What time do you get up in the morning?

There are so many larks here. I have only ever got up early when I had to for work or small children.
My natural wake up time is around 8.30.

I usually wake between 6.00am and 6.30am and I am another extreme lark. DD (and one of my aunts) are/were extreme owls.

Left to her self DD gets up around 12.00am and goes to bed around 2.00-3.00am, and at times even later (earlier?).

This caused a lot of problems when she was a teenager because she tells me now she felt neglected. The problem being that while I was happy to talk early in the evening around evening meal time and just after, she really was at her most animated and chatty at 10.00pm and later, at which time I was dead tired and needed to get to bed and certainly did not want to start having long discussions.

I'm up as soon as I waken, normally between 6 or 7am. The dog is still normally asleep in the hallway and stays there until I coax her to get up for her walk.

So many early birds on here! I am a wise old owl, usually get up at 9am that is 8am UK time. I never go to bed earlier than midnight, dont always sleep right away, so it maybe 1 am before I drop off.
All my working life I was up early, so now its a treat not to have to.

I don't know whether early risers feel superior any more.

They certainly used to. I spend most of my teenage years and young adulthood being made to feel that it somehow was less virtuous to get up late and go to bed late, which suited me, than to rise early and go to bed early.

I always suspected this attitude came mainly from people whom force of circumstances had turned into early risers. Mothers of infants, or people who had to be at work an hour or so earlier than most others.

I have always been able to be on time for work, whether it started at a time that suited me or the reverse.

I don't understand why anyone should feel it is better to rise early, even if this does not suit you, just in order to be finished with your day's work at an early hour.

Perhaps someone can explain this attitude?

My bladder wakes me at around 6 or 6.30, I make a cup of tea and return to bed until about an hour later. I prefer to get jobs done in the morning when I'm at my best. If I get up too early I start to flag mid-evening.

I wake at 7 and reach for my book.This morning I had to take two painkillers ( neck pain ) and fell back to sleep until 10 am.Could not believe it! Have just taken another two painkillers so no doubt will nap at some point. Neck pain is a real pain in the neck!!

Well, I have never been a lark, though my husband is. He’s up, had a run and made some bread by 7.

I don’t go to bed until anywhere between 2 and 4.30 depending, so I usually get up around 10. This has always been my comfortable time. I can be happily pursuing my hobby at 3 am. Watching the hedgehogs or whatever. I see things my husband misses. It takes me hours to get to sleep, especially at the moment when I have insomnia, but also ages to wake.

my theory is that way back, in our cave dwelling days, some people were night owls for a reason. Some of us stayed awake to guard at night, naturally.

I was often bleary eyed at work, and yes, people do make you feel ‘lazy’ etc. But I have accepted it is my natural way. I probably spend less time in bed sleeping than many larks, but I am the one sometimes made to feel ‘bad’ for getting up late. Just go with it.

My DH gets up around 5, I'd prefer to sleep until 8 but we compromise on 7.30. I think he actually likes the time to himself.

Weekdays 6.45 but its nit me filling threads up as I don't normally come on until much later

Usually between 8-8.30 am but 6am this morning as grandson had a sleepover! Yawn ? ? x

It’s a long long time since I woke with that warm cosy feeling and could drift off. Although I don’t sleep too badly for some time I have woken 5.30-6.00 with dreadful ‘butterflies’ in my stomach. Sometimes I can deal with this by going to the loo and getting back to bed....but how I wish I could remedy this. Having been made redundant and lost my husband in the last three years I read my paper in the morning which takes ages! Makes me late up which is a bit of a waste of a day!! I know the’butter flies’ is due to fight or flight but not really frightened of anything!
Anyone got any suggestions?!

I am also into extreme larkism, I get up at 04:30 every day.

It started when I developed sleep issues leading to "insomnophobia" and anxiety and depression, following (successful) cancer treatment: either I couldn't get to sleep or I couldn't stay asleep or both.

I decided that instead of lying awake and anxious at 04:30 I'd just get up and get on, and now I'm usually asleep by 21:00 and up at 04:30.

It wouldn't occur to me to think that I was better than an owl but I always feel a sense of having given myself extra hours in the day to enjoy. And in the early days of "Take your dog for a walk as your socially distanced exercise for the day", I was very compliant - I almost never meet a soul.

I've read that people used to go to bed at sunset and rise at sunrise, but that they were also awake and active in the middle of the night. I'm often awake around 3am and others say they are too.

I’ve been awake 40mins approx.
I’ve retired and no interest in making the clock my boss.
For many years (50) it was early rising, children, school then my work place.
Now it’s my time - 10am is fine, whenever my eyes open. My husband is an early riser and he’s busy when I’m still in the land of nod. We have a huge bed and I’m oblivious to him getting up ready fir the day.
I’ve retired and living the dream!

I’m still working full time and as a result am very very lazy at weekends !

It depends whether I’m having my grandsons before school or not. 06.00 if I am, 08-09.00 in the winter, if not. I don’t sleep well - thank you, Bladder - but these light mornings see me rising earlier than that on my grandson-free days.

Er, it’s 10.47 and I’m still in my dressing gown. ?
I’ve been up for ages, though, reading the paper and doing crosswords etc.
I really am going up for a shower now, though.

Me too. I’m so pleased I’m not the only on on here! It’s just the way my body works. I had to get up early the other day for a delivery and I felt dreadful all day. I say to people I’m not slothful, I get the same amount of sleep as anyone else, just at different times.

Tend to wake up by 9ish. Husband brings up brekkie and his coffee shortly after. Depending on the day we may stay ensconced for a couple more hours. Though having said that I am often doing projects at 9 pm. Rarely asleep before 2 am

I’m shocked by all you early birds. If I were up that early I wouldn’t have the energy to fill all those daylight hours with anything productive. There’s only so much physically that I can achieve. We wake early but after tea we read and write in bed. Why not?

We go to bed around 11.45, read till 12.30 and are awake at 7.00 ish. Mr R complains we go to bed too late, but I have always gone to bed at this time or later. We are up by 8.00, I don't like to waste my own time now I am retired. I certainly sleep more soundly now without the stress.

Getting up time has changed for us with the arrival of the pandemic. Our radio alarm wakes us with BBC Radio 4 at 5.50am and sometimes I am awake waiting for it! Getting up is a different matter. DH retired very recently but prior to that, on working days was up by 6.30am and leaving the house around 7.30am. Prior to pandemic I took DGD to before school childminder fir 7.45am so up early. Since then it has varied hugely depending on whether school wass closed or open. Currently we take her straight to school for 8.50am so up by 7.30am, except that since last September I have been virtually immobilised by osteoarthritis and am now 3 weeks on from hip replacement so I spend rather a lot more time in bed although awake, as the days seem so long when there are severe limits on what I can do. Still in bed by around 10pm though.

I used to work permanent night shift.
When I retired I found it difficult getting to sleep when DH went to bed at 10pm. We have separate rooms now, as we disturb each other when we are together.
I go to bed at 10:30 - 11pm. Usually read for a while and settle by about midnight.
I get up between 8 and 8:30. Sometimes a bit later. Today it was 9am.

Unless I'm doing Nanna duties when I do the school run, I usually get up 8.30 - 9.am. However I do stay up late 12 -1am watching tv or music on YouTube. I'm retired now so not a slave to the alarm clock ?