sleeping patterns

[Sequoia]

Well. . . now, I woke up yesterday afternoon. Still havn't been to bed yet (for various reasons). But I'm wondering. . . what is everyone here like?

"normal" hours? Up all night, and asleep all day? What sleep? Tell!

or. . . somethin *chuckles* :D

[Twig]

Paahhh! Patterns are for wimps, kids, and those with no stress.

Peace
Twig
:elf:

[*~*Chary*~*]

Every three days for 12 hours

[Myst]

I fall asleep around 7 or 8am and wake up around 2 or 3pm :)

[DragonDawn]

If I don't have class I normaly sleep as much as possible during the day. Especialy in the summer. Its way too hot down here for me during the day.

[Armitage]

I can't sleep before 1am. It just doesn't work.

[Amethyst Rose]

It really depends on what you call normal hours.... I think I'm normal.... I think. I tend to sleep from about 12 to 9....some times I sleep later, to ten or 11. When I was working I slept from 10 or 11 until 6:30....
I can't get less than 6 hours of sleep, or I can't function, and I can't stay awake for longer than 18 hours without falling asleep on my feet....I've only stayed awake more than 24 hours, and that was because of extreme stress, and the minute I was in a warm environment where I could relax (in a tow truck) I fell asleep.

[Flaire-FireStar]

I sleep whenever I feel tired. *shrugs* Usually that comes around 1 am & I wake up around 9:30 the next morning.

[Azure]

For the past two nights, since everything has been calm, I slept like a normal person. But now I'm all stressed out again and so I probably won't get any real rest for a week or more. Sigh.

[cherrywind]

If I don't have a schedule I have to follow (work or school) I will turn nocturnal, and sleeping pills don't help (which I also learned quickly did not react well with my body). The doctor tried to explain something where if you're body doesn't produce enough... melatonin? some sort of brain chemical during the day and starts producing it at night then it gives a person that effect (since I'm always tired during the day). *shrugs*. Whatever, I happen to like the night time better anyways :D. It can be quite a hassle though.

[Witchy Cowgirl]

My sleep pattern is set for my life-style. I stay up fairly late (10:30 to 11:00pm) and get up early (5:30 to 6am). I call that normal.
My sleep pattern is very irrating to my husband - who of course has adjusted to it. He goes to bed early around 8pm and is up early 3:30 to 4am. Of course his pattern is due to his job. He drives an hour to an hour and half, one way.
My two youngest sleep like him and the oldest sleeps like me.

I have no problems sleeping and have always been able to sleep well (deep sleep) no matter where I am. I just find it annoying when there's stuff that needs to be done, and I'm busy doing it, and realize that either I'm too sleepy to continue or that I gotta go to bed so that I can get some rest, get up, and be able to function at my job the next day.

[Mithrea]

Sleep is a complete waste of time but it has to be done occasionally :mad: I'm usually up all night. Then, I sleep all day if my school schedule permits.

[Rubi Waters]

sleep..... I take it as it comes. (which is rarely) If I'm asleep by 3am I'm real lucky the I get up by 6:30 am.
every once in a while in the middle of the day I'll pass out and sleep for a few hours straight. (usually it's after I've came down with a cold or something).

[Yvonne Belisle]

3 hours when the bright shiney thing is in the sky and 3 hours when the paler shiney thing is in the sky :)

[Armitage]

Meh, I don't understand how anyone can function well on less than six straight hours of sleep.

[Witchy Cowgirl]

I can usually get by with 5. But 6 or more is what I like.

[Altheia]

sleep is something that i do when i am bored, upset or just plain out of it. my sleeping pattern adapts to my surroundings. when i was working as a cocktail waitress, i would work until four in the morning and get to sleep when the birds would begin to chirp, and then get up around three in the afternoon, lay around and degrogg, then do it all over again. now that i am not doing anything pertaining to school or work i head off to bed around one or two and get up around nine thirty. whenever i head off for the air force, i will have to get up in the mornings between four and five and will probably get to bed around nineish...that's what i am thinking. other than that, i am perma sleepy most of the time and can't get enough of the stuff. :)

[Yvonne Belisle]

You mean I am supposed to function???? Oppps

[shnen]

I wake up at 5am to work. If I don't get enough sleep I get really sick. I think its cuz of the hypoglycemia... not too sure...
but I have to have a pattern.

[Cait]

My sleeping pattern varies wildly - at the moment I'm keeping fairly normal hours, but at other times I'll sleep from, say, 6am to 2pm. Or not sleep at all for a week or so. :( Insomnia sucks...

[WandererInGray]

*grins* Oh to be young again where you can sleep in all day long.

I'm a seriously regular sleeper and get extremely cranky when it gets messed up. One night won't do it...but a couple in a row and I'm a monster.

Got to bed anywhere from 8-10pm and get up between 5am-6:30am.

*shakes head* Even on weekends. Rarely do I sleep past 10am. I tend to get ill and grouchy if I get too much sleep as well. :D

Do take the occasionally nap though...when needed.

[Phoenix Blue]

**Opens his mouth to comment on the "nap" thing. . .**

**Looks over at Wanderer**

**Changes his mind**

[Melysande]

There's a difference between napping and "resting."

[Phoenix Blue]

No, the two terms are interchangable. **Smiles** The first time I visited Katy's parents, she and I took at least one nap during the day. . . **grins and hides!**

[Emaleth]

During the year I usually sleep for 7 hours, it's hard for me to fall asleep before 12 and I have to get up at 7 am. But during the weekend or holidays 12 hours isn't too much for me;) . Sleeping is one of the things I like to do best:p

Blessed Be

[Haedis]

During the summer I usually sleep from 3am until 11am but lately I've been sleeping away the day (8am until 3pm). When school is in I go to bed at 12:30ish and wake up at 6 am.

[stormyray]

every 2 months or so I go throught insomina for 2 weeks then my body tries to catch up for the missed sleep( CAnt seem to function and want to sleep very late) than back to no sleep.

[Sequoia]

naughty phoe-chan!!! *giggles* you're just gonna do it all over the boards, aren't you? :D you're making wanderer-sama blush by now, surely!


On an unrelated note, I've been known to sleep 14-16hrs straight if you let me. . . @_@;

[Scarlettvixen]

Sleep
in a pattern?
whats that?

after 20 years of rotating shift work I have no idea what normal sleep is let alone if it has a pattern

I want 8 hrs a night
I survive on 5-6hrs sometime in the 24hrs

then i have my insomnia spells
no matter how tired i am i will sleep for 2hrs then thats it
drives me insane.... literally!

[RunePuppy]

Having worked in the field of Sleep Medicine for a number of years, I have to say I think it's GREAT to see a thread like this in a non-"sleep" forum...

Sleep plays such an important part in our general health and well being and, sadly, it often is put on the back burner.

We should all pay a little more attention to our sleep habits, or lack there of!

There...I'm done with the soap box if anybody needs it. <g>

[ChelleOfShadows]

Geez, I feel about 90 now. Having ruined all the fun of late hours and sleeping all day by having kids, I'm like Wanderer, I have regular hours and I have to keep them. I'm in bed by midnight (unless a ritual requires the witching hour) and up by 5:00-5:45. When I get all 3 kids up, fed, teeth brushed, dressed, lunches made, out of the house by 7:00 am at the latest everyone dropped off and in the office by 7:45!!

I used to be up 4 or 5 times a night to get a drink, check on the kids, whatever, there were many times I was up all night, then I discovered the magic of a really good sleep spell combined with herbal tea and certain stones and now wooooohoooo I get a good nights rest. Stress can kill you if you don't kill it first!!

On the weekends I will on the occaision splurge and stay up till 1:00 or 2:00 am but I pay the next day :(

[SimplyStrange]

I function better in the night, so I stay up really late and then people want to do stuff with me, requiring me to get up early...and then there's school when I have it. So...I end up drag myself around the day weith like... 4 or 5 hours of sleep, and at my age, the recommended amount of sleep is like, 9 or 10 hours...

...then my parents make fun of me when I sleep until 3 on the weekends or days I have free...

[buttercup]

Once upon a time I could stay up all night, party, go home for a few hours sleep (if I was lucky), wake up and go to work.....then do it all again the next night. Those days are long gone!! I'm usually in bed by 9:30-10:00 at night and the alarm goes off at 6:20am. Tonight I'm restless and can't sleep and I can assure you I will pay for it tomorrow!

Occasionally on the weekends I'll pamper myself and sleep in until 8 or 9, but those days are few and far between. Once I start to wake up I can't just fall back asleep.

[Ravens_Tears]

As a single parent, sleep is not often something that happens when I actually want it to

[Aotearoa]

I cant NOT sleep! I sleep from about 9pm till 7am on weekdays! I just CANT stay up! If I do I have to sleep all the next day and am groggy for about 3 days! On Friday night I can kinda pull it off. But I couldnt do that everyday of the week! Im such a sleepy head! :o

[Psyche Ague]

I tend to go to bed at about 5, 6, or 7 in the morning and sleep til 3 if I can. But I usually end up getting up at 11 or 12 because I work. I need at least 9 hours to function normally, but usually end up with 5 or 6 hours.

[Sarevan]

I have strange hours....but after a job that I worked for 6 years on Nights ... 12am to 8am I'm a confirmed nightowl....never go to bed before midnight....and get to see the light of DAY (that big globe of bright light right?)

Sooooo my normal sleeping hours are from 1am to maybe 10am
*grumble* with adjustments made to make it easier for DAY people to see me (LOL)

[earthcat]

Sleep..... Sleep? :huh:
I wish!

I sleep between 5:00 am and 8:00 am. The rest of the time it's light catnapping for me!

[sherry]

It seems like most of us have the insomnia thing happening!
After over 20 years of working nights and now on second shift I rarely ever go to bed before 3 am and then it is only for a few hours can get up to 5 in a row if the moon is not near full!

I just seem to have this burst of energy that grows as the moon does!

INSOMNIA is my friend!:D

[mooo_mommy]

I work odd shifts at work. I work 2 day shifts and 2 night shifts, so half the week I am up all day and sleep all night and the other half I am up at night and sleep during the day. I prefer to be up at night and sleep during the day.

[gunner]

"melatonin?"

that is the name, it's a sleep inducing chemical produced in the brain, it is marketed commercially and can be found in drugstores and some other places, last i knew it could be purchased without a prescription but i'd advise having a talk with your doctor before rushing out to buy a bottle, and if he/she does think it's o.k. for you to try i would still suggest using it carefully as you would any medication. i have used it and it does seem to help sometimes.
"gunner"