<p>It's 4:30 am and I can't sleep, so what better to do than complain about it?</p>
<p>When left on my own, I comfortably fall asleep between 3 and 4 and wake up around noon. I feel most motivated to study and most able to concentrate between 10 pm and 1 am, and I'm most creative between 1 and 3. As a hobbyist programmer, I actually save the 1-3 block for brainstorming and problem-solving when I have the luxury of no morning commitments and a bedroom/living room/study lounge to myself.</p>
<p>Even when my schedule requires an earlier bedtime (e.g. my current 8-5 workday -- not looking forward to tomorrow), I feel like I'm sacrificing a part of myself to go to bed before 2, no matter how tired I am. It seems like a more psychological than physiological preference for a 4 am bedtime, but it definitely feels irreversible.</p>
<p>As someone who likes to obsess over statistics, I'm interested in how I compare to the rest of the college-going world. Sometimes I think my life would be easier if everyone else shifted their schedules 2 hours backward, but then I remember that the quietness of everyone else being asleep probably contributed to my nocturnality in the first place...</p>
<p>Seriously, though, people sleep at all different times. It depends on what their schedule and personal habits are. Around the dorms are usually fairly quiet between 11 PM and 9 AM, but when people are actually sleeping varies wildly.</p>
<p>If I don’t have homework to do or a test to study for, I go to sleep between 11PM and midnight. If I do have something to do, it depends how much of it I have left to do. If it’s not that much, I’ll do it in the morning. If it’s a lot, I’ll stay up to like 2AM. I never go later then that until finals week. Finals week is when **** gets real.</p>
<p>Most college students I know sleep when they can. One of the girls on my floor last year got behind on her work second semester so she basically became nocturnal for about a month - staying up all night and sleeping all day, only waking up for classes.</p>
<p>Personally, I’d go to bed between 1 and 3 on weekdays no matter how early I had to get up. I usually don’t take naps because I just can’t make myself do it, so most days I’d be running on 4-6 hours of sleep. I’ll probably be doing that this semester too. It’s pretty terrible for your health, but it’s hard to find the time to sleep!</p>
<p>Usually 12-1 is my bedtime now. I work at 8 four days a week and my sleep in days start at 9. I used to go to bed much later when I didn’t have early classes or work.</p>
<p>Honestly get your sleep schedule on track. If that means doing an all nighter and not falling asleep till 10 the next night then do it. Just really try to get to bed by 10 and wake up however early (you’ll probably wake up before 8 or whenever naturally) and then see how the day goes and try again. At night (past like 8) get rid of all your clocks do you can see them to see whether it’s 1 or 2 or just 11 or 12. Fall asleep when you feel tired (do what you do normally) , and I’m sure you’ll find that you can be just as creative at 12 or 11. Even if it sounds unrealistic, try it and see.</p>
<p>When I go a long time without having morning commitments, I end up falling asleep as the sun rises and waking up in the early afternoon. When I’m at school though, my schedule gets pretty normal because I’m busy from like 8am to midnight every day, so I just crash as soon as I can. Sometimes I’ll have trouble sleeping, but usually during the school year, I’m worn out enough to fall asleep around 1pm and not wake up till I’m almost late for my first class.</p>
<p>I usually go to sleep around 3 in the morning. But that’s because I have work from 8-12 almost every night. My classes start at 12pm some days and 2pm other days. I wake up around 11 every day. I do homework and study between class and work or after work. For me this is the absolute perfect schedule since i tend to be more of a night owl.</p>
<p>I sleep at around 11:30 and wake up at about 6:30 to eat breakfast and be ready for my 8AMs. A lot of the guys in my dorm play all night long and sleep through the day. Well… Except for practice days where all the baseball players wake up at 6 and scream bloody murder… :o/</p>