Circadian Ripoffs
Why can't I just go to bed early like a normal person? Why can't I be a morning person?
I am the only person in my family of origin who is a night person. How many years of a body getting up at o'dark-fucking-thirty in the morning does it take for said body to just get used to it? You'd think the military would've yanked my inner clock into a rhythm more in line with the planet's operating hours, but no.
And really, what the fuck is up with those people who are actually in bed by 10? They get up at 6am on weekends like it's nothing. I hate them.
Why can't the world operate according to night owl schedules? I mean, who decided those perkyass smirking morning people get to run things?
Bastards.
Fuck. I really need to drag my ass to bed.
23 comments:
When I was younger, noon equaled the crack of dawn. I now get up at 4:30 every day. I don't know how my inner clock got reset, but there you go.
If you'd told me when I was younger that this would have happened I would have pissed myself laughing.
If it makes you feel any better I still wake up with murder in my heart. Waking up is physically painful.
This is the only remaining reason why I regret that my theatrical career never really took off. Because I really could be at my very best between the hours of 8 and 11 pm, provided I was allowed to sleep in until 10 in the morning.
All through the formative years and into my early twenties, I was a sleep pig! Early to bed and on weekends you'd be pulling me out from under a mountain of pillows at noon. I loved sleep!
The last ten years or so, I'm lucky to get four or five hours a night. I have no idea why it developed like that either, as there really seems to be no identifiable trigger. It's completely unhealthy, and every several weeks I end up needing almost a weekend to do nothing but sleep, but insomnia, I'm finding, is not open to negotiation.
I've learned to force myself to get up and get going. Force being the operative word here. I am so not a morning person.. which goes a long way to explain my life long insomnia issues.
I generally don't function before 8 a.m. and really get going until about 10. My brother is one of those "early risers" like EG. I don't know how they do it!
Y-O-Y: The thing is I used to be a nightowl, and like Doralong suffered from terrible insomnia. However, in my early 40's my clock got reset and I started to sleep for 8 hours. I would not refer to myself as a morning person in that I don't open my eyes, raring to go. It takes me at least an hour in the morning just to get my eyes open. And anyone who values their life doesn't talk to me during that first hour.
My brain hardly functions during morning hours. It suddenly clicks on at 11 pm and I get my best work done in the wee small hours of midnight. I am either a moon child or second cousin to a vampire.
Night people should rule the world.
Something tells me that if we adjusted "business hours" to start at noon I'd find a way to adjust my schedule and still have a helluva time getting out of bed on time.
Evil-G: "I still wake up with murder in my heart. Waking up is physically painful.
" Perfect description. You know it's bad when you wake up scowling and growling "Fuck!!" That's just not right.
Red: Sounds like perfect job hours.
Al: I'm still a sleep pig. Sleeping just feels so good, especially under a down comforter with a flannel cover.
DL: Forcing worked when I had a drill sergeant. Not so much anymore.
Y|O|Y: I need caffeine to even begin to function. But when I'm really sharp and creative and motivated, that would be late afternoon, and again late night.
Evil-G: I hate those "raring to go" people. What IS that?!
Speck: Makes perfect sense to me. Which is why I need to win the lottery so I don't have to drag my ass to work every day at an ungodly hour.
JP: Crap. You're right.
I used to think that I wasn't a morning person because I'm so naturally more pleasant in the eve. But, as it turns out, I once had the nightmare experience of living with a room-mate who was DECIDEDLY not a morning person and realized that I am actually pretty okay with the a.m. as well. What's my point? I have no point. Go to sleep!
Okay I left that last comment at nearly noon so, don't go to sleep.
Hat: zzzz ---- huh?
"Why can't the world operate according to night owl schedules? I mean, who decided those perkyass smirking morning people get to run things?"...EXACTLY!
All those years I spent tending bar,my workday ended at 2 am.So now I wanna go home and relax,play my music,and have friends over,Living in an apt building,I was alway asked to keep things quiet so as not yo disturb my neaighbors.Fine..Did that stop anyone from running up and down the stairs,blasting their music,or running friggin' leaf blowers at noon when I was trying to get somw sleep??.No.
Sling: Bastards. [seethes and grinds teeth]
I feel your pain, sister. I've had insomnia all my life, liked staying up late all my life (I was the kid reading with the flashlight under the covers who then went to school cross-eyed), I love the deep beautiful quiet of a house full of sleep. Getting up early just plain sucks. If I could go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 10 every day, life would be peachy. Those silly things- like kids and jobs - are just so annoying, aren't they?
Elizabeth: that's the thing of it - if you have kids you kind of have to have a "normal" job. When the Ex and I were first married, BK, we were both shift workers. My favorite shift was 11pm to 7am. Perfect. The worst was Swings -- 3pm to 11pm. All I did was work and sleep.
I think they are pod people.
Whim: Holy Crap. You could be right...
Cowbell: I'm up at 4:30 every morning during the week and 6:30 on weekends. Yeah, I'm a morning person and even more obnoxiously I'm perky when I get up too! Did I mention I'm skinny too? Bwaaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
When I worked shift work I was able to adapt to almost any sleeping schedule - hell you had to. But now well. I never get to bed before midnight and I'm normally up at 0630 to take Reese out. Plus I really don't sleep all that deep and Laurent loves doing imitations of trains comig into station in his sleep. And once I'm up I just can't go back to sleep - so I have what passes for breaksfast at our house on a work day - juice, tea and toast standing at the counter in the kitchen with Laurent.
I've tried the nap in the afternoon but just can't sleep - I more like doze. Then the world wonders why I get edgy and a mite snarly sometimes. I really should try and get to bed earlier and get up later - damn it I'm semi-retired now!
RG: I think I hate you a little bit.
And just for that, I'm not rooting for the Patsies today.
Willym: I used to sleep with a snorer. I really felt the edges of insanity encroaching on my brain. No kidding. I can't nap either -- not sure why. I can go back to bed in the morning, no problem. But afternoon naps make me feel groggy and confused.
People who go to bed early aren't normal. 3am is normal.
Allan: Thank you. I feel validated.
Post a Comment