If you were say to someone, "I have to get up early tomorrow", what does "early" mean to you? (generally)

Great range of times! - I was expecting (given this group of night owls) that you'd start the times at 8am or so. "before sunrise" is a good rule of thumb for early in my mind (I know it varies, but dark is early in my mind).

The idea is to choose the latest time period that is still "early" for you. Choosing "Before 7 AM" infers "Before 6 AM", "Before 5 AM", etc. So, try to stick to one time in your answer if you can. (I didn't want to clutter the question with all of this, so I put it here.)

***jen: wow! what's my prize?? fame and fortune? pride in my survey? a gumball or some red M&Ms???

5'ish during the week and 4'ish on weekends...

My normal time to get up is 7:00 am for work, so during the work week early would be before 7:00am. My normal time to get up on the weekend is between 8:00am and 9:00am, so during the weekend the answer is before 8:00am.

Before 9. I got into work at 11 this morning :)

Early means to me that I have to get up before I would be likely to naturally wake up. I don't get up (or go to bed) at any fixed time, so it's pretty variable in terms of the actual hour.

Depends on whether I've got a "real" job or not. I've been naturally waking up around 8 lately, when I let my body do its own thing.

If I run in the morning, I'm up at 4:30. If I don't, I'm up at 5:30. But on weekends, 9:00 is early for me. I like to sleep in.

'early' is anytime before my body wants to be awake! given that I wake up on my own around 530-600am I chose before 6 as 'early'

I am not usually up before 1pm

Before 11 am on weekdays, noon or earlier on weekends.

During the week before 5 is "early" for me. On the weekends any time is too early!

Well, it depends who I'm talking to and what time I go to bed. If I go to bed at, say 2 AM, then 9 AM is early, and if I go to bed at 10 PM, then 6 AM is early. (Heck, any time before 8 AM is early any day!)

Each day I awaken between three and five AM, so three AM or earlier is early for me.

***Lizzie -- sorry, I interpreted it slightly differently. Any time before 5 AM I wouldn't say "I have to get up early", I'd say "I have to get up absurdly early" or something like that... any time before 4 AM I'd consider just staying awake. So I checked both "< 6" and "< 7", since the 5-7 range is roughly "early".

and "really early" means I've got a maintenance window at 4am I need to be up for..

I checked 7am and 9am, which are more or less what I consider early on weekdays and weekends respectively these days. This is very different from what I used to consider early...

Early is any time I have to set my alarm for. That is, any time I can't be confident my body will naturally get me up for, so early can be 7 am sometimes, or 3 pm sometimes.

early on weekdays in the summer is before 8. On weekends it's before 9. In the winter/during the school year, on weekdays, getting up early is before 7.

And don't EVER try to wake me sooner than necessary.