsty as hell. Once awake no chance of getting back to sleep again.

battered

4,088 posts

178 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Depends. I always wake in the night for a pee following a head injury that rewired my thirst and pee senses. Generally light sleep after about 5 but I do sleep. I can sleep anywhere, anytime, including standing up.

I need more sleep post injury, have to watch fatigue levels and allow catnaps as necessary. I'm a lark, 'Er Indoors is an owl. After dinner and wine I'm generally crashed out from 11ish, she will watch films and finish the bottle before scraping me off the sofa about 1am. Come 8am I'm bouncing about, she needs a nuclear strike to get up before 10.

In the past I had minor brushes with insomnia, the fix was to get up on waking, even at 3am. Go downstairs, cup of tea, iron a few shirts, TV, only go back to bed when your eyes are closing. The next day you will be FUBAR but you'll sleep. At worst you may have to do it twice. It works but it's kill or cure.

At the moment I'm up at a stupid hour on Monday for an early plane, 7 the other days. Weekends 8ish in winter, earlier in summer, esp in good weather.

glenrobbo

40,550 posts

181 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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SouthernBoy said:
Rawwr said:
5.50am

Normally with an erection.
rofl
Whose erection is it? biggrin

kwaka jack

270 posts

203 months

Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Depends. When I come home from working away after 2 weeks of getting up at 5am it's usually around that time but can go to 7ish as time goes on at home. Over half thinks I'm mental even I get up at 7 as it's still to early apparently.

Edited by kwaka jack on Tuesday 16th February 21:22