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What time do you wake up?
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Well, I'm a nocturnal creature, one of nature's natural night owls, which means that the only time I am ever in bed before midnight is one where I am either catatonic with exhaustion, or ill.
Even on a normal day, even a day where I know I must be up after six, or seven, I am not in bed before one a.m.
However, I will say that while I 'need' around seven hours, eight are seized if possible, and nine are a pleasure to be treasured .
Brilliant. Actually, I've known a few cats which did something similar - either walking on your face, or patting a face with their paw to waken you up.
For an animal that loves to sleep, (and cats do), they are exceedingly good at getting their human companions up early....
4:30-6am late winter, and spring (the early light, and the sounds of birds)
5-7am most of spring, summer, fall
7-8am during December (the darkness, the relentless, primordial darkness)
My two cats start looking for me to serve breakfast any time after daybreak. No flex whatsoever once they wake up.
5-7am most of spring, summer, fall
7-8am during December (the darkness, the relentless, primordial darkness)
My two cats start looking for me to serve breakfast any time after daybreak. No flex whatsoever once they wake up.
I'm usually up before 7AM. I don't hesitate, just open my eyes, jump out of bed and go do whatever. Most of the time I will go to sleep right after dinner.
6am, 6:05, 6:10, 6:15, 6:20, 6:25 and finally out of bed at 6:30am.
I've never understood snooze. Another 5 minutes doesn't make you any less tired. On the rare occasions an alarm wakes me, I never snooze.
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You either eat late or sleep early!
You don't understand snooze? There are few greater pleasures in life ..the pleasure of waking up (briefly), casting a quick glance at a watch, and turning over with barely suppressed glee .if you know you can snatch a further hour or two curled up, cosy and comatose.
The other thing is the fortunate gift of being able to sleep at will; one can sleep less during the night (if necessary) knowing that one can nap, or snatch a nap subsequently. If you can sleep at will, it is a terrific gift, and is one I am happy to say that I have, having inherited it from my father, who used to nod off, happily, during the TV evening news, without fail, daily.
'Only' 7 hours
I have an Up on my wrist that tracks my sleep patterns.
I usually sleep between 4-5 hours, 2.5 of them sound sleep.
My sleep goal is 4 hours on average.
Sleeping is a waste of time and reserved for when the fat lady sings.
Snoozing when you wake at 4 is one thing. Hitting a button at 6:00, just to hear the alarm go off again at 6:05 seems completely pointless.
No, it doesn't.
Time is elastic (or it seems so) when five minutes are all you have. Indeed, I have known a delicious five minutes of that sort which seemed to stretch into an absolute and exquisite eternity ...
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I am the polar opposite, I figure the day is half over by 10:00am
Evidently, you are one of life's lovely larks.
My best writing (and thinking, and analysis) is done between the hours of 10 p.m. (22.00) and 2.00 a.m. (02.00).
Those 5 minutes may be an utterly blissful gift, one that apparently lasts for days, but the skirl of the alarm 5 minutes later acts as a rather cruel time-machine, wrenching me back to the present.
When I was in the army there were moments...too many of them...when 5 mins of sleep meant the world.
Those 5 minutes may be an utterly blissful gift, one that apparently lasts for days, but the skirl of the alarm 5 minutes later acts as a rather cruel time-machine, wrenching me back to the present.
It's remarkable to me how quickly I often fall back to sleep after hitting the snooze button and how deep that sleep feels just a few minutes later.
Your alarm sounds like bagpipes? Man, that's just so cruel.
Where do I get one?
Me? Wakeup at 5:30. Two or three 10-min snoozes (or rather "snuggles"). OOB by 6:00
Teenagers need their sleep. You have my full support, and total empathy on this one.
Your alarm sounds like bagpipes? Man, that's just so cruel.
Where do I get one?
Hehe, after those 5 minutes it might as well be bagpipes!
