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Unfortunately, none of us may be "average." So I think that Kalosyni is right: we need to pay attention to our own (possibly variable) rhythms. My wife is sure that I operate on something like a 23 hour cycle, and so adherence to clock-time doesn't work for me. Sometimes I'm up till the wee hours; sometimes I'm in bed at "dark-thirty." It's a bit like my ADHD: I've learned that the worst I can do is fight it. Following nature is also following my own nature, as best I can. Oh, and I do like naps…

(Quote from Godfrey) Ah yes. But my pleasure-loving self enjoys those long, half-asleep morning-moments. (The Epicurean versus the Stoic?) As Theodore Roethke wrote: "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." (Funny how that line is embedded in my memory ... )