Internal clock. (Waking).

[Mrs-M]

Do you have a natural time you tend to always wake? I'm talking naturally, without external/outside intervention.

For the most part, I rise early every day, mostly because I have to, but mostly because naturally, I'm an early riser.

Just curious as to the natural clock waking settings other SL folk possess.

[Marianne]

Agh. I wake early, no matter how late I go to bed. Most of the time it's the body telling me to get up to move around, or one of the dogs bark to sound the alarm though.

[Miss Cellane]

I wake up by 6 am, no matter what time I go to bed. It's sort of the opposite of those people who can't get to sleep until after midnight and need to sleep late every morning.

I wake up earlier in the summer, even with room-darkening blinds, because I know the sun is up. I'm in bed by 9:30 in the summer, or I don't get enough sleep and am tired and cranky all day. I can't take naps, either, so it's get enough sleep at night or nothing.

I haven't used an alarm clock pretty much my entire adult life, unless I need to get up super early, like at 3:30 am to catch an early plane flight or something.

[Float On]

5:45 a.m. on the dot. No alarm ever needed (unless I need up at 3 or something).

[treehugger]

Yes, I have a very strong internal clock, which is why the time change (at both ends of DST) is challenging for me. It takes me about 2 weeks to reset and feel adjusted again.

I am naturally a morning person, but I am also usually tired these days upon waking because I don't sleep well, and so am always running a sleep debt. I simply cannot "sleep in" or nap to make up that debt; my internal clock won't let me. *sigh*

Kara

[redfox]

My natural cycle is a late one. My preferred hours are up till midnight-1 am, sleep till 9 or 10, depending upon the season. I have been this way my entire life, and have been fighting it my entire life, as our society rewards early risers & labels those of us with a night cycle as lazy.

In my family of origin, there are two morning people and three night people. I'm super happy to be transitioning to working from home, as I can sleep in till at least 8! My DH, who is also a night cycle person, has to be at work by 7, so he's up by 5:45. Inhuman. Consequently, I try to keep his hours to help him sleep better... We're usually turning lights out by 10 these days. Easier in the winter... Summer, oh! We both want to stay up all night!

[treehugger]

My natural cycle is a late one. My preferred hours are up till midnight-1 am, sleep till 9 or 10, depending upon the season. I have been this way my entire life, and have been fighting it my entire life, as our society rewards early risers & labels those of us with a night cycle as lazy.

I definitely understand, redfox, even though I am a morning person. My DH is a night owl naturally, and he can be productive late into the night, whereas I am good for nothing after 9 PM. I agree that it is frustrating that people automatically veiw night owls as lazy and morning people as more virtuous.

Kara

[goldensmom]

My internal clock wakes me at 5:30 AM. Unfortunately, my dog's internal clock wakes her at 4:30 AM.

[treehugger]

My internal clock wakes me at 5:30 AM. Unfortunately, my dog's internal clock wakes her at 4:30 AM.

Ah, yes, the tummy clock. One of my dogs has one of those. He has trouble with the time change, too (but only the end of DST). When we got him, we had a heck of a time getting him onto California time from race track Colorado time.

Kara

[kally]

I think I am used to going to bed at 1 or 2 am and getting up at 9 or 10. But with these sleeping problems I had, I am endeavouring to get up at 7:30. That seems sooooooo early to me and the day is so differently balanced. It seems like the morning is so long.

So ultimately I will do what creates the best sleep for me. I would love to be a morning person, but have never really been one. Doesn't mean I can't become one though.

[Kestrel]

I think I'm normally a "stay up late/sleep in late" person, but my work has never allowed that. So it's habit now, even tho we're retired and can get up whatever time we darn well please. Except for the cats. <sigh> They think we should let them out around 6am and once we (or rather; I) get up, I stay up. I will never not have a cat (or cats), unless of course I wind up in a nursing home or something. Egad.

[ctg492]

Yes and way to early. We have never used alarm clocks.

[lhamo]

Morning person here. Always have been, except for teen years. I usually wake around 4-4:30, in order to leave the house at 5:30. If I am very tired sometimes I oversleep, but it is rare. On weekends I usually wake up around that time, but can often get back to sleep and sleep as late as 8 -- that is pretty much just catching up after a long and tiring week, though. If my schedule is more regular and not stressful during the week then I usually wake up around 5:30-6:00 on weekends.

I haven't used an alarm clock for years, except when I have an important meeting or a flight to catch in the morning. Ironically, whenever I use an alarm clock I tend to get horrible sleep because I wake up every 1-2 hours worried that I didn't hear the alarm! I usually wake up 15-20 minutes before the alarm is set to go off. I should just ditch it, but the risk of missing the meeting/flight is so great I keep using it. At least that usually means I sleep well on the plane on a long transoceanic flight (the ones I usually have to get up early for).

lhamo

[Mrs-M]

Great hearing from everyone! I wonder if aging adds to ones ability to naturally wake earlier? I know the older I get, the more poorer I sleep, but for years now (thanks due in part to having little ones) I think I've trained my internal clock (waking time) to a point of dialed-in permanency. Without fail I'm normally up between 5-6 o'clock.