Rise and Shine

Clodfobble · 07-31-2005, 11:26 AM

I am so perplexed by people who sleep until the afternoon. My husband is one of these people, and I just can't relate. How is it, for example, that *I* was the one who came home tipsy at 3:00 AM last night, and yet I was the one wide awake at 9:00 AM and he's currently still asleep?

How is it that even when he goes to bed at 10:00, he sleeps until 11:00? My best friend's husband is like this too. Is this a chick thing, or are there male morning people too?

elSicomoro · 07-31-2005, 11:30 AM

My girlfriend's mom and sister apparently sleep in on a regular...neither of them got up until noonish yesterday...April (my gf) was up at 9.

I am generally up between 7 and 10am. Very rarely do I sleep in...even if I'm up late. I went to bed at 3:30 this morning and was up at 9.

wolf · 07-31-2005, 11:31 AM

I will rise, but I will certainly not shine ...

Because of my work schedule I go to sleep around 3 or 4 am most nights, and wake (on my own without an alarm clock) between 11a and noon.

Eight hours is eight hours, doesn't really matter which time of day they fall in, does it?

elSicomoro · 07-31-2005, 11:34 AM

Sure it can...the body hits its lowest temps in the morning, regardless of what hours we keep. Sleeping at hours other than overnight can really fuck a person up b/c it goes against the bio clock.

melidasaur · 07-31-2005, 11:38 AM

I need 9 hours of sleep... if I don't, I'm exhausted. I don't feel messed up because i usually get up at 10.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-31-2005, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sycamore

Sure it can...the body hits its lowest temps in the morning, regardless of what hours we keep. Sleeping at hours other than overnight can really fuck a person up b/c it goes against the bio clock.

You've never worked shift work. The bio clock changes, if it didn't you couldn't move to CA or Japan.

busterb · 07-31-2005, 06:32 PM

Yep! for years I got up at 4:30 am To get ready for work at seven, but I'm a slow starter. After 12 years of no work I still wake to pee close to 4:30. Then I go back to sleep and get up when I want to. But with back and hip aches from staying in bed too long. Once I worked offshore the midnight to noon shift, talk about driving a wife nutts when I got home. She's ready for bed and I'm just waking up and ready to go. Bye Honey! At least she paid for 1/2 the divorce. What a deal.

LCanal · 08-02-2005, 04:19 AM

I worked on ships for a while and we used to work 4 on - 8 off. So getting anymore than 6 to 6 1/2 straight was impossible. I'm not a morning person and have a hard time getting up if it's still dark outside. Also one has to have a reason to get up.
When in Bangkok I live above a bar. I can confirm that if one goes to bed inebriated at 2 - 2.30am almost everyday it's difficult to surface much before 10.00am. There was a bar owner in Phuket once who started putting the shutters on the bar at 5.00pm. When asked why, he didn't realize it was not 5.00am

Troubleshooter · 08-02-2005, 07:27 AM

Everytime a sleep thread comes up I'm reminded of how we did things on the boat. As bizarre as it may sound it works really well.

18 hour cycles with six on watch, six working and six in the rack.You end up sleeping plenty and in a week you get ten six hour sleep cycles. That is if nothing comes up, like drills, or battlestations...

elSicomoro · 08-02-2005, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You've never worked shift work. The bio clock changes, if it didn't you couldn't move to CA or Japan.

Please reread my post...a body can get used to a time zone change (though it has to adjust a bit when going west), but has a hell of a time dealing with working 3rd shift. In addition to the research out there, I speak on this with personal experience as well.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-02-2005, 05:48 PM

Wait a minute, since I was born and raised in the Eastern time zone my body temperature will drop according to the Eastern Time zone morning no matter where I live?
Personally I'd rather work third shift and sleep days. I've done it for stretches of a few months to a couple years on 6 or 7 different occasions. Never had a bit of trouble adjusting to it. Matter of fact, I prefer it. I've worked third with people that couldn't stay awake if their lives depended on it, though.

elSicomoro · 08-03-2005, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Wait a minute, since I was born and raised in the Eastern time zone my body temperature will drop according to the Eastern Time zone morning no matter where I live?

No...once your body gets familiar with your surroundings, it'll act according to that time zone. So, if you go to Alaska, your body will eventually get used to functioning on Alaska time if you stay there awhile.

Some people can deal with 3rd shift just fine...I personally can't, though I don't mind working those particular hours. Hell...I've been back in St. Louis for a month now, and I'm still having problems with adjusting to the time change. And that was only an hour difference.

We should talk to a real expert on this...Jag?

zippyt · 07-31-2005, 11:38 AM

Clod , I can stay up drinking untill 5 am and i will only sleep untill 10 am at the latest ,
normaly i wake up at 7:30 - 8 am

Happy Monkey · 07-31-2005, 02:03 PM

10am is about as late as I am capable of sleeping in. And even then, I'm generally awake at 9, and just laying there with my eyes closed until 10.

Elspode · 07-31-2005, 04:14 PM

As I go for literally months at a time getting only five or maybe six hours of sleep per night, when I crash and sleep in, I do an admirable job of it, sleeping from like 2:00 AM to 1:00 PM. I always feel disoriented and fucked up from it, though.

07-31-2005, 11:26 AM	#1
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Rise and Shine I am so perplexed by people who sleep until the afternoon. My husband is one of these people, and I just can't relate. How is it, for example, that I was the one who came home tipsy at 3:00 AM last night, and yet I was the one wide awake at 9:00 AM and he's currently still asleep? How is it that even when he goes to bed at 10:00, he sleeps until 11:00? My best friend's husband is like this too. Is this a chick thing, or are there male morning people too?

07-31-2005, 11:31 AM	#3
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I will rise, but I will certainly not shine ... Because of my work schedule I go to sleep around 3 or 4 am most nights, and wake (on my own without an alarm clock) between 11a and noon. Eight hours is eight hours, doesn't really matter which time of day they fall in, does it? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-31-2005, 11:38 AM	#5
melidasaur Traded your soul for pogs. Join Date: May 2004 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 646	I need 9 hours of sleep... if I don't, I'm exhausted. I don't feel messed up because i usually get up at 10. __________________ I love England, what can I say?

07-31-2005, 06:32 PM	#7
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Yep! for years I got up at 4:30 am To get ready for work at seven, but I'm a slow starter. After 12 years of no work I still wake to pee close to 4:30. Then I go back to sleep and get up when I want to. But with back and hip aches from staying in bed too long. Once I worked offshore the midnight to noon shift, talk about driving a wife nutts when I got home. She's ready for bed and I'm just waking up and ready to go. Bye Honey! At least she paid for 1/2 the divorce. What a deal. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

08-02-2005, 04:19 AM	#8
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	I worked on ships for a while and we used to work 4 on - 8 off. So getting anymore than 6 to 6 1/2 straight was impossible. I'm not a morning person and have a hard time getting up if it's still dark outside. Also one has to have a reason to get up. When in Bangkok I live above a bar. I can confirm that if one goes to bed inebriated at 2 - 2.30am almost everyday it's difficult to surface much before 10.00am. There was a bar owner in Phuket once who started putting the shutters on the bar at 5.00pm. When asked why, he didn't realize it was not 5.00am __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

07-31-2005, 11:30 AM	#2
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	My girlfriend's mom and sister apparently sleep in on a regular...neither of them got up until noonish yesterday...April (my gf) was up at 9. I am generally up between 7 and 10am. Very rarely do I sleep in...even if I'm up late. I went to bed at 3:30 this morning and was up at 9.

07-31-2005, 11:34 AM	#4
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Sure it can...the body hits its lowest temps in the morning, regardless of what hours we keep. Sleeping at hours other than overnight can really fuck a person up b/c it goes against the bio clock.

08-02-2005, 07:27 AM	#9
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Everytime a sleep thread comes up I'm reminded of how we did things on the boat. As bizarre as it may sound it works really well. 18 hour cycles with six on watch, six working and six in the rack.You end up sleeping plenty and in a week you get ten six hour sleep cycles. That is if nothing comes up, like drills, or battlestations... __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

08-02-2005, 05:48 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Wait a minute, since I was born and raised in the Eastern time zone my body temperature will drop according to the Eastern Time zone morning no matter where I live? Personally I'd rather work third shift and sleep days. I've done it for stretches of a few months to a couple years on 6 or 7 different occasions. Never had a bit of trouble adjusting to it. Matter of fact, I prefer it. I've worked third with people that couldn't stay awake if their lives depended on it, though. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-31-2005, 11:38 AM	#13
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Clod , I can stay up drinking untill 5 am and i will only sleep untill 10 am at the latest , normaly i wake up at 7:30 - 8 am __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

07-31-2005, 02:03 PM	#14
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	10am is about as late as I am capable of sleeping in. And even then, I'm generally awake at 9, and just laying there with my eyes closed until 10. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

07-31-2005, 04:14 PM	#15
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	As I go for literally months at a time getting only five or maybe six hours of sleep per night, when I crash and sleep in, I do an admirable job of it, sleeping from like 2:00 AM to 1:00 PM. I always feel disoriented and fucked up from it, though. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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