If left to your internal clock, what time would you go to sleep and wake up?

If I just let my body speak, I’d fall asleep at 11 pm. and wake up at 9 pm. I need a lot of sleep, but most nights I get only 6–7 hours. Strangely enough, I tend to be most active between 9 pm and 1 am., so I’m an owl. I am not a morning person at all. I hate waking up early to the sound of an alarm clock. I have trouble getting up early in the mornings.

12am to 6am. I usually do leave it up to my internal clock.

If I left it up to my body, it would likely be waking up at 10:30 and going to bed at 11:30.
However, I stay up very late, as I have much procrastinating to do. Lucky tomorrow is a saturday.

4am bed 12:30pm wakeup

Go to bed at 4 or 5am, wake up at 10am. And then a 2-hour nap every few days in the middle of the afternoon
That’s how it always works out for me when I have a lot of time off from school.

Right now, it’s to sleep at 3 or 4 am and wake up around noon. Which has to end really soon because school starts in a couple of weeks.

It all depends on what I did the day before and whether or not my insomnia decides to rear its ugly head.

c: go to bed at ⅔ am and wake up at noon or 1 in the afternoon.

I would go to sleep when I was tired and awaken when I awoke.

Time would be immaterial.

My most natural schedule seems to be to go to sleep at 4am and wake up at 12pm.

That only applies when I actually get a full night’s rest. However, I notice that when I try to adhere to the “go to bed at night, wake up in the morning” schedule that most of the world prefers – I end up with wicked bouts of insomnia.

I’ve been left to my natural devices for a long time now. I’ve always been a night owl, but with no structure, I am far worse. Now I go to bed somewhere between 6 and 9 AM, and wake sometime between 2 and 4 PM. Luckily, I’ve been able to structure my life around that schedule, for the most part.

I was never a morning person my entire life. I am used to working either 2nd or 3rd 8 hour shifts or a 12 hour night shift. Even on my days off my natural time is usually bed by 6 or 7 am and waking up at 12 to 1 pm. Depending on circumstances it was very common for me to sleep at 2 to 3 pm and wake up at 8 to 9 pm. Either way I rarely will sleep at night. I am either working during those hours or just coming home.

I get sleepy at 9–10 pm and really start looking forward to sliding between the sheets.
I wake up on my own at 6:30 am. Sometimes I wake up at 2:AM (to pee) and will stay awake for about an hour. I can enjoy activities I can’t do during the day, reading, enjoying a good night sky meteor shower, watching the deer bedded down in the back yard, and turning the fans so the house is cool in the morning. That one hour is a great time to be awake.
Sometimes I drink 2 full glasses of water just before bed so I will definitely wake up at 2 am.

I would go to bed between 11PM and midnight and get up between 7 and 8AM. On Friday and Saturday nights that would stretch to 1 or 2AM.

After so many years in the Army, getting up at zero-dark-thirty, I suppose my circadian rythum is FUBAR. Left to my own devices, I go to bed around ten PM and get up around six AM.

when i’m on vacation i go to sleep around 1 or 2 and wake up around 8 work makes it so tough for me because i have to force myself to go to bed around 11 and wake up around 6 or 7.

on weekends, i may get up fairly early (from being still in the habit of waking up early) i may get up around 7 but lay in bed till 9 or so, which is glorious. it is about 8 right now, and i am in bed with the computer.

I used to be a real night owl, and I often stay awake until 1 am. No matter what, I wake up at 3:30 – 4:30 am, usually to pee, and can’t go back to bed. I will pay bills, clean up something, do a small chore, put in a load of laundry or fold laundry, answer e-mails. Sometimes I go back to sleep at 6:00 for an hour, but usually I’m at my desk at work by 8:30, and most days work until 8 pm. Even though I’m tired when I get home at 8:30, I hate the idea of eating dinner and going straight to bed, so I stay up until I can’t stand it.

I haven’t used an alarm clock in years.

Go to sleep about 3am and wake around 7–8am.

Fall asleep around 10pm, wake up around 5:30am.

The unfortunate part is when I’m on an inconsistent schedule, or have been sleep deprived, the natural inclination is to fall asleep around 3:30am, and wake up closer to 2pm. I suspect this is my body attempting to “catch up” and fall back into sync, somehow.

I actually did this for most of a summer once.

I fell asleep at 5 am usually, and woke up at 4pm. It sucked.

At this point because of summer vacation I’d fall asleep at 12:00 mdnight and wake up at 10 am

I would probably go to bed at 10–11, and wake up at around 8–9.

To offer a super go-go happy funny fact humans are actually innately programmed to resort back to a 24 hour day/night clock (though some believe it’s about 25 hours) even when having no stimulus with which to perceive what time of day it is. This was apparently affirmed when performing studies on the sleep cycles of people who travelled through deep caves for days at a time.

@Nially_Bob, please explain to me what you mean exactly, by, “resort back to a 24 hr. day/night clock.” I’m interested, I just don’t know, if I get what you mean. That circadian rhythms are innate? Ok, that founds plausible, if that’s what you mean. How was it exhibited in the studies? Do you have a link to the studies?

I’d go to sleep around 1 or 2 A.M. and wake up around 10–10:30 A.M. Unfortunately, life is not conducive to that sleeping pattern, so I just have to adapt to the real world.

Hey @zzc, it was indeed concluded from the studies that circadian rhythms are innate. While light plays a role in our day/night cycle it seems that generally we naturally understand when to sleep. Though it should be noted that this remains only a hypothesis.
I can’t find the specific study I read initially but i’ve come across a couple that are similar. I hope they can serve your needs:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1330995/
http://www.springerlink.com/content/026531661442wx38/