<p>In the summer my schedule is very flexible and I find myself drifting towards staying up later and later, knowing that (usually) I don’t have to get up early.</p>
<p>Overall, though, I function better when I don’t sleep in . . . Anyone have any tips for sticking to an early-riser schedule?</p>
<p>Nope. Confirmed night owl. Can regulate myself if necessary, but I enjoy the wee hours so much that I am not going to reform.</p>
<p>Next month I teach a summer class that starts at 8 am, and then I will reform my wicked, wicked ways. But for right now, staying up late is a treat.</p>
<p>A confirmed night owl here too. About the only thing that gets me up early in the summer is heat avoidance. Once those temps start reaching 90s, it’s hard for me to enjoy the outdoors much. Also, farmers markets close by 1 PM, which means the good stuff is gone by 11 
On many days, that’s enough of an incentive.</p>
<p>Yet another confirmed night owl. I can get up and go if needed, but alas.</p>
<p>I’m also another person who, despite the fact that i’m up late, will get up early to get yardwork done.</p>
<p>I keep trying to get to bed earlier, but I find it difficult. Not sure why. Seems like I always have too much to do. I keep reading that your metabolism slows down if you get less than 8 hours of sleep. I usually get 5 or 6 hours of sleep.</p>
<p>Nope. I’ve been a night owl since kindergarten, and there’s not much chance of changing at this late date.</p>
<p>I’ve always been a night owl and probably always will be, though I can, with concentrated effort get myself into the habit of waking early, but it is never natural.</p>
<p>I’m on call nights on certain weeks. Walking into the E.R. at 1:30 am can be a surreal and life-rearranging experience. And once my brain gets started it’s hard to take it down unless I read something really boring like – looking around his room – my wife’s manuals on crocheting, or the collected stories of John Cheever.</p>
<p>Lack of sleep doesn’t bother me. Some of my better cognitive productions occur in a semi-dream state. I once told this to a client of mine and he wasn’t that thrilled to hear it because I think he associated it with the possibility that I might nod off while doing something important. What he doesn’t know is that most of my work activities are entirely run in automation and I do not fall asleep while in automation.</p>
<p>I used to be a night owl, and now I routinely go to bed by 10:30 AM and – if I have nothing scheduled – I routinely get up around 7:30 AM. What changed me? Working for eight years at a job where I had to be out of the house by 6:00 AM and having two children under the age of 5 at the same time. If I didn’t get to bed relatively early, I was a goner for the entire week. I found the early-to-bed-early-to-rise schedule makes me feel good, keeps my weight down, gives me lots of time to do things before anyone else is up. This is now who I am.</p>
<p>I wonder if it’s possible… I am going to bed by 11:30 now these days, am too tired after a day of work to stay up anyway, but I still need to be pried out of bed with a crowbar at 7am no matter what-- even if I’ve been going to bed even earlier. I don’t think I will ever comfortably be able to get up before 9 or 10 no matter how early I go to bed.</p>
<p>This is me. I used to stay up until 1:00 am or later on a regular basis and get up at 6:30 for work. I’m finding it harder to keep this up. I’m a teacher, too and struggle with the summer schedule thing. I hate the feeling of missing out on the day when I sleep late! </p>
<p>I think I do better when I stay on a schedule but it is so tempting to stay up that extra hour with the windows open and a good book! </p>
<p>One thing that I have found, though, is that I tend to wake earlier in the last year or so, even on weekends. I guess I’m getting old.</p>
<p>I’m 52 and somehow manage just fine with 6 hours of sleep a day (1am-7am)… maybe an extra couple hours on weekends. Coffee is your friend :)</p>
<p>Thankfully my kids have learned how to do this as well… Makes college a lot easier if you don’t condition your body for 7-8 or more hours of sleep a day.</p>