When i first started playing Skyrim, i would use the "wait" option, exspecially when i entered a town/city, and it was dark, and i wanted to sell/buy things. So i would "wait" until it was light.

But recantly i have been trying to play with more of a role playing feel. After all, it's unrealistic for my character to stand in one place, for several hours outside of a shop, doing nothing, just waiting for it to get light.

So i have made a new rule for myself, when i enter a town/city when its dark, i do the more realistic option, i rent a room in an inn, and sleep until its morning. Sure i only need to sleep 1 hour to get the bonus, but it feels more realistic to sleep longer, exspecially when my character hasn't slept for a while.

Does anyone do this? Have you abandoned the "wait" option for the sleep one?

I dont think my char. has slept yet

I haven't abandoned it totally, but I do sleep rather than wait, as most people don't have supernatural attention spans

If I am in a town, I find a bed.

If I am out in the woods, no bed, I stand there or sit under a tree. If I happen to be near a camp and I notice it is getting dark, I will sleep there.

I usually wait. My character is a werewolf, so sleeping provides no benefit and is less convenient.

Since I've acquired the blood of the beast...it's not of use for me to get a restful sleep anymore...lol

Depends on my mood.

I try to use Sleep when i can.. roleplay thing of sorts... and fatc game keeps track of it. So it always bugs me to open stats menu and see 498513405601427856457806 hours waited and 9hours slept. LOL

But Skyrim... is...
Fast Travel... I swear. ********** everytime i do. Its bloody 8:01pm and beyond. Its never daylight when i fast travel to town.. Always havign to use wait command to get stores to open.
I'd really love option to have it be 9-10am when i use fast travel...
99% of the time.. its dark out and everyone things closed.

I'll only wait if it is less than 4 hours I need to pass. Otherwise, I try and hunt down a bed.

I rarely wait or sleep. So far, I've probably waited 5-10 hours and haven't slept yet.

Usually if there's something to do nearby (chopping wood, farming for alchemy), I'll just keep busy while waiting for the shops to open.

There must be large amounts of caffiene in the potions that my Nord makes, as he should have passed out from the lack of sleep long ago.

My Nord is also a werewolf, and thus no sleep bonus.

I rarely wait more than an hour because it doesn't seem realistic. If I am in the wild, I will find a bedroll in a bandit camp or cave. If I am in town and need to wait until morning for a vendor to open I will find an inn. I also make sure to eat an adequate amount of food each day and drink ale or mead whenever I get the chance (my Altmer will drink wine instead). I never fast travel, although I will pay for and ride carts. I do all these things because it helps me stay immersed in the game. This style of play is not for everyone, but it suits me.

I only use "wait" when I'm stalking someone and waiting for them to leave or come back to their house or go to bed or something like that. Waiting for some specific event to occur.

For just killing time I sleep. I also always sleep whenever I visit a town, or when I find a cool camp in the wilderness. I'll go for up to two days without sleep, but then also sleep for min. 12 hours. I'm an adventurer so I have an irregular schedule, but I do make sure I get some sleep.

I sleep in my houses and out in the open after clearing a bandit's hideout. I only wait for shops to open, otherwise do I try to time my sleeps so that I arrive on time (wherever it is I am planning to go). For my next trip will I have to sleep through the afternoon and travel in the evening to make the best use of the night. I hope to return just when the shops are opening open.

Btw, sleeping gets you a 10%-bonus on your skill advancement.

Chuck Norris never sleeps....he waits.

I do the same. I think I've waited only 3 or 4 times since I began playing. If I happen to be near a town, I always try to get back and rent a room in the inn before sunset. In the wilderness I usually sleep in bandit camps and such. I need a portable bedroll mod...

Sleeping (as implemented in all of the Elder Scrolls games I've played) is no more immersive than waiting, as far as I'm concerned. The only difference between the two is that we stand in front of a bed to do one and we do not stand in front of a bed to do the other. Apart from that, the acts of sleeping and waiting are identical.

In Oblivion I used a wonderful mod called "See You Sleep." It added getting-into-and-out-of-bed animations to my character. That made a huge difference for me. Once I had that mod, I felt that there was now a difference between the two and began sleeping.

In Skyrim my characters sleep when they are in a town. But they will wait also, because there's really no difference between the two. It takes as much roleplaying imagination to believe that my character is lounging around, whistling, whittling on a piece of wood, gossiping with townsfolk, ect, when I hit the T key as it does to believe that my character has climbed into bed, pulled the covers up to her chin and fallen asleep when I hit the spacebar.

Well, i do a bit off both. I try to sleep when i can in my own house, and if it's really early in the evening/night, then i rent a room in the inn. Or use a camp/cave when i'm out in the wild. But..... i also seem to wait sometimes. Specially when the night is half past. (hate to spend money on a room for just a few hours) I take a chair, drink some mead, even request a song maybe. And then i pretend that i fall asleep in the chair and "wait" till its morning.
So i play the role off a drunken traveller and hope the innkeeper will not charge me for the chair

I've only waited through the night once or twice in the game, each time simply because I did not have easy access to a bed. Every other time, if I arrive somewhere and it's late, I go to the local inn (or one of my houses, if they're available) and sleep until morning.

I wait because i'm a werewolf but i slept when i was human...i try to maintain proper RP

I've tweaked my character's heal and stamina "ratemult" so that they don't regenerate automatically, so, my character has to sleep to regenerate them, if he wants to spare his food and potions; wait doesn't work in that case. Anyway, he sometimes has insomnia and I have him sitting somewhere outside (in Whiterun, on the top of the guard post, in Riverwood, on the bench outside the Sleeping Giant inn...) and simply wait til dawn.

If I'm next to a bed and it's night I sleep (and I mean actually next to the bed, otherwise it doesn't occur to me) . Otherwise I wait.

Sleep, except in Markarth where the beds are all hard stone. People in Markarth are stupid.

If it's overnight travel, and there is one hour until the shop is open, I will wait. Then I can get all the selling, alchemy, training and whatever out of the way, then sleep a few hours at the inn, make my 'in town' save, and we are ready to go, well rested.

I usually wait to pass the time, instead of sleeping.

I try to when there's a bed availible, but if I fast travel from Whiterun to Solitude to see a Merchant and it's 4 in the morning, I'll wait.

I usually wait but i would have preferred sleeping since it feels immersion breaking waiting around all night for hours. I just tell myself he is relaxing while waiting but not actually sleeping. I make sure he eats and drinks just before getting on with his task when the waiting is over.