I would call insomnia a curse. I don't experience it as an inability to fall asleep, for me, it, the difficulty with staying asleep. I'm not sure if that is considered insomnia or not. Anyway, I tend to sleep for about 4-5 hours, and then I wake up. Once I get back to sleep, it's another 4-5 hours.
I'm a night owl, I'm usually up until at least 2 am, fairly often, it's later than that. Of course, that means I don't get up before 10:30-11 am, and sometimes at about the crack of noon. When I was still working, I worked afternoon shifts, so I didn't have to get up in the morning, which was a good thing for me.