What Makes Humans Feel Superior to Others? (Sleeping In)

One thing that has always fascinated me is the workings of the human social hierarchy.  Many variables go into what makes a human more valuable that another.  Many of these variables are obvious and ingrained into our understanding of the world such as how much money we make, how attractive we are, etc..  However, there are more subtle and dynamic variables that come into play on a daily basis, and understanding these can give you a much better understanding of the human being. 

My interest in this all started when I was sleeping late in my dorm room, as I often do, and my snide floor mate barged in as he often did.  Being a human and having a fine tuned sense of what is going on in other humans heads, I detected a feeling of superiority in his mind.  I was ticked off because not only was my sleep abruptly interrupted, but because of the patronizing manner in which he treated me every day.  I thought to myself, why does he think he is better than me.

The answer came.  People in general feel superior to other people when they have been awake earlier  that day.  This is dynamic however and starts over every day.  People are habitual with the time that they wake up and it is this that makes this superiority complex seem static.

For example, if Jeff wakes up earlier than Fred, Jeff feels like he is a more worth while human being than Fred because he feels like he has the discipline to wake up earlier than him, this in turn makes him a more valuable human being.  Fred, who wakes up hours later, feels inferior to Jeff because Jeff is more oriented and knowledgeable about the events that have occurred so far that day.  

This was also the case in the situation explained earlier about me and my floor mate.  He felt superior to me because he was fully dressed, and I was in the "just woke up" mindset, and he used his advantage to put me down and thus climb the social hierarchy with respect to me and him.