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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 6:22:08 GMT -5
I'm trying like crazy to get back on a decent schedule. I loath getting up too early- not a morning person. Since DH's schedule changed, I get up around 4:30 to 5:30. Ugh! I know as one gets older they need less sleep. I'm wondering if that's not part of it, too. I got to bed around 11:00. I find I need a nap in the afternoon, if I can get one, which only makes matters worse.
So, seeing how a lot of us are getting on... when do you get up- or how much sleep do you get? Just curious- or, misery loves company.
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Post by brybry on Oct 8, 2022 6:24:50 GMT -5
My work schedule bounces so much I can't sleep right. Some nights I get 3-5 hrs, others I get 8.
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 6:27:48 GMT -5
My work schedule bounces so much I can't sleep right. Some nights I get 3-5 hrs, others I get 8. My BIL works really crazy hours, too. I truly believe that it is a major detriment to his health. I hope you can iron it out.
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Post by brybry on Oct 8, 2022 6:39:59 GMT -5
Right now I'm a floating Culinary Lead so I bounce from night to morning opener. If we can ever get the proof we need that the opening lead is stealing time, I can my kitchen back and get on a decent schedule again.
I know I'm way grumpier these days. Some days I'm so exhausted I can barely remember some people's names.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 8, 2022 6:41:11 GMT -5
I'm trying like crazy to get back on a decent schedule. I loath getting up too early- not a morning person. Since DH's schedule changed, I get up around 4:30 to 5:30. Ugh! I know as one gets older they need less sleep. I'm wondering if that's not part of it, too. I got to bed around 11:00. I find I need a nap in the afternoon, if I can get one, which only makes matters worse.
So, seeing how a lot of us are getting on... when do you get up- or how much sleep do you get? Just curious- or, misery loves company.
My schedule totally varies. But mostly, I'd say I generally do not get enough. Went to bed around midnight, here I am at 4:30 on my phone! Should probably not have my phone on the nightstand, ya think? May or may not go back to sleep. An average amount of sleep for me is about six hours. If I've worked hard all day, or if I am sick, I can sometimes get 8. But I spend a lot of time in bed not sleeping!
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 8, 2022 6:42:10 GMT -5
I have always been a night owl so I get to sleep usually around 6am or so, but generally still sleep around 8 hours.
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Post by JR8675309 on Oct 8, 2022 6:44:29 GMT -5
I was having the same problem with getting up at 2:30 and 3:30. A UV or SAD lamp later in the day helped somewhat (i also use it to get going). I am sleeping in until 5 or 5:30... sometimes 6:00!! I go to work at 7, so the new time is A OK. It's definitely not an instant change, but slowly the pattern ironed out somewhat. I stayed up later in many cases. *Of course this morning I got up at 4:30... I'd like to think it's excitement for going Rockhounding this morning
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 6:51:23 GMT -5
I have always been a night owl so I get to sleep usually around 6am or so, but generally still sleep around 8 hours. I used to go to bed when DH was getting up around 4. I'd see him for a little bit and sleep till about 11. That was a good schedule for me. I'm usually a night owl, too. I do my best work late at night. I haven't been on that schedule for a while now.
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 6:57:33 GMT -5
I'm trying like crazy to get back on a decent schedule. I loath getting up too early- not a morning person. Since DH's schedule changed, I get up around 4:30 to 5:30. Ugh! I know as one gets older they need less sleep. I'm wondering if that's not part of it, too. I got to bed around 11:00. I find I need a nap in the afternoon, if I can get one, which only makes matters worse.
So, seeing how a lot of us are getting on... when do you get up- or how much sleep do you get? Just curious- or, misery loves company.
My schedule totally varies. But mostly, I'd say I generally do not get enough. Went to bed around midnight, here I am at 4:30 on my phone! Should probably not have my phone on the nightstand, ya think? May or may not go back to sleep. An average amount of sleep for me is about six hours. If I've worked hard all day, or if I am sick, I can sometimes get 8. But I spend a lot of time in bed not sleeping! I had to do a sleep study a while back. I have really bad restless legs syndrome. Part of the study was learning good sleep hygiene. Found out that I have always had it and never really thought about it. No phone, no tv, no electronics, a sound machine and pitch black. Never helped obviously.
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 6:59:00 GMT -5
I was having the same problem with getting up at 2:30 and 3:30. A UV or SAD lamp later in the day helped somewhat (i also use it to get going). I am sleeping in until 5 or 5:30... sometimes 6:00!! I go to work at 7, so the new time is A OK. It's definitely not an instant change, but slowly the pattern ironed out somewhat. I stayed up later in many cases. *Of course this morning I got up at 4:30... I'd like to think it's excitement for going Rockhounding this morning Naturally, anticipating something fun has to get you up.
I never used a SAD lamp, but I suspect it would help.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 8, 2022 7:00:46 GMT -5
My schedule totally varies. But mostly, I'd say I generally do not get enough. Went to bed around midnight, here I am at 4:30 on my phone! Should probably not have my phone on the nightstand, ya think? May or may not go back to sleep. An average amount of sleep for me is about six hours. If I've worked hard all day, or if I am sick, I can sometimes get 8. But I spend a lot of time in bed not sleeping! I had to do a sleep study a while back. I have really bad restless legs syndrome. Part of the study was learning good sleep hygiene. Found out that I have always had it and never really thought about it. No phone, no tv, no electronics, a sound machine and pitch black. Never helped obviously. Sleep disorders - just one more thing many of us seem to have in common, lol.
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 8, 2022 7:22:40 GMT -5
I have always been a night owl so I get to sleep usually around 6am or so, but generally still sleep around 8 hours. I used to go to bed when DH was getting up around 4. I'd see him for a little bit and sleep till about 11. That was a good schedule for me. I'm usually a night owl, too. I do my best work late at night. I haven't been on that schedule for a while now. Yes, the night is quiet and few if any distractions so you can really focus.
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Post by JR8675309 on Oct 8, 2022 8:16:39 GMT -5
rockjunquie, ditto "good sleep hygiene" practice. I have never been one to chillax in bed or bedroom so that has always been easy. I have to have my eyepatch/eye mask. So here's a question for y'all: do you think we "makers" and "doers" are more prone to a behavior of getting up once our eyes open due anticipation? We have many opportunities/projects/insert your own "high value target" in the works most of the time. I totally fall into this category... interested what you and others think. Some other hounds told me they have this problem when a hounding trip is planned. Hence why I was up at O'Dark thirty as mentioned!
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Post by jasoninsd on Oct 8, 2022 8:30:02 GMT -5
Sleep? I wonder what that is most days now....or at least what I would consider "good sleep"! Go to bed: 1am(ish) Wake up: 5am(ish) Pass Out: 1pm-3pm(ish) So that's 6 hours of sleep per day...just not all together. I too feel like I get more work and better work accomplished later at night...like after my wife goes to bed! That's when it's quiet "me" time. JR8675309 - Yep! When I know I've got something planned (hounding or other) I cannot sleep well and tend to wake up extremely early in the day. Even if I know I'm going to be cutting rocks on a particular morning, I wake up and want to get at it! I can't just lay in bed. The instant I wake up, I get out of bed...no matter what time it is...it could be 3am and I just went to bed two hours ago...if I wake up, I'm up! I figure the bed's only good for two things - sleeping and...well, you know. And if I'm not sleeping...and my wife is...that means I just need to get out of bed as there's no reason for me to be there anymore! LOL
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 9:01:08 GMT -5
rockjunquie , ditto "good sleep hygiene" practice. I have never been one to chillax in bed or bedroom so that has always been easy. I have to have my eyepatch/eye mask. So here's a question for y'all: do you think we "makers" and "doers" are more prone to a behavior of getting up once our eyes open due anticipation? We have many opportunities/projects/insert your own "high value target" in the works most of the time. I totally fall into this category... interested what you and others think. Some other hounds told me they have this problem when a hounding trip is planned. Hence why I was up at O'Dark thirty as mentioned! Sometimes, when the muse is really strong, it's really super hard to get to sleep. I just lay there and work out designs in my head. Eventually, I have to give in and get up.
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Post by RickB on Oct 8, 2022 9:35:32 GMT -5
I get up fairly early in the morning (around 5:30 EST) and watch you all slowly wake up and check in on RTH. Many times two members wake and check in before I do, fernwood and sometimes jamesp
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Post by HankRocks on Oct 8, 2022 9:44:20 GMT -5
Have always been an early riser. As young kids my brother and I would be up before 5:00am most summer days except Sunday armed with a bucket each to collect pop bottles. Had to beat any competition. Two kids aged 7 and 5 wandering the main drag collecting around the bowling alley and the Ice house and the two beer joints, only in the 50's!!. Collecting was good and we always had pocket change. Every so often we would find cash that folks dropped.
That training served me well in college as I always signed up for 7:00am classes so I could work my part time job in the afternoons. Later I moved my wake up time to 4:00am for the company that I worked for over 40 years. It has took me almost 3 years after retiring to move my wakeup time to 5:00 - 5:30am. I do take a re-charge nap in the afternoon most days, setting the timer on oven to about 25 minutes. It's perfect as I do not get into rem sleep and wake up recharged.
I do find that the quiet time of the morning before anyone else is stirring as my most productive and most creative.
One thing I have managed to do is to avoid needing coffee, or caffeinated tea, I wake up I am good to go.
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Post by Tommy on Oct 8, 2022 9:56:34 GMT -5
In a perfect week I would be in bed at 10pm and up at 6 every day. That is my comfort zone where I feel the most alive and healthy and I am a SOLID sleeper most of the time. If I wake up at all during the night it's probably because the big dogs on each side of the bed either growled or whined to get out and do their business.
That being said my job interferes with this quite frequently and at least once or twice a month I have a job that keeps me out till after midnight, or has me up at 4am or worse. With an assist from the wife I am pretty careful not to allow them to schedule me with a late run followed by and early rise because if I allow that I'm shot for a full day afterwards.
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 10:57:43 GMT -5
I get up fairly early in the morning (around 5:30 EST) and watch you all slowly wake up and check in on RTH. Many times two members wake and check in before I do, fernwood and sometimes jamesp Yeah, I see y'all most mornings. I don't post until I've had my coffee, but I am reading.
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Post by fernwood on Oct 8, 2022 10:57:44 GMT -5
My work schedule is very strange. I start anywhere between 10 AM and 6 PM. Get home between 4 PM and 12:30 AM.
I am usually awake between 3 and 4 AM. I stay awake until after AM farm chores. Then, if I can, go back to sleep for a while before work.
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