Night Owls

[Winnipeger]

I see a few of us consistently posting during the wee hours. I've always been a night owl. It's probably the quality my wife hates most about me. (If not my PAD and TAD .)

I used to think it was because I'm a composer. I used to write music through the night until the sun started rising, and no one would interrupt me. I'd be surrounded by silence and could think. But now I think it's just a genetic thing. I work just as well in the afternoon if I can find the time. My clock is set the way it is and that's just the way it is.

Still, I come to myself in the night, when no one is around to interrupt my thoughts. I can decompress from the stresses of society, and family life, or whatever.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I only sleep three hours a day and work a 7/12 shift so I'm up around the clock.

 

[Winnipeger]

I only sleep three hours a day and work a 7/12 shift so I'm up around the clock.

Wow! I wish I could get by on 3 hours of sleep every day. I'd be way more productive! I know there are people like that. I have a close friend I've known for almost 35 years who's the same, but he goes to bed early and wakes up around 3am every day. He's about 60 now, but like Superman. He normally walks about 30 kilometres before the sun comes up. Why do you get so little sleep? Is it genetic?

 

[Pipingntrucking]

I deliver fuel at nights locally. Though I dont post a lot I do check in regularly

 

[Chasing Embers]

Why do you get so little sleep? Is it genetic?

Another "gift" of my broken thyroid.

 

[warren]

The last few years my sleep time has turned irregular. I still get around six hours daily. It's just in one or two hour sessions.

 

[mikethompson]

If you live in a different time zone or internationally, your posts would show up as the middle of the night. I've sometimes wondered how members in Australia or NZ see the forum. We are used to fast moving threads, maybe the site seems slower when they are on?

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I look back at those wonderful university days when I didn't schedule classes I planned on attending until at least 10:30 a.m. and on Sundays could sleep in until the NFL Today came on and used to think I used to sleep a lot then, but when I was hitting the pillow after my part time job at the library around 2:30 a.m half the week, and the same for more entertaining reasons every other night, turns out I really didn't sleep as much as I thought I did, lol.

Since June the puppy has had me up earlier than I'd prefer and for some reason up at 4 a.m. this morning. Been d___king around on here since, made the wife a mocha and had it ready when she got up (so I'm popular, at least for a few minutes!). Last week's short and mercifully sweet bout with COIVID's only lingering effect seems to be a bit of insomnia, which I had for a long time the last time, but I'm sure it will pass.

Chilling with some Christmas jazz the past three hours - not the worst way to spend a dark, winter early morning.

 

[kcghost]

Yeah, I'm up a lot into the wee hours of the night. So, I'm available to post but for some reason there's little to no activity.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Throughout my freelance career, I was a night owl. I was often up working until 4:00 am. My friend, Bob, kept the same hours. As long as I didn’t have to draw (which was structural and required thinking and concentrating in a different way, and I was just rendering/painting which was more automatic to a degree), I could talk on the phone with him while I worked. In the wee hours, it was quieter, easier, to focus.

These days, with a 9 to 5 gig, I have to hit the hay by 2:00 am so that I can get up at 7:00 am to head to the salt mine.

I’m kind of hard wired as a night owl.

 

[fireground_piper]

I enjoy being up and showered as the sun rises though on days I go into the office, I'm up well before that. This usually means I'm in bed between 11-12.

 

[yanoJL]

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Still, I come to myself in the night, when no one is around to interrupt my thoughts. I can decompress from the stresses of society, and family life, or whatever.

I've always been a little bit nocturnal.
For these same reasons.

 

[SBC]

No, I'm an early-to-bed-early-to-rise type.

With writing projects, I can stare blankly at a screen at even 10pm, wondering where my IQ went. But if I hit the sack and get up at 3am, I'll feel brilliant by 3:01.

 

[Dave760]

I've been sleep-dysfunctional since a bunch of international travel in the early '90s. So any given night I get between 0 and 6 hours sleep. The only help I've been offered is a CPAP machine (despite absolutely no sign of apnea, but, "iT mUsT Be ApnEa!), and drugs whose side effects I don't want. So sleepless nights are just part of my life.

These days I just look at nights as free time that other people don't have access to.

 

[El Capitán]

I used to stay up until we figured it was mania induced insomnia. I take a pill now at 10:30pm and am asleep at 11pm.

 

[Ash Cooper]

Who sleeps anymore? I got to bed at 1am and wake up at 6:30am daily. Never feel tired from the lack of sleep.

 

[gervais]

Lucky if I fall asleep by 11pm, up at 4-5am. Always toss and turn trying to fall asleep, then I'm up a few times to either piss or because of a noise of whatever.

Lacking sleep sucks

 

[Ash Cooper]

Lucky if I fall asleep by 11pm, up at 4-5am. Always toss and turn trying to fall asleep, then I'm up a few times to either piss or because of a noise of whatever.

Lacking sleep sucks

But aren’t you used to it by now?

 

[didimauw]

I only sleep three hours a day and work a 7/12 shift so I'm up around the clock.

I do best at 5 or less hours of sleep. Otherwise if I get more, I'm tired all day.

I worked 2nd shift for most of my adult life. My ex (who I'd been with since highschool mind you) would always question me on why I'm always up so late on weekends and stuff. Like I can just "sleep" whenever I want. I don't eat when I'm not hungry, and I can't sleep when I'm not tired.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I'm a night owl, too. I get a second wind around dinner time, sometimes log into work and get some of my best stuff done without distractions from others, and don't have a lot of interest in going to bed before midnight unless I'm tired from an active day.

It sucks that society at large doesn't honor our chronotype and seeks to have everyone active on about the same schedule. I am truly not delivering my best work at 7 or 8 or 9 in the morning, so why can't we apply a little flexibility to allow everyone to perform at their full potential?

Sorry, this has been a pet peeve of mine for a while.