I totally agree with you. My mother has always been a night owl as well, my father a morning bird..me, I'm just a duck. I go in phases...sometimes I stay up into the wee hours which tends to be my creative time, other times I wake up at the crack of dawn and am productive as hell on mundane stuff and organization.
Where for does the depression come from?? Just wondering. :)
Here is to all the night owls! (Which is my current cycle). :)
Yeah, a lot of times my creative stuff gets done in the afternoon at the earliest, usually it's at night, while the other productive stuff is more of an earlier in the day kind of thing. My parents are like yours, but switched: my dad is up late, though lately he goes to bed a bit earlier, while to my mom, "sleeping in" means not getting up before 8am
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Sorry I didn't post as soon as I read this, but to be honest I wanted to have some time to think it over. I feel exactly how you feel about this. I have the same problem, though I'm not usually having any depression associated with it, I do have some issues with my current sleep patterns
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Thanks! I don't have my license yet, but I'm working on it. Today I'm filling out my Home Occupation Form which pasically says I'll be, uh, occupying my home with a business and I have to initial promising not to have signs out front, not have more than 12 people a day in here for business purposes, things like that which, given my work, is all obviously no problem. Once I have that in and approved, then I can file for a biz license and I should be set. It looks like I won't even have to file taxes unless I make over $400 in profit, something I doubt I'll reach but hey, you never know.
You sound like me in that you CAN shift to get up early and, like me, it doesn't realy affect your performance though it's certainly not ideal. I don't think getting up at 6 will ever feel normal to me. And yes, I think people who are morning people think that you ARE lazy if you sleep past 8, but it's just that we make use of the night.
I LOVED the 10 am-2 pm schedule that I was able to indulge in at New College. The entire school was on night-owl time! And it was great because when I went home for breaks, the three hour time difference made it easy for me to transition to a 7-11 schedule.
You will find if you have to get up EVERY SINGLE DAY at an early hour, your body will transition much better than it did when you were a teenager. I think it's much harder to do if you only get up early some days.
I still love to get to work on projects after the sun goes down, but maintaining a regular sleep schedule is SO crucial to keeping my bipolar in balance that I cut myself off from the creative stuff at 8. Any later and I'll get too wound up to sleep. I'll probably never in my life be able to do 10-2 again, but I'm sure glad that at least I had those four golden years of college to live my natural night owl schedule!
(And yes, morning people are VERY judgmental of night people!)
Yes! I remember many a night at NC when I'd start writing a paper at about 10 or so, knowing I had plenty of time that night to finish. Thankfully, and unlike the Nat Sci kids, most Anthropology classes started at around 11am or noon, with the occasional 10:30 class in there.
When I was working in Sarasota, since it was a retail job my hours would vary a bit, but there was a measure of regularity where for a few months at a time I would regularly have to be up by about 7:30 most mornings, and I adjusted with few ill effects, though it was kind training a bonsai tree: not exactly the way I was meant to grow, but a healthy approximation.
If I could make money with an online business, that would be fab as I'd do my damnedest to run on my own hours. But it's good to know that one can at least adjust if needed, and I guess the Syndrome becomes a Disorder when that is impossible.
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Where for does the depression come from?? Just wondering. :)
Here is to all the night owls! (Which is my current cycle). :)
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You sound like me in that you CAN shift to get up early and, like me, it doesn't realy affect your performance though it's certainly not ideal. I don't think getting up at 6 will ever feel normal to me. And yes, I think people who are morning people think that you ARE lazy if you sleep past 8, but it's just that we make use of the night.
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You will find if you have to get up EVERY SINGLE DAY at an early hour, your body will transition much better than it did when you were a teenager. I think it's much harder to do if you only get up early some days.
I still love to get to work on projects after the sun goes down, but maintaining a regular sleep schedule is SO crucial to keeping my bipolar in balance that I cut myself off from the creative stuff at 8. Any later and I'll get too wound up to sleep. I'll probably never in my life be able to do 10-2 again, but I'm sure glad that at least I had those four golden years of college to live my natural night owl schedule!
(And yes, morning people are VERY judgmental of night people!)
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When I was working in Sarasota, since it was a retail job my hours would vary a bit, but there was a measure of regularity where for a few months at a time I would regularly have to be up by about 7:30 most mornings, and I adjusted with few ill effects, though it was kind training a bonsai tree: not exactly the way I was meant to grow, but a healthy approximation.
If I could make money with an online business, that would be fab as I'd do my damnedest to run on my own hours. But it's good to know that one can at least adjust if needed, and I guess the Syndrome becomes a Disorder when that is impossible.
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