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Posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 8:11:21
oh yes indeed it is. i have never been a good waker. left to my own devices i'd lie in bed all day. not sleeping as such but dozing and... ruminating i guess... i cry a lot in bed.
when i have to get up in the morning (for class or work or whatever) then i can get myself into a routine. i used to struggle... but i could get myself to class for 9am. then i started working in the library and i had to get up at 6am. i managed. and it wasn't toooo bad. i would sleep at night not too much of a problem because i needed to sleep after getting up that early.
but now i don't have to get up at any particular time so i have gotten back into old habits. that means i don't get to sleep until 3 or 4am and don't get up till 11 or 12. i wander into uni just in time for lunch. do a couple hours... feel thoroughly fed up and bugger off home.
sigh. type A personality i am not. in the past i have actually found this sleep / wake cycle to be really very productive. i get home and watch some kids cartoons and then settle into work around 7 or 8. then i can work completely undisturbed until 3 or 4 am.
part of it might be to do with my general avoidance of people. part of it is probably something to do with my baseline mood which is a little on the low side. i've only bounded out of bed in the morning for special occasions such as exams and conferences.
hmm.
it doesn't really matter though. does it?
Posted by caraher on July 11, 2005, at 13:09:59
In reply to waking up is hard to do, posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 8:11:21
I've been in a similar rut... I had a 2-week period with my family out of town during which my plan was to make a big push on finishing my dissertation and had the same waking issues. It took about 5 days before I was able to get past worrying so much about when I woke up and just let myself not accomplish anything before late afternoon, then work steadily through the evening. Today it's 1 PM and I just arrived in my office. Sounds a bit like the schedule that used to work for you.
Posted by Racer on July 11, 2005, at 13:23:52
In reply to waking up is hard to do, posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 8:11:21
Well, depending on how old you are, that might be natural... Seems that up to a certain age, most people naturally stay up until the not-so-small hours, then sleep in until noon.
Then again, I've found that I have a couple of problems sleeping that form patterns: depression, of course, interferes with good sleep. Nuf sed. And if I stay up past a critical point, I'll get a kind of second wind and can't sleep. I'll kinda do that little kid thing of "I don't wanna go to bed!" S U X.
Then, in the mornings, I do my world famous "Five More Minutes" routine. My husband learned pretty quick that if he heard me mumble, "Five more minutes, I'm in the middle of a dream" -- well, he learned that nothing good could come of it! LoL! Either I'd stay in bed, asleep, for another hour, or he'd shake me out of bed, and I'd be a nasty bear to him for hours. Poor man.
Still, you're so cute when you're asleep. Why wake up until you have to? xoxo
Posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 22:02:45
In reply to Re: waking up is hard to do, posted by caraher on July 11, 2005, at 13:09:59
Hmm. Maybe it is the thesis / dissertation rut. But then this is a constant for me. The story of my life really...
Posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 22:05:40
In reply to Re: waking up is hard to do, posted by Racer on July 11, 2005, at 13:23:52
:-)
Yeah. I worry sometimes that staying in bed in that half awake / half asleep stage gets me ruminating. Lots of crying.
But then if I'm not doing that I find I tend to do that during the day.
Actually, come to think of it I do that during the day anyway so its hard to know if it hurts or helps.
I worry a lot about my ruminating.
Kind of an almost but not quite there feeling...
I probably spend about 4 hours a day there.
Couple hours either side of sleep and couple hours during the day.
Posted by Susan47 on July 11, 2005, at 23:00:35
In reply to Re: waking up is hard to do, posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 22:05:40
Change your Brain, Change Your Life... it's a book I'm looking through .. I think you could benefit from it.. so could I ...
Posted by Ilene on July 12, 2005, at 18:00:56
In reply to waking up is hard to do, posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 8:11:21
Sometimes I go to bed at 9PM and wake up at noon. I have very little to do, so sleeping whiles (or is that "wiles"?) away the hours. I just doze and dream, wake up, pet the cat, go back to sleep....yawn.
I.
Posted by Phillipa on July 12, 2005, at 19:15:08
In reply to Re: waking up is hard to do, posted by Ilene on July 12, 2005, at 18:00:56
I like to go to bed late. Was a 3-ll nurse. But lately I've been staying up on this darn computer til 2am. Then I sleep til l0. So what I have nothing else to do. Fondly, Phillipa
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