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Message 1722953 - Posted: 6 Sep 2015, 22:54:41 UTC

A thread for the nightshifters/insomniacs and the ones who visit the forum in the middle of the night :)

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Message 1722957 - Posted: 6 Sep 2015, 23:09:28 UTC

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!!!
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Message 1722961 - Posted: 6 Sep 2015, 23:14:35 UTC
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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.
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Message 1722965 - Posted: 6 Sep 2015, 23:53:28 UTC - in response to Message 1722957.  
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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 :)
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Message 1722983 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 1:07:59 UTC

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.
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Message 1722985 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 1:15:23 UTC

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.


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Message 1723008 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 3:17:32 UTC

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.
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Message 1723093 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 9:54:36 UTC

Well my first shift on nights had been a success. If success is doing the work of six people, man am I knackered :(

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Message 1723094 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 10:30:29 UTC

Good morning non-sleepers.
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Message 1723105 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 11:36:21 UTC

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
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Message 1723138 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 14:43:05 UTC

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.
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Message 1723276 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 19:09:38 UTC
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Hmm, getting dark out. Time to wake up.

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Message 1723283 - Posted: 7 Sep 2015, 19:35:22 UTC

Been a night owl for years...difference is when my wife and I are on vaca or weekends


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Message 1723611 - Posted: 9 Sep 2015, 0:23:55 UTC

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.

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Message 1723665 - Posted: 9 Sep 2015, 2:33:32 UTC

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:
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I always thought it was a good thing that World War
Three never started when I was working

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Message 1726036 - Posted: 15 Sep 2015, 22:10:47 UTC - in response to Message 1723611.  

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.
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Message 1726044 - Posted: 15 Sep 2015, 22:24:55 UTC - in response to Message 1723611.  

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.


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Message 1726065 - Posted: 16 Sep 2015, 0:22:22 UTC

When I was young, 2nd shift was my favorite (3-11). Now with my current job, I find myself waking about 2 am. Of course, as I am posting this, I am past my bedtime
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Message 1726115 - Posted: 16 Sep 2015, 4:43:51 UTC

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