Yaaaaawn

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1048215]

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

If I didn't play an MMOG, then I'd probably go to bed somewhat earlier when I had nothing the next day to get up for.

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

My usual wake up time is somewhere between 4:30am and 6am. If I wake up at 3am or later, I can't get back to sleep. I never sleep in later than 7am (actually, sleeping in give me a headache, so I don't do it, but I never sleep past seven.)

[andrewducker]

What time do you go to bed?

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

I put 9pm in the poll, 'cos that's my preferred time, but I've been going to bed at 10:30pm for the last 12 months, and waking up as usual, and apart from the occasional saturday afternoon nap, I've been coping fine.

I can manage on 5.5-6.5 hours of sleep a night quite cheerfully.

[andrewducker]

Damn you!

I need 7-7 and a half most of the time, and at least one night a week of eight hours or I start getting miserable.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sure is a lot of sleep you get.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Wow! someone other than my dad(and boyfriend) that has a preferred sleep pattern like mine. Seems rare in people under 50, apparently. I get the headache thing too - but I can occasionally manage a mega-long weekend lie in til about 8:30.

I can do on 5 hours for a while, 7 for quite a while, but left to my own devices, I'll end up getting 9.5 hours of 'in bed' time. (I wake 2-10 times a night - 5 hours is the most I ever sleep on one stretch).

one of my favourite sleep quotes (from 'The Promose of Sleep').
"We should be no more ashamed of needing 10 hours sleep than of taking a size 10 shoe"

[andrewducker]

Ignore that - I just checked the poll :->

[opusfluke.livejournal.com]

Being unemployed (and on a course) means the alarm goes at 07:30hrs. This does not mean I get up at 07:30hrs. Or that I was asleep at 07:30hrs. I may go to bed at 02:00Hrs but not sleep 'til four or five. Two days later. I'm worse here (at my parents) as once I didn't sleep for three days. I didn't mean to, it's just that I, as the ego, have very little say in what all the rest of me elects to do. That time it did bother to give me ten minutes to undress and get into bed before knocking me out cold for five hours before wiring me awake again. If I had ignored the ten minute warning I would have slept on the bedroom floor with my strides round my ankles.
And this is sober, no drugs other than no more coffee (maybe a lot less in fact) coffee than normal and less tobacco than usual. And a lot of water.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Normally 12/12.30ish through to 8 ish every day whether I set my alarm clock or not. Generally about once a month I find myself completely unable to sleep for no good reason.

Why?

[intemporaliter.livejournal.com]

This week I've been off work as too tired/dizzy to cope with the world, so much daytime napping, but I'm not certain how accurate my answers are as it's been a very long time since I had much choice about sleeping/waking times when not ill. I usually get seven-ish hours a night, but this leaves me tired most of the time. What prompted you to do this poll?

Re: Why?

[andrewducker]

Surliminal was complaining about work forcing her out of her natural sleep cycle and into constant tiredness...

[angelevie.livejournal.com]

I think it is just my busy life that gets me tired

As it's Friday I haven't rushed to bed but feeling very mentally tired now - long tough week at work - so I'll head soon.

During the week I usually head to bed by 11 as I have to be up by 6.30 and I have found as I get older and my life is more demanding mentally I need more sleep. I also now avoid getting very drunk as I feel it screws completly with my sleep patterns and generally wastes my next day. My time is precious and don't want to stay in bed all day on weekends so I'll let myself lie in to give myself a rest (I need my beauty sleep) but get up by 9 so I have a full day to do stuff.

Recently I have been sleeping really badly - that may be due to the trillions of things going on...mum been in hospital, learning to drive as fast as possible, buying a new house, selling the flat and the politics at work being horrendous at the same time as there being mountains of work that I seems to be doing an extra 4 or so hours a week as the norm. - I am restless then go to loo in early hours..then go to sleep and struggle when alarm goes off.

I think I need to find time to either read more or meditate before sleeping

so what prompted the poll?

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

me:-) I was moaning!

[robhu.livejournal.com]

I work at an academic institute, so I can pick my own hours.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

I'm a student, but I wish I could manage my various timetables around my sleep cycle!

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Being a student, self-employed, or unemployed (if you want to not be) doesn't mean you can manage your lifestyle around your sleep cycle, just fyi!

(I am freelancing currently. It's BAWS)

[andrewducker]

Depends on the type of self-employment/unemployment - I certainly slept when I felt like it when I was unemployed :->

What are you freelancing at? I had no idea you were working again!

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Copywriting, but writing about very boring things (mostly Barclays products and services). I amuse myself by doing things like quoting John Ruskin in an article about 'premier' banking, mwahahaha... I wonder what they will make of that. Also saying to myself, Salman Rushdie did this for TEN YEARS!
On the plus side I'm doing it as a stopgap thing while waiting for a verrrry sloooow Disclosure certificate to arrive so I can start working at the National Gallery. Hooray. Which sort of means that I don't have to worry too much about my overtly anti-capitalist bent coming across in the occasional assignment.

And actually, on reflection, maybe it is more living with a partner that interferes with my sleep cycle - I've always said that I'd be much weirder and more nocturnal if I lived on my own. And the bff I was thinking of who's running his own business lives with his girlf, too, so I bet that's one reason why he still does 'office' hours or near enough.
When I was at uni all the best courses seemed to have morning lectures! I suppose you could, sort of, schedule to have lectures only in the afternoons, but it would kinda only work if you were more interested in sleeping than Second Language Acquisition (9am).

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Alas the allergy in my eyes means that I feel tired pretty much all the time at the moment, so I can't remember what it feels like to get through a day without feeling exceptionally tired.

Yes, I am feeling a little sorry for myself on this subject!

[neferet.livejournal.com]

This poll reminds me how much I realy want to be in a job with flexi-time so that I can move back to my normal cycle. lol, and how much I wish I could afford to go down to 4 or 4.5 days per week. It still surprises me how much of an impact the extra hour has on my day to day quality of life.