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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

I slept FOUR AND A HALF hours last night! It's summer! Why is it that when I go to bed ridiculously late (which is my own fault, but it's summer, and should therefore be acceptable), I wake up ridiculously early? I don't understand WHY I wake up, even when I'm insanely tired, I still wake up early.

My little sister's always been like this, she would always wake up no later than 8:00 no matter how late she went to bed. I always thought that was really weird. But I see it happening to me! Aaaaah! *runs away*

[Wall Bash]

Posted by Damien (Member # 5611) on :

Welcome to the dark side... err.. to my world. [Evil]

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

Same thing is happening to me every day, but for a different reason. [Dont Know]

Raia, get used to it. Everthing your sister does, you will too. It is the way of the world. [Smile]

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

But my sister is YOUNGER than me! [Angst]

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

I thought this was going to be a thread about childbearing in your late thirties. Weird.

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

hmmm Well, I went to bed at around 1 in the morning. I woke up at 5.
[Dont Know]

I hear you. Old habits die hard. I used to have to wake up at 3:30 in the morning to go to make it on time to my 5:00am shift. That was when I was a merchandiser.
eeeewww That job sucked, but it payed $10 an hour.

The earliest shift I have at Starbucks this weeks is 10am. [Big Grin]

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

3:30!?!? (((((Nick))))) Aaaaaah! My sympathies, friend!

At least Starbucks is normal. [Wink]

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

Heh yeah. I would have to be up then, do the shower 'n shave routine in under 30 minutes, and be out the door by four to make it to work on time at 5. [Smile]

*is glad to be out of stupid job*

I should have left a year ago....
[Dont Know]

I love my job at Starbucks. [Smile]

Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :

I'm a bit jealous here, as someone who hates to roll out of bed early. Even when it was part of my routine to get to school every weekend I still slept as long as I could.

space opera

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

Oh, I hate getting out of bed early. I'm the exact same way, Space Opera! Which is one reasaon why this is so frustrating... I'm totally a night owl, I'm not a morning person at ALL.

Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :

Sorry to hear it Raia, I've been there too, and am currently on very odd sleeping shifts, but a couple days ago I was up until just after 6am and woke up at 8:30am for no apparent reason.

Though the next day I managed to sleep until 4:30pm after haveing been up until about 5am, so maybe your sleep will make up for the loss soon too. Though hopefully you wont have to be sick to get that much sleep. [Frown]

Oh well, good luck with your sleeping everyone.

[EDIT: And sweet dreams to you all [Hat]

]

[ June 30, 2004, 01:22 PM: Message edited by: Marek ]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

If you sleep less in the summer, that actually means your bio clock is working fine (unless you are south of the equator, in which case it wouldn't be summer). We are designed to sleep when it is dark.

Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :

Speak for yourself, I have on many occassions not gone to bed until the sun started to rise. Viva La Vampyres! Then again I guess that could seem weird to some people [Dont Know]

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[ June 30, 2004, 01:34 PM: Message edited by: Marek ]

Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :

Don't worry, Raia. I have the same problem. If I go to bed late enough, I don't sleep at all.

Wait...that was before I started working at night. Now I'm just scrambled.

Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :

Well it's 2 PM and i just woke up.

*looks around at angry mob ready to behead him*

er..im nocturnal?

Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :

Hah. I'm glad I'm not the only one who looked at this thread with a degree of fear and barely-repressed terror. [Laugh]

-Trevor

Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :

Raia, I have essentially the same problem. I find when I tightly close the blinds in my room before I go to bed, I am able to get another 30 minutes or an hour of sleep before I wake up. Try sleeping in a room that does not have a window on the side of the sun in the morning, it might help.

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

grrrr my room points south, so I get sun all day....
[Grumble]

Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :

I have no regular sleeping patterns anymore. Sometimes I sleep from 08:00 to 17:00 or 18:00. Sometimes I can only force myself to sleep for three or four hours at a time, three days in a row. That is what working nights will do for you, I suppose.

Posted by Crystal (Member # 5437) on :

I have the same problem. I can never fall asleep and I still wake up early. The 21 hours of sunlight we're getting here right now dosn't help much either. [Grumble]

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

And here I thought I'd get a giggle out of this thread. The title made me think you were getting teenage-onset menopause. [Razz]