I am definitely a morning person, always have been even as a child. No matter what time I get to bed I am awake by 6 am. I've always found that getting up early I can get things done before anyone else is up and around. It is so peaceful and that gets my day off to a great start!
I'm kinda an everything person, but I need my 8 hours one way or the other. Normally I go to bed around 10pm or thereafter. My dogs get me up between 3am and 4am. We stay up for a couple of hours and then go back to sleep for another few hours. This morning was tough because we had a storm and the thunder woke me up. So I got the dogs up to go out and pee, thinking it will be raining when they normally get up and it threw us all off schedule.
But when I am awake, I'm ready to roll.... right out of bed, go, go, go!
Night, definitely! I'm wide awake when I "go to bed" at around 11pm, and I usually spend a few hours on my tablet sitting up in bed. Then, when I'm tired enough, I'll lie down to go to sleep.
I'm not sure any more. If you would have asked me this a year ago, I definitely would have said that I am a night person, and hubby would have agreed. I always stayed up anywhere from 11:00 pm to 1:00 pm every night, and I could (sometimes) sleep until 9:00 the next morning, but not very often. Then I started forcing myself to go to bed earlier, 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm, in an effort to get more sleep, and more rested sleep. But I find that I'm not sleeping more hours, just getting up earlier, anywhere from 5:00 am to 8:00 am. IF I stay in bed until 8:00 am, I have definitely awakened several times already and tried hard to go back to sleep. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
It's good to see so many fellow nightowls around! I'm mostly a night person, though my sleep schedule sometimes cycles around to what I call my "old lady hours" that have me fighting sleep by 9-10 and waking up before the sun. It's definitely nice to grab a mug of coffee and greet the sun when that happens!
I'm definitely a night person...usually going to bed at 5 or 6 AM! I find it difficult to adjust my sleep pattern to a night schedule for more than a couple days to a week at a time. I try to do this because it seems everything happens during the day, especially doctor's appointments. LOL
I hear you on that, Sally. I've always been a night person, but have gone almost completely nocturnal since my health got bad enough that I can't work. There's something about not having a schedule to keep that means that my sleep schedule defaults to crashing out around 9am and waking up when most people are having dinner.
And yeah, that means that doctor's appointments are difficult if I can't schedule them early in the morning, and that the sleep study I need to do overnight in a couple of weeks will play hell with my schedule. (That reminds me, I want to try to see if they can do a daytime slot instead...they might get more accurate info that way.)
I can be active in the morning if necessary, meaning if I am exited to finish a project but more often my mornings start really slow, I start getting active after lunch and get very active at night... even though I´m tired of all the day activities and chores my mind is 100% at night
Holly, I just had a sleep study a couple months ago and I wish they could have done it during the day because I have to take a sedative to sleep overnight. Like you said, it would be a lot more accurate. At least my setting went from 18 to 12 since I've lost a little over 100 lbs. Apnea is a bear, isn't it?!? I don't think the strap marks every completely go away on my face! LOL We have a lot in common, Holly.
I've gotten it switched to daytime. We're still not sure if I even have apnea, because I didn't drop into deep sleep much the first time they tried (a night study). Hopefully this one will be conclusive one way or the other, and they'll be able to give me an answer to this whole midday exhaustion thing.
Holly, I'm so glad to know you were able to reschedule your sleep study...hopefully you will get the results you need. I've had insomnia since I was a teenager. I had my first sleep study about 12 or so years ago, when they really started aggressively treating it with CPAP machines. At that study, I never went into REM sleep at all. My cardiologist at the time thought I probably had had it my entire life and that was the reason I have abnormally small blood vessels in my heart: the result of not getting enough oxygen to the heart when I sleep. They found this abnormality when I had emergency open heart surgery in 2005. I told him, "Hooray, the only thing small on my body is my blood vessels...why not my belly, chest, legs and so on!" He didn't think that was too funny, but I was least half serious. I've been obese my whole life, even as a child. Exhaustion is truly awful. I'm tired all the time, partly from my sleep issues (including restless leg syndrome and, of course, back and leg pain, and partly from being euthyroid (no normal thyroid function). Even though I take total hormone replacement, it's not the same. Oh, well...enough complaining. I'm sure you have better things to do than read about all my health problems. I could write a book as there are so many! LOL Keep me posted, Holly. I'm sending you good thoughts and warm hugs.
I have always been a night owl. Even before I started working nights. I would stay up until at least midnight or 1, then have to get up early to start the day with my kids. I was always exhausted.
Now I am a night nurse in a busy ICU and I am a happy camper! I work from 7pm to 7am, and sleep from 8-9am to 3-4pm. On my days off I still stay up pretty late and sleep in the early morning. I do my best work in the middle of the night when everything is quiet!
I echo Kaleena's thoughts exactly. I've always ALWAYS been a nighttime person. But the peace in the morning before the day gets started is so fulfilling to me. I crave both the late nights and the early mornings. Although, because I'm not teaching this year, I've found myself going to bed earlier because I've already had alone time all day and don't need it in the evening. #introvertproblems
Definitely a night person, another night and I’m wide awake gone midnight attempting to design my first digital scrapbook kit for the Oct blog train. I hate mornings, its a case of wake up and pass the coffee to get me going. Then I spend all day tired and wide awake all night
As I get older, I find myself waking up earlier (and going to bed earlier too). I used to be able to party, I mean function, well into the wee hours and still not look and act like a zombie when I went to work, but now I like to get things done early. So I guess I turned into a morning person!
I'm more of a late afternoon-night kinda person. I'm most active then and I feel more awake at those times than any other.
I usually stay up late and then get up pretty early 6:15 a.m. A short cat nap in the afternoon is my recharge.
I am definitely a morning person, always have been even as a child. No matter what time I get to bed I am awake by 6 am. I've always found that getting up early I can get things done before anyone else is up and around. It is so peaceful and that gets my day off to a great start!
I would call myself a night person but my dogs don't agree. They get me up between 5:30 and 6 so I'm usually ready for bed by 9pm.
I'm slow to get going in the morning but don't like staying up too late either. I tend to get a second wind late afternoon/early evening.
I´m an Early Bird! But it´s hard, even for me, to wake earlier during the winter...
I'm kinda an everything person, but I need my 8 hours one way or the other. Normally I go to bed around 10pm or thereafter. My dogs get me up between 3am and 4am. We stay up for a couple of hours and then go back to sleep for another few hours. This morning was tough because we had a storm and the thunder woke me up. So I got the dogs up to go out and pee, thinking it will be raining when they normally get up and it threw us all off schedule.
But when I am awake, I'm ready to roll.... right out of bed, go, go, go!
Night, definitely! I'm wide awake when I "go to bed" at around 11pm, and I usually spend a few hours on my tablet sitting up in bed. Then, when I'm tired enough, I'll lie down to go to sleep.
I'm a night owl
I love to stay up late BUT nothing compares to the peace of early morning.
I'm not sure any more. If you would have asked me this a year ago, I definitely would have said that I am a night person, and hubby would have agreed. I always stayed up anywhere from 11:00 pm to 1:00 pm every night, and I could (sometimes) sleep until 9:00 the next morning, but not very often. Then I started forcing myself to go to bed earlier, 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm, in an effort to get more sleep, and more rested sleep. But I find that I'm not sleeping more hours, just getting up earlier, anywhere from 5:00 am to 8:00 am. IF I stay in bed until 8:00 am, I have definitely awakened several times already and tried hard to go back to sleep. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
It's good to see so many fellow nightowls around! I'm mostly a night person, though my sleep schedule sometimes cycles around to what I call my "old lady hours" that have me fighting sleep by 9-10 and waking up before the sun. It's definitely nice to grab a mug of coffee and greet the sun when that happens!
Its always very difficult for me to wake up early in the morning!
Definitely a night person! My 2 and a half year old has been waking me up at 6am for the past 2 months. Yawwwwwn!
Night, I hate getting up in the morning!
I'm definitely a night person...usually going to bed at 5 or 6 AM! I find it difficult to adjust my sleep pattern to a night schedule for more than a couple days to a week at a time. I try to do this because it seems everything happens during the day, especially doctor's appointments. LOL
I hear you on that, Sally. I've always been a night person, but have gone almost completely nocturnal since my health got bad enough that I can't work. There's something about not having a schedule to keep that means that my sleep schedule defaults to crashing out around 9am and waking up when most people are having dinner.
And yeah, that means that doctor's appointments are difficult if I can't schedule them early in the morning, and that the sleep study I need to do overnight in a couple of weeks will play hell with my schedule. (That reminds me, I want to try to see if they can do a daytime slot instead...they might get more accurate info that way.)
I can be active in the morning if necessary, meaning if I am exited to finish a project but more often my mornings start really slow, I start getting active after lunch and get very active at night... even though I´m tired of all the day activities and chores my mind is 100% at night
Holly, I just had a sleep study a couple months ago and I wish they could have done it during the day because I have to take a sedative to sleep overnight. Like you said, it would be a lot more accurate. At least my setting went from 18 to 12 since I've lost a little over 100 lbs. Apnea is a bear, isn't it?!? I don't think the strap marks every completely go away on my face! LOL We have a lot in common, Holly.
I've gotten it switched to daytime. We're still not sure if I even have apnea, because I didn't drop into deep sleep much the first time they tried (a night study). Hopefully this one will be conclusive one way or the other, and they'll be able to give me an answer to this whole midday exhaustion thing.
Holly, I'm so glad to know you were able to reschedule your sleep study...hopefully you will get the results you need. I've had insomnia since I was a teenager. I had my first sleep study about 12 or so years ago, when they really started aggressively treating it with CPAP machines. At that study, I never went into REM sleep at all. My cardiologist at the time thought I probably had had it my entire life and that was the reason I have abnormally small blood vessels in my heart: the result of not getting enough oxygen to the heart when I sleep. They found this abnormality when I had emergency open heart surgery in 2005. I told him, "Hooray, the only thing small on my body is my blood vessels...why not my belly, chest, legs and so on!" He didn't think that was too funny, but I was least half serious. I've been obese my whole life, even as a child. Exhaustion is truly awful. I'm tired all the time, partly from my sleep issues (including restless leg syndrome and, of course, back and leg pain, and partly from being euthyroid (no normal thyroid function). Even though I take total hormone replacement, it's not the same. Oh, well...enough complaining. I'm sure you have better things to do than read about all my health problems. I could write a book as there are so many! LOL Keep me posted, Holly. I'm sending you good thoughts and warm hugs.
I have always been a night owl. Even before I started working nights. I would stay up until at least midnight or 1, then have to get up early to start the day with my kids. I was always exhausted.
Now I am a night nurse in a busy ICU and I am a happy camper! I work from 7pm to 7am, and sleep from 8-9am to 3-4pm. On my days off I still stay up pretty late and sleep in the early morning. I do my best work in the middle of the night when everything is quiet!
I echo Kaleena's thoughts exactly. I've always ALWAYS been a nighttime person. But the peace in the morning before the day gets started is so fulfilling to me. I crave both the late nights and the early mornings. Although, because I'm not teaching this year, I've found myself going to bed earlier because I've already had alone time all day and don't need it in the evening. #introvertproblems
Definitely a night person, another night and I’m wide awake gone midnight attempting to design my first digital scrapbook kit for the Oct blog train. I hate mornings, its a case of wake up and pass the coffee to get me going. Then I spend all day tired and wide awake all night
I'm a night person who is forced to be a morning person as I have to get up by 5A for work everyday...
aww it must be difficult for you then to remain awake at night!
Definitely both!
As I get older, I find myself waking up earlier (and going to bed earlier too). I used to be able to party, I mean function, well into the wee hours and still not look and act like a zombie when I went to work, but now I like to get things done early. So I guess I turned into a morning person!
Well, with kiddos I've always been a morning person. With hubby I am up at 5:30am, off to bed around 11.