I hate sleep. My internal clock is very hard to adjust; even on weekends I wake up at 7am. Even when I drink enough to kill a small person and pass out at 4am I'll still wake up between 8 or 9am. I haven't slept past 10 in years.
I go to bed at 11 to 1 and wake up between 5 in the morning and 1:30 in the afternoon if left to my own devices. I tend to stay on a 11 to 6 schedule in the school year though.
I think it's time that I invite you other Orange-Belters to a small team me and Lauren have formed: THE SLOTHS. Basically, it's for people like her and I that simply love sleep... Hell, three or four Sundays ago I slept from 4 am to 7 pm and it was GLORIOUS, by far one of the best Sundays I had had lately. Still, I occasionally feel a bit bad about not taking advantage of the day and all... but sleep is worth it.
This survey is quite appropriate for me right now. I just finished my 7-day work week and now get 2 whole days off! So I will in fact, stay up tonight, most likely until morning. I have a horrible sleep schedule now because of work. When I had a regular schedule I was like Ryan, no matter what time I went to bed, I never slept past 7am (which was pretty late since I usually got up at 5). Tomorrow I'll probably be up by 12pm. It's not as late as it sounds, though. I usually get up around 10 or 11 depending on what shift I'm working.
EDIT: I'm gonna bitch about my schedule a little more. So, I primarliy work 1pm-9pm or 3pm-11pm. Every 8 weeks I work 2 11pm-7am shifts and throughout the 8-week rotation I work 7 7am-3pm shifts. Two of them are Tues, Wed, Thurs. And one (the one I'm doing Thursday) is just all by itself, after working 7 days of 3-11, then I have to jump back into 1-9's and 3-11's. Waking up at 5am is a lot harder when you've completely adjusted to waking up no earlier than 9.
Lol as soon as I read this poll I was like "Well I know what Rob picked!!"
Rob and I have talked about this a lot before, and you know, I think he's the only person I've ever met that really, truly understands how much I love sleeping. Eric makes fun of me because I always want to take naps and I love sleeping as much as possible, but lo and behold!! I'm not the only one!!
But yes. If you love sleeping as much as Rob and I do, by all means, feel proud for it. Don't let some overachiever like Ryan try to tell you you're wasting your life away my sleeping through it- sleep is fantastic, and I feel that people should sleep in whenever they get the opportunity to. Because honestly, you just don't get the opportunity that often the older you get!
Lol, Rob, by the way, I want you to know that I think it's AWESOME that we congratulate each other about sleeping more than 12 hours at a time. This past Sunday I slept a good 13 hours, and man I felt so much better. I hadn't had my usual naps on Wednesday, Thursday, OR Friday, so you can imagine how tired I was.
I'm off to a good start this week though, took a 40 minute nap earlier today and just finished calculus homework at 3 am.
Which brings me to the question, does anyone else here love taking naps?
I try to wake up early-ish on days off (like today! Woo!) so I don't eff up my sleep cycle. Of course I'm always up later than I should be, so maybe that isn't the best strategy. Last night I fell asleep at my computer desk, woke up at 1:30AM with gum stuck to my teeth.
I hate to be a downer, but if you are even capable of sleeping that much, it's usually an indicator of poor health or physical condition.
Yeah, as in I don't sleep as much the rest of the week. Weekends are great cuz I get to catch up!
EDIT: and are you saying that I've had poor health/physical condition my entire life? Cuz I've had pretty much the same sleeping habits since I was a baby. I'm not sickly at all, I'm usually the only one out of my group of friends that never gets sick and I've gone through quite a few levels of physical fitness with all the same sleeping patterns. I think I just get really really tired because I naturally start feeling really awake at about 6:30 pm every evening. I noticed it the most with my evening classes this past summer. Almost every night I would feel exhausted and would be trying SO HARD not to fall asleep, and at about 6:30 every night (it happened enough that I started checking my watch whenever I started feeling more awake) I had no problem staying awake. I'd be up for the rest of the night with no problem, and at like 2 or 3 I would finally convince myself that I needed to go to sleep. I'd wake up at like 7 and start the day over again, going off of a few hours of sleep. My sleeping patterns are mostly the same now that school started- stay up late to finish homework, get up early and either work or go to class, take a nap in the evening, and then wake up about 6:30 and stay up until I finish everything else.
I'm pretty sure I'm just nocturnal. Maybe unhealthy that way, if you could consider it, but me trying to sleep all the time during the day is just a result of me not getting enough sleep at night.
When I DO have to get up the next morning around 7:30 or so I have found myself going to bed around 2am.
Personally I hate going to bed at night, but I hate getting up In the morning too. I think given enough time of not having to get up in the morning I'd slowly turn nocturnal.
I've recently gotten into the schedule of staying up until 6 AM and sleeping till noonish. I hate taking naps and if I didn't have to sleep, I wouldn't. It's valuable time I could spend not doing things I need to do.
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EDIT: I'm gonna bitch about my schedule a little more. So, I primarliy work 1pm-9pm or 3pm-11pm. Every 8 weeks I work 2 11pm-7am shifts and throughout the 8-week rotation I work 7 7am-3pm shifts. Two of them are Tues, Wed, Thurs. And one (the one I'm doing Thursday) is just all by itself, after working 7 days of 3-11, then I have to jump back into 1-9's and 3-11's. Waking up at 5am is a lot harder when you've completely adjusted to waking up no earlier than 9.
Rob and I have talked about this a lot before, and you know, I think he's the only person I've ever met that really, truly understands how much I love sleeping. Eric makes fun of me because I always want to take naps and I love sleeping as much as possible, but lo and behold!! I'm not the only one!!
But yes. If you love sleeping as much as Rob and I do, by all means, feel proud for it. Don't let some overachiever like Ryan try to tell you you're wasting your life away my sleeping through it- sleep is fantastic, and I feel that people should sleep in whenever they get the opportunity to. Because honestly, you just don't get the opportunity that often the older you get!
Lol, Rob, by the way, I want you to know that I think it's AWESOME that we congratulate each other about sleeping more than 12 hours at a time. This past Sunday I slept a good 13 hours, and man I felt so much better. I hadn't had my usual naps on Wednesday, Thursday, OR Friday, so you can imagine how tired I was.
I'm off to a good start this week though, took a 40 minute nap earlier today and just finished calculus homework at 3 am.
Which brings me to the question, does anyone else here love taking naps?
Yeah, as in I don't sleep as much the rest of the week. Weekends are great cuz I get to catch up!
EDIT: and are you saying that I've had poor health/physical condition my entire life? Cuz I've had pretty much the same sleeping habits since I was a baby. I'm not sickly at all, I'm usually the only one out of my group of friends that never gets sick and I've gone through quite a few levels of physical fitness with all the same sleeping patterns. I think I just get really really tired because I naturally start feeling really awake at about 6:30 pm every evening. I noticed it the most with my evening classes this past summer. Almost every night I would feel exhausted and would be trying SO HARD not to fall asleep, and at about 6:30 every night (it happened enough that I started checking my watch whenever I started feeling more awake) I had no problem staying awake. I'd be up for the rest of the night with no problem, and at like 2 or 3 I would finally convince myself that I needed to go to sleep. I'd wake up at like 7 and start the day over again, going off of a few hours of sleep. My sleeping patterns are mostly the same now that school started- stay up late to finish homework, get up early and either work or go to class, take a nap in the evening, and then wake up about 6:30 and stay up until I finish everything else.
I'm pretty sure I'm just nocturnal. Maybe unhealthy that way, if you could consider it, but me trying to sleep all the time during the day is just a result of me not getting enough sleep at night.
Personally I hate going to bed at night, but I hate getting up In the morning too. I think given enough time of not having to get up in the morning I'd slowly turn nocturnal.