Thread: What sets your sleep schedule?

In another thread, Bruno commented that my "extra" hours of sleep are a luxury. It just got me to wondering about how much sleep people get and what factors determine the amount of time. So, if you like, please share with us (or me) how much sleep you get per night and why. Feel free to include any other info might be relevant.

I'm a grad student in education, so student teaching determines my wakeup time. I am fortunate insofar as classes at the school at which I student teach don't start until 8:30, but I get there at 8 to help set up and review the day's plans. I try to get to bed by 10:30, but that typically turns into 11. First alarm in the morning is 6:40, but feet touchdown at 7:00.

So, in summary:
Grad student/student teaching
2300-0700

I usually get about 6 hours of sleep per night. I am up by 5:30 or 6:00 depending upon my kids and/or my dogs. I go to sleep at about 9:00 p.m., but my job worries and workplace deadlines/stresses/requriements wake me up in the middle of the night more often than not, and so I go downstairs and work at 2:00a.m. for a couple of hours.

Matt

Two factors set my sleep schedule. Baby and Work. I sleep as early as I can, usually around 11 or 12 unless I'm working later and get up when I have to, usually around 7:30 unless the wife and boy let me sleep in when I need it. I get about 8 hours per night. Any night that I don't means that I suffer the next day and will eventually need to make it up. I used to sleep 7 hours per night, but that was before fatherhood. Of course, I'm not counting the times he wakes us up in the middle of the night which is thankfully decreasing now that he's almost 7 months old.

X

I actually set my schedule to enable me to get in a workout. We have a fitness center at my office, and if I'm in by 7:00 I can get a good hour and a half and still get home before curfew.

I get up at about 4:45, shower, shave (which takes a bit longer with the new equipment) and head for DC. It helps with the commute because it's before the main rush.

j

To bed - 23:00 or a bit later; Up - 06:15-ish...depends on the puppy. Getting up is followed by a mad rush to the door to get the critter out before the bladder gives way. Eat, shower, shave, let critter out again, and on the road by 07:30-ish. Get to the office by 08:00 or so and then sit and listen to tunes and drink my coffee until 08:30....time needed to decompress after dealing with the Non-Drivers around here (cell phones, lattes, make-up reading the paper, riding the brakes, going 10 under the limit in the left lane...you name it, we have it).

Weekends....same up time, but then back to bed once the critter is empty.

2 year old and 3 1/2 year old set my sleep schedule.

About 6-7 hours a night generally

I go to the gym in the morning so I get up at 5 AM and since I want 8 hours I go to bed at 9 PM.

Later,
R

Heh, mine is the complete opposite of most here. Most of my business is conducted in the evening, so I tend to go to bed around 3:30 AM and get up at 9 or 9:30 AM.

My sleep schedule has been all messed up since I started grad school again. I usually stay up all night cramming for exams or completing papers that are due the next day. I tend to go to bed around 4am and wake up around noon. All of my classes are in the evening and the hours for my GA position are very flexible.

No set schedule. I go to bed anywhere from midnight to 4 a.m. and wake up anywhere from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Don't ask.