"Sleeping In"
 

Most days I can't sleep past 8am. No matter what time I went to bed the night before. Although I rarely go to bed before 1am. An ex of mine could go to bed at midnight, wake up at noon, take a nap by 3pm for maybe two hours, and then go to sleep for the night at 9pm. How can anyone sleep that much? If I go to bed at midnight or earlier, I'm up and ready to go by 6am.

So, what do you consider sleeping in? For me, anything up to 10am is sleeping in. After that I better be dead or in a coma.

8am

When I have to go to work, I wake up at 5am. Any time after that, on a non-work day, is sleeping in. If wake up after 9am, I feel like I slept half the day away.

I consider anything past 8:00 as sleeping in. If I stay up past 1:00 a.m., I can usually sleep past 10:00 a.m., but not much further than that. I think I max out at 8 to 9 hours of sleep.

i am almost nocturnal, or i was. i wouldnt rise until about 4 p.m. or so.

i've changed my habbits somehow in the past month. i seem to be waking around 9 a.m. or so.

My 7 year old son is my alarm clock. He lets me "sleep in" on weekends, so he doesn't come down before 7 am.

I'm the same, up at 5am so anything past that on the weekends is good, I've been waking up around 8-9ish lately and just laying there if possible till 10 but I also feel as if I'm wasting my day.

I get more than 6 or 7 hours sleep I actually feel like crap, the less sleep for me the better....not sure how that works.

Sleeping in is anything past 8am any day. 9am is about the latest I can stay asleep.

Napping, on the other hand, can begin anytime I've been out of bed more than an hour-and-a-half, and can continue up until 2 hours before bedtime.

Can range for me (bedtime) normally between 9 and midnight but always seem to get up around 7 even on wknds. Some days i do sneak in an afternoon nap just an hr or so.

Sleeping in is anything past 8am. I go to bed by 11pm every night. It is seriously rare that I stay up any later than that.

Guess what, king? You're getting older (gasp), which means you probably don't need as much sleep as you did when you were still a teenager.

I'm okay with not getting as much sleep. I get more done.

I usually get up around 5:30 or 6 on the weekdays so anything past 7 is sleeping in. I have to be extremely tired or sick to make it to 9am.

During the week, I get up around 6:00am for work, so on weekends sleeping in is around 7:30-8:00 is considered sleeping in. On a rare occasion, I may get up at 9:30am-10:00am, but then I feel like I am behind on the day.

Anything past 2 PM is sleeping in for me. I normally don't get to bed until around 7 AM anyways. Night shift sucks. :(

When I was in high school, I remember being able to sleep in on weekends until 1-2 p.m.

Now, I'm lucky if I wake up around 11 a.m.

These days I usually consider anything past 9:23:41 a.m. sleeping in.

Lucky for me my work is pretty flexible. I'm usually up until 2 am, and sleep until 8:30. Weekends I'm up till 3 or 4, and sleep until 11 or so. I'd like to get up earlier but have real trouble doing so, even with two alarms. Unless I'm really tired, I have trouble falling asleep, and once I'm asleep, I'm dead to the world. It does have some advantages, like not having to worry too much about falling asleep at the wheel.

Left to my own, I'd probably adopt a 26 hour day schedule, going to bed 2 hours later every night, but still only sleeping about 7 hours. I kind of did this when I wasn't working, except to reset on Sundays when I needed to be up at 10 for church, and then start all over.

Usually I'm working nights so I'm often not in bed until well past 3 or 4 in the morning. I generally wake up anytime between 12 and 2....so I guess anything past 2 pm is sleeping in for me.

Even if I go to bed at 4am. I'm still up by 9am. I wish I could get up at 1 in the afternoon.

Without fail, my kids wake up between 6-6:30am so I consider 7am sleeping in. Sweet, sweet 7am.

Ah well, they used to wake up for good at 5am and could be up for an hour or so around 2am so life ain't so bad now.

Yeah... Seems that people with younger children don't get to sleep in... ever. And I guess they don't even have to be young. My mom got up early every day it seems because I always had to be somewhere. School during the week and some sport on the weekend.


Thanks mom.

I'm pretty much the same, minus trouble falling asleep and going to church on Sundays :p I'd say anything past 12pm is sleeping in at the moment. It really all depends on how late I feel like staying up the night (or morning!) before.

Normal days I go to sleep around 11 and have to wake up at 6, but on weekends it's about 12 and 10

My wife and I have a deal - Saturday is her sleep in and Sunday is mine. So the other one gets up to feed the animals (ahem...children). Even so, sleep in is usually done by 8am. Normal day is anywhere in 6-7am range.

I'm usually up at 7 on weekdays, 9 or 10 on weekends. I consider sleeping in any time after 12. Such is the college life. =)

My sleep schedule varies due to my college classes, but I am up by 6:30 at the latest M-F. I am usually up by 7 on the weekends, regardless of when I went to bed; as I've gotten older I've found it difficult to make it past midnight. I guess 8 is sleeping in...I'm never in bed that late unless I'm very sick.

Weekdays, I have to drag my ass out of bed at the hairy ass crack of dawn (5:30am) in order to teach first period. Saturdays I try to be up to pray by 8:30 or 9am. Sundays my wife will usually let me sleep until 11 or so. But on summer vacations, when I can be left to my own devices, I revert to my body's natural rhythm, which is to go to bed between 2 and 3am, and get up around 1 or 2pm.

We do the same at our house. The only exception is my wife can sleep all fucking day and if I make it to 8:30am I feel like I've wasted the day. This past saturday, I went to bed at 5:30am and woke up at 7:50am. She went to bed at like 3am and woke up after noon.

She wanted to do the same thing sunday, but I was like.. nope.. your turn to get up at 6:30-7am and get the kids situated and the dogs out to do their business :D

I usually go to sleep sometime between midnight and 1am. My alarm is set for 7:30am and sometimes I'll hit the snooze button a couple of times but I'm usually out of bed about 8 and go to work at 10:00. I usually leave the drapes/shade open on my south and east bedroom windows, and the sun helps wake me up.
I call it a sleep in anytime that I turn off the alarm clock the night before and pull down the window shades. Sometimes I'm up at about the regular time, other times not. I hardly ever seem to sleep past about ten though. I may just lie there dozing in and out, not really asleep, but not awake either. Sometimes I'll grab the newspaper and read part of it in bed, then fall back asleep.:) What makes it a sleep in isn't what the clock says, it's that I don't have to get up until I want to.
If I'm really tired or stressed, I'm more likely to go to bed early than to sleep late.

Lindy

I am up for 7am each work day (thank you 8 minute commute!) so the weekend is sleeping in if it hits 8am....I am in bed most nights by midnight, oddly i go to bed earlier on the weekends it seems.

I'll sleep when I am dead....

im the same as WK.

even if i sleep at 2 or 3am im up by 7am.

on weekend if i treat myself its 8am, but usually im up earlier on weekends than i am during the week because ive got so much to do outside of work.

i find that if i sleep more than 8 hours i wake up with a back ache, so no more than 8hours at a time for me, max.

6am on weekdays and sleeping in is 8 or 9am depending on when I get to bed. I normally set my body to get 8hr of sleep. With my night-person gf, it's not surprising to wake up at 9am on weekends...

Anything after 5am. I have to get up by 4:30am (or so the husband thinks), but 8 out of 10 mornings I'm up by 3:30am. Best part of the day.

Until recently, I was resting at 9am and waking at 6pm. In an effort to reclaim daylight hours, I've forced myself to wake at 6am, regardless of the amount of sleep received. This typically involves slumping unceremoniously out of bed, strapping myself into a pair of rollerblades, and strolling around the neighborhood as the sun rises and my drowsiness fades.

Its odd how much the internal clock really plays a role in this. I'm the same as those saying they can't sleep past 8 am only on the opposite end of the spectrum. No matter how hard I try I CAN NOT fall asleep before maybe 3 am and I wake up almost exactly at 12:30 on the dot the next day. It doesn't matter if I'm out and about until 9 am I still snap awake at the same time sleep be damned.

8 am is sleeping in for me. but then again, that's what happens when you live the military lifestyle. my body wakes up a 445am everyday without an alarm clock.

they pretty much brainwash us.

I hate mornings. But my sleep needs have definitely changed in the past few years. I survive on about 4-6 hours of sleep per night.

I don't usually get to bed before 2am most days. Sometimes I try to be in bed by 12 or 1 but it's rare. On these 'normal' nights, I will get up at 8 (my work starts late).

Saturdays I have to get up for classes so it's like a week day really.

Sundays are my sleep-in day. Since many Saturday nights I'm out till 4am, the morning after I am usually only awake at 11am. If I wake up later than that (meaning no alarm clock), then I was really dead. If I didn't go out, I'll sleep in until 9 or 10, just to give my body added rest since I'm so busy all week. I can't get up late every Sunday, because it's essentially my only free day for everything from house chores, to writing my dissertation, to painting, to rehearsing songs, etc.

I can totally be lazy any given day and stay in bed until 12 if I want to. But I am usually semi-awake after 7 or 8 hours of sleep.

I don't know if I could ever cope with getting up at 6am every day. Ugh.