Anyone else here a "Night-Owl" like myself?

[ndj101982]

It's been going on about 4 years now and I have lived on an overnight schedule where I go to bed at about 6am and sleep until roughly 2 in the afternoon. I got in the habit of it when I was working overnight for about 2 1/2 years. I kept on the schedule last year when I wask doing my courses for college online because I didn't need to get up for classes, and i worked at 5pm so it didn't matter if I slept until 1 or 2 pm. This year I am back attending courses on campus at college and I have still remained on the same sleep pattern. I don't get much sleep on the days I have to be up by 10 or 11 am, but I still keep the pattern and sleep late on my weekends and days I don't have class. I don't know the reason why, but I love being up all night and sleeping through the morning. If I have no reason to get up early I just don't see the point to it.

Anyone else like this?

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

Not to that extreme (going to bed at 6am), but I used to always stay up late and sleep late. I got used to it when I was working 3rd shift for a couple of years, too. It's a habit I'm trying to break, though, because I find that 8 hours of sleep from midnight to 8am feels a hell of a love better than 8 hours of sleep between 3am and 11am. For some reason I just feel better when I get up earlier, and I don't mind getting up early if I've gone to bed at a decent time.

Humans aren't nocturnal, and taking on that kind of sleeping schedule isn't natural, and can cause alot of problems.

 

[MrMidnyte]

While I wouldn't say I'm a night owl, I get an average of 4-5 hours of sleep a night. Been like that since college. Granted, I've been told its bad, its just something I'm used to now.

 

[ndj101982]

While I wouldn't say I'm a night owl, I get an average of 4-5 hours of sleep a night. Been like that since college. Granted, I've been told its bad, its just something I'm used to now.

It's a myth that you need 8 full hours of sleep. I don't know too many people that can sleep 8 straight hours. I feel great on 7, but 5 is no problem once I get my Iced Coffee in my system. There are lots of people who live off of 5 or 6 hours a night of sleep and feel great.

 

[Bugman]

It's a myth that you need 8 full hours of sleep. I don't know too many people that can sleep 8 straight hours.

I've known quite a few people who have no problem sleeping 8 or more hours a day. In some cases, a lot more.

I feel great on 7, but 5 is no problem once I get my Iced Coffee in my system.

I can get by on six or seven hours sleep for a couple of days but I'm definitely not at my best. I tend to get very irritable and have trouble staying focused.

There are lots of people who live off of 5 or 6 hours a night of sleep and feel great.

There are exceptions to a lot of rules. I've read that Michelangelo slept only four hours a day, and Davinci took a fifteen minute nap every four hours.

I mention this because I suffer from periodic bouts of insomnia and have done some reading on the subject. Every study I have read indicates that a chronic lack of sleep leads to all sorts of physical and or mental problems for most people in the long term.

 

[Mitchell]

As other people in this thread said, and I will echo:

I'm not a night owl to the extreme you mentioned, but I usually go to bed very late, and function on little sleep. My average time for bed is usually anywhere between 1 and 3 am, and I'm up by 7am, at latest. I get 4-5 hours a sleep a night, and it has been that way since college.

Mitch

 

[ndj101982]

As other people in this thread said, and I will echo:

I'm not a night owl to the extreme you mentioned, but I usually go to bed very late, and function on little sleep. My average time for bed is usually anywhere between 1 and 3 am, and I'm up by 7am, at latest. I get 4-5 hours a sleep a night, and it has been that way since college.

Mitch

I personally like being up late at night. Usually find better stuff on television and it's nice and peaceful with nobody else up. I used to go out and get a coffee at an all night coffee shop around midnight and it's so nice to be the only car on the road with no traffic. I'm gonna have a tough time adjusting when I finish school and have to work a 9-5.

 

[Soda Bobinski]

Night owl?

Who , me?

 

[Mitchell]

I understand what you mean, ndj.

I havent gone out late at night in the 12 years I've lived here. My now ex best friend used to be finished for the evening by 9pm.

When I lived in NJ, and when I was at college, I had friends who used to enjoy going to late night movies, and then to the diner at midnight or after. Frequently when I was in college, I would do work at the library until it closed at 11, and then would meet with friends back at the dorm, and we would go for full late night meals around midnight, and not go to sleep until 2-3am, even if I had an 8am class.

On rare occasions, if I'm really tired, I will fall asleep early, but I find if I do that, I'm up in the middle of the night. Personally, I would rather go to sleep at 1-2 am, and wake up at 6am, then fall asleep at 10 or 11, wake up at 3, and be up the rest of the night.

Mitch

 

[ndj101982]

I understand what you mean, ndj.

I havent gone out late at night in the 12 years I've lived here. My now ex best friend used to be finished for the evening by 9pm.

When I lived in NJ, and when I was at college, I had friends who used to enjoy going to late night movies, and then to the diner at midnight or after. Frequently when I was in college, I would do work at the library until it closed at 11, and then would meet with friends back at the dorm, and we would go for full late night meals around midnight, and not go to sleep until 2-3am, even if I had an 8am class.

On rare occasions, if I'm really tired, I will fall asleep early, but I find if I do that, I'm up in the middle of the night. Personally, I would rather go to sleep at 1-2 am, and wake up at 6am, then fall asleep at 10 or 11, wake up at 3, and be up the rest of the night.

Mitch

It's funny you mention late nights in college, because way back when I first went to college I lived one semester in the dorms my freshmen year. Hated it with a passion. I used to go to bed around midnight at the latest, and when I lived in a dorm that just never happened. I had two roommates and one worked til midnight in the library then would come back in the room and be typing on his keyboard until 3am. I used to have very early morning classes and would get 3-4 hours of sleep a night up at school. I would go home on the weekends just to catch up on sleep without distractions. Having trouble sleeping up at school when I was 19 was what got me initially used to being up late at night.

I got even more used to being up late at night when my gf for two years in my early 20s had a father who worked the night shift. Her mother would stay up all night to keep on schedule with the husband, and my gf would stay up with her mother and watch television to keep her company. I got used to being up until 4 or 5 in the mornign during that time span, and then because of being on that schedule I went for an overnight job when I went out to work. Did overnight for 3 years at a job and even after leaving the job just stayed on the sleep schedule because I'm so used to it.

 

[Mitchell]

Interesting.


I'm "guilty" of living in the residence halls for my entire college career, for a couple of reasons. One, the college campus I went to was in a beautiful town, but the off campus apartments were in a very bad neighborhood. I just felt more comfortable walking back to my room at night alone on campus, than if I had an apartment.

In my first two and a half years, I lived in a rather lousy and noisy dorm. Then, in the spring of my junior year, I transferred to the big "social" dorm on campus, which had a 24 hour quiet floor. That floor was awesome, because the people were great, yet, they were serious about their work, and it was easy to do work, take naps, or get sleep at night, in the room. If one made too much noise in that dorm, or played music too loud, the R.A. would write them up. So.. except for one of my friends swiping a couch that they really shouldnt have, and putting it in their room for a year.. the noise on that floor was non existent, in spite of the great social life of the dorm.

Mitch

 

[LD_Tickler]

Yo. Routinely nocturnal.

 

[kwildoctr]

That would be me (comes from years of being a musician...)

And lite, too...

R

 

[c7_assassin]

I'm sexually impotent unless I'm wearing a full-body rubber suit and beating another man with my fists. So I guess you could say I'm a "Night Owl."

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[Jagermeistered]

I'm sexually impotent unless I'm wearing a full-body rubber suit and beating another man with my fists. So I guess you could say I'm a "Night Owl."

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Is this the 21st century gimp suit? 😛

Just kidding!

I remember my first five years after high school; I worked a 4am-12pm shift. On top of that I was also a night owl, and usually went to bed around 11pm-12am.

 

[LD_Tickler]

I'm sexually impotent unless I'm wearing a full-body rubber suit and beating another man with my fists. So I guess you could say I'm a "Night Owl."

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😀 😀 😀

 

[Bohemianne]

I'm sexually impotent unless I'm wearing a full-body rubber suit and beating another man with my fists. So I guess you could say I'm a "Night Owl."

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LOL! Pissting, if this is the other thread.

 

[Bugman]

Night Owl, by the late great Gerry Rafferty.

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[Tickleslave83]

I usually go to bed at 5:30am and wake up at 10-10:30am. Then I usually go back to sleep at 12:30pm until 3 or 4pm. But I find my schedule changes a lot over the course of months and years.

 

[ndj101982]

I usually go to bed at 5:30am and wake up at 10-10:30am. Then I usually go back to sleep at 12:30pm until 3 or 4pm. But I find my schedule changes a lot over the course of months and years.

Yea I hear ya. I used to go to bed at 3am. It just sort of evolved. I also cannot sleep without taking a pill. I take one Tylenol pm every night around 2am so that it kicks in around 5 and I can go to bed. Only problem is that sleeping pills, even if taken in small dosages, make it hard as hell to get up the next day.

 

[love feet]

i am like this to!

 

[Angel_2]

I'm a night Owl, always staying up way later then I should.

 

[ndj101982]

My late night habits totally fucked me over today though. Needed to be up at 9 am and since I'm so used to going to sleep at 5:30am I couldn't fall asleep at all. Awesome day ahead. My advice to everyone out there, don't develop a sleep pattern like mine.

 

[usgrant]

I Absolutely have NO set hours!

 

[badreligion]

Not to that extreme (going to bed at 6am), but I used to always stay up late and sleep late. I got used to it when I was working 3rd shift for a couple of years, too. It's a habit I'm trying to break, though, because I find that 8 hours of sleep from midnight to 8am feels a hell of a love better than 8 hours of sleep between 3am and 11am. For some reason I just feel better when I get up earlier, and I don't mind getting up early if I've gone to bed at a decent time.

Humans aren't nocturnal, and taking on that kind of sleeping schedule isn't natural, and can cause alot of problems.

What kind of problems can a sleep pattern like that cause ?