General Is anyone else a night owl like I am ?

[Robbie Hart]

Granted, I work later in the day than most of you and that’s so I can deal with stuff while you all are at work

But gosh dammit, my witching hour is from 1-4 am everyday

I talk so much to my former Filipina chick and just look to start all kinds of “discussions” with people. She just gets tired of my bullshit a lot of times but we still have a lot of love for each other.

I know I’m a tw@, but I get into all kinds of trouble at that time

 

[MountainMedic]

Granted, I work later in the day than most of you and that’s so I can deal with stuff while you all are at work

But gosh dammit, my witching hour is from 1-4 am everyday

I talk so much to my former Filipina chick and just look to start all kinds of “discussions” with people. She just gets tired of my bullshit a lot of times but we still have a lot of love for each other.

I know I’m a tw@, but I get into all kinds of trouble at that time

I was literally bred to be a night walker.
Dad was in bands, mom was a hippie artist... in utero I was conditioned for loud noises at night and the day starts at noon.

My "perfect" sleep window os 0500-1000. With those 5 hours I feel like I'm on crack. But the world doesn't work like that and I've spent most of my adult life waking up to an alarm right as I enter restorative sleep.

I also feel like I'm on a 30hr clock, not 24. My 'staying awake' times seem to push forward and forward, always out of sync with the 24hr clock everyone else lives in.

Its what made me a good paramedic, I was already used to functioning on little to no sleep.

@Bushkill Blades is another member of the tribe... he might actually sleep less than I do.

 

[Robbie Hart]

I was literally bred to be a night walker.
Dad was in bands, mom was a hippie artist... in utero I was conditioned for loud noises at night and the day starts at noon.

My "perfect" sleep window os 0500-1000. With those 5 hours I feel like I'm on crack. But the world doesn't work like that and I've spent most of my adult life waking up to an alarm right as I enter restorative sleep.

I also feel like I'm on a 30hr clock, not 24. My 'staying awake' times seem to push forward and forward, always out of sync with the 24hr clock everyone else lives in.

Its what made me a good paramedic, I was already used to functioning on little to no sleep.

@Bushkill Blades is another member of the tribe... he might actually sleep less than I do.

Man, it’s how you were built and I have respect for that
Paramedic life will make you or break you. Just saying
I love 90% of the EMS here in Florida. I’m not a doctor nor a tech, but I see them a lot and just respect them as you all have seen some things I never want that keeps you awake

 

[sparkuri]

Nope.
In bed by 8pm every night.

 

[Rambo John J]

I like me some 9pm-5am west coast sleep hours but it ends up being 11pm to 7am because I enjoy the dark hours

I do need 8 one way or anther


When I don't have to work with other schedules I do like to stay up past 1am easily, but that is rare
I can only earn money during the standard doctor office work hours of 7am -6pm so I have to play ball and not be a night owl

I am west coast of course

 

[Uncle Tom Doug]

I've been one ever since I was a child. Both of my parents are very early risers and it pissed my dad off to no end. He'd constantly bitch about me sleeping in, even though I'd gone to sleep just a couple hours before he woke up. When I snuck out of the house, I had to make sure I was back home by 5:00am because that's what time my mom left for work. She's always poke her head in my room on her way out the door.

My current work schedule is 9am-6pm. I go to bed between 3 and 4 am. Thankfully, I work from home, so I set my alarm for 8:58. The best I've ever felt as a working adult was when I worked a 1pm to 10pm shift. I'd usually be up until about 5am and I'd sleep until 11 or 12 and I rarely ever used an alarm to wake up.

I went to bed around 1am Saturday morning and was up at 5 to ride in a charity bike ride. I pedaled about 30 miles on an empty stomach because I can't eat that early unless I've been awake since the day prior. After the ride, I drove the 4 hours back to Greenville, I was up until about 3:30 this morning and that was after an evening full of beers and bong rips.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJcYoHinbsk

 

[Robbie Hart]

I've been one ever since I was a child. Both of my parents are very early risers and it pissed my dad off to no end. He'd constantly bitch about me sleeping in, even though I'd gone to sleep just a couple hours before he woke up. When I snuck out of the house, I had to make sure I was back home by 5:00am because that's what time my mom left for work. She's always poke her head in my room on her way out the door.

My current work schedule is 9am-6pm. I go to bed between 3 and 4 am. Thankfully, I work from home, so I set my alarm for 8:58. The best I've ever felt as a working adult was when I worked a 1pm to 10pm shift. I'd usually be up until about 5am and I'd sleep until 11 or 12 and I rarely ever used an alarm to wake up.

I went to bed around 1am Saturday morning and was up at 5 to ride in a charity bike ride. I pedaled about 30 miles on an empty stomach because I can't eat that early unless I've been awake since the day prior. After the ride, I drove the 4 hours back to Greenville, I was up until about 3:30 this morning and that was after an evening full of beers and bong rips.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJcYoHinbsk

it’s all good man.
Have fun and live the dream
I miss working from home
The only person that’s made me “suffer for my sins” of staying awake is my daughter who punished me for gong to bed late. 6:30 am she’s getting up whether I get sleep or not. She’s grown out of that, but good lord, I was brutalized by her no matter what I did sleep wise. Just destroyed the house and my ex wife would just mentally defeat me for falling asleep on the couch. Good times.

Now is the time that the games begin. I accidentally fell asleep so I’m going to extend this an extra half hour

 

[marvin eats men]

I miss my graveyard shift security job i had, because I've always been a night owl.

Get home by 630am, play games or do something to unwind until about 1 or 2pm. Head to work at 10 and fuck off all night watching movies on my laptop I'd bring to work because I was the only one in the building at night.

Sucked not having a social life and made it nearly impossible to go on dates but damn those were the easiest checks I ever made.

 

[Robbie Hart]

I miss my graveyard shift security job i had, because I've always been a night owl.

Get home by 630am, play games or do something to unwind until about 1 or 2pm. Head to work at 10 and fuck off all night watching movies on my laptop I'd bring to work because I was the only one in the building at night.

Sucked not having a social life and made it nearly impossible to go on dates but damn those were the easiest checks I ever made.

I’ve been there and understand the game. It’s fun to a certain extent but the perils are tough

 

[kvr28]

Yeah, I've gotten better over the years, insomnia would keep me up all night. Now I usually fall asleep around 11-12 but still up every couple hours staring at the ceiling, If I'm not back asleep in 10 minutes, I will watch an episode of the Simpsons and try again. Up at 6 am every morning no matter how much sleep I got though. It's been decades since I have "slept in"

 

[Uncle Tom Doug]

it’s all good man.
Have fun and live the dream
I miss working from home
The only person that’s made me “suffer for my sins” of staying awake is my daughter who punished me for gong to bed late. 6:30 am she’s getting up whether I get sleep or not. She’s grown out of that, but good lord, I was brutalized by her no matter what I did sleep wise. Just destroyed the house and my ex wife would just mentally defeat me for falling asleep on the couch. Good times.

Now is the time that the games begin. I accidentally fell asleep so I’m going to extend this an extra half hour

I haven't lived with my parents in almost 30 years, but my dad will still make snide remarks if I sleep past 9am when I visit them. Meanwhile that motherfucker falls asleep in his recliner at 7-8pm and gets a full 11-12 hours before waking up at 7. Granted, he's in his 70's now. When I was a kid, he'd fall asleep on the couch around 9-10pm, sleep there until about 3am, and then get up and move to their bedroom.

 

[Robbie Hart]

Yeah, I've gotten better over the years, insomnia would keep me up all night. Now I usually fall asleep around 11-12 but still up every couple hours staring at the ceiling, If I'm not back asleep in 10 minutes, I will watch an episode of the Simpsons and try again. Up at 6 am every morning no matter how much sleep I got though. It's been decades since I have "slept in"

The ceiling phase is another bitch of a problem I get into…unless I’m at work

 

[Robbie Hart]

Meanwhile that motherfucker falls asleep in his recliner at 7-8pm and gets a full 11-12 hours before waking up at 7. Granted, he's in his 70's now. When I was a kid, he'd fall asleep on the couch around 9-10pm, sleep there until about 3am, and then get up and move to their bedroom.

This made me laugh as my father is in his 70’s and is just a dickhead about when he goes to bed and will be asleep on his little couch and don’t wake him up as he wasn’t sleeping, he was just resting for a second before he goes to bed and then goes to bed
Gosh damn, I hope I don’t turn into that mode

 

[segfault]

Was a night owl from teenage years until mid-30s. Loved night shifts. Could function mostly fine on 3 hours. Then I just hit a wall and became a goddamn geriatric overnight. Need 5 hours minimum, prefer to be in bed by 11. Burned the candle at both ends until I couldn't anymore, I guess.

 

[kvr28]

The ceiling phase is another bitch of a problem I get into…unless I’m at work

Yeah, the tossing/turning trying to find a comfortable spot is another issue I deal with

 

[sparkuri]

I like me some 9pm-5am west coast sleep hours but it ends up being 11pm to 7am because I enjoy the dark hours

I do need 8 one way or anther


When I don't have to work with other schedules I do like to stay up past 1am easily, but that is rare
I can only earn money during the standard doctor office work hours of 7am -6pm so I have to play ball and not be a night owl

I am west coast of course

What is your profession?
And what's the average wait time when collecting semen samples?

 

[Robbie Hart]

Yeah, the tossing/turning trying to find a comfortable spot is another issue I deal with

I believe you may be a double of me

 

[kvr28]

I believe you may be a double of me

 

[vad]

I was literally bred to be a night walker.
Dad was in bands, mom was a hippie artist... in utero I was conditioned for loud noises at night and the day starts at noon.

My "perfect" sleep window os 0500-1000. With those 5 hours I feel like I'm on crack. But the world doesn't work like that and I've spent most of my adult life waking up to an alarm right as I enter restorative sleep.

I also feel like I'm on a 30hr clock, not 24. My 'staying awake' times seem to push forward and forward, always out of sync with the 24hr clock everyone else lives in.

Its what made me a good paramedic, I was already used to functioning on little to no sleep.

@Bushkill Blades is another member of the tribe... he might actually sleep less than I do.

I'm close to this and the 30 hour clock thing made me laugh.

I hate sleeping. I hate waking up from sleeping too.

If it were up to me I'd sleep around 2-230am to 8-9am. Instead I have to lay in bed every night from 1030-11 rolling around trying to fall asleep so I can be up for work.

It's hell.

 

[CasketCaseZombie]

I used to be. If was abed before sometime between 0200-0300 I was going to bed early, regardless of what time I needed to be up. About every 3 weeks or so I’d crash right after work one day and sleep all night (usually on a Thursday so I could prowl the night on weekends) then be right back at it. I kind of trained myself out of that over the years, but still lapse occasionally.

 

[NiteProwleR]

You all merely adopted the NITE.

 

[kvr28]

You all merely adopted the NITE.

you are right Nitecrawler

 

[vad]

I watched this video of some scientist or something who ran an experiment. He locked himself in a dome inside of a cave, no light coming in. He would then make a phone call when he ate, slept, and woke up.

I might have the finer points here a bit wrong, but he ended up in an eating schedule that was something like a 12 out feeding window every 36 hours. His sleep was similar. He would stay up for 2-3 days at a time and then zonk out for 15 hours. Really makes you wonder how badly our current 9-5 way of life fucks up our day to day cycles.

I think we all know that eating 5 meals a day and the 8 hour sleep thing is bullshit. But you wonder how it would be if you were left to fall into your own rythym.

We should be like big cats in the wild. We do nothing for long periods of time until its ready to go, then we knock it out as fast and efficiently as possible, then resume doing whatever the fuck we want until its time to go again.

 

[kvr28]

I watched this video of some scientist or something who ran an experiment. He locked himself in a dome inside of a cave, no light coming in. He would then make a phone call when he ate, slept, and woke up.

I might have the finer points here a bit wrong, but he ended up in an eating schedule that was something like a 12 out feeding window every 36 hours. His sleep was similar. He would stay up for 2-3 days at a time and then zonk out for 15 hours. Really makes you wonder how badly our current 9-5 way of life fucks up our day to day cycles.

I think we all know that eating 5 meals a day and the 8 hour sleep thing is bullshit. But you wonder how it would be if you were left to fall into your own rythym.

We should be like big cats in the wild. We do nothing for long periods of time until its ready to go, then we knock it out as fast and efficiently as possible, then resume doing whatever the fuck we want until its time to go again.

I remember seeing that as well

 

[vad]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKBXFfEPJyg