Can I gather some data about your sleeping habits?

I am flexible about my sleeping arrangements. I don't have particularly strict sleeping schedule, I like naps and am not sensitive to light when asleep. I used to live in a south-facing room that had no curtains and my reaction to sun staring straight into my eyes was sort of rolling over and continuing to sleep.

The significant other, conversely, is very particular about sleeping. He considers naps to be of the devil, goes to sleep and wakes at the same time every day and likes to grouse about brightness most of the summer, even with curtains.

I am born in mid-June. The day is almost 19 hours long on my birthday in my latitude and the night is merely vaguely dark twilight. He is born in January, the day is around 8 hours long on his birthday and night is an actual thing that happens.

My theory is that our tiny newborn brains got very different messages about sleeping and natural light ("it's always bright and therefore light and sleep are not related" to me, "night is a thing that is for sleep" to him) and that carried over to our adult sleeping habits. This is probably a simple case of correlation that does not imply causation, but I am curious and would like more (anec)data.

 

Huh. I was born in August, in a place with actual night, and I'm somewhere in the middle. I have trouble maintaining a strict sleeping schedule, and I can nap any time, anywhere. But I have major issues when I don't get enough sleep - and at times, that means like nine or ten hours. As in, I get major depression flareups and insomnia when I'm sleep-deprived, and it takes me a week or two to recover from sleep disruption.

I have assorted brainweirds that might be affecting that, but... hard to say.

 

I'm very light sensitive unless I'm sick or exhausted.

I like naps but I almost never manage to.

I have difficulty falling asleep unless either (a) everyone in hearing range is asleep/very quiet or (b) there are lots of people making a cumulative white noise and I'm tired of socializing (and I feel safe doing so). I can fall asleep on a cozy couch at a party more easily than in the living room while my roommates talk upstairs.

Uh, and for the last few years (especially since I've been having trouble falling asleep while others in the same building make noise) I wake up around 10 am. A little earlier if it's sunny, a little later if rainy, a fair bit later if only cloudy.

*Edit oh right, born mid-May, in an area that goes between 9 and 15 hours of sunlight.

 

born early november, sunlight tends to average about 10 hrs a day in november here. i actually function on some weird almost all or nothing schedule; 3-5 hrs a night is perfect but if i get more it HAS to be bunches, like 10+ hrs. on the little sleep schedule no naps or i get very nauseated, on the lotta sleep schedule naps are great. i can sleep in almost any level of light but if there's a lot of sound i can't. white noise like fans or quiet tv is fine. the switch from the less sleep to more sleep doesn't feel like crashing, either. i sleep very deeply on the short one and feel more rested and clearheaded than when i sleep a ton.

 

Born in beginning June in the Netherlands - very long days and very little night in the summers - but in my case it varies mostly. Most of my childhood I've had a very clear 'can't sleep when it's light', and even a small nightlight was enough to bug me so much that I'd get out of bed up and unplug it, even if that meant bumping into my roof beams on the way back. Seeing light through the crack of the door could also bug me enormously. My sleep patterns were pretty consistent with how long the days were - I'd sleep longer hours in the winters and shorter hours in the summers.

Changed as a teenager: I'd get up when it was still very dark to enjoy maximum morning - I usually woke up at around five so I would have four hours to enjoy my breakfast, see the sun rise, read the newspaper from beginning to end and walk the dog with my mother before I left to school. In my last year at school I started having a more irregular sleep pattern from then on, going to bed at twelve or one with my homework but still insisting on waking up at around six, dark or light, to enjoy my mornings. (Woke up at Seven on days when school would start at 9:15 instead of at 8:45)

As a student in music and art school I had ridiculously irregular sleep patterns - work-related of course - but no naps, except if I had exhausted myself physically that I couldn't keep myself awake anymore.

Now, out of school since a year, I notice that I sleep about six to seven hours regardless of how late I go to bed. Darkness and light have very little effect, except when it does. That's the weird part, there's still a remnant of a circadian rhythm in me, as I do tend to wake up at around the time the sun breaks through, before I snooze and just go back to sleep again. I've napped a few times, but I'm stopping that, as my body thinks of a nap as Real Sleep and I lose four or five hours of my day. I am definitely a person who needs a sleep schedule.

 

born in the end of october in brazil, so in the middle of spring; balanced day and night hours and tons of rain.
I can't sleep, no matter the arrangements, unless i'm exhausted; then 'im going to plop and sleep wherever i am. but i do sleep better in the Very Dark, and usually light makes me wake up with a headache, so daylight naps are rare.

that said, i am a night person and get the most energy after dawn, so my sleeping hours are a bit erratic.

 

I was born in early February, in a place where in February it is All Night.

I've always had some trouble sleeping - always taken me a while to fall asleep and had some nights where sleep was not really very present - but for the past four years or so (late teen-ish times, I guess?) I've had much worse problems; currently I take forever to go to sleep, wake up in the night and can't fall back to sleep for ages, and never feel rested. I like naps, but try not to take them too much since I spend forever trying to sleep at night anyway. This has coincided with the onset of increased brainweird, though, so that may not be what you are looking for.

I also have nightmares every two or three days, if that is relevant to your analysis, and have weird dreams a lot.

 

Born in mid-February, in North Carolina, and I alternate between insomnia and severe fatigue. Basically my sleep schedule is fucked to hell and back. Part of it is because I have fibromyalgia, though, hence the chronic fatigue...

 

I was born in June, and I have absurd difficulty sleeping at night and have bizarre dreams when I do pass out, but can crash in like two seconds during the day.

 

Born mid February in the Midwest, and I am always tired but I will stay up to 3 or 4 most nights and sleep until noon or sometimes later. Naps are nice, but I do prefer my room to be at least fairly dark for that. On the flip side, I dislike total dark because if I wake up then I don't have any idea what time it might be.

 

Born in September in the Netherlands. Not sure about sunlight, but I have always been a good sleeper, ever since I was a tiny baby. I like to sleep, but always in one go. I don't do naps and I prefer it dark, but if I have to I can sleep when it's light.

 

Born in April in Georgia. I don't know sunrise/sunset times for the year I was born, but I found a site that puts it at about 6 a.m./about 7 p.m. (or 7/8 in DST) for that time period this year.

I'm more sensitive to sound than light - today I took a nap between two and five, so it was still light outside, and the light was on in my room because Key was doing stuff, and I got to sleep fine as soon as Key moved to a different room and I couldn't hear her typing. The sound of voices will keep me awake, even if it's just quiet murmurs from another room.

At night I tend to be pretty sensitive to light as well. Like, we only have a paper blind over our window, so I have to hang up a dark blanket to keep out the moonlight and the light from the (acre-away) across-the-street-neighbour's streetlight. Also any electronics that have little lights on them have to be turned off or covered up with a blanket. The light on the window unit been annoying me (but not keeping me up, because I'm pretty well exhausted these days) even though we have a bit of tape over it so it's not nearly as bright as it could be. And if Key has her phone on under her covers, I'm probably going to know about it. :I

 

born in June, Massachusetts, USA. I can sleep nearly anytime or anywhere, though i do have weird periods of insomnia. Can't stand light when trying to fall asleep, but it doesn't wake me up in the morning.

 

July, California, insomniac/hypersomniac. Light-sensitive due to migraines, I can sleep during the daytime but only when exhausted. Bright light over my eyes is a definite no to sleeping though, exhausted or not. It being dark doesn't necessarily mean it's sleepytime either though. Unmedicated I get 2-3 hours average in the small hours of the night, sometimes none at all, until my sleep debt stacks up to the point where I sleep for a day. Sometimes I can sneak naps in before that happens and delay the crash.

 

Born in April in Illinois. I'm a moderately late night person - if I could live on my own schedule, I'd sleep from about 1am to 10am. Maintaining the kind of schedule that comes with holding down an office job is hard. But I can sleep anywhere, anytime - with lights on, on tiny uncomfortable couches, during the day, while a thunderstorm is happening, in class...

 

I was born in the summer and I don't seem to get really good and asleep until it begins to get light out.

I spent years on the night shift, so that may be playing more of a role than my babyhood experiences.

 

Born in mid-late November in Hawaii. No clue on the daylight hours since we moved a couple years later. I'm definately light sensitive. When I used to sleep in the basement, I could sleep 10-11 hours each night. When I sleep in a room with access to daylight I get closer to 7 hours of sleep. I will experiemce interrupted sleep and some times waking up hours before I need/want to if I don't get to bed at a decent time during the summer. Sensitive to sound/people/distractions. I cannot get back to sleep in the mornings once I'm awake(have conscious thoughts).

My body is very fond of naps at around 3-6 in the evening. If it is not nap time, I cannot sleep, and it is difficult during the night. It is particularly easy for me to sleep during nap time hours. Light, sound, and people do not bother me, and I have a tendency to fall asleep on accident at those times.

 

Rolls in.

January 1st birthday in Washington State (so, north US = super long nights and cloudy days), not very light sensitive. I absolutely cannot fall asleep in direct sunlight (which is rare around here and pretty much a seasonal thing) but otherwise I don't seem to be bothered much by falling asleep when it's light out. Staying asleep is not a light issue (though it's been an issue for other reasons, ie bladder shut up).

Takes me a long as hell time to fall asleep. Usual sleeping hours right now are "fall asleep somewhere between 2 and 4 am, wake up at at least one of the following times: ~6am, ~10am, ~12pm, finally be awake and functional whenever I wake between 1 and 3 pm." Naps sometimes happen in the afternoons, especially if I get up earlier for some reason, and are always at least three hours. Usually they result in me staying up later.

However, I'm super sensitive to heat (can't sleep if too warm) and pressure (can't sleep without some kind of significant blanket on top of me) in addition to noise. (That combo makes for hell sleeping in the summer anywhere but here in Washington, Let Me Tell You.) Noise is specific to voices and music - most other things my brain can tune out, but basslines and voices are Important Stimulus, Must Not Miss Anything. Disturbances varies; I can now mostly sleep through my friend's dad going to work (that's the ~6am wakeup) but can't sleep at all through my cat whining (Important Stimulus).

 

Born at the end of December in Australia. Sun sets at like 8PM. Apparently I took forever to fall asleep as a baby and toddler, but I would fall asleep if my parents drove me around in the car for a bit. Sleep has been an issue my entire life, but I started taking melatonin last year (not consistently, with breaks) AND I ACTUALLY FEEL LIKE A PERSON AND NOT AN EXHAUSTED ZOMBIE??? Fucking miracles, man.

I'm very sensitive to light, sound, and temperature when I sleep. I often sleep in summer pyjamas even in winter, because I get too hot otherwise. I can't sleep unless my room is as dark as possible, and there are as little sounds as possible (which is fun in summer because my ceiling fan is the loudest motherfucker). I have a tendency to wake up frequently during the night and I don't sleep very deeply, but melatonin has actually fixed this somewhat. Waking up is at least reduced to only once per night, and I think I sleep more deeply, too.

I tend to go to sleep somewhere between 11PM-1AM depending on when I actually go to bed, and I wake up between 8AM and 11AM, again, depending on when I fell asleep (unless I have uni, then it's 6:30AM). I feel most well rested and energetic on 9-10 hours of sleep. When I'm super exhausted I can sleep for 11 hours, sometimes 12. If I wake up early, or if I am particularly tired or have had all my spoons draind, I have naps. Usually about 40 minutes to an hour long? Sometimes I sleep for 2 hours and I'm like, "Oops." Usually at around 3-4PM but I did nap today at 9:30AM... Don't judge me...

Uh, yes. Sleep.

 

Born in late April, Massachusetts, apparently during a storm. Bad at sleep. Micronapping during the attempting-to-be-awake time, usually only getting about 4-or-so hours of sleep when I have a schedule, usually sleeping from 6-7-8am to mid-afternoon when I don't have a schedule. I used to be able to fall asleep on anything. Hardwood floors, prickly carpets, lumpy couches, on top of my keys. Can't sleep if it's too hot. but micronapping correlates positively with temperature. Don't care about noise; light is a little annoying, but I've lived for 21 years in rooms with skylights.