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Why Are We Getting Up so Early?

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited September 2012
Any of my peeps out there?
anybody?
I got up at 6:45
FOR NO REASON

Am I turning old? You know how old people go to bed at 8 and get up at 2 in the morning and get dressed?
oh god

anyone?

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  • MatthewMatthew
    I'm up.


    Doesn't count though.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I get up at 6:45 on purpose.... 5:45 if I have to get to work early

    #nothelpful
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    My prediction is that your dog is putting a curse on you. If he is like my poochie, he wants breakfast at the b-crack of dawn.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I used to go to bed at 1 and get up at 8.

    Now I go to bed at 11 and get up at 7:15. Very respectable!
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    * both later on the weekends obvi
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Fuck waking up early. I feel nauseous if I wake up before 9am, which is what time I woke up today.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I am jealous of you who get up after 8
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Sometimes I really appreciate that I naturally get up early and enjoy it....but other times I am jealous of the more sluggish amongst us, because I feel dumb about how difficult it is for me to stay up late. But late night is when the action happens, and I miss so much!

    OH WHAT TO DO
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    but YT, you are so much better and staying up late (if you really want to) than you used to be.

    you are downright flexible!
  • joeyjoey
    I have been waking up between 8 and 8:30AM lately. This is very early for me. I am a night owl for sure. I think I've been waking up early because I don't have things I really must work on really late into the night.
    Making an extra effort to be out of the house by 9 or 10AM is a new occasional thing in my life. I like it. It's nice to be fed, showered, and dressed and see what everyone is up to out there in the world.
    Otherwise I just roll out of bed, take my sweet time with breakfast and emails, start working and then remember that I should go outside when the sun comes down.
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    joey, you're my soul sister.
  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    I am always up at 6:10 on weekdays during the school year. Boo hoo. It does not come easily to me! I get ready in the dark because I am not ready for lights at 6:10 AM!
  • joeyjoey
    Owls:
    Haha!
    We are ARTISTS, dear.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    YT, are you getting enough sleep on the whole? I am a powerful believer in sleep..... if you aren't getting enough sleep, it is really dangerous.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I feel I am getting plenty of sleep. I feel rested and alive, and I wake up early before the alarm most days, just because I'm done sleeping. Doesn't feel unhealthy in an insomnia way.

    Steve it is really nice of you to say this. I have really been trying to be conscious about saying "yes" more often to late-night or otherwise spontaneous things and I have been feeling better about my relationship to these things, although I still am by no means a night owl and probably never will be. So nice of you to say! A thing I am working on

    Nighttime is a weird time. It creeps me out. People I know who like being up and working in the middle of the night, they talk about how quiet and still everything is and how it helps them concentrate. Logically I totally get that, but for me being awake when everyone is asleep gives me the howling fantods. I like a chirping bird and the sound of a garbage truck
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Is it because you grew up in the damn wilderness
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    nighttime in my childhood home was indeed intensely terrifying. Utter silence and utter darkness and then the wind sometimes HOWLING, moaning and crying around the corners of the house. I'd sneak our filthy dog into bed with me and it would make my mom so mad
  • joeyjoey
    Heatcliff, it's me, Cathy.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    totally
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    "I'm still an artist."

    I do sometimes envy the early risers, as most things seem built for them (aside from late night misbehavior), and they are seen as more industrious and productive folks, even though I only sleep 6 or 7 hours myself, it's just shifted.
  • MatthewMatthew
    I love to sleep in. But then I get all emo when it gets dark after I slept into like 1pm. Which rarely happens anymore because I have a job with a schedule and stuff. When we lived in Anacortes I would always end up going to bed at 3 or 4 in the morning.
  • distant_shoedistant_shoe
    they say a life with a good, predictable structure makes both dogs and people feel more at ease.

  • joeyjoey
    Staying up all night in Anacortes, especially in January, is risky.
    There was a January, I think it was 2006? Where so many of us would stay up so so late every night. The D.O.S. felt very soviet-like, our faces were grey.
    I have a rule that no matter how late I go to bed I need to get out of bed before noon.
    It seems to work.
  • lolololo
    I wish I could wake up earlier; I theoretically love morning time -- quiet streets; quiet house; fresh morning dew; hot coffee; snuggling and stretching before going into my challenging job...

    The reality is I snooze like 10 times and curse a lot sometimes about how late I'm going to be. Then I plop on my bike and go real fast and hurry to work semi stressed/worried.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    it's getting worse! Now I'm waking up reliably at like 4:00 a.m. Then just laying there for hours. What in the honest fuck?
    I finally got up today just as dawn was breaking. The neighbor's chickens going apeshit. The streetlight still on. The dog confused.
    It's not insomnia--I fall asleep great and sleep soundly. I am just waking up at the butt crack.
    ?
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Is hyper sensitivity to melatonin-producing vitamins a culprit?
    Or maybe you are just wound up...
  • LelandLeland
    If you are up anyway, it's a great time to read and write and make lists.
  • 12341234
    I've been getting pretty into evernote lately for lists.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    what is evernote
  • 12341234
    edited October 2012
    organization app that syncs with all my computers

    http://evernote.com

    check it out! it's free!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    that looks awesome!
    the introduction video is so funny though, it just shows people using computers and iPhones. Yeah I'm doing that already!
  • LelandLeland
    For me, Evernote is too memory-hoggy. Makes my machine slow.

    (But I'm also usually trying to save most of the internet as a 'note-for-later'. Your mileage may vary.)
  • kdawgkdawg
    I am getting into the ubersimple WORKFLOWY
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    it happened again
    went to bed at midnight, woke up at 6:00

    am I transitioning into needing less sleep because I was bit by a radioactive spider and I am becoming some sort of spider-man

    super hero

    The Man Who Needs A Lower-Than-Average Amount Of Sleep

    "Is it a bird?"
    "Is it a plane?"
    "NO! It's That Guy Who Only Sleeps 6 Hours A Night!"

    "This looks like a job for someone who needs slightly less sleep than other people"
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Can you take naps?

    I am scared of not enough sleep. It has a cumulative effect
    but hey, you know you best
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I can't nap
    I just lay there thinking about all the stuff I could/should/would rather be doing
    I think naps are great but mine have to happen accidentally

    So far I'm feeling fine! Had no problem staying up til midnight last night. WTF

    I'm gonna stick with the spider-man interpretation until further evidence presents itself
  • 12341234
    One night I was tired at 8:30. The next night has plenty of energy at 11pm. I'm not going to fight it. Let the body be. I'll work hard when I have energy and sleep when I'm tired.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    LIKE AN ANIMAL
  • 12341234
    but a dignified animal.

    image
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    oh holy lord
  • kdawgkdawg
    I got up to be at work an hour early yesterday! I wrote an extra blog post! It is too controversial to post. :( But I enjoyed the way the light in the office looked before anyone else arrived! :)
  • LelandLeland
    I love that 'before everyone else' feeling.
  • MatthewMatthew
    Today I slept in! Until 10am! PST!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I have the howling fantods
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I'm going to go to the snack machine and buy the biggest f****** chocolate candy there is, g** d*****
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