Close lid, open lid, get logon, logon, then screen goes blank

[firenice03]

Hibernate and suspend work a little different with Linux I've noticed versus Windows..

For a Laptop running on battery I want Hibernate, suspend will trickle the battery to depletion,  I noticed using suspend my power "light" pulsates.
Resuming from hibernate will appear as if it was rebooted... Power button to wake, Grub is displayed, then tty screen.. Leave it and allow it to complete, it will resume where left off, in my case it will resume to the screensaver, I swipe mouse pad or tap a key, screensaver is dismissed and I resume same same...

I use Suspend on my desktop, where its constantly plugged in. In suspend the PC will awake much faster (more so like what your thinking) pressing "ENTER" will wake the PC from suspend, sometimes the screen may stay asleep where a swipe of the mouse will awake it.
Same fashion the power button light pulsates while suspend...

You can hibernate the desktop, but you do need to wake with the power button.. This was a pain for the wifey, she doesn't like to wait

Suspend resumes faster but continues to use power (Sleep??) - Stored in memory
Hibernate slower to resume no power consumption - Stored on disk

Hope this helps answer..