Sleeping and nighttime

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I hate sleeping at night. I really hate it a lot, it seems like such a waste of a perfectly good night. Unfortunately I have to get up at 8am every Monday and Friday, and soon it'll be every day of the week except weekends, so I won't be able to stay up at night for much longer How I'm going to accomplish that is beyond me. Waking up in the morning doesn't even make me tired at night, I get a boost of energy once the sun sets.

For example, I got 3-4 hours of sleep last night so I was really tired all day but I knew if I napped I would definitely not sleep at all tonight. But when it finally comes around to 11pm or so when most people go to bed, I feel energized and I could easily stay up all night no matter what time in the morning I woke up. And I can't force myself to go to bed because I have a lot of trouble falling asleep when I'm not totally exhausted, and actually even when I'm completely worn out it still takes me ages to fall asleep. So now it's almost 2am and I'm still up, just starting to think about finally going to sleep but I really don't want to. As I said, I feel like I'm wasting the precious night. I love the quiet peacefulness that the night brings... Until my mom wakes up in the middle of the night and yells at me for still being awake

Anyway, not much point at all to this post, I just felt like writing it. Now I've got to finish watching House and then decide if I want to watch a few more shows or head to bed

And just for kicks I'm going to make a poll, because I like polls.

My normal sleep hours are from 6:00AM til 2:00PM, give or take an hour. At my last job, I slept similar hours, and after I quit, my sleep habits never changed. I'm happy with it for now.

That's a great setup, those are the perfect hours to sleep. My last job was the night shift also so I was sleeping similar to that but eventually I found it easier to sleep from 4pm to 11pm. After I quit I quickly fell back into about the same hours as you, but sleeping 10-12 hours at a time. And that's been like a year almost so I'm really dreading this drastic shift.

Also, I love your avatar

^Thanks. I like the different colored eyes on the cat too. I almost bought colored contacts one time, so I could do that to myself.(young and dumb)



I was working from 4:00PM til midnite, when I picked up that sleeping habit. I agree, they are the perfect hours though. I think that why I'm so reluctant to change.

haha I used to want to do that too. I wanted to get a purple one and an orange one so I could play around with those two colours and my natural green. I still occasionally wish I had black ones just to freak people out but I'd have to really avoid mirrors or any reflective surfaces if I ever put black contacts in my eyes

^Black would be cool, although a bit shocking to others.



The reason that I almost bought those contacts, was because some girl at work had a Marilyn Manson obsession, and almost talked me into it.

I am a night person, I like the dark, so I prefer to sleep around 5 or 6 and wake up usualy some time after midday, though today I knew I had to get up a bit early, and my body automaticaly got up at 11am. I have for ages even before having this sleeping patern felt my most tired at around the middle of the day and most energised around when it has goten dark. I think I am a bit like a nocturnal cat or something.

I've also always found I'm most tired in the middle of the day, it's like the sun takes away my energy when it's supposed to do the opposite. I've also actually likened myself to a nocturnal cat before, and if I didn't have a picture of my cat up I'd have a picture similar to your own.

I like to stay awake late, but go to sleep at some time in the night.

I tend to be more awake at night too - sleeping during the day is better/easier for me

Lately, I've been falling asleep anywhere from midnight to 3:00 AM. On weekdays, I usually try and sleep in until at least 10:00 AM and on weekends, I like waking up around 7 or 8:00 AM.

I chose the second option.

Some nights I am just tired so I will go to bed at a decent hour, but usually it is a struggle with myself to get myself to go to sleep. I am a night owl, I LOVE staying up. When I was a teenager I would stay up all night over summer vacation and walk or ride my bike to McDonald's as they were opening in the morning for breakfast. I lived less than a mile from a McDonald's and I LOVE their breakfasts. I would then go wander the neighborhood for a while, then go home and do whatever until I crashed in the afternoon. This is what I would prefer to do all the time, but I work full time and if I do it on the weekends I will screw up my schedule for the week and be tired all the time.

Hmmm, guess I'm the odd one out here... I don't like the night. The dark is like a blanket, smothering me. I always go to sleep at midnight, and I wake up at 7:30 in the morning.

I tend to sleep around 11:30pm to 12am n get up between 9:00am to 9:30am.

I rarely sleep, short power naps. I have so much trouble trying to stop my brain so it will let me sleep. Exhaustion does it, but I don't sleep long. Sometimes I'm awake for days at a time.