3:30 is early. 5am is table stakes.

Yup. I know a few people that drive into NYC. They generally get up at 3:30 or so.

Are these folks hitting the sack at 6-7ish or not getting a full 7/8?

Couldn’t imagine doing this, purely considering the implications of going to bed with the sun up and offsetting my schedule to accommodate a commute that early.

If I'm getting up before 4:00, I try to be in bed no later than 9. Its rare I can force myself to get to sleep anytime before that.

I know that many of them are still awake, at 8PM, most weekdays. I guess they "catch up" on weekends (which I don't think works).

I have a family member who has been going to sleep at 7:30 and waking up at 3:30 every day for a decade or more. And that's with three kids.

People do, in fact, do this. Absolutely fucking baffling to me, but they do.

I find it convenient mainly because I have kids. You can do quite a lot of heavy lifting in those first few quiet hours before they wake up.

Whether you can or should do it depends heavily on your particular circumstances, of course. But when I started doing it, I wondered why more people weren’t talking about it. Personally, I find it fantastic.

I can totally see this under the context of having kids, makes complete sense. Glad it works for you!

Wow, that’s pretty aggressive but if it works, I guess it works.

Reminds me of some friends that work third shift, and they’re working through nights and sleeping during the day and I don’t get how they pull it off.

Yeah, 3:30 is indeed a bit early. To go to sleep, I mean :-)

Come on, 5AM is at least a little early.

9PM is my usual bedtime, but I usually run on about 6-7 hours per night.

I'm a morning person. My wife is not...