Nothing like munching on Lance's while listening to "May an unclean yak take an unnatural liking to your sister." Yeh, that'll put you in the mood (if you're a yak.)
I usually wake up 15-30 minutes before my alarm goes off at 5:30 a.m. Only when I am awakened by the alarm do I continue to lay there trying to decide if I want to get up and start my day but I can't fall back to sleep once I'm awake. I've always been an early riser. So why do I set my alarm? I dunno.
I have to get up at 7 to feed the critters. But I sleep 'all the time' I have been told. I sleep an hour here and an hour there....
The thing is, there have been times when I've crashed at my regular hour, and then someone or something got me out of bed about 1/2hour later. I feel refreshed--not groggy--and am ready to go again. As many here know, lots of great men and women took a quick nap during the day. I think JFK was known for it. My father worked retail, and was usually in the store when it was open (8AM til 9PM.) He had a chaise lounge in the stockroom and would nap after lunch. I lack the self-discipline to get up once I've fallen asleep.
Reminds me of Agnes (I still remember her name), a student I knew when I was in school. During final exam week she would never go to bed in the tradition way. She would take short power naps 24/7 the whole week. Wake up, study a little, nap, study, nap, study, etc. She always got straight A's too.
There's very little on Animal Planet that I don't see manifested in homo sapiens, except the critters lack arrogance.
During the time that I was working in EMS in Los Fresnos, and while I was part-owner of an ambulance company, I was pretty much on-duty all the time. I carried a radio and would be called out on emergencies. Also, while working at Catalina Ambulance, we worked 24-hour shifts, and a double-shift would be a 48-hour shift. I got very used to sleeping twenty minutes here, an hour there, or whenever I could. There were times when I'd sleep on the way to an emergency call, or on the way back from the hospital, as we covered a large area. During this time, I didn't realize that it was stressful except during the rare periods in which I was not on call, like when I was attending EMS conferences in another city, and was able to sleep through the night. Now though, I go to bed when I feel tired. If I can't sleep, I either read or get up. I get out of bed when I wake up, but if I feel like sleeping in, I'll do that. If I feel tired during the day, I'll go to bed, but that usually only happens when I have been up all night the night before. Eventually, I suppose there will come a time when I never feel like getting, and then they will declare death.