is waking up at 2pm still considered sleeping in if you went to bed at 5am?

[jonathan_matos5]

my dad called me all pissed off this afternoon thinking i was just being lazy and sleeping in. i tried to explain i was up until 5am studying for this retarded Humanities final but he called me a slacker for still being asleep at 2pm

[Eric Perry]

No. He's a knucklehead for saying that. That's like saying dudes that work 3rd shift should be up at 8... Even if they worked until 7!

[Captain Chaos]

Tell your dad to **** off.

[fenderhutz]

That's nine hours of sleep. Slacker. You should have been up at 12.

[Fassa Albrecht]

I'll have to agree with your dad on this one.....sorry.

[Bad Brains]

I sleep into 2 p.m. even if I get to sleep at a regular time the nightbefore. People need to relax and sleep more.

[Croox]

I'm always up around 7ish, and between 8-9 on my days off regardless of what time i go to sleep at. just habits i guess


when i worked 3rd shift briefly i got home at 715 asleep by 730 then up at 330 couldnt sleep any longer, but my amount of sleep slowly decreased to the point of me becoming insane.

[rap138]

Originally Posted by fenderhutz

That's nine hours of sleep. Slacker. You should have been up at 12.

+1

[IanStephenson]

If you were up partying then it would be slacking.
If you were working shifts or a gig, then it's not slacking.

You CLAIM you were studying - thats just bad time management. Do you really remember what you learned at 5am? Thought not. Go to bed on time, get up early, and do the work the next day.

I know people work best at different times, but I've seen loads of students screw up like this. Do a SENSIBLE amount of study DURING THE DAY. Quit early evening, take a break - play some bass, and go to bed so you can get up and study the next day.

Ian

[jonathan_matos5]

Originally Posted by IanStephenson

If you were up partying then it would be slacking.
If you were working shifts or a gig, then it's not slacking.

You CLAIM you were studying - thats just bad time management. Do you really remember what you learned at 5am? Thought not. Go to bed on time, get up early, and do the work the next day.

I know people work best at different times, but I've seen loads of students screw up like this. Do a SENSIBLE amount of study DURING THE DAY. Quit early evening, take a break - play some bass, and go to bed so you can get up and study the next day.

Ian

i have insomnia sometimes i choose to open a book instead of watch the crappy infomercials on late at night. i figured since next week is finals week i might as well study for my dreaded humanities final.

[Bad Brains]

I don't get how sleeping in late is "a waste of a day" when there isn't anything to do. Anything that needs to be done can be done whenever I feel like getting up.

[LiquidMidnight]

I would have told your father off if he were mine, and I've always been very respectful towards my parents. Then again, they don't say downright asinine and stupid things like that to me.

Anyone who's been in college - and especially anyone who's been in college and maintained an exceptionally high GPA - knows that trying to follow any logical sleep schedule is very difficult. I remember one semester that I was sick with something or other literally almost every day because of how much I beat my body up...and that was the one and only semester since my sophmore year that I didn't work a day gig (I did gig on the weekends as usual though).

[Basshole]

Originally Posted by fenderhutz

That's nine hours of sleep. Slacker. You should have been up at 12.

Believe it or not, they say teens need as much as nine hours, and furthermore can have greater tendency become obese on less sleep. Plus, he's studying. You're actually still processing stuff in your sleep, so you gotta cut him some slack...he's under stress. He probably got little REM.

Listen, take some advice from someone that used to put in 48 hour days rather regular, and pull occasional 3-nighters to bang stuff out when really needed: You can break you. I did. I know.

Stress is a killer. Nothing wrong with relaxing a little along the journey. It's actually healthier.

[gold_member_321]

If you've got no reason to get up and your still tired, than why get up?

I could understand your dad bitching if you had skipped a class or something of importance.

[ric1312]

Ha ha, dads are like that. I used to work a third shift at a plant and get home at 5 am in the morning, wouldn't get home and be able to be in bed till 6:30....beat as hell.

Every morning at 10o AM my dad would be pounding on my door saying I was a sleeping too late. Or even better is when he would run his riding mower and park it, while running, next to my window.

He didn't stop until about the 12th time telling him I was working third shift and showing him my time card from work.

Actually, I think he was just getting revenge from when I was a knee high and wouldn't let him sleep when he was back from work.

[Bad Brains]

Originally Posted by gold_member_321

If you've got no reason to get up and your still tired, than why get up?

Exactly.

Exactly why should he have "to be up by 12" if he's still tired and has no reason to get up? I don't get it.

[phat daddy]

I've always been up till the sun comes up, sleep till 2pm or so. I've also always been a full-time gigging musician and before that a college student, so it's always suited me. As long as you get around 7 or 8 hours a day, who cares when you choose to get it? That much is for you to say and you to say only.

[Baryonyx]

If you go to bed that late, no.

[Pilgrim]

There's no reason you have to be up earlier if you have a legitimate reason to be up that late.

The legitimate reason would be that you studied EFFECTIVELY until 5, and that you actually retained what you were studying. If that's not the case (and it's usually not) then I suggest studying earlier and not cramming until all hours. Most students don't retain much after all-nighters - it's not usually effective.

[peterbright]

Be positive & don't let it irritate you.