Bristol_Jonesey

And as one gets older they may find they need less sleep as well....

I've been waiting for this to happen for years!

No sign of it happening here - and my need for a lunchtime nap seems to grow daily (I missed a meeting on Monday because of this )

My wife, who is about 64 is going through this now.


She goes to sleep around 10pm....gets up at 2am....


Me? chemo induced insomnia and such gets me up regardless of what time it is....

Karyn


Humans, like most animals, are designed to wake up when it gets light and go to sleep when it gets dark.  How a whole society can effectivly become nocturnal is beyond me.

it's electric energy to blame, I wish I didn't have electricity in my house. I could go more along with nature.

Karyn


Humans, like most animals, are designed to wake up when it gets light and go to sleep when it gets dark.  How a whole society can effectivly become nocturnal is beyond me.

Dunno...  Most of the animals I know of around here tend to sleep during the day and are up and about at night!

Back when I was a 20 year old layabout I would stay up all night splicing together 8-bit samples with OctaMED...and then sit listening to my handiwork on loop with the sunrise. I'd sometimes go and get milk before going to bed, and laugh at all the people on their morning commute. I considered myself to be a night owl. 

I can't do that these days because I have a business to run which involves being up at a decent time. It's a real bummer. 

Having said that, there is a part of me that loves the early morning too. Sometimes I'll go through a phase of rising at 6am and I think to myself, this is the best part of the day, I'm going to make this my routine from now on. However, come the nighttime, I can't bring myself to go to bed early. Basically I love staying up till the early hours, and I love getting up at the crack of dawn. However, never the twain shall meet. 

“I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. ‘What about getting up after five hours sleep?’, oh that’s Morning Guy’s problem. That’s not my problem, I’m Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you’re exhausted, groggy… oooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There’s nothing Morning Guy can do. The only Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy looses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore.”

- Jerry Seinfeld

A lot of people work at night - take computer people, the others work during the day. But it is also bio-cycles that a person goes through also. Try moving around more to sleep better - exercise. For awhile I was getting up at 5-6AM in the morning, now that fall is coming in a couple of days, the weather has changed and back to getting up around 9AM because I am not getting to sleep until 1-2AM in the morning. Other times I stayed up till 4-5AM because of working like a 2nd shift. And anyway when young it was driven into you because you had to go to school and be there in the daytime, then college where you had to get no sleep usually because this world wants you to experience what they had to go through. Now it is different times for different shifts because managers think they run everything and they make more and only work during the day but always complain they have to work longer days and at all times - ya, they make more money also. Ya, whatever, and yes, I have been through it all it seems and still those other people want more! Blah!

but there is a break point time which if I go beyond I don't feel sleepy anymore but next day I'll feel terrible no matter
how long I'd sleep over during the day. That's around 3am.  

I can't say I'm actually a "morning" or "night" person.  When I'm up and interested in what I'm doing, I just keep going.  Then, when I sleep, I enjoy that too and don't want to get up so I can never really predict when I'll be awake or asleep.  I also find (as mentioned before) that I don't always need to sleep a full 7.5 hours (the so-called "8 hours") at once, but I break it up into two segments.  I also find that I require far less sleep when I'm doing something I enjoy and am anxious to get back to work on.

The main thing is that I rarely force myself to stay awake when my body wants a nap and, on the flip-side, I tend not to get up before my body wants to.  This is a VERY productive behavior for me!

Part of my problem is that it's so much effort to get ready for bed! The brushing and flossing, the cleaning of lenses (if applicable), the shutting down of computers, the phone charging, the alarm setting. It's way easier to just sit there continuing what you were doing. 

We must be twins separated at birth, Sharke! I fit that description exactly.

sharke


Part of my problem is that it's so much effort to get ready for bed! The brushing and flossing, the cleaning of lenses (if applicable), the shutting down of computers, the phone charging, the alarm setting. It's way easier to just sit there continuing what you were doing. 

We're supposed to do all that stuff?  I'm more of a pee and zzzzz.... man myself.