Night Owls Unite!!!

Lol same here! What is there to do at 3 am?

Some nights I start cleaning but everything is clean already, sigh...

I don't recommend staring at your ceiling. I have hit an all-time low!

I hope you can sleep soon too! I was watching episodes of Xena on Netflix recently, but if I get too involved in the episodes I will never sleep! I am up watching Fraiser right now.

This cycling is crazy. I am so damn tired and my mind is racing. My head is starting to pound. I am depressed yet I am manic. Its so weird experiencing both, like a duality.

It is quiet. I think I will try and get some rest soon.

Not much at all!

Thanks....I just generally don't sleep much anymore at all, which is getting to be ridiculous.

I am sorry you are experiencing both at once, that sounds very stressful.

(platinumheart) being manic and depressed at the same time has to be the worst thing in the world! I had a lot of those episodes last year. I hope you feel better really really soon!
Lostkey, want to clean my place?

Hello night owls, night crawlers and vampires. I am nocturnal too. I have been working on a night shift for about 4 years. I hate it. I didn't do it by choice, it was (and still is) the only available position (because nobody else wants to do it). It is scientifically proven that being up during the night consistently is bad for your health. Just look at how many people work during the daytime. There is a reason why most people do. Sunlight naturally keeps us awake because we get melatonin. I know that my health is suffering from this work schedule but there is nothing I can do about it. I am consistently being sleep deprived, I get 4-6 hours a day tops, sometimes less. Then I end up sleeping for an entire day (yes 24 hours) on the weekend (if I don't have to work, which is rare). Also, every single person (there aren't many of us here, just 10 of us now) I work with is constantly asking each other "How much sleep did you get" "Was your sleep ok" and I'm hearing "an hour and a half", "not very much sleep" "I took a nap but couldn't get to sleep after that" often. Also, some people on the day shift (the day walkers, as they are called on third shift) that had previously worked the night shift say they had to switch to the day shift because they kept doing things like losing sleep, flipping schedules on the weekends, missing time with friends/spouses/family, the list goes on and on about various problems. Sorry for the bad news for those of you who like the night. Maybe you can deal with it better than others, but I know it does make an effect.

I am an animal, the name of my species is human, my friends here call me happiedasiy.

In the animal evolution of time , species adapt.
Some for food, some for safety from fear of predators.
Others choose what is best for their survival, for body and spirit/soul.

Native Indians lived and worked during the day to producing food and upkeep of shelters.
But it is when the day ends and the moon rises it becomes time for spiritual ritual.
A time for spirit to connect under the stars, the beauty of the constellations under the moon, spirit becomes awake. In my opinion the hours of 10pm-5am is the best time for mindful and spiritual growth.

All animals that live in the ocean are driven by the moon cycles.
Prey and predators that walk the earth stay still during the day and are awake at night, due to human beings being their predators, and they KNOW humans rest at night.

I am a night owl. But I still need an appropriate time of sleep and food.

Circadian rhythm Circadian Rhythms Fact Sheet - National Institute of General Medical Sciences
So I would say that for some individual their rhythms and influences of light may differ from the light of the sun or the light from the moon and environment.
NOT a disease or disorder just different.
Comments Please, and I think we are one of 12!
Happiedasiy

I wish I could sleep at night! It's lonely sometimes when the rest of the world is asleep.

Very interesting Happiedaisy....I think I accept the night as part of my personality now. It is in me and its a part of me.

I am up again, just watching a scary movie, and I am very content. I just drank some coffee so I might just be up again all night.

How are my fellow night owls tonight?

A scary movie? That's bound to keep you awake lol
I'm dreading working early tomorrow. Maybe one of these days, I'll get on a normal sleep schedule?

Yes a scary movie, its good though, I like this one.

I'm sorry you have to get up early

Hopefully you can get some sleep and you will be well rested for tomorrow....

I cannot sleep. There are dark circles around my eyes. Coffee.. coffee something coffee

Can't sleep here either. Had too much coffee earlier....

Hello fellow night owls!

How is everyone doing tonight?

Another sleepless night here .......

I slept wayyy too much yesterday lol anybody else up?

Yes! I am here!

How is your night going?

I am usually always up this late....

Pretty boring how about you?

I'm alright, watching some family guy, another boring night here as well...

watched big bang theory for the whole of last night

got through like, loads of series 5 and 6

I have said this for years. I almost always get a blank look in return. Damn morning people and their incessant morning perkiness!

LOL! I don't find morning people that annoying, they are just from a different cloth as me that is all.

Up again, but I have been trying to go to bed earlier and earlier. Trying to come up with a good sleeping habit, but so far its not happening.

Morning people can be a bit too perky lol in my opinion

LOL!! Yes I guess they can be

naturally was up again all night yesterday, i ended up watching a selection of random commedys on the appropriately named, "commedy channel"

oh, and before that i actually found a link to my local hospital radio (which was rather triggery at first), but i did listen to a little of "gentle nighttime with julie hazelwood", which consists of gentle music, and a story on the hour