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So apparantly, I just found out, Diurnal creatures are those that come out during the day and sleep during the night. Does anyone here feel that they are sincerely nocturnal?
I do. I first noticed it when I was working for Dominos Pizza delivering, maybe 3 years ago. I worked from 4pm-9pm and on Fri and Sat until midnight. 3 of my friends also were able to hang out during these odd hours. I worked that schedule for 3 years. If I was in a bad mood, it magically got better the farther the sun sank in the sky. By night, I felt great! I still feel this way. During the day I have little energy, feel timid, and just want to stay home-but the rest of the world is up and out, so for the last 2 years when I met my boyfriend and switched to a day schedule, so am I. I have scoliosis, a curvature of the spine-its not BAD as far as some cases go, but its enough that when I move from standing to sitting or vice versa, I have to prepare my body and try to relax my back just to change. Some days my whole body aches from hips to shoulders. Not at night! I dont feel 60, I feel my age (24) or younger! Ive got tons of energy and am way more creative, social, confident, happy, bouncy…or as the boyfriend would say “onnoxious!” ^_^ Ive wanted to tell people Im nocturnal, but I figure they’ll look at me weird or disbelieve me.
Creatures of the night, ban together!! *raises fist in the air triumphantly* lol Tell me how the night/day affects you. Or does it? Do most of you sleep when its dark and wake with the sun? Does anyone here work a night job so they can sleep while that big bright ball terrorises earth? lol (J/K on the terrororising part)
Lol someone like me 😉 My mom has always called me her little vampire because as a baby I slept all day and was a wake at night. Now I know this is sometimes normal for babies, and that’s what the doctors told my mom. But as I got older nothing changed, and when I started school my mom had the hardest time getting me up and later I was home schooled so I could do school on my schedule. Most of my life I’ve worked night jobs and loved my hours as a night zoo keeper (3:30 to midnight). I’m so happy I work from home now and can get up late 🙂
I’ve always called myself nocturnal too!!! So much so, that I intentionally looked for a night time job because that’s when I feel the best!! I’ve always done my housework and my arts and craft projects at night and sleep while that darned fire-ball is up in the sky. Since my twins were born they sleep ALL night and play ALL day. After they go to bed I have my “me-time” watching movies and doing my projects, but I gotta force myself to sleep a little at night and nap when they do in the afternoon, but I still feel like a slug all day and peppy at night. Eventually when they go to school I can sleep while they’re at school all day and play at night!! 😀
I could be a little bit of both–normall I’m an early riser as well. I’m usually up around 5AM and I’ve stayed up close to midnight and still wake up at this time! If I go back to sleep, it’ll only be for an hour. I like to get things done or over with early so I have the rest of the day to do what I want to do. But there are also times, when I don’t have a morning appointment, that I love to sit up in the wee hours of the morning surfing the computer, reading or just sit there thinking. I’ve done needlepoint in the wee hours of the morning as well. It is quiet and there aren’t any interuptions. I’ve thought about if I ever was offered a night [graveshift] job, depending on where it was located, I would consider it. Hardly any traffice, crowds to contend with. Problem with driving at night is there are some weird people on the road and my concern would be safety. But I like the peaceful quiet that night brings. Personally, if I had a choice, I would be torn between the two or maybe choose a little of both worlds.
I like to think I’m nocturnal. My idea day would be getting up between 10 – 11am and going to bed around 2-3am. This works out well half the time when I’m employed 😆 since shows are afternoon/evenings but rehearsals start at 9am :(. When I’m doing commissions of course I can work whenever I want.
I agree I feel the perkiest/most creative in the evenings. My mum used to have the darndest time getting me up for school when I was young, I even had trouble with 3 alarm clocks scattered about the room, none in easy reach of the bed. I’ve gotten alot of grief from people over the years because of this, called lazy etc. I can get up early, but feel like crap until at least noon. I really wish more people would realize that not everyone runs on the same clock they do.
I’m with foxfeather. 10 am to 2 am would be a great schedule. But I have kids in school so nowadays my body has habituated waking up around 7am. (Yet still tries to stay up until midnight or later, 🙄 ). I have worked the literal graveyard shift (midnight to 8am) and it did not go over as well as one might think. It’s crazy hard to sleep during bright daylight even if you black out all yer windows, and there were some nights around 6am I literally started having tiny little hallucinations, like thinking I’m hearing someone call my name, or seeing occasional little random flashes of light. Thank God I only had to work there 2 months to earn money for a college choir tour to Europe and then I could quit! (Plus, it was a factory job. Menial work for eight hours in the dead of night. Nargggggg)
oooh I have always been nocturnal! Let me tell you young-ins, it doesn’t change 😡 When I got married and had my first job, my husband would actually have to pull the sheets to get me out of bed (after all I just fell asleep around 5:30am)…… sluggish all day, and about the time he was going to bed, I was just getting started. My mom could never get me up either, tho I wasn’t habitually late, because I could dress and be out the door in five minutes, luckily. The Moon works in mysterious ways, and some of us must be made of more water than others, or it’s the salt content LOL Hmm, maybe lets find out – do the nocturnals of us enjoy their salt??? I know I do!
skeeterdeee wrote:I’ve always called myself nocturnal too!!! So much so, that I intentionally looked for a night time job because that’s when I feel the best!! I’ve always done my housework and my arts and craft projects at night and sleep while that darned fire-ball is up in the sky. Since my twins were born they sleep ALL night and play ALL day. After they go to bed I have my “me-time” watching movies and doing my projects, but I gotta force myself to sleep a little at night and nap when they do in the afternoon, but I still feel like a slug all day and peppy at night. Eventually when they go to school I can sleep while they’re at school all day and play at night!! 😀
Woo Hoo! Another twins mum! Tell me more! (ages, stages, etc.) I don’t know what I am any more… when me boyohs were little they were mostly nocturnal or one was always awake and one was always asleep. Ethan was ALWAYS awake before the sun was up but the sky was just begining to lighten and because he wanted company he’d wake Sean as well 😮 I HAD to be up when they were simply because of the amount of mischief 2 16 month olds could get into… I found when I was at University that I did my best work late, late at night/early morning. Roddy, on the other hand, is ‘farm raised’. He had cows to milk before school. He still gets up at what I consider an ‘ugly cow milking time of morning’. None of us seem to have the same sleep cycle, ‘tho we’re a little more in synch during the school year than we are during the summer!
twindragonsmum 😀
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twindragonsmum wrote:Woo Hoo! Another twins mum! Tell me more! (ages, stages, etc.) I don’t know what I am any more… when me boyohs were little they were mostly nocturnal or one was always awake and one was always asleep. Ethan was ALWAYS awake before the sun was up but the sky was just begining to lighten and because he wanted company he’d wake Sean as well 😮 I HAD to be up when they were simply because of the amount of mischief 2 16 month olds could get into… I found when I was at University that I did my best work late, late at night/early morning. Roddy, on the other hand, is ‘farm raised’. He had cows to milk before school. He still gets up at what I consider an ‘ugly cow milking time of morning’. None of us seem to have the same sleep cycle, ‘tho we’re a little more in synch during the school year than we are during the summer!
twindragonsmum 😀
I am VERY lucky!! My boys are a little over two years old and for the past year they have gone to bed at 8pm SHARP and get up around 9am!! My boys are similar- when Johnny wakes up the first thing he does is yell, “ROBBIE!! WAKE UP!!”. If I don’t wake up at Robbie’s wake up call, they climb out of the cribs and get into mischief. I even bought one of those fancy “crib tents” (it looks like a mosquito net over the cribs!) to keep them from getting out and hurting themselves, but Johnny disassembled it 🙄 And we are at that wonderful stage where they won’t keep clothes on, not even the diapers! My pediatrician said to use duct tape on their diapers if I need to, but I would feel bad wrapping duct tape around my kids! Don’t ya think?I guess I fall into the nocturnal category. I have absolutely *no* problem staying awake at night, especially if I have a good book in my hands. I worked a steady night shift–11PM to 7AM for about 3-4 years. Of course, I was considerably younger at that time…….. 😳
Right now I’m working 7:30 AM to 4PM, but that will change to 4AM 😮 to 2:30 PM once the cooler weather starts. My husband, OTOH is a total Lark to my Owl. He gets up at 5AM every freakin’ morning, whether he’s working or off……..*sigh* So he’ll get the “job” of making sure I don’t just hit the snooze button and go back to sleep.tasgrs! Nice to see ya hun!
skeeterdeee, boy oh boy do I remember those days! Makes me tired just thinking about it 😮 Ethan was ours that took everything apart and I do mean EVERYTHING! Then he expected ME to be able to put it all back together 🙄 Needless to say, I left those jobs to Roddy who just happens to be a mechanical engineer. But the time E shorted out the phone system in the house prolly takes the cake… 😈 I can laugh about most of it now but some of it was really stressful. Sounds like you’ve got a great sense of humor and are loving your boyohs and the things they’re learning; and that’s the best part! :yes:
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