Night owl or insomniac?!

smck99

Due to the nature of my work, bartending a very nice but not to be mentioned hotel resident's bar, I would usually finish work about 12am or so on an average weekday. Weekends are a very different story as we cater for a lot of large weddings, parties etc. when I would usually finish between 4 and 6 AM!

When I return home, I usually like to unwind for an hour or three (as I get up late... it's a vicious cycle!) by looking at TV, going on the interweb etc.
I would always note the surprising amount of activity on boards, i.e. almost 3500 people as I post this!

So I'm guessing that I'm not alone in my situation, or is insomnia setting in?

KeithM89_old

Sleep is for the weak and elderly - also, 1am is prime posting time in AH so i cant miss out on all the witty posts

Saila

Night owl

GLaDOS

I don't get tired at night, only in the morning when I have to get up

krudler

If I'm asleep before midnight its a waste of the night, 2am is my usual sleep time even if I have work at 9, I function better on 5-6 hours sleep a night instead of 8

jd007

Cool people stay up late :cool:

Princess Peach

I'm an insomniac.

Its not pleasant

alwaysadub

I've had insomnia the last couple of months. I've tried all my usual tricks to get to sleep but nothings working. It's starting to do my head in at this stage :mad:

Dudess

I'm a total night-owl (even with a 7am start I could end up staying awake til 1 or 2) and get by on not much sleep (a lie-in for me is a seven-hour sleep) but I'm not an insomniac. Despite the fact I don't need much sleep, I still very much need the amount that I get. I really feel for insomniacs - no sleep at all must be hellish.

Saila

Princess Peach wrote: »

I'm an insomniac.

Its not pleasant

awwww sorry to hear that

Princess Peach

I get it from time to time, hopefully it will pass soon. Stupid crazy sleep patterns

Dudess

krudler wrote: »

If I'm asleep before midnight its a waste of the night, 2am is my usual sleep time even if I have work at 9, I function better on 5-6 hours sleep a night instead of 8

It's mad isn't it? On the rare occasion that I have a long sleep - e.g. eight or nine hours, I'm always absolutely shattered. Apparently over-sleeping over-works your brain or something, leading to tiredness.
Sleeping tablets must flatten people. I once took an anti-histamine which obviously had sleeping tablet properties and I slept for 12 hours and was so tired when I woke up that I went back to sleep for another three/four hours. :pac:

mathepac

Saila wrote: »

Night owl

I'm an auld knight.

Any maidens to be slain or dragons to be rescued? I just hate these dark windy knights, it's pure torture being around them. ["The smells, the smells".] Shut up Quasimodo, you're giving me the hump.

Zillah

Insomnia is when someone can't sleep. A night owl is someone who stays up late and sleeps during the day. This issue is much less complicated than you seem to think.

If you are not having chronic difficulties sleeping then you are not insomniac.

Sardonicat

Insomniac, and I just ran out of book.:mad:

Gonna try and get some sleep now tho. Wish me luck!

Princess Peach

Sardonicat wrote: »

Insomniac, and I just ran out of book.:mad:

Gonna try and get some sleep now tho. Wish me luck!

Good luck! I'm trying to tire myself out so I won't be lying awake for hours

Leelaa22

Sardonicat wrote: »

Insomniac, and I just ran out of book.:mad:

Gonna try and get some sleep now tho. Wish me luck!

feel your pain. good luck.
Happy to report Im now just a night owl

psycho-hope

bit of a bit of b, think my sleep pattern is so screwed up at this stage I dont know which I am:rolleyes:

Novella

Used to have a lot of trouble sleeping. Now I just have a messy sleep pattern. I do love my sleep, but I definitely like to be up late so often find myself still awake at 2, 3 or 4am.

orourkeda

Saila wrote: »

Night owl

It's the place to be seen.

This disco is cool as a dream

Zillah

I am about to turn off my laptop and have a full and easy night's sleep, fyi.

Dudess

orourkeda wrote: »

It's the place to be seen.

This disco is cool as a dream

Heh heh... :pac:

smck99

UPDATE: 1:30AM - 2800 online!

Little Acorn

I have to be in college for 9am most days, yet I am regularly here on boards, surfing the web, watching telly, doing crosswords, or reading books, anywhere between 4 and 6:30 am.
When I was working I had to be up at 6am, and would still be awake at 4am.
It started when I was very young, I wouldn't get to sleep until between 1:30 am and 3am, and it has just gotten worse.

I think it's my own fault, because I have just let myself get into this rubbish routine, that even work or college doesn't seem to break it.
I'm not sure what started it though, because as a child I slept normally.

For some reason though I sleep better when I'm not in my own house. If I'm staying at my boyfriends house I'll sleep like a baby all night long.
The same as if I'm on holiday in a different place, I'll get a normal person's amount of sleep.

Weekends I get to bed even later than during the week, but it doesn't bother me then, because at least with no college I can just sleep for 10 hours!:)

Senna

Jesus, 800 people logged off in the last 30 minutes......fecking lightweights.

Leelaa22

smck99 wrote: »

UPDATE: 1:30AM - 2800 online!

Make that 2799

Night all my bed is calling me
What you guys dont talk to your furniture?:eek:

smck99

We should do a last man, *ahem* or woman, standing!

squod

Instead of counting sheep, try counting the muslims..........:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUniwuwsRwM

krudler

Dudess wrote: »

It's mad isn't it? On the rare occasion that I have a long sleep - e.g. eight or nine hours, I'm always absolutely shattered. Apparently over-sleeping over-works your brain or something, leading to tiredness.
Sleeping tablets must flatten people. I once took an anti-histamine which obviously had sleeping tablet properties and I slept for 12 hours and was so tired when I woke up that I went back to sleep for another three/four hours. :pac:

Definitely, I was jetlagged when I got home from the States and I slept from 1am until 4pm that day, I was zombified for about two days after it, as long as I get one day a week where I can have some bit of a lie in I'm fine, hell even on the mornings where I want to sleep in like after a night out I wake up at 8am on the button, and once I'm awake I find it really hard to fall back to sleep again.

smck99

krudler wrote: »

hell even on the mornings where I want to sleep in like after a night out I wake up at 8am on the button, and once I'm awake I find it really hard to fall back to sleep again.

Another interesting topic...
Would you wake up early, no matter how much sleep you've had... OR ... would you sleep for days if you weren't woken by an alarm/ didn't have to get up?

Which are you? Which would you rather???

empirix

im a night owl, i think its more to do with the fact i try and make my day as long as possible after work, life is for living not working!:D

TimTim

Somewhat of a night owl but since I don't have to be anywhere in the morning I find myself going to bed much later then usual

Little Acorn

smck99 wrote: »

Another interesting topic...
Would you wake up early, no matter how much sleep you've had... OR ... would you sleep for days if you weren't woken by an alarm/ didn't have to get up?

Which are you? Which would you rather???

If I didn't have to get up, like at the weekends, then I would easily sleep for 8-10 hours. Only problem with that is, because it's so late when I get to sleep, and I have so much energy at night, it would mean that I would sleep all through the day every day, and I wouldn't have a normal life.

I don't mind getting up at 3pm on a saturday if I've been out drinking the night before, but I wouldn't like to be sleeping like that everyday.

I wish I could just get tired early, and be asleep by 12:30am when I have to be in college, and just wake up at 8am feeling refreshed and full of energy for the day.

I never have energy in the mornings though, even if once in a blue moon I manage to get a good nights sleep, at 8am I am always tired.
I get most of my energy from 9pm onwards.

krudler

smck99 wrote: »

Another interesting topic...
Would you wake up early, no matter how much sleep you've had... OR ... would you sleep for days if you weren't woken by an alarm/ didn't have to get up?

Which are you? Which would you rather???

I'd be up early, I'd rather be up and doing nothing than asleep. even on days off I get up at 8am and head into town if i need anthing, I dont like being in shops during lunch/peak times, like when I do my christmas shopping, I go in at 8.30 on like a Tuesday morning, do it all in less than 2 hrs, come home and veg out for the day, I dont get this running around city centres at 5pm malarkey at all. Same with food shopping, I go to a 24 dunnes or tesco at like 11pm, not at 7 when everyone else is there, quiet shops ftw.

My body clock is fairly good for waking me up when I need to, I'm a terror for sleep gambling though, hitting "alarm off" instead of snooze then putting my head back down on the pillow, I may doze off for like 20 seconds then you get that rush of panic as it feels like its been hours. I sleep gambled once and lost spectacularly, was meant to be in work at 9, woke at 8, switched alarm off, fell back to sleep, woke again at.....1.20 pm. I strolled into work at 2pm and my manager thought I'd been there the whole day and was just coming back from lunch (which was meant to be at 1.30) and I finished at my supposed time of 4.30 nothing was ever said and nobody noticed, epic win

Also, I was out ill from work for months, now you wanna talk about a way to mess your sleeping patterns up, and I'm sure anyone who's currently out of work can attest to this, not having a job to get up for is an easy way to fall into crazy sleeping patterns.

smck99

UPDATE: 2:00AM - 2,400 online!

Br4tPr1nc3

night worker

krudler

I like being awake when not many people are, either really late at night or really early in the morning, theres a weird magic in the air, last time I worked on Christmas Day, I was in at 8, woke up at 6.30 and at the time I lived in a city centre apartment, there literally wasnt a sound to be heard out on the street at that hour as I walked over to get my car, it was so eerie, like 28 Days Later or something, I drove through the city and I could've started driving on the footpath and doing donuts if I wanted to, there wasnt a single person to be seen on the streets.

TeddyTedson

Princess Peach wrote: »

Good luck! I'm trying to tire myself out so I won't be lying awake for hours

Can you go in to detail about your insomnia.
I find it hard to sleep so I have 2 tablets I take that make me tired (more dizzy than tired).
2 nights ago i got 3-4 hours sleep. Tired druing the day and then come 0000 when I try to sleep again I just lye there for hours bored - so i get up and try again and eventually I can sleep. Endless cycle.

krudler wrote: »

I like being awake when not many people are, either really late at night or really early in the morning, theres a weird magic in the air

I know this magic too. It's very special.

krudler

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Can you go in to detail about your insomnia.
I find it hard to sleep so I have 2 tablets I take that make me tired (more dizzy than tired).
2 nights ago i got 3-4 hours sleep. Tired druing the day and then come 0000 when I try to sleep again I just lye there for hours bored - so i get up and try again and eventually I can sleep. Endless cycle.

Sex is a great cure for insomnia, that happy, content, dozy feeling you get afterwards, and if you dont have anyone to do it with... well, use your imagination..

smck99

hahahaha, krudler has it sussed! epic win!
I'd love to have that much self control! Every night I set my alarm. I'm not sure if I don't hear it go off or if I just hit off in a momentary sleepwalk fashion.
I certainly can't remember anything so placing the alarm well out of reach seems to help the odd time!

That could be interpreted in two ways haha. Slight time delay there as I sort of wrote the reply while making a cheese sambo... i was referring to krudler's first post above.

shakin

Ive always stayed up late when i was young and have continued that tradition, late night radio and repeats of the daytime shows were my thing.

Ive gone the step further and now work as night porter in a hotel, its grand bit lonely going for a pint at 8am though....

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TeddyTedson

krudler wrote: »

Sex is a great cure for insomnia, that happy, content, dozy feeling you get afterwards, and if you dont have anyone to do it with... well, use your imagination..

Thanks Kudler, I have those sensations now but they won't help.

smck99

I find that what i've begun to do is work my day around my bad sleeping habits!
For example, if I'm in work for 3PM, I say to myself "I'll get up at 1PM, meaning I'll get my 8 hours if I'm asleep by 5AM"
Not Good...

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alwaysadub

smck99 wrote: »

UPDATE: 2:00AM - 2,400 online!

A chunk of them two thousand would be abroad though.
It doesn't mean there's two thousand people in Ireland still awake and on boards

Rowley Birkin QC

Definitely a night owl. My undergraduate thesis was written for the most part between 2-7am. Currently finishing Masters projects and thank feck the college allows 24 hour access!

Similar to the OP I think it comes from having worked in bars for years.

James Bong 79

used to work with this (special) guy who claimed to be an amnesiac, i was new in the job so i didnt question it..but he kept saying to me through my first weeks of the the job that he gets a wicked dose of amnesia some nights!

so not really knowing the guy that well at the time, i started to wonder, how the hell does he find where he works in the morning????:eek:

eventually i asked "whats it like suffering from that??"

to which he replied " terrible, i cant sleep a wink at night!!! " :rolleyes:

minister poxbottle

I'm a amphetamine addict, btw only six sleeps til christmas :pac:

Cocolola

I'm a night owl, always have been. So is my mother and sister. You could walk into our house at 4am and find everyone up watching tv, on the net or whatever. My father is the opposite, wakes up between 7-8am.
Very annoying when I'm trying to sleep and he's downstairs making a racket!

I think I should move to the States, that's the time zone I seem to be living in.

MardiB

smck99 wrote: »

We should do a last man, *ahem* or woman, standing!

I'm still awake, I won, I won.........


..... It was a tenner a head wasn't it

Cocolola

MardiB wrote: »

I'm still awake, I won, I won.........


..... It was a tenner a head wasn't it

That tenner is mine!!


/runs to get Lucozade

MardiB

Cocolola wrote: »

That tenner is mine!!


/runs to get Lucozade

Game on Sucker...;)