I am anti morning, but all my life I have either lived with morning people or wide awake once their feet hit the floor people.

So for the first few hours of every day I do things in my sleep. I can feed the cat, sweep floors, do dishes, make basic breakfasts, shower, dress, and even drive familiar routes. The number one thing I can not do -- learn. number two - reason.

I actually wake up before the alarm. I don't use it when Matt is out of town. but, just because my eyes are open , it does not mean I am fully conscious.

I know I shouldn't say it out loud, but I have never gotten not morning people. The worst it gets for me is wishing I could go back to sleep, but I'm perfectly functional and alert if I got more than four or five hours, just unhappy. I called my mother a morning person because she'd be up before the rest of us, but the truth is most of you would shoot my whole family within fifteen minutes and then go right back to sleep if you could.

I'm also perfectly happy to go to sleep late--I don't much care. I just want to have a nice block of uninterrupted sleep, whenever it happens. With age and migraines this is vanishingly rare. Even unemployed I couldn't get more than six hours in a shot. And that's with Ambien CR.

Best alarm clock ever.

I know I shouldn't say it out loud, but I have never gotten not morning people.

It's okay. I don't quite understand the depths of my not-morning-ness either. It doesn't matter how much sleep I've gotten; even if I've medicated myself and gone to sleep at a ridiculously early hour, if I have to be awake before, say, 7AM, I don't feel well. I'll be awake, but I'll feel a bit dizzy and off-kilter and just wrong for the rest of the day.

I don't quite know what happened to me. When I was working in the office, it took all my willpower to be awake and dressed and at work by 9am. I was usually late. Now, I work at home, my commute is down the stairs, I could wake up and be at work in like five minutes. What time do I now wake up at, every day? 4am. Doesn't matter if I went to bed at 9pm or 2am, I wake up between 4 and 5am. This is proof that while the gods are mostly kind and generous to me, sometimes they just like to fuck with me.

if I have to be awake before, say, 7AM

What time do you go into work? When I worked ten minutes from home I could have gotten away with that, but that was only for about a year and a half of my entire working career. 7am or earlier it has to be. And I can't imagine the effects lasting all day.

I've learned to be more chipper in the morning, thanks to DW. She did not tolerate my super anti-morning grump, so I tried to be better and I am. Even as a child, I was terrible in the mornings. I still don't LIKE mornings, but I can hide it a bit better now.

Ugh. Smonster is my sister in lack of wakefulness. The only thing for me, that works, is knowing I have to catch a plane. And even then, it's more like "snooze, snooze, snooze, OK, throw random clothes in a bag, don't take a shower, out the door in ten minute with the least amount of time possible to drive to airport and make it to gate on time"

Otherwise, I'm so late to anything I'm due at after I wake up (be it first thing in the morning or after a nap).

It does help that my current job allows me to have my optimal sleep time (2 a.m. - 10 a.m.).

my sistah! When I was consulting, I was well rested, and in good shape because I was going to the gym 4-5 days a week because I didn't have to wake up early or drag myself after work when I was tired.

Buh? What is that?

Smonster mentioned it: [link]

Looks pretty neat if it works as advertised.