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Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
A thread for the nightshifters/insomniacs and the ones who visit the forum in the middle of the night :) Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
I have had my days and nights confused since birth. My mother still tells stories of how I napped during the day and wanted to play, play, play at night. When I was down to just writing my thesis in graduate school, I switched to an all night schedule so that I could use the department computers. It was a very comfortable schedule for me. (I know this will seem alien to those of you who grew up with personal computers, but once upon a time, when dinosaurs walked the earth, people used typewriters. Computers were very new and shared by many people... but I digress.) I visited the forums last night at around 2:30am. I had fallen asleep, awakened after about three hours, tossed and turned, got up, did a load of laundry and a load of dishes then came downstairs to "check my stories". I used to just have trouble falling asleep. Now I fall asleep better, but I cannot stay asleep. 3am to 5am seems to be a really awake time for me. Over the years I've tried improved sleep hygiene. I've tried darkening our room. I've tried tryptophan and St. John's wort. I've sucked down more chamomile tea than any sane person should ever take. Benedryl works for me, short term, sometimes. At this point, I am simply convinced that, much like the raccoons I adore, I am meant to be nocturnal. There has been a lot of buzz in the news lately about the correlation between lack of sleep and the onset of dementia. If this turns out to be a causal connection, I am doomed!!! |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29752 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
I have always been a morning person. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Well as I have gotten older all three seem to be going ary. Typically I would go to be by 9-10 and rise at 5 to 6. It's now fall asleep around 12 to 1 and arrise at 4-5 Ok, nap tiime. PS: I did my doctoral dissertaion on a typewritter. Computers still filled a room and the number to puch cards for a 60 page paper would have wiped out the rainforest. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
There has been a lot of buzz in the news lately about the correlation between lack of sleep and the onset of dementia. Oh. Knew I was being stalked by reporters... edit@Zappy: nice thread idea. Remind me to thank you if I forget :) and@carlos: love your sig :) oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :) |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I will get sleepy during the day still, partly cause the bed is old, and partly cause at one time I worked as a Security Guard for 10 years, mostly on the Graveyard shift, I got used to sleeping in the daytime. I had My two naps today, so I feel somewhat better now. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Wen I was at school four o'clock in the AM was the only time you could get in to the computer room.... I had a cheep typist. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I have allways been a second shifter person. I hated getting up at in the morning and going to school. I hated getting up and being at work at 7:00AM also. I was on 3rd shift for 7 years. I never slept good. Even with room darking curtains. On second shift I go to bed around 4 AM and with out an alarm clock I get up at Noon. Ive allways been a night owl. [/quote] Old James |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
Well my first shift on nights had been a success. If success is doing the work of six people, man am I knackered :( Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29752 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Good morning non-sleepers. |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
heh if i get 3-4 hours of sleep in that's usually a lot . i go to bed between 3-5am and get up around 8 sometimes earlyer I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I worked 3rd shift for 9 years until I quit a few weeks ago to take care of my mother full-time. The lack of sleep was killing me, and shortchanging the time I have left with her, so I made the decision to stop the night-shift madness. My mother sleeps a lot(maybe 18 hours a day?), and I do too now(though not that much!), but it's broken up. I'd say I never sleep more than 3 hours without waking up. ~I check on my mother, and read/watch tv/computer; or as I've started doing - walking around the city reservoir almost every morning(something my mother did religiously from the time my died in 1982 until she started slowing down a few years ago). It's a beautiful meditative place up on a hill: (I know this will seem alien to those of you who grew up with personal computers, but once upon a time, when dinosaurs walked the earth, people used typewriters. Computers were very new and shared by many people... but I digress.) I did all my college papers on a typewriter, too. U of L's library still had big wooden cabinets of drawers filled with their card catalogue when I graduated in 1990. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
Hmm, getting dark out. Time to wake up. Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
Been a night owl for years...difference is when my wife and I are on vaca or weekends |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20152 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
I have been on night shift shift since the end of September 1996. I like the relative calm of not having any upper management except 1 supervisor. Just do the job and keep management happy and I can have all the quiet freedom I can. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Years ago in the Air Force we had a guard commander who would position his troops in such a way that he was always awake when ever the 1st Louie showed up. edit: .... I always thought it was a good thing that World War Three never started when I was working |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I have been on night shift shift since the end of September 1996. I like the relative calm of not having any upper management except 1 supervisor. Just do the job and keep management happy and I can have all the quiet freedom I can. I enjoyed the freedom and relative calm, too, but a hotel night auditor deals with a lot of drunken b.s. the first couple of hours. It was wearing thin with me. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
I have been on night shift shift since the end of September 1996. I like the relative calm of not having any upper management except 1 supervisor. Just do the job and keep management happy and I can have all the quiet freedom I can. Yeah same here. Managers leave me alone unless I need them. |
J. Mileski Send message Joined: 9 Jun 02 Posts: 632 Credit: 172,116,532 RAC: 572 |
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Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrbxWOMpwfs Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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