Asleep
This happens to a good many peoples out there… for me, I am usually toast by 9pm. Yah, I’m an early riser and I start my day early with the coffee at 6am… I am usually only capable of TV after 9pm. So, my apologies to all my pals out there who invite me to late night activities… I be a too pooped out to party person.
as an absolute night owl, i go to bed at 5am or later, then get up in just a few hours. the short sleep schedule was prescribed for my severe insomnia, and it seems to be working well, the cure for sleeplessness is (in my case) to sleep less. who knew?
incidentally, i hope lava luna’s will keep appearing in the comic now that ryan and squish have moved on. tiki bars ftw!
Birds of a feather, Brig! For years I was an early person trapped inside the body of a late person. But for 20 years now I’ve realized my true self: In bed at 9:00pm and up before 6:00am. Unless I sleep in to a late 7:00am. Any later and I feel I’m wasting the day.
Creativity for me is best in the morning, but I’ve found it’s more dependent on length of time. The longer I’m left alone with my thoughts and writing, the richer, deeper and far-flung my creative process becomes.
Of course, there are times when I try to stay up late for an Event. One such is tonight. We’re taking a couple of our kids out to a local theater tonight to see the 1984 Cult Classic “Night of the Comet”.
Same here. Even on Friday nights, I’m fading out by 9pm.
Wow, Anatman… do you feel at all rested? That’s quite a schedule.
I will do some revisiting on the Lava Luna’s… we’ll see what they are up to over there.
Pete… it used to be different. I used to stay up late at night… well, so did you! But when I started drinking joe, well, I noticed a slow turn into a morning person. I feel rearing and ready to go first thing in the morning… I do my best work earlier in the day, as well.
Yat… Yah… whenever I force myself to stay up late, I sleep in and feel like I’ve wasted part of my day… like Pete said. I hate that.
When I was in college, I’d work in the snack bar at the dorms until midnight, then walk to my apartment. Two blocks from my apartment was Talayna’s, a pizza/ Italian restaurant. A bunch of us would sit there and BS until 2 or 3 AM. I’d drink 5 or 6 cups of coffee, smoke some cigarettes, (yes, I used to have that nasty habit, but I quit on June 22, 1976) then go home and sleep. Then I’d get up and go to class at 8 or 9. I still stay up til late, but my eyes pop open around 6, alarm or not.
Living in a livingroom, I tend to have to go to sleep when the rest of the house goes to sleep. Tired or not. That usually is around midnight. Then, I have to be up when the rest of the house gets up. generally around seven
a.m. So I am often tired.
At least Harold is wide awake!
Poor Squid Man. been there done that, but it was when I was in college and things like that weren’t such a problem. Four younger brothers and sisters who went off to school were noisy! And my cottonpickin’ father would even get up earlier and start whistling, he was a morning person! Now, at 60, I don’t go to bed until between 3 and 4, get up at 10 and get breakfast and the chores done, and nap for an hour or two in the afternoon. (Love those naps!) My mom says she does the same thing. We’ve always been night owls. When I worked it was always the latest shift I could get because I don’t get functional until about 4 in the afternoon.
I’m a true night person, given free reign I’d go to bed about sunrise. My brain turns onto its highest, most creative gear around midnight. Of course, I have to be up for work at 8am….
Sleep is whenever the bureaucrats that run my life dictate it comes. I’ve gotten used to grey hours…….. napping here and there, catching a longer rest between jobs and locations. I usually get most of my sleep in the hospital or on planes. So sleep on, Squid Mama! I will never be anything but jealous of an early riser.
So it’s that darned creativity keeping me up so I can’t sleep? Is there a cure? 😀
Being narcoleptic, I can never tell when I might be up all night (because my brain doesn’t put out the chemical signal that it’s time to sleep) or if I’m going to zonk out early (because my brain decides to over dose me with the sleep chem). The only thing that I am sure of is that I’m not a morning person.
Due to my erratic sleep patterns (often being up till after the sun comes up) I find it very hard to keep a regular schedule for much of anything. It often amazes people (when I have a narcoleptic attack) that I can fall asleep in the middle of just about anything.
I was at a party once where I was sitting in a chair between two people playing drums (meaning that I was getting drum beats in stereo) and I just could not stay awake. I kept falling asleep even though I had very loud pounding rhythms going off right next to me.
I usually try to fight it though when I’m being creative because I find it very hard to pick up where I left off if I go to sleep.
It’s said this is how Dali got his ideas – he’d fall asleep holding a spoon, and when it fell out of his hand and hit the floor, he’d wake up and whatever he’d been dreaming about would go into his next painting.
I’m seeing that you all have, or have had, some interesting sleep patterns.
Rich… coffee and cigarettes… I do believe there is a song about that… and it is something I use in Randie’s Springlemeyer’s Inspired Life.
Squid fella… you need to finish that alternative space… How close is it to be finished?
Dada… how do you know that? He always sleeps with one eye open… haha hahahahahah!
Ruth… Naps are AMAZING… I often wish I could nap at my office… I have a couch… I could do that… maybe I’ll make an effort…. after lunch perhaps.
Chug… naps! Well… it might could work… but it might throw off the rhythm then.
Gramy… Wow… drum circles and snoozes… I don’t imagine folks wanna get in a car with you at the wheel, yah?
uwg… um… I imagine he had lots of naps, too. Spoon dropping and dream analysis…. might should do that sometime … for giggles.
Yeah , Not close enough!