maize Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 We got home late last night, past midnight and long past our normal bed time. This morning several of the kids and I were up and going at the usual hour, dh and two of the children are still asleep several hours later. It always happens this way--I am incapable of sleeping in, my body wakes up and says it's time to go regardless of how little sleep I have had or how tired I feel. Some of the children seem to have inherited this tendency (it is always the same ones who are up and going early, and the same ones who are able to sleep in). I admit to being a bit jealous of dh's ability to catch up on missed sleep by sleeping in, but I'm curious to know how many others out there are like me. So--assuming you are not sick, can you sleep in if you go to bed late or do you wake up alert and unable to fall back asleep at your normal waking time regardless of how little sleep you had? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Without being sick I can not sleep in beyond 5:30 am at the latest - generally somewhere 4:15 - 5:00 overall. I can, however, get up earlier at the time of my choosing without using an alarm clock. It we want to get up at 2:15am for a trip or event or whatever, no problem! If I want to catch up on sleep, I need to go to bed earlier. It's not uncommon for me to head to bed around 8:30pm because of this. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 So funny that you are asking this as I was talking about this very thing with a friend at church this morning. :) Except for a very, very few occasions, I cannot sleep in anymore. It makes me sad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I voted other. I have a nursling who wakes me up every day, so I'm not sure if I could or not! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Without being sick I can not sleep in beyond 5:30 am at the latest - generally somewhere 4:15 - 5:00 overall. I can, however, get up earlier at the time of my choosing without using an alarm clock. It we want to get up at 2:15am for a trip or event or whatever, no problem! If I want to catch up on sleep, I need to go to bed earlier. It's not uncommon for me to head to bed around 8:30pm because of this. I'm exactly the same! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I said yes because on the very rare occasions when both of my littlest let me sleep late, I do. Just a couple of hours. I've never been one to sleep till noon, even if I was up till 4am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonFaerie Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I can sleep in anytime. I'm a night owl, so it only takes one day for my body to reset to staying up 'til 2 and sleeping until 10. For example, yesterday I was up at 8 a.m., stayed up until about midnight last night and slept until 10:30 this morning. Tonight I'll be up well past midnight and will get up tomorrow at 9 a.m. out of necessity. I wish I could live life on my clock, but the rest of the world insists on having their bloody mornings. :glare: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I voted yes, but only if there was no one home. Including the dog. I cannot sleep in if other people are up moving around. Going to bed early isn't as hard for some reason. My dh is up by 5:30 or 6 no matter what the day, and once he is up I find it hard to sleep. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Dh and I haven't owned an alarm clock since we've been married. We wake up at our 'usual' time every day but if I'm tired and want to stay in bed, it's easy for me to go back to sleep. Dh has more trouble going back to sleep but he does so about half a dozen times a year. I get up at 6 but usually one weekend day I go back to sleep until 6:30 or 7. I love sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I won't say never, but not usually. And lately my cat wakes me up at 5. It drives me bonkers, and I have no way to keep him out of my room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amo_mea_filiis. Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I'd have to go to bed late for several nights, and be eating poorly, and drinking too much coffee. Lol. Otherwise I'm up between 5 and 6:30 without an alarm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tm919 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 No! Usually my children wake me up, but even if they didn't the pain in my back would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Elle Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 As a teen and young adult, I loved to sleep in. When my kids were young, my body longed to sleep in but I needed to attend the kids. Now I can't sleep in, even if I tried. Surprisingly, I don't miss it. It must be a sign of maturity. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Well, I'm typically up at 5 or a bit before, using an alarm clock. If I don't turn on my alarm, I sleep until 6:30 at the latest. I don't remember the last time I was in bed past 7.I consider 6:30 sleeping in because of my usual schedule, but it's not really sleeping in, either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEmama Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Not really, but I don't mind. It actually irks me if I do sleep in until 6:30 or 7 because then I miss out on my morning quiet time and I feel off schedule all day. Thankfully it's rare. I much prefer to get up at 5:30 even on the weekends. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinaPagnato Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I've been an early riser all my life. Now, in college early riser meant 8 am when my roommates were sleeping til noon. As an adult I still am an early riser and get up by 6 am every morning. Last night we had company and I was in bed after midnight. I still woke up at 6, though I forced myself to stay in bed. At a scandalously late 7 am, I had to get out of bed...my headache told me I needed that cup of coffee that I've usually gulped by 6:00! I don't really wish I could sleep in because I LOVE my quiet mornings to myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Oh, you bet. Not for hours and hours, but I generally sleep an hour to an hour and a half past my regular wake up time on weekends. Unless I have a 4 year old staring at me willing me to wake up and get her breakfast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKWAcademy Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Can I sleep in? Yes! Am I ever allowed to sleep in? Never. I like to stay up until about 2am but never get to sleep past 8. I'm raising an early-bird - somehow. If the sun is up, my boy is awake and raring to go! And he's not quiet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Without being sick I can not sleep in beyond 5:30 am at the latest - generally somewhere 4:15 - 5:00 overall. I can, however, get up earlier at the time of my choosing without using an alarm clock. It we want to get up at 2:15am for a trip or event or whatever, no problem! If I want to catch up on sleep, I need to go to bed earlier. It's not uncommon for me to head to bed around 8:30pm because of this. I wish I was like this. There is now way I would ever wake up at 4 a.m. short of an earthquake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 No not these days. I'm a real morning person though. My brain is just too awake in the morning even if I'm tired and I tend to be quite wakeful/ restless after about 4am even though I don't normally get up until about half 6ish. I can however go to bed at night many hours early quite happily and that tends to be the way I deal with tiredness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Not lately. I have to be up at 6 during the week because dd has to be out the door to school at 6:45 (school starts at 7:20). I end up getting up on the weekends about 7 or 7:30. Sleeping in, to me, is after 9. The dog needs to go out, the cat needs to be fed and given her thyroid pill, the birds get me up, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic Bunny Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Absolutely! Enough that my morning-person DS has been getting his own breakfast cereal since he was about 2. Even at 10yo, he really likes his alone morning time. I sometimes wish I was wired that way! As it is, DH and I can definitely sleep in until 10 or 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroe1 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I chose "other". The dog always wakes me up no matter what. Also, since. I work nights, my sleep cycle is screwed anyway. There is plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlsdMama Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Other. I have no idea. With four kids five and under (and toddlers for years) I cannot remember, truly, the last time I slept in past 7:00ish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 It depends. I went to bed at 11pm or so, woke up at 3am because my wife went to bed (and woke me up in the process), could not fall back asleep so got up at 4am, stayed up till about 9am (by which time the kids were up, so I gave them breakfast), then went back to bed and sort of slept till noon. Other days, other things happen. It really varies. I haven't had much opportunity to test the "sleeping in" thing, because my kids usually wake me up at the normal time if I'm not awake yet, but I think sometimes that works. But I wake up at 5:30-6:30 quite often, even though I still feel quite tired - sometimes I fall back asleep, sometimes I don't - my psychiatrist blames it on anxiety. Normal wake-up time is 7:20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 If I've had 4 hours of sleep or less for 3 nights in a row or more I could sleep in, but usually someone wakes me up before very long. And usually that's DH. :cursing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I'm a natural night owl who is not a morning person at all, so yeah, I can sleep in whenever! Not that I'm given the chance often. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
displace Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I can sleep in if I'm up late but only if DH will get up. Or else I'm up to care for the kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applethyme Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 My body will allow me to sleep in. The children do not. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 It's way too easy for me. Sometimes I do it even when I don't intend to. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I could literally sleep all day. I stink at waking up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenrae Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Oh I can sleep in anytime, but falling asleep or staying alseep is a whole 'nother story! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I can sleep in when I have been up late, small people permitting. It's a good thing too, since I can't fall asleep early no mater how tired I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I always wake up at the regular time, but if I meditate or read for a bit I can sometimes fall back to sleep and sleep-in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaceful Isle Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I am usually awake at about the same time lately..6:30/7 am. I have always been a sleeper-in-er :p until about 3 months ago. I could sleep in till I wanted to. Not sure what has happened. Maybe my metabolism has changed or something. Around 6:30 in the morning, I wake up, and my stomach hurts. It is really weird, because when I stand up, it feels fine again. It did that as a kid, and now it's back! I wish I could sleep in, though. Now my teenage dd? She could sleep all day if I let her!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I thought of you this morning: I had very little sleep on Friday night (my head was buzzing with stuff) so I planned on a good eight hours last night. I went to bed at 11 and woke up before 6, which is even earlier than my weekday wake up... I was rewarded with a beautiful sunrise though. In general, I'm a bit stuck: I wake up at 7 or before almost invariably. If I go to bed before about 11, I wake up again at 2 and it takes me a while to get back to sleep. So I can squeeze in eight hours if I'm lucky, and catching up is pretty much impossible. I could sleep in when I was younger, and Husband still can. Exercise makes no difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Yep, I can sleep in. I'm another night owl whose body likes sleeping from two to ten, though I'm usually up at eight or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 If it is morning....I will pretty much always wake up at my usual 7ish, but can easily go back to sleep. If it is 4am and I desperately want to sleep, I am more likely to sit wide awake and watch the clock tick off the hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Sometimes I can and it's so nice but I did not get to sleep in for 15years because my boys were early risers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 other. I have a house cow that needs milking and twin boys that get up at 6 am every day that need supervising. Plus I am a morning person and view me staying in bed = me being extremely lazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I wish I was like this. There is now way I would ever wake up at 4 a.m. short of an earthquake. From the time I go to bed until about 3am pretty much nothing can get me up (after my boys grew out of the needing mama overnight stages). After 3am I naturally start to stir a little bit. Once I wake up after 4am, it's for good. I can force myself to stay in bed trying to sleep longer, but it never works and there's usually enough pain to not want to do it for long, so why bother? Last night we stayed out (relatively) late at a benefit dinner, then talking afterward for quite a bit. It was around 11pm when I went to bed. I bet I was asleep in less than a minute, but it didn't change a thing about my body clock for this morning. I can nap pretty easily during the day, but if I do, I rarely want to go to sleep as early as I need to in order to get 7 - 8 hours of sleep overnight. I can remember the last time I slept in until 7am. We were on a trip with middle and youngest and were on St Pete Beach. I told the guys I'd get them up for a sunrise walk on the beach, but for once, I didn't wake up until that late hour. They all thought I was sick. :lol: I have no idea what made that day different. That was over a year ago. I can't recall any similar day prior to that. We have a clock, and I sometimes even set the alarm if I'm heading to work - just in case (I'd hate to have a late day when I need to be at work). Most of the time I remember to turn the alarm off in the morning as I'm getting ready to shower. Hubby's not fond of the days when I forget (fortunately rare). It's set at 4:31am. He's the type who can easily sleep in. He can even go back to sleep AFTER the alarm has gone off (even after getting up to turn it off). I can't fathom doing that. I reached the alarm first about a month ago when it was going off after I had forgotten it. At that point I found out I didn't even KNOW how to turn it off when it was ringing. It's not the same as turning it off when it's silent! I was ready to toss the thing against the wall to get it to stop. Hubby was sort of amused with that one. I've been this way all my life, but I used to get up around 5:30 - 6 vs by 4:30, so the hour has shifted back one+. It was still early enough to be annoying to my parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratford Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I can most definitely sleep in. I can also nap like a champ. I am not a morning person, more of an afternoon/evening person. My DH is a morning person (not sure how we ended up married) but the kids take after me. I do work night shifts twice a week. Thanks to this, I have learned to be flexible with my sleeping schedule. As long as I have an eye mask and ear plugs, I can sleep at any time of day. I can also stay up all night once in a while and function okay. My circadians have no rhythm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Without being sick I can not sleep in beyond 5:30 am at the latest - generally somewhere 4:15 - 5:00 overall. I can, however, get up earlier at the time of my choosing without using an alarm clock. It we want to get up at 2:15am for a trip or event or whatever, no problem! If I want to catch up on sleep, I need to go to bed earlier. It's not uncommon for me to head to bed around 8:30pm because of this. This is me too, except I don't get up as early as you. I normally wake up at 6:15. I can't sleep past 7:00. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 It depends. I can't sleep in and can't sleep in and then after being sleep deprived for a long period of time, I surprise myself by sleeping in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I voted other. For the most part, no matter what time I go to bed I will wake up at my usual time. But every once in awhile I will sleep in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonFaerie Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I can sleep in when I have been up late, small people permitting. It's a good thing too, since I can't fall asleep early no mater how tired I am. I'm like this, too. I can't go to sleep early, and I can't take a nap (unless I'm sick; then all bets are off). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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