When do you stay up till?

[amber]

I'm a two ish, mainly three ish stayer upper. Also, I mostly sleep accordingly. A lot of times when I wake up in the earlier morning, the lighting bothers me. It's fine if I have to work, I guess, not really - but if I don't, I often wake up, look out the window...and just feel really bad! Like I feel pretty unproductive, and usually a bit depressed. I look out my window, and get all sad and feeling like I could never get anything done right then, and if I did, I'd feel crappy the whole time.

People toss around the terms "morning person" and "night person", like it is an easily overcomeable whim that you choose, but really, trying to switch can be hard. I mean many times morning light (she says, when will I see you, he says, I don't think tomorrow baybeh!) really makes me feel very bad. Icky, just icky. I dunno why, but that is the most precise way I can describe it.

It contributes to my morning ennui that we often have morning fog...but that isn't totally it.

I like getting up early in the winter to do sunrise yoga (I know that sounds cheesy, and I'm not really like that, but the winter sunrise through my windows is so beautiful and invigorating. No, I don't know why, but it's true. I've tried to resist)

Another a good morning activity is the hill hike. It is very refreshing to bust your ass into a naturey, uncrowded, freshy morning hike into lovely ground. Sure, it's a challenge sometimes to get started, but once you do, it is sublime.
Naturally, I only do that sporadically. But I do love it.

My most best active time is probably between 3 or 4pm until 8 or 9 - and all the time after that. I can feel the general drop in the vibes of other people's energy late at night, and so can hang out with my own energy much better. All the quiet of very late at night frees my mind to think.


"Airy fairy?! Me?!" *gasps unbelievingly*

[irishgrl]

I hit the hay early (mostly by 8:30) and get up sometimes as early as 2 but mostly 3 and always by 4. I dont even sleep in on the weekends, because I have a 6yr old alarm clock I like the quiet mornings so I can have my "me" time.

I grew up in the Bay Area and I miss the fog...but I get it here sometimes and then Im happy because my favorite sight is trees thru the fog.

[amber]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

I hit the hay early (mostly by 8:30) and get up sometimes as early as 2 but mostly 3 and always by 4. I dont even sleep in on the weekends, because I have a 6yr old alarm clock I like the quiet mornings so I can have my "me" time.

I grew up in the Bay Area and I miss the fog...but I get it here sometimes and then Im happy because my favorite sight is trees thru the fog.

Wow, it's like my schedule polar opposite. Literally. You wake up when I go to sleep. And you miss fog. God I hate the weather here. Except right now. Fall is kick ass here.

But when you say you like your morning alone time, that is the exact same alone time I like, except mine is night alone time. Either way, we're up when "no one" else is.

Hmm, I was just going to bed, looks like you just got up. Yep. lol.

[GODDESS6]

i go to bed at midnight & get up at 5:45 a.m.~

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by GODDESS6

i go to bed at midnight & get up at 5:45 a.m.~

you're up early then

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by amber

Wow, it's like my schedule polar opposite. Literally. You wake up when I go to sleep. And you miss fog. God I hate the weather here. Except right now. Fall is kick ass here.

But when you say you like your morning alone time, that is the exact same alone time I like, except mine is night alone time. Either way, we're up when "no one" else is.

Hmm, I was just going to bed, looks like you just got up. Yep. lol.

it IS pretty funny actually

the fog tugs at my Celt memory....I truly love it, its all mysterious looking. Sometimes when I drive down the Skyway, on foggy mornings, I get to see the oaks swathed in it. Also, the Little Grand Canyon (where the covered bridge is) has had fog just laying there and it looks solid, like you could walk across it to the other side of the canyon...and at times it rises in wisps over the highway and its just alive and so cool

[markolas]

Originally Posted by GODDESS6

i go to bed at midnight & get up at 5:45 a.m.~

OMG, and you're able to function?

[GODDESS6]

no matter how i try i can't sleep longer than 6 hrs at a time i wish i could, but even on the weekends my eyes just pop right open same time every mornin' ~

[markolas]

I'm in bed by 11pm, usually up around 7:30am. I'd love to go to bed earlier and get up around 5 or 6am, as I was raised to keep farmer's hours. But my boyfriend doesn't get off work until 8pm, so that kinda puts the kibosh on that.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by GODDESS6

no matter how i try i can't sleep longer than 6 hrs at a time i wish i could, but even on the weekends my eyes just pop right open same time every mornin' ~

Can you function on that amount of sleep? Some people can. But if I don't get 8-9 hours, I'm in a semi-stupor all day.

[sara1998]

Usually I try to be in bed by 9:30 and get up at 5:30 for work. On weekends, I stay up till 2 or 3 adn wake by 10. When I get 8 hours, I wake up... like clockwork.

[GODDESS6]

Originally Posted by markolas

Can you function on that amount of sleep? Some people can. But if I don't get 8-9 hours, I'm in a semi-stupor all day.

actually i can, i am one of those on the go-go-go type of people~ if by the chance i can sleep 8-9 hrs i am in a hazy daze the rest of the day~ i was on ambien once when 1 of the babies i watch was shaken by her father (she's o.k. now) but it was so disturbing to me, i couldn't sleep at all, so my Dr gave me some ambien & i couldn't sleep on that either ~ maybe i'm one of those "i'll sleep when i die" type people~

[irishgrl]

I dont seem to get much more than 6 hours either tho I do try
thats apparently why I wake up at 2am.........sometimes Im able to go back to sleep, but mostly I just say the heck with it and get up.

Fall is really here in my neck of the woods, the wind is really gusting and blowing all the leaves down...

[carrie721]

my sleep habits are all over the place. i would say my most natural sleep pattern is to fall asleep at 3 and wake up at 10:30 or 11. it just seems as if no matter how early i force myself to get up in the morning, i cannot sleep until 3. i've been known to stay up till 5 or 6, though, and sleep till whenever. i hate sleeping late, though. i feel really unproductive and get really depressed. lately i've been falling asleep late and not waking up till right before i have to be at work (usually 10:30), and that really pisses me off. i sleep right through my alarm, or reset it without realizing it, and then i have to rush around before going in. for a while i was getting up at 7 and going to the gym before work, and i totally felt awesome. but the last two weeks i've been waking up right before i'm supposed to be at work. i hate that.

oh, i actually had a job where i had to be there by 6 a.m., and i lived a half hour away. after 2 horrible months, i finally started getting to sleep early enough (around 9 or 10), but that wasn't easy. i would still stay up till 2 or 3 on some nights, and that was just murder. i also had a third shift job, which most people i know thought would be great for me, but that was depressing. it is really hard to fall asleep when you know everybody else is getting up and living.

oh, and i can sleep forever. 7 hrs is enough for me, but i can sleep for 11 straight and still feel like i could sleep longer.

[JazmenFlowers]

on weekdays, I normally get in the bed around 11 and get up around 6:50

on weekends, I'll stay up til 2 or 3 and get up around 9