I'm back to being nocturnal

tedwca

tedwca

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Sigh, give me a couple days off where I don't have to get up early and I revert to being a creature of the night. It's 4:04am here in CA and I'm still up and I'm seeing the east coast guys are starting to wake up. I guess I should go to bed now.

I still am convinced that a lot more people are nocturnal, but society forces them to sleep at night and be awake during the day. Probably why there are so many people with sleep issues.
 
I'm a night person trapped in a day person's body. If left to its own devices my body would happily sleep from 3-10 a.m.
 
I used to be a night guy too. I liked working swing shift best.
I get up at 6 am at the compound


munk
 
I am a night guy too by default. Toss in a lack of job and suing a fraudulent business partner, and my sleeping hours can be all over the map.
 
tedwca said:
Sigh, give me a couple days off where I don't have to get up early and I revert to being a creature of the night. It's 4:04am here in CA and I'm still up and I'm seeing the east coast guys are starting to wake up. I guess I should go to bed now.

I still am convinced that a lot more people are nocturnal, but society forces them to sleep at night and be awake during the day. Probably why there are so many people with sleep issues.
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thats sounds pretty good i like that you might be right
 
All my life I've been much happier and more confortable awake at night then during the day. If I have to sleep at night and be awake during the day I feel lethargic and a little sick.
 
I seem to recall reading that our remote ancestors stayed up way late round the fire, and slept til near noon. Maybe that's out 'default' sleep cycle?
 
I am an evening person, and hate to get up before sunrise. I hate daylight savings time because of this. I enjoy sleeping in until the dew is burned off, and stay up until midnight. Nice long evenings lets the stress seep out so that I can get a good rest. With the time change we lose an hour of our evening, and really just add more time to an already stressful day.
 
I wouldnt mind it if I was in a cold climate. Trying to go to sleep in an ultra brite sunlit room sweating under a single sheat because its 85 degree's is very, very, very difficult.

I could never sleep more then 3 hours at a time when I was working nights... I do think it would have been a lot easier now that its colder though.
 
I can be tired all day , but reach 10 pm & I wake up with an energy surge.

Guess my ancestors liked that campfire ;) & disliked the frosty mornings.

Spiral
 
I'm split about 50/50, I think my preferred cycle is going to bed some time from midnight to about 3 in the morning, and waking up around 11-2.

Although this might have started when I did that sleep cycle experiment (essentially, rotate sleep cycle to a nocturnal one in the space of a week, then keep on going all the way until you reach "normal" again).
 
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