Rise and Shine
 

I am so perplexed by people who sleep until the afternoon. My husband is one of these people, and I just can't relate. How is it, for example, that *I* was the one who came home tipsy at 3:00 AM last night, and yet I was the one wide awake at 9:00 AM and he's currently still asleep?

How is it that even when he goes to bed at 10:00, he sleeps until 11:00? My best friend's husband is like this too. Is this a chick thing, or are there male morning people too? :headshake

My girlfriend's mom and sister apparently sleep in on a regular...neither of them got up until noonish yesterday...April (my gf) was up at 9.

I am generally up between 7 and 10am. Very rarely do I sleep in...even if I'm up late. I went to bed at 3:30 this morning and was up at 9.

I will rise, but I will certainly not shine ...

Because of my work schedule I go to sleep around 3 or 4 am most nights, and wake (on my own without an alarm clock) between 11a and noon.

Eight hours is eight hours, doesn't really matter which time of day they fall in, does it?

Sure it can...the body hits its lowest temps in the morning, regardless of what hours we keep. Sleeping at hours other than overnight can really fuck a person up b/c it goes against the bio clock.

I need 9 hours of sleep... if I don't, I'm exhausted. I don't feel messed up because i usually get up at 10.

Clod , I can stay up drinking untill 5 am and i will only sleep untill 10 am at the latest ,
normaly i wake up at 7:30 - 8 am

10am is about as late as I am capable of sleeping in. And even then, I'm generally awake at 9, and just laying there with my eyes closed until 10.

As I go for literally months at a time getting only five or maybe six hours of sleep per night, when I crash and sleep in, I do an admirable job of it, sleeping from like 2:00 AM to 1:00 PM. I always feel disoriented and fucked up from it, though.

You've never worked shift work. The bio clock changes, if it didn't you couldn't move to CA or Japan. :eyebrow:

Yep! for years I got up at 4:30 am To get ready for work at seven, but I'm a slow starter. After 12 years of no work I still wake to pee close to 4:30. Then I go back to sleep and get up when I want to. But with back and hip aches from staying in bed too long. Once I worked offshore the midnight to noon shift, talk about driving a wife nutts when I got home. She's ready for bed and I'm just waking up and ready to go. Bye Honey! At least she paid for 1/2 the divorce. What a deal.

I worked on ships for a while and we used to work 4 on - 8 off. So getting anymore than 6 to 6 1/2 straight was impossible. I'm not a morning person and have a hard time getting up if it's still dark outside. Also one has to have a reason to get up.
When in Bangkok I live above a bar. I can confirm that if one goes to bed inebriated at 2 - 2.30am almost everyday it's difficult to surface much before 10.00am. There was a bar owner in Phuket once who started putting the shutters on the bar at 5.00pm. When asked why, he didn't realize it was not 5.00am :lol:

These days I cover the desk from 7 am to 3:30 pm. I'm typically in bed by midnight, up at 6, but since the rest of my friends don't have to be in until like 10 or 11, I'm often persuaded to stay out a little bit later. I get chided all the time, but I keep telling them that they just don't understand how painful it is ...

Anyway, I've always been a morning person. I'm up by 8 am regardless of what day or how late I stayed awake the night before. I get it from my parents, who will wake up ridiculously early and just sit around reading or tinkering, even if it means they will be tired in a few hours and have to take a nap.

Mmmm nappp ...

Everytime a sleep thread comes up I'm reminded of how we did things on the boat. As bizarre as it may sound it works really well.

18 hour cycles with six on watch, six working and six in the rack.You end up sleeping plenty and in a week you get ten six hour sleep cycles. That is if nothing comes up, like drills, or battlestations...

I like to get up early and get random chores done. I'm usually up by 8. I used to work 7pm to 7am three nights a week and that really, REALLY screws your system up--despite four days off a week I was tired all the time. Was brutal. I'll never do it again. Straight third shift is a bitch, too. People just refuse to understand that you sleep until 3 or 4 in the afternoon, that it's normal for you. People would stop by or call around noon thinking I should certainly be up by now! No amount of roaring protest could change their thinking.

with me, my morning condition almost always depends on my mental attitude about the day. if i have something interesting to look forward to, even after being up drinking until 3 on a sunday night, i can jump out of bed. it's the in between days that kill me. if you know you're just going to have to "ride the day out" those days are the worst. i usually go out for drinks on thursday nights and don't get too much sleep, but it doesn't matter because fridays in the office are always easy days. i have also learned the fine art of the after work nap - used to perpetuate the stay out late/get up early for work drudgery cycle. ;) :coffee: