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Joe Karlosi	Plenty of time to sleep when you're dead	Lead	[-]
(06/21/09 9:15 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	That's one of my (not original) mottos. Do you like to sleep late, or not? I'm a morning person. I like to get up early, start the day, make the most of it. I have to get up early on workdays, though not as early as I do ... but this also extends to when I'm off. Today I slept "late", something like 6:30am ... which for me IS late! I usually wake up around 5:30, which is too early really even for me... but I feel that waking up any later than around 7:00 is getting off to a late start.
Bifocals		#1	[-]
(06/21/09 12:16 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Don't sleep much. I'm a night owl for the most part and have always felt most alive after midnight even as a small child. Before I became ill I'd trade my day shift for nights so as to avoid the sun as much as possible but due to having to take medicines at certain times & tests/appointments I'll go to bed around 4:30-5 am then awake near 8:30 am. Don't need much more than three hours sleep. Too many 'dusk till dawn horror marathons' at the drive-in along with staying up all night to enjoy Dr. Creep, Sammy Terry, Night Flight & Monster Vision back in the day. Still attend the ones at the Holiday Auto Theater & this year was able to last through the 24 SF marathon at the Drexel in Columbus without sleeping at all. Did put serious wear on a cane walking around to the bathroom and concession stand. When people used to give me a hard time about not sleeping I'd always quote your subject heading.
Dr Acula		#2	[-]
(06/21/09 1:24 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I like sleep - going to bed late (12-ish) and waking up late (8-ish), and I fortunately still have vivid, crazy dreams. About 3 or 4 days ago, I dreamed that Jim West and Arty Gordon were fighting bad-guys in the library, and Arty took ill, so Kirk Douglas' character from the Villain came in to help mop up the rest of the gang. I know a guy who is obsessive, works 8 hours, paints most of the night, goes to bed about 3:00, wakes up about 5:00 and starts again... he's frequently "punch drunk" from sleep deprivation, but I guess it makes him happy - he does it voluntarily because he's possessed by the creative urge! "I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." - Anaïs Nin
catmandu7		#3	[-]
(06/21/09 1:32 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I listen to the old radio shows until 2 AM , and then get up at 9 to go to the Library, and sometimes a small restaurant with My Angels. I still get up at 7 a hold over from my work days.
Reegs		#4	[-]
(06/21/09 1:32 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Joe Karlosi wrote: That's one of my (not original) mottos. Do you like to sleep late, or not? I'm a morning person. I like to get up early, start the day, make the most of it. I have to get up early on workdays, though not as early as I do ... but this also extends to when I'm off. Today I slept "late", something like 6:30am ... which for me IS late! I usually wake up around 5:30, which is too early really even for me... but I feel that waking up any later than around 7:00 is getting off to a late start. My situation exactly. If I sleep later than 7:00 I feel like I've wasted half the day (not that I have all that much to do). During the work week I also get up earlier than I have to, but I like beating the traffic and, over the years, my morning fartin' around time seems to be getting longer and longer.
ryanbrennan		#5	[-]
(06/21/09 1:54 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	A few years back I was curious to know more about sleep -- how to get to sleep, how much do we need, etc. -- and read a couple of books on the subject. The facts are quite interesting. The human being was designed for an entirely different environment (this includes our dietary habits), one that was quieter and darker (electricity changed everything forever), with fewer stimulants and distractions. We were meant to go to bed soon after dark and awake at dawn. For most people in the world today this is not practical nor even possible. That said, I usually get about six hours sleep during the work week and then sleep late on my days off. Sleeping late until 7 - 8 a.m.? I'm usually in bed until noon on a day off, getting about 8 hours of snooze time. If it's been a long week I'll turn in earlier than usual and make up for the sleep deficent.
HalLane		#6	[-]
(06/21/09 7:43 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	In my younger days (daze), I worked the Graveyard Shift, did my drinkin' at sun-up, slept all day and got up at dusk like a vampire. These days I'm up at 5:30 (it's usually just me and Joe here on the boards), and drowzy by 10:00. Formerly a light sleeper, I now saw wood 'till dawn. If I pop beta blockers at bedtime, it takes an atom bomb to disturb me. If I forget to take 'em, I might be wide awake at 2:00, and off schedule for the whole next day.
lsohgirl		#7	[-]
(06/21/09 9:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I love to sleep. I take after W.C. Fields in that way. As a kid, I could sleep until noon if my mother let me. But now, I get about 8 hours. Any more than that, and my bladder wakes me up so much it isn't worth the trouble. I'm pretty beat after a week of work on my feet all day. But if it is a Saturday I don't have to work, I'm Getting 9-10 hours sleep --just one day is heaven. I've always admired those who can get by on minimal sleep and are up at the crack of dawn whether they are working or not. I aint one of those guys, though.
Omega Man		#8	[-]
(06/22/09 12:25 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	On workdays I go to bed at 2:00 PM in the afternoon and arise at 9:30 PM in the evening. I keep the same schedule on the weekends. This is the secret to surviving working the "Graveyard" shift (without becoming a zombie who falls asleep on the job). You MUST keep the same sleeping patterns on your off days. Do NOT take daytime naps when you get home from work. Besides, during the summer time in these parts it's so godawful miserable due to the heat, I'd much rather be sleeping during the day. I love the night... "Dammit, it's jammed!" www.eccentric-cinema.com
blackbiped		#9	[-]
(06/22/09 12:37 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	As Bill Cosby used to say, I enjoy sleep the way I enjoy a good steak. Since I stopped drinking, I sleep better and get more out of less sleep. The only time I really hate getting up is when I have to. Normally nowadays I stay up late watching DVDs and get around six or seven hours of sleep. Like lsohgirl, when I was younger I could sleep till noon. Sleep, back then, was like a wonderful amusement park of the mind. Or a delightfully benevolent drug. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way. My MySpace page BumsCorner.com
Joe Karlosi		#10	[-]
(06/22/09 6:21 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	ryanbrennan wrote: Sleeping late until 7 - 8 a.m.? I'm usually in bed until noon on a day off, getting about 8 hours of snooze time. See, I shudder at that idea! I love mornings, and no way would I want to sleep to noon even if I was capable! (Though there was a stage in my life as a kid where I used to be able to sleep until 12 noon, if my parents let me - but they considered it lazy!). Besides the love of the mornings, I just find that when the wife and I go to Sunday breakfast at, say around 9:30 - 10:00 am, it's much nicer. Also, not as many people around and no standing in line waiting for a table, as all those who don't get out of bed until 11:00 do! This also extends to going shopping or whatever else I have to do. It's in and out of the stores, no crowds, etc. Hell, if the wife and I go to a movie these days we often see an 11:00am show! Hal mentioned being online here very early, and believe it or not these days that's another stimulant for getting up. I'm always anxious, sort of like a kid on Christmas morning, to get here to see what conversations have transpired overnight. I also have a current regimen of when I have to take some medicine in conjunction with eating something at certain times, then waiting an hour, and so forth. I despise taking medicine at all and there was a period of my life where I did not under any circumstances... but for the time being, at least, I have no choice. Anyway, this is another reason I get up early - but I did this even before I required the medicine. Last Edited By: Joe Karlosi 06/22/09 6:27 AM. Edited 2 times.
Lady Tottington		#11	[-]
(06/22/09 9:47 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I'm usually up by 6 am, and run around all day until about 10:30 when I fall asleep trying to read or watch a movie. I agree with you --the best time is early morning!! If I get tired during the day or want to rest up for a long night I put on (thanks to TiVO) one of my favorite TV shows--the Joy of Painting - Bob Ross -aka the thirty minute artist. I can truly say I have never seen a single show in one sitting. By the time we get to the happy clouds and the trees that need friends too, I am O-U-T. The great thing is, when the closing music begins, I wake up.
Uchujin65		#12	[-]
(06/22/09 11:17 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I sleep late and stay up late. My bio-clock just ticks to that. I have way more energy late at night than early in the morning, where I tend to feel like there's sawdust in my head. Coming!
porta		#13	[-]
(06/22/09 2:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Uchujin65 wrote: I sleep late and stay up late. My bio-clock just ticks to that. I have way more energy late at night than early in the morning, where I tend to feel like there's sawdust in my head. Me too. I hate getting out of bed. Then when I'm out it takes me a good 3 hours to wake up. My horrible blog: http://igloooftheuncanny.blogspot.com/
BoldDreams		#14	[-]
(06/22/09 3:02 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I'm another one who stays up late and sleeps late. No matter how tired I feel during the day, I always seem to feel most awake and alert around midnight. It's weird, though, because when I do have to get up early, I'm one of the groggiest people you'll ever meet... but I actually love mornings too. I love the feeling of a brand new day beginning, how there are less people around and it's almost like you have the world to yourself. But while I do enjoy that feeling, I'm okay with not getting that feeling every day as I still feel my best at night. I've been a big-time night person my entire life... I think I always will be!
Tumak		#15	[-]
(06/22/09 6:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	There may be plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead, but as it's one of the things I really enjoy about life, I'd rather not wait. Actually, lack of sleep could potentially bring that death a bit sooner!
PhantomXCI		#16	[-]
(06/22/09 6:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I'm nocturnal. Always have been, probably always will be. On work days, I'll go to bed around midnight and get up at 7:45 am. But on Friday and Saturday nights, it's not uncommon for me to stay up until 4am and sleep the following day until noon.
Tumak		#17	[-]
(06/22/09 6:59 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	PhantomXCI wrote: I'm nocturnal. Always have been, probably always will be. On work days, I'll go to bed around midnight and get up at 7:45 am. But on Friday and Saturday nights, it's not uncommon for me to stay up until 4am and sleep the following day until noon. You don't have kids.
Hamicus Helen		#18	[-]
(06/22/09 7:18 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	BoldDreams wrote: I'm another one who stays up late and sleeps late. No matter how tired I feel during the day, I always seem to feel most awake and alert around midnight. Same here, my most awake time is usually between midnight and 2am. It's 1:20am now and I feel at my best "You think that when you die you go to heaven. You come to us!"
PhantomXCI		#19	[-]
(06/22/09 8:43 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Tumak wrote: PhantomXCI wrote: I'm nocturnal. Always have been, probably always will be. On work days, I'll go to bed around midnight and get up at 7:45 am. But on Friday and Saturday nights, it's not uncommon for me to stay up until 4am and sleep the following day until noon. You don't have kids. No, but I have a physically challenged kitten who needs constant supervision.
ryanbrennan		#20	[-]
(06/22/09 8:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I love the morning, too. I also enjoy the quiet time in the late afternoon before school lets out. And early evening when everyone is at dinner. I like the light about an hour before dusk. I love the night. I enjoy being outside in the wee hours of the a.m. when no one else (seems) to be awake or around. I like the fact that I'm not going to receive any phone calls or visitors when it's dark. But my natural rhythm still skew toward the night and sleeping late. Actually, lack of sleep could potentially bring that death a bit sooner! As the books on sleep I've read indicate, you are absolutely right. Sleep is when the mind and body heal themselves. Also, I've always heard that you can't make up a loss of sleep, but the literature says otherwise -- sleeping late on weekends or whenever actually does make up for the lack of sleep earlier in the week. Another interesting (to me) tidbit: When test subjects are placed in study environments without clocks their natural rhythm has them working/playing/sleeping to a 25 hour day. In other words, they go to bed on their own an hour later every day. One more tidbit (for now): The highest record of serious auto accidents occurs between 3-4 a.m. and p.m. Why? Because our natural bio-rhythms call for us to be asleep during those time periods. So, the countries that indulge in siestas during the afternoon actually have a pretty good idea from the standpoint of the way we humans are built. What has seemed to some folks like a lazy way of life is actually innate wisdom.

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