Staying up late

What, more than anything else, keeps you awake later than your ideal bedtime?

Healthy holidays (1)

Do you find that you miss more sleep than usual during the holiday season?  Do you have other healthy habits or routines that tend to lapse at this time of year?

Sleeping in

How much later than usual do you sleep on your days off?

Sleeping in

How regular or irregular is your sleep schedule?  How much later do you sleep on weekends or on days when there is no strong reason to get up early? 

Tell us a story: away from home

What is the most unusual place where you've slept on a summer vacation? 

Worth getting up early

Setting out on a long trip is one reason to wake up unusually early.  And of course emergencies can interrupt your sleep at any point.  What else sometimes prompts you to set the alarm clock for a much earlier hour than usual?

How to sleep better

What's the best advice you could give someone who told you they were trying to have better-quality sleep? 

Of the things that you would advise the person to try, are they all things that you do yourself?

Siesta

Do you sometimes nap during the day, when circumstances allow?

This week's theme is sleep.

Sleep habits

How consistent is your sleep schedule? Do you go to bed and get up at regular times every day, or does your sleep vary?

How much later do you sleep on days when you don't have work or other commitments to push you out of bed?

This week's theme is sleep.

Waking up

Do you wake up naturally, or do you rely on an alarm clock to wake you? If you use an alarm clock, on what fraction of your mornings do you wake up anyway, before the clock sounds?

This week's theme is sleep.

Yawn

What are the times and places where you tend to feel sleepy or even risk falling asleep, even though you need to stay awake?

This week's theme is sleep.

Sleep

What are the things that make you lose sleep?

This week's theme is sleep.

On the schedule

Do you allot yourself specific time for wasting each day, or each week? For example, do you read in bed for a half an hour each night before turning out the light, or play Sudoku online during your lunch hour on Wednesdays? Or is your wasted time more spontaneous, happening only when you feel like you have some breathing room?

This week's theme is wasting time.

Wasting time

How do you like to waste time? What activity do you usually gravitate to when you have time to be completely unproductive?

This week's theme is wasting time.

Sleeping better

Are your bed, blankets, and pillows as comfortable as they could be? Do you have back tension, congestion, or other physical problems that seem to get worse when you lie down to sleep?

What is one aspect of your sleep experience that you wish you could improve?

This week's theme is sleep.

Sleeping through the alarms

Did you ever sleep through a earthquake or some other middle-of-the-night adventure that woke up everyone else in the area? Did you ever oversleep and miss an opportunity or an important appointment?

What is one significant event that missed because you literally slept through it?

This week's theme is sleep.

Asleep on the job

Did you ever fall asleep when you were supposed to be working? Have you ever slept while waiting in line overnight for an exciting event?

What is one unusual circumstance or memorable place where you once slept?

This week's theme is sleep.

Sleepless nights

Caffeine, worries, noises, and a host of other things can interfere with falling asleep and staying asleep. We can also lose sleep by staying up too late doing fun things. What's the thing that most often interferes with you getting a full night of sleep?

Do you sometimes take sleep drugs? Do you practice relaxation techniques or follow familiar bedtime rituals? What helps you get a good night of sleep?

This week's theme is sleep.

Sleep

How many hours of sleep do you get each night, on average?

In ideal circumstances, how much sleep would you get?

This week's theme is sleep.