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Post by larataylor on Sept 18, 2014 6:17:57 GMT -5
I have to break this crazy sleep pattern. I've been staying up until 4:00 or 5:00, and sleeping into the afternoon. I know this is bad for me. And I have my best energy in the morning, but *only* when I've had enough sleep. I love mornings, and I've been sleeping right through them.
Anyone wanna join me in a getting-to-bed and getting-up challenge?
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Post by Jannie on Sept 18, 2014 7:17:49 GMT -5
I've been getting up early for a couple of years. I wake up between 4 thirty am and six, I find my mind is clear and I have tons of energy. I do go to bed early. I lie down in bed around 8 pm, turn on TV and watch with hubby.
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Post by larataylor on Sept 18, 2014 7:25:30 GMT -5
I took DD to school, and dropped off some donations at the thrift shop. Took morning pills. Now I want to start powering through my list. It's annoying to have DH still sleeping when I want to be up and doing things. He keeps saying he's going to stop staying up all night, too.
We usually watch a show together while we have dinner, and then several more episodes through the evening, interspersed with doing other stuff, like cleaning up the kitchen. And this usually pushes me past my ideal falling-asleep time, which is about 8:00-11:00. I often feel sleepy then, but I just don't want to go to bed yet. Sometimes because DD is still out somewhere, and sometimes because I want to watch another episode. Anyway, I push past that, and stay up until 4:00!
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Post by larataylor on Sept 18, 2014 7:32:40 GMT -5
Jannie - I just moved the TV out of my room, because I never watched it in here, and it was too crowded. I would love to do what you do. But I still can't go to sleep when my daughter is out … so weekends would mess it up. I really love being awake when the sun is coming up … that's so energizing.
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Post by ohblondie on Sept 18, 2014 7:47:05 GMT -5
I go to be between 9pm-10pm. I get up at 530am (not by choice - I work and I have to take a bus) once I started getting up so early it became easier to get to be don time - I am so tired.
The good thing is tht on weekends - I don;t sleep the day away. I am usually up by 8am. On a rare day 9. Once every few months it is 10 or 11am (full disclosure here)
Good luck with this! It is so important to get on a good schedule for you and stick with it.
My best time to work is the morning as well!
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Post by cricket on Sept 18, 2014 8:17:17 GMT -5
I am SO in, larataylor! I just needed someone else to bring it up, I guess, but I resist bedtime like a toddler with separation anxiety. The internet will be there in the morning, Cricket!
I also get up at 5:30, ohblondie, but I STILL was staying up til 2 or later, not good. And I'm not dealing with insomnia at the moment, it's just my own bullheadedness. (Resistant to transitions. I'll probably live to be the oldest living person someday, sheerly from procrastinating about dying.)
I'm calling my bedtime 11pm. Only 6.5 hours til the alarm goes off, and it takes me at least 20 minutes to fall asleep, but it's a doable step in the right direction for me.
If no one minds, (though you are all too polite to say if you do) I will use this thread for accountability for a while, and report in right before I log off and go to bed.
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Post by larataylor on Sept 18, 2014 8:28:16 GMT -5
cricket - Awesome! I need some accountability, too. DH is useless … we tell each other to go to bed all night, to no avail! ohblondie - If I had somewhere I had to be, things would be different. But we've had a very unscheduled life (home schooling, working at home) for many years, and self-discipline is hard for me! It's helping that DD is going to school now … at least she has to be somewhere in the morning, and one of us has to drive her, and I have to make her breakfast. Well, I don't *have* to … but I'm trying to wait on her hand and foot while she makes this BIG adjustment in her life. 9:30. Right now I'm having that sleepy, go-back-to-bed feeling. Just a little nap … which would turn into a four-hour nap. I have to push through this. I made the bed. When I'm finished cleaning the living room, I'll move my computer in there. Right now I'm sitting on the bed, which is dangerous. It might help to eat, too.
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Post by lostchild on Sept 18, 2014 11:24:47 GMT -5
I am in. I need more sleep. I am not waking like I'd like to. I want to wake up energetic and I am sluggish. And missed bus twice this week...son has to be on bus by 6:22 a.m. so I need to be up by 5:45. Fortunately bus had problems this a.m. so they picked him up at 7:35.
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Post by aquamarine on Sept 18, 2014 11:56:38 GMT -5
I can't really join the challenge as I already have good sleep patterns, but I can confirm that going to bed reasonably early and getting up reasonably early is the best option. It is natural to follow the sun to a certain extent and work for 8 hours, play for 8 hours and sleep for 8 hours.
Some individuals have different internal patterns, and I know a former long distance pilot who can only sleep 4 hours at a time, and at unusual times too. I did shift work for a few years and it had a bad effect. I have found that going to sleep between 21:00 and 22:00 gives me the most energy next morning. I try to get a lot done then, and save the paperwork for much later in the day when I am running out of steam.
If I had been going to bed very late for a long time, I would try to go a little earlier each day.
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Post by cando on Sept 18, 2014 12:31:04 GMT -5
thinking about joining y'all. . . Making some other changes right now, so I'm hesitant. Good luck, y'all. CD
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Post by ohblondie on Sept 18, 2014 12:38:02 GMT -5
I do have to say - in the interest of full disclosure- that I am a night owl. If given the opportunity, in my previous life, I would love to be up all night and sleep late. But as I get older - and as I need to be more and more accountable - it is early to bed and early to rise. Taking the bus forces me to be on time too.
Good Luck larataylor as you transition to new hours. And everyone else too! I am cheering you on!
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Post by larataylor on Sept 18, 2014 12:52:09 GMT -5
ohblondie - Thanks! Since I realized that SAD is a big part of my depression, I've tried to be awake when the sun is up … especially in winter, when it's not up very long. And I'm so much more productive when I'm rested in the morning than when I'm up at all hours and there are so many things I can't do.
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Post by ohblondie on Sept 18, 2014 12:54:48 GMT -5
Yes - I agree! If I have a cup of coffee when I get up - once I feel the caffeine jolting thru my veins - I work my best!!
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Post by cando on Sept 18, 2014 13:17:08 GMT -5
I'm really mixed up and confused. I LOVE being a Night Owl. And, I also LOVE getting up early. Unfortunately, I am one of these who needs lots of sleep so I cannot do both. So, as a result... I am tired a lot. CD
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Post by larataylor on Sept 18, 2014 13:51:26 GMT -5
cando - I can relate to that. I seem to need pretty much sleep, too, despite getting older. I'm feeling pretty droopy today. I'm working through my list slowly. After noon, the urge to nap pretty much goes away. Resisting it through the morning when I'm sleep-deprived is the really hard part. I will probably get sleepy again around 8:00, so the trick is to go to bed THEN. If I push past *that* sleepiness, I could be up all night again.
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