OT: Sleeping Habits

OK so i've been having a dicussion at work with regards to sleeping habits, early risers, night-owls etc.

What I want to know is how many people require an alarm to wake up in the morning. Working on the assumption that you get a decent 7/8 hours sleep, you're not overly tired. Would you automatically wake up and get up without an alarm, or would you need the alarm to still wake you??

Obviously the later you go to bed the later you're likely to stay in bed.

I'm the kind of person that doesn't have a structured sleeping pattern. I need an alarm to wake me for work. Most nights I get between 6/7 hours sleep, however if I didn't have an alarm wake me i'd likely sleep longer, and while I may wake up from time to time, i'd probaby just turn over and go back to sleep, unless i'd had a good 10-12 hours then it gets to the point where I can't go back to sleep.

I would imagine those with kids would be at the point where they wake up in any case.

I've always been able to wake up without an alarm and on weekends, I tend to get up between 7 and 8am which I consider to be more than enough of a lie-in. I need at least 7 hours sleep to function at work, so I usually turn off the 360 by 10 at the latest on a school night and if I'm out for post-work beers, I just go into work a little later.

Since living with my gf, sleep is much more erratic as, rather annoyingly, she needs an alarm to wake up and worse still she will always put it on snooze twice. Being woken up at 6am just so she has enough time to do her hair properly is a pain in the ar$e!

What time do you usually get away from work though Rich? As if I was to go to bed at 10pm, considering I finish at 6pm & 7pm it wouldn't leave much time to do anything.

Ive never needed an alarm. I go to bed about 12 midnight and wake up about 10am and i get up. Yet whats funny is after ive got in after a night out say about 4am im up at 8am without a hangover or anything.

On an average day, I leave at 5pm, but tonight I'm meeting a mate for a few beers so sticking around until he finishes faffing about. It takes me about an hour and 20 minutes to get home, but on the plus side, I get to leave by lunch time/mid afternoon or work from home whenever I wish, so I can't moan too much.

EDIT - "Yet whats funny is after ive got in after a night out say about 4am im up at 8am without a hangover or anything."

More often than not, if I'm out late, I'll be up after a few hours sleep, BUT I always suffer as the day progresses. Hangovers kick in for me in the afternoon these days.

I think I could manage on 10 hours a day too lol

I'm similar Rich, I usually start feeling tired around 4pm.

I sleep all day and occasionally go to my lectures.

/student

I need about 6 hours a night. Have an alarm but invariably will wake up around 7am, sometimes down to one of my nippers waking me up.

I need an alarm because I don't have a set sleeping pattern due to work. I do 8-5s one day then 12-8s then 3-11s and so on. Sometimes I get one day rest, other times I get 5 day rests.

So yeah, I'd be screwed without my alarm clock/phone.

I need an alarm, but even then I tend to snooze it for at least half an hour and turn up to work half an hour late, if I don't set my alarm I'm wide awake at 6. I need between 10 - 14 hours sleep a night to be happy, less than that and I'm shattered all day.... and I also have to have a nap when I come in from work (at about 1530 and then get up at 1800).

And I'm another one who gets in at 4 and gets up at 8 with a hangover kicking in afternoon/evening time =)

Go to sleep around 2am, wake up around 4.30am (on a good night). No alarm needed and I go for a 2-hour walk before leaving for work

Crazy insomnia, but it doesn't really bother me

I have a similar kind of sleep pattern. I generally don't sleep until 3am and I'm usually awake between 7 and 8 am. When I do sleep later it's usually only until 9-9.30 at the latest.
I worked night for years and slept for about 4-5 hours in the day. When I eventually left due to ill health I found that it had screwed with my sleeping pattern so much it took me over 6 months to get used to sleeping before 10 am and used to be awake for 2-3 days at a time.

I'm usually a 1.00am - 2.00am person and sleep untill about 7.00am. Do not need an alarm clock in summer as any twinkle of light wakes me up.

Sometimes, say twice a month, I lie in untill about 12.00 - 1.00pm. Usually on a weekend day depending on work patterns.

I'm usually fully functioning after 5 hours kip. For most of the day, anyway.

6 hours is ideal for me im awake till 3am most nights and auto wake up at 9 just a pattern i got myself into, i dont start work till 3pm till 8pm dam 26 hour contract. my mrs text me at 9 when she gets to work so i guess thats an alarm. different story when she stops here or me at hers were sleepy by 1ish cant think why lol.

I usually aim to get 8 hours but usually get about 7.5. Anything less and I start struggling after a couple of days of it, especially at work where the nodding off starts to kick in. Always set an alarm because I have to get up at a specific time to dodge traffic or get a certain train. Never set an alarm for the weekend unless I have to be somewhere specifc early. Since I get up at 5am weekdays for work I don't tend to be able to lie in that much but around 8:30-10 I usually come to (depending on how late previous night was.)

I usually get 9 hours of sleep, but my sleep pattern is messed up at the moment.
I lie in on the weekend though...

My 'normal' time for going to bed is about 11 - 11.30pm. If I'm staying up playing on the PS3 (or Vita in bed) it'll be more like 2 or 3am. I try to at least alternate nights of doing that though, so no more than 2 or 3 times in a working week.

Always set an alarm even though I get up relatively late for work (8am) as there was a period a couple of years ago which I kept waking up late. Often find that I'm wide awake at the same time during the weekends even without an alarm so I guess my body is quite well tuned to its routine.

TL;DR - I'm fine on 6 hours but prefer a solid 8.

I find it hard to sleep before mid-night, if i go up earlier i'll just lay awake in bed and get frustrated that i can't sleep. I need a few alarms to get me up in the morning, to snap the elastic band that keeps pulling me back to bed when i turn the alarms off/snooze.

Sunday is my lay in day and i generally wake up on my own about midday (usually in bed by about 2am) which gets me a good 10 hours sleep.

I usually get to bed about 11 and fall asleep about 12 and set an alarm for 7.30 which I usually have to put on snooze 3/4 times before I actually get up.

On weekends it seems no matter what time I go to bed I will wake up at 7.30-8 and be wide awake, a few weekends ago I went to bed at 5.30 and was still up by 8 when all I really want is to lie in.

I guess thats just sods law

I try to go to bed about 10:30 but it varies. I'm rarely still up at 12. I need about 7 hours a night and I use an alarm but if I've had a decent sleep I wake up about 5 minutes before it goes off. The weekend varies, depending on how late I stay up but usually I'm up about 8ish. During the week my alarm goes off at 6am because the days I do go to the gym I go before work. The days I don't I stay in bed until about 7:30 or get up at 6-6:30 take the dog for a longer walk than normal.

If I've had a late night I can cope with one night with no sleep. I tend to wake up at the usual time but am either sluggish all day or get very sleepy early in the evening. I don't drink so hangovers are never an issue.

I never need an alarm clock, regardless of when I go to sleep.

That said, on days where I don't have enough sleep, I almost always have to nap at some point or I'll become very aggressive and agitated.

My worst nights are when I go to bed with my creative cap on, but I'm not entirely sure how to progress....I can be laying there for hours until I jump out of bed to act on it.

I tend to go to bed around midnight/1am then get rudely awoken by Russ jumping out of bed.