the early bird catches.. er, something or other.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

The beloved rolls out of bed at 640, to get to work for 8. I usually don't have to be anywhere before 930-10, giving me plenty of snoozetime after waking up

Until about 6 months ago I was a strange sleeper. I'd go for weeks not sleeping more than 2 hours at a time, then drop off for 24 hours. Some weeks I'd be awake for a few days at a time....it wasn't by choice, thought I was going mad.

I used to go 3-5 days without sleep like that a few years back.
It is strange to be tierd, but unable to sleep.

[Sailor Steve]

I'm completely variable: When I drove skiers to the resorts I commonly went to bed at 1800 hours, then got up at 0200 so I could pick up the van at 0300 and be at the resort at 0400 to pick people up.

When I was an overnight stocker at Wal-Mart I went to work at 2200 and got off at 0630.

I was fine either way.

[Reaves]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Scientifically, around 15% of the population in Western nations are rated as "owls", and another 15%, roughly, to be "larks" - says sleep researchers. It is a probabaly genetic disposition for going early or going late to bed, and we talk about very huge time shifts here, 5-8 hours. Such people do not sleep more or less than everyone, it also is not a habit, or symptom of a deeper disease. People affected that way never get used to needing to violate their inner clock, it ticks the same way like other's people's, they do not sleep more or less than others, but their phase is totally desynchronized to that of the majority of people.

I once read that they also seem to be more sensitive to moon influence, but that was still under examination back then.

I know what all that means, since I am heavily affected from that "problem" myself, since my earliest childhood days (when I drove my parents crazy). School's first two hours were hell, only teachers knowing me for a longer while left me alone in the first two hours, knwoing that that guy is only physically present before 10 am. Today I raise at 10:30 or 11:00 am, means: i wake up, if I can manage to delay all dates of the day to the afternoon, and go to bed at around 3:30 or 4:00 am. At midnight I gain another mental climax, I do kitchen work 1 am in the morning, and dinner is at 9 pm. Deep in the night I am as awake as most of you are at 11 am. Raising with you for brakefast at 7:30 would feel for me like you being thrown out of the bed at 2:00 am. Interestingly, certain health problems I had in the past, disappeared when I finally gave in to my shifted biorythm and allowed it to have it's way. In the years I gave daily meditations classes from 0900 to 1030, were hell for me, concerning the time - for me it felt like monks in a monastery starting their day at 0400 in the morning. My grandfather, his brother, and their father also were known to dance around until the sun went up (antoher hint for the genetic disposition). My grandfather was teacher. He used to come home from school, ate something, went to sleep, raised in the early evening, and then did the remaining work, did what we do - but late in the night, and then went to work again.

No problem if you have an envrionment where you can have that way. If you are depending on a timetable saying 8 a.m. "job", it is very bad, and messes up your life. Me - one can hardly be any more night-active than I am. Should have been born as a vampyre, maybe.

It is assumed to be a genetical disposition indeed. Usual explanations like ill metabolism, probolems with the tyroid gland, cardiovascular probolems, do not explain those people being identified as owls and larks.

If it is a disease, so far noone has found the cause, and remedy. I tend to think it is just natural fluctuation of a population's characteristic, the two extremes at the upper and lower 15%. Even when staying in the african and ME countries, these things posed problems to me. Glad I am in a position i can avoid needing to violate this differently ticking clock, at least most days. And amongst those being affected, not all are affected as massive as extreme examples like me.

I've heard of this condition before as I think i'm one of those who are suppose to be a night-owl. I hate mornings and find it hard to go to bed early at night. If I try, i'll just sit there untill about 1.30 am anyway so I don't even bother anymore. I get up at about 8 am so I do lack sleep but that's why I love weekends so much.

[Dowly]

Like they say; Plenty of time to sleep once you're dead.

[kiwi_2005]

Veteran nightowl here man, my sleeping pattern was history years ago . Once you get use to it you sort of become very alert to your surroundings, although most likely the coffee :rotfl:Read of one woman who reach 104 her secret was she would always be busy and go to sleep every 2nd day:hmm:

[Dowly]

My excuse is that I'm afraid that one day I wake up and the internet has crashed and I'd have to get a REAL life. No save/load options, cant do what I want, I need to actually work on a boring job to get money instead of taking an assigment to kill someone and get a huge pay for that, if I'd be out of money I couldnt just go outside and whack somebody in head with a baseball bat and take his. So complicated...

[Jimbuna]

You've already got a REAL life.....I want one like yours.

Drink like a fish.....fly the world and only communicate with the women of your choice....ya lucky basum

[STEED]

I am still wondering to vote.

[The Munster]

Up at 5, set off 5.30, arrive at yard 6.00.
Best part of it is finishing at 2.
Going to bed after 10 pm regularly is asking for trouble.
2nd best part of it is you really appreciate the weekends and that TGIF moment like now, Yippeee !

[STEED]

I have decided not to vote.

[August]

Originally Posted by STEED

I have decided not to vote.

That's ok. Sparrows fart is winning by a wide majority anyways.

[U49]

regular pillow time starts between 0015 and 0200 and is cancelled somewhere between 0600 and 0700.

A good cup of coffee as a perfect replacement of 1 hour of sleep

[STEED]

Originally Posted by August

That's ok. Sparrows fart is winning by a wide majority anyways.

:rotfl:

[Jimbuna]

There's another vote for the