Are you a Nightbird or a Sleeping Angel?

darklinensuit · #1 06-27-2003, 01:52 AM

Nightbird = night person

Sleeping Angel = day person (asleep at night)

I love the summer, being able to stay up late. (Actually I stay up awfully late during the work year, too.) It seems like I'm not the only one on this board who's up in the dark hours!

Which are you, a Nightbird or a Sleeping Angel?

(And just to make it more Stevie-related, I consider Stevie a nightbird by most accounts, but Mick calls her a "dawn-type lady" in his book. What does he mean?)

- Jake

Johnny Stew · #2 06-27-2003, 02:19 AM

Well, as evidenced by the fact that I'm still posting at 3:15am, I'm most definitely a nightbird.

I never have been a morning person... not even as a little kid.
And as hard as I've tried to condition my body for an earlier bedtime, it just doesn't happen.
Going to school used to be brutal, because I'd go to bed at 10pm, but still not fall asleep until 2am... having to rise at 6:30am.

Luckily now, I can pretty much go to bed whenever I'm ready, and wake up whenever I'm ready.

As for Mick's comments... I think it's based on the fact that Stevie (as she herself said on Leno's show in 1994) doesn't go to bed until 5am... so she's still awake around the time the sun comes up.
I guess that makes you a "dawn-type lady" in Mick's book!

cliffdweller · #3 06-27-2003, 07:23 AM

"The ones you dream of,
the ones who walk away-
with their capes pullled around them tight,
crying for the night, cry for the nightbird... tonight."

Yeah, definitely a "Nightbird." I hate getting up in the mornings.

Pisces Queen · #4 06-27-2003, 10:54 AM

I was a Nightbird that has some how morphed into a Sleeping Angel. Can't pinpoint the exact time in my life that I changed but it has happened. I use to hate mornings but now if I sleep past 7 or 8 I feel like I have miss 1/2 the day.

wondergirl9847 · #5 06-27-2003, 11:08 AM

I HATE getting up early, and have since I was a kid too, Johnny Stew. When I was about 10-11, I would sleep till 2PM in the summertime!! Even tho, I went to bed at like 10PM.....that's too much sleep for me now tho...I can only do that now if I'm not feeling well. I usually go to bed between 12-2AM and then get up around 8. I work at home now, so I can sleep and do what I want which is GREATNESS!!!

DrummerDeanna · #6 06-27-2003, 12:12 PM

I'm absolutely a Nightbird!!! I HATE waking up early...and I love staying up late...the coolest stuff seems to happen late at night! Anyway...I did have a job that forced me to be at work at then til 6am...it was hell...that made me hate morning even more....

rhiannon1119 · #7 06-27-2003, 12:37 PM

I am absolutely a Nightbird! I was always one even when I was a little girl. I go to bed now about 3am every night and being out of work right now, can sleep until about 12:30pm. I hated to get up early and still do. When I was in high school, I had to be up at 6:30am...ugh!

Michelle

gypsysara · #8 06-27-2003, 01:26 PM

Nightbird in my heart 100%... although Im a sleeping angel for the most part cause I do have a day job & kids. LOL Ive been up late quite a bit this week though! Kind of tired today...

belladonna. · #9 06-27-2003, 10:18 PM

im a nightbird~i cant stand the morning!i have to get up & go to work, but i stay up as late as i can.

macmar71 · #10 06-27-2003, 11:24 PM

I do have a day job but I have a hard time turning myself off for the night and sometimes burn the candle at both ends and use the weekends to catch up on my sleep. I remember my late teens/early twenties when I lived by night and not by day so I must say I am a Nightbird even after all these years and having to do a 8 to 5 job. I still see lots of the night!

Jessica Leigh · #11 06-28-2003, 12:05 AM

totally nightbird... even when i was little.. in elementary school and high school... i couldn't go to sleep when i was told to... i'd sit up for hours reading with a flashlight under the covers... and now.. even if i have to work in the morning i can't go to bed until at least 2 or 3 am.... and when i don't have to work in the morning i'll be up until 5 or 530... and then sleep until almost happy hour... hahaha

darklinensuit · #12 06-28-2003, 12:16 AM

I wonder if there should be some psychological study of this board. Is there some correlation between liking FM music & liking the night time? Perhaps a thesis is in order.

- Jake

GardenStateGirlie · #13 06-28-2003, 12:50 AM

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Originally posted by Jessica Leigh
totally nightbird... even when i was little.. in elementary school and high school... i couldn't go to sleep when i was told to... i'd sit up for hours reading with a flashlight under the covers... and now.. even if i have to work in the morning i can't go to bed until at least 2 or 3 am.... and when i don't have to work in the morning i'll be up until 5 or 530... and then sleep until almost happy hour... hahaha

LOL...I was the same way. I used to read those Babysitters Club books until all hours of the morning or i'd have headphones on and be listening to music. Even now that I have to be up to be at work, i'm still up until 2 or 3 and if i'm not on here or watching something on TV, I'm lying in my bed with the discman on. I'm a total nightbird and I hate to wake up early. I had a summer class recently and I didn't need a grade for it...just credit so I can get my associates degree. I went to maybe 5 classes...lol. I couldn't wake up, be at class at 8:30, stay until 12:30 and then go to work. It was killing me. Especially when I didn't fall asleep until 3am. Oh, and let's just say that I haven't really eaten breakfast in years...lol. I'm usually not up early enough to eat anything or i'm running late as usual and trying to get to work on time.

Jessica Leigh · #14 06-28-2003, 01:41 AM

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Originally posted by GardenStateGirlie
LOL...I was the same way. I used to read those Babysitters Club books until all hours of the morning or i'd have headphones on and be listening to music. Even now that I have to be up to be at work, i'm still up until 2 or 3 and if i'm not on here or watching something on TV, I'm lying in my bed with the discman on. I'm a total nightbird and I hate to wake up early. I had a summer class recently and I didn't need a grade for it...just credit so I can get my associates degree. I went to maybe 5 classes...lol. I couldn't wake up, be at class at 8:30, stay until 12:30 and then go to work. It was killing me. Especially when I didn't fall asleep until 3am. Oh, and let's just say that I haven't really eaten breakfast in years...lol. I'm usually not up early enough to eat anything or i'm running late as usual and trying to get to work on time.

lmao yes those damn babysitters club books!! i read those under the covers! the sweet valley twins were my favorite though... i liked them cause they lived in southern california like me and one was named jessica like me... and they had long blond hair and blue eyes like me... i thought i was the missing triplet... lol

Sorcerer386 · #15 06-28-2003, 09:02 AM

I'm a sleeping angel actually. I hate being up late because there's just nothing to do. Unfortunately, I've been forced into a sort of Nightbird situation as my anxiety level has shot through the roof the past couple of days. But under normal circumstances, I like going to bed between 12 and 1 and sleeping a good 9 to 10 hours. And for some reason, my anxiety gets even worse when I can't sleep. I have some sort of panic over not having a regular sleep cycle...probably because I feel like someone vomited me up when I don't get enough sleep.