Ideal sleep/awake time?

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I'm a complete night owl, and my sleep schedule currently is super messed up. I'm honestly most active from like 8pm to 12am. I would love to sleep at like 2-3am and wake up at like 10 am everyday.

If I could, I’d like to sleep from 2am-9/10am. When I have breaks from work, I always default back to that (and then almost die when I have to work again lol). 

Unfortunately I’m a teacher and school starts at 9 so I have to be up earlier than that no matter how much I’d like to sleep longer 😔 so forced 12-7 it is. 

I typically go to sleep around 2 am. Sometimes earlier, sometimes later. But 2 seems to be the sweet spot.

I wake up anywhere between 10 am and noon. This varies though depending on my circumstances. Sometimes I sleep longer because I have some chronic health issues that knock me out from time to time.

I'm one of those weird ADHDers who doesn't have sleep issues. Even as a little girl, I was good with bedtime, according to my mom.

I think I'd be happiest following the sun -- up at dawn, down (or at least winding down) at dusk.

I'm usually up at 8/9a, sleep by 12/1a. If it would work for my dogs I'd probably do a 2am-10am sleep schedule. I often feel the urge to do things late at night, but then it riles the dogs and keeps my partner awake.

I, too, have thoroughly enjoyed the few mornings I have forced myself to wake before the sun and have captured the peace that exists before most of people are awake. But I just can't bring myself to do it on the regular. I dread summers when I have to be at work by 7 or 8am instead of 1pm.

I function well going to bed around 10 or 11. After 11pm things get dark in my brain, teehee. Better to be asleep before it gets to that point. I sleep 8-9 hours a night so I guess waking up around 7-8am, but I like allowing myself 10 hours because sometimes I need a little extra. Final answer: awake 9am-11pm.

So I have delayed sleep phase disorder. I'm living my best life being asleep before 10am (I aim to be in bed by 9am) and sleep until 5pm. So usually 7.5 hours of sleep. Some days I manage 8. 

I love to sleep when most people are at their 9-5 jobs. I do lots of socialization after 5pm and sometimes morning hangouts and breakfast outings. And then I get to have lots of time to myself and enjoy the quiet. 

I have peak productivity around 20.00 to midnight. If I had my way, I’d sleep from 2am to 10 am, and probably work 14.00-22.00.

6am-1pm 7 hours in the morning is so perfect for me. I struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep on a normal schedule. When I worked 3rd shift, I was living my best life.

There was a time a few years ago when I had literally nothing to do, besides eat, watch TV and sleep. So that's what I did. My sleep pattern flipped around a couple of times and then settled into a "wake up at 2pm and go to sleep at 2am" schedule. I was so much more relaxed, and I actually started to look less tired and have smoother skin around my eyes.

5 weeks later life very rudely yanked me out of that nice place and now I look even more tired and old than ever. I'm 36 and I literally look about 50 with a pair of black eyes....

I reckon I do well on a biphasic sleep pattern. I enjoy early morning but like to have an afternoon nap. Then another period of activity before bed. 

Current sleep schedule is about 2am to 9am most days. Occasionally work requires I get up a little earlier- usually about 7:30, sometimes 8:30. I don’t usually go to bed earlier when I have to be up earlier, I just have a nap when I get home. 

Weekends I always sleep in, and sometimes stay up a little later- the sleeping in until 10:30/11 is on purpose, the going to sleep later is never on purpose. 

Ideal world I would probably do a 3am to 11am sleep cycle, maybe even 4-12. 

If I could make my own hours I'd go to bed 2-3 am and sleep 8-9 hours. I know this because anytime I am out of work for long periods (once due to unemployment, the other times due to illness) my body almost immediately resets to this schedule.

Unfortunately I work at 7am most days. It's painful.

I had a job that started at 11am, and I went to bed at 3am, got up at 10, and it was glorious. I had a second contract job that I’d work, starting after my boyfriend went to bed around 9:30, and I’d work until til 1am, then read and unfuck my morning (clothes picked out, lunch made, things I’d need by the door) before I went to bed. Now I’m back to 8am work, and I hate it.

I'd probably run best on a 2am - 10am sleep. But my cats wake me up around 6am (well, anywhere from 1-6am, closer to 6).

I can be productive at any time honestly. I do shift work so I’m used to switching it up a lot.

9-10 am to 2-3 am is my natural schedule. I also really like early morning when I experience it, but something around 9:30-2:30 is really what my body wants. I feel like my peak productivity naturally is like. A few hours in the early afternoon, and then really kicks into gear ~6-8 pm and goes till 12-1, even 2, and then I start to wind down.

Unfortunately I am a lawyer and court starts at 8:30 am.

I tested this once, when I had a 10-day break from work. I fell into a 2AM-10AM sleep schedule pretty fast, and never felt as well-rested before. Looking at the responses in this thread, it seems like that's a pretty common natural rhythm for ADHD people.

Alas, since then my kidneys failed. Dialysis has fully screwed up what little sleep consistency I had; I now can pretty much only sleep in short bursts and my natural low circadian rhythm points have completely shifted around. Now I find myself falling asleep around 1-2pm, 9-10pm, and 8-9am. Which is a hell of a thing to manage when you're trying to keep working a full-time 9-5 job, even remotely.

I fall asleep around 9 and wake up at 5 by choice every day 😂

My dog will wake me up at 7:30 AM everyday. So even if I don’t want to get up yet, once I’m awake I can’t fall back asleep too many distractions.

I would probably work at night when others sleep, then sleep when others are at work and have the free time at the same time as the rest of the planet :D. Or Id go sleep at 8pm/20:00 to be awake very early to see sun rising^^

I'm an early bird naturally, but also kinda biphasic. I feel shitty on my current biphasic sleep, I work afternoons. I tend to go to be around 1:30-2am and it's tough to fall asleep. I get up at 6:45, see my kids off to school, go back to bed by 7:30am. It's very hard to fall back asleep then, but I usually eventually do and then pry myself out of bed around 10:30am.

Naturally though, I like being up around 5-6am. The house is quiet. I take my time waking up, and I'm most alert and productive between 9-12. I like being able to nap in the afternoon. If I were to nap for a couple hours then I'd stay up til 11pm, otherwise id be sleepy by 9ish.

TLDR: "Normal" chronotype of ~11pm-7am, but sleep procrastination, work commutes, and exercise/weather have made this hard to stick with like I'd like to.

Based on a period of my adult life when my sleep and wake schedule seemed the best, I think I'm a "normal" chronotype of going to bed around 11 and waking up around 7 being ideal. I find I'm most productive from about 9am - 2/3pm. Except that when I worked 8-5 jobs, with commute time and how long it takes me to get ready, I'd need to wake up between 5:45-6:20 am, and that always felt waaay too early. I don't understand how "normal" chronotype people (which are supposed to be the majority of people) are supposed to function when we we're expected to have long commutes to be at work at 8 or 9 am. But it's also very easy for me to stay up until midnight, 1, or 2 am due to internetting sleep procrastation, but I'm definitely sleepy before then - I push past my natural sleepiness to stay up and it's awful.

For much of my adolescent and adult life, I've tended to get sleep deprived during the week, sleeping only 5-7 hours, and then "catch up" on sleep on the weekends by sleeping 9-11 hours a night. Which I know is bad for my sleep to have such variable sleep and wake times. Now that I'm self-employed and work from home, I've been trying to keep a more regular sleep schedule that's closer to what once felt ideal, going to bed between 10:30-11 and getting up around 7 or 7:30 feels really good. Some days and weeks I have more success with that, but I still struggle a lot with my late night sleep procrastination internettting.

Another difficult wrinkle is that I love to run in the mornings as my main form of exercise, but I currently live in a place that gets really hot in the spring/summer so that I need to get up between 5-6:30 am to run before it gets too hot and miserable, and that definitely feels too early for me. I wind up taking naps and/or drinking lots of caffeine on days when I get up early to run. It's also tough socially because I've made a lot of running friends who seem to be natural morning larks who always go to bed around 9/9:30 and wake up around 5/6 who want to meet up for early runs and don't seem to understand why early mornings are hard for me, but I think they just have naturally early bird/morning lark chronotypes.

Edit: I think if I didn't need to work full-time and had perfect weather yearround, my ideal schedule would be wake up at 7am, run/hike/be outside from 7:30-8:30, eat breakfast and shower, start work at 10am, be done with work at 3 or 4 pm, eat an early dinner and chill/be social until around 9:30/10, then go to bed around 10:30/11 pm. Only working 20-25 hours a week, that sounds nice :)