Time you woke up...
On the morning of the day this was written I woke up shortly after 5 AM. I tried to go back to sleep, but then I got up around 5:20 to get dressed and check my computer before it was time to wake up my wife at 5:30. Tomorrow I'll get up no later than 5:30. On weekdays when my wife is working she gets up at 5:30 and I'm there to wake her up.
If left to my own devices I tend to get up between 6 or 7 AM if there is not a specific reason to get out of bed. I suppose there's almost always some reason to get out of bed unless I'm real sick, but that would have to be really sick.
I don't like to just lay in bed. Sometimes I'll get into a phase where I'll lay in bed for awhile and read for thirty minutes or an hour perhaps and then get up again to do stuff. I almost always take some sort of a nap in the afternoon. It's rarely more than an hour. Usually it's more like fifteen or twenty minutes. I guess that's another time I woke up today.
But thinking on a more philosophical level maybe this question has more to do with a time in my life when I woke up in some deeper, perhaps even spiritual way. That would be more than just one time since I've woken to many things and at times wakened to the same things more than once.
Life is filled with awakenings and times of sleep. If I could sleep less I'd have more time to get things done, but then again I might just have more time to waste and when I waste too much time I usually get sleepy and go to sleep. Then I wake up and start again.
Do you have a healthy sleep cycle? Do you like a lot of sleep? Do you wake up easily?
No matter how much sleep I get, be it 3 hours, 6, 8 or more, I always wake up exhausted. My dogs usually get me up at 6, esp. my elderly doggie, and it's race against the clock to get her out b/f she goes on the floor. I have to be really super tired or sick to go back to bed after that!
ReplyDeleteJoJo, seems like I never get enough sleep. I really kind of hate it. I'd rather subsist on something like an hour spread throughout the day in short naps.
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I come from a family of sleepy heads except for two brothers who are identical twins. They don't take much sleep. But yes, I do get up early. I'm a night owl. My family gets going every morning early, and I got to get that coffee pot going and the dogs walking.
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Ann, I tease my wife that her family is "The Sleepy Family". I know that she likes to sleep.
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I usually go to be between 10:30 and 11:30 most every weeknight. I get up between 6 and 6:30. On Saturday's I try not to set the clock and just wake when my body says it is ready. Which is usually between 9 and 11. Sunday's I get up between 8:30 and 9:30. I only take a nap if I am sick. If left totally to my own devices, I'd probably get my sleep schedule all jacked up!
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Barbara, I haven't slept past 8 AM for years though on rare occasions when I've been very sick I will go back to bed and end up sleeping most of the day. Fortunately this has not happened very often. A short nap comes for me nearly every afternoon--even when I was still working I'd usually take a power nap at my desk after lunch.
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I function on about six hours of sleep and I've been waking up without an alarm clock for about 25 years or so.
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GB, I'm kind of the same, though I wish I could sleep longer sometimes and not be sick to have to do it.
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I don't sleep very well, not since the stroke, and there are some nights I have to get up and go to the bathroom several times. What that means is I'm tired at about 10:30, but can't get up much before 9. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, so I guess I'll have to...
ReplyDeleteJohn, Oh, tell me about that bathroom thing. Fortunately I can usually go right back to sleep after I go, but still it's a hassle, especially if it's a cold night.
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Until my late 30s, I considered myself a night-owl. I would get a second wind around 11:00pm and often stay up until 1:00am. This was my "creative" time. And I would then typically sleep until about 8:00am
ReplyDeleteBut when I started teaching, I had to get up before 6:00 and often fell into bed exhausted after 11:00pm from grading papers.
Now, I have a sleep schedule I enjoy and feels natural. I rarely set an alarm but typically wake up between 6:00 and 6:30 ... and I usually shut off the news at 9:30pm and go upstairs to read for a bit before turning out the light around 10:30.
And, interestingly enough, this natural sleep cycle has indeed awakened the creative side of me - and the spiritual side. I can focus on the important rather than the urgent.
Molly @MyCozyBookNook
My Cozy Book Nook
Revising Life after 50
Molly, I tended toward the up late sleep late cycle into my 20's as long as I wasn't getting up for school. When I started working regularly though I got on a schedule and have kept it pretty much since then.
DeleteLee
When I sleep, I sleep good. Really good. I rarely have a bad night's sleep. But I have weird sleep patterns. I may go to bed early but then I always wake up --usually one of the dogs want to go out-- between 1 and 3am, then I get up and am up on the computer for hours, especially during the A-Z! Then I go back to bed and fall right to sleep, to get up between 7-8am. I usually take some sort of nap in the afternoon.
ReplyDeleteI love sleep because I always have really cool dreams! It's like I go to the movies every night when I go to sleep...
Michele at Angels Bark
Michele, I enjoy my dreams in the same way though I like it better if I don't have to get up and get going right away so I can think about what I've dreamed and even write them down. I rarely seem to have the opportunity to do that and dream memory can fade so quickly.
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