Are you a "night owl"?
I can't do it! Especially graveyard shifts. Those are the worst. How can people sleep during the day?
shareI can't do it! Especially graveyard shifts. Those are the worst. How can people sleep during the day?
shareI'm definitely a night owl. I've had 2 jobs that were overnight shifts. I liked them, but they do wreak havoc with a "normal" life. Even after I stopped working, I can easily stay up until 2AM. Well, I could, until I adopted two cats. They won't let me sleep in to make up for staying up late. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
shareYeah, I had a job that required me to be awake all night. I figured I could handle it, but eventually it became tough.
One line I took from Bonfire Of The Vanities was that being a Security Guard was crappy because when it wasn't Boring it was Stressful. Factor in the Pay and the Hours if you work Nights and it's Truly a Shitty Job.
But then again, sometimes we have to stitch together whatever we can just to make do, right? I've worked plenty of jobs just to make do. And I'm still here, for whatever that's worth.
I think I might do well at night if the job was Stimulating in some way. Like being a taxi driver, but that has it's down side also.
I think some people just aren't biologically suited to overnight shifts. I've worked overnights with enough people that I can usually tell who will make it and who won't. We had a name for some of them who didn't last beyond the first night: one-night-wonders. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
shareNo. I get things done in the morning so I can put everything behind me and relax in the evening. I've never been one who likes to stay up late.
shareYES definitely.
It's much more peaceful because Less ass holes tend to be out and about at night than during the daytime.
You also don't have to wait in line for a long time to buy groceries, or struggle to try and find a parking place, etc. etc. etc.
They also turn off the stop lights as well so you also don't have to wait at red lights either.
But one probably also shouldn't be telling anyone this which could mean more of you might try to become night owls which could also ruin it for the rest of us if you also decide to join us.
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But one probably also shouldn't be telling anyone this which could mean more of you might try to become night owls which could also ruin it for the rest of us if you also decide to join us.
There is the thought that we have Circadian Rhythms (hmm ... am I making this up?) that determine our sleep patterns whether we like it or not.
But yes, many times in my Youth I enjoyed being a Night Owl, even relatively Sober, wandering Streets with restless, aimless energy. Not wanting to cause a Fuss, just experiencing the quiet and maybe the lights of houses, wondering if other Night Owls are alert.
I find myself way more miserable in the daytime. I feel so much more bored, tired and irritated. As soon as it starts turning dark, I feel like I can conquer the world and my mind is able to think more clearly. I've always been like this even at a young age.
shareI used to be, but not now.....think I spent the majority of about 15 years completely messing up my biorhythms with studying/college work and different jobs, for years working for more than 12 hours a day at least 3 days a week.
shareI did the same, but I didn't think I was messing them up as much as I was exploring them.
My biorhythms, that is. I discarded any conventional sense of what Normalcy is regarding sleep habits, and just wandered around the neighborhood environs at whatever time it was. And Night Time was the Right Time to Contemplate things and have a Walkabout in the cool evening air, or a warm summer night, as it were.
And I don't mean four-in-the-morning stuff, just late enough where most people are tucked into their beds and prepared to slumber while I am out and about prowling the streets wondering what it all means.
Guess I should have been a Med Student so I wouldn't have had so much Time on my hands, haha.
Interesting!
shareI remember one night I decided to go to my favorite spot to pound a tennis ball against a brick wall. I went there all the time during the day but this night I heard a voice say, We're trying to sleep. There was a house just the other side of the school yard fence but I never gave it any thought. So I boinked the ball back toward the entrance of the schoolyard, walked home and watched the rest of Carson.
Not so interesting.
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shareThen there was the evening I was walking in the dark of night and a young lady came out of nowhere and said something to me. I couldn't understand what she said.
So she repeated it. I said "what?"
For the third time she says, a little more loudly, "Do-you-want-a-date?"
I was taken aback. "Um ... no ... you seem like a nice girl but ... um ... I'm just walking to the restaurant ... take care !" Poor girl probably needed some money but this caught me completely by surprise and I was living paycheck to paycheck and I've never paid directly for a session of sex, so it was kind of bizarre.
Oh dear 😳 that’s sad.
shareI think of it, many years later as a "funny" story, but yes, it's a little bit sad.
I was just walking to a 24 hour restaurant in Chicago. Not the best neighborhood, but I was young and didn't feel threatened about gang turf, so I was just making the five or six block hike to the closest Family All-Nighter, and out of nowhere this young lady tosses these words out. Like, the last thing on my mind was to hear someone say this to me while my mind is preoccupied with some inner monologue in the dark on a late Chicago evening.
My husband is and I used to stay up with him until at least 1am before going to bed, but as I've gotten older I like to be in bed by 11 and fall asleep with the TV on.
shareWHO? Me?
sharenahh.
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