Let's see what Karen is offering up for this weekend's deep thoughts:
Weekend Assignment #199: What is your usual sleep schedule on weeknights? Are you an "early to bed, early to rise" sort of person, or do you stay awake far into the night (voluntarily or otherwise), and get up as late as your work schedule permits? Do you give priority to getting adequate sleep? If so, how is that working out for you?
Extra Credit: If you had no work or family scheduling obligations, would your sleeping pattern change substantially?
How's that picture for appropriate? Now for my answer...
Since I've been lucky enough to work at several little part time gigs over the last year and a half, my sleeping habits can be a little erratic. I seem to be at my most alert from about 11pm to 3am, but I rarely stay up quite that late. I usually set my goal to be in bed by 1am, and usually make it by about 2am... except for those occasional nights when I just can't seem to quiet my mind to sleep. You will find me up either on the computer, or watching a movie till around 4am or 5 on those nights.
Now for the scary part.... Since I take care of horses on a regular basis, this means being at the barn by 8am... even if I did just go to bed at 3am. G gets up for work at 7am, so I'm up anyway. I hear the little calculators in your heads working now. No, I don't survive on 4 to 6 hours of sleep, I have a solution that works for me. I do my morning work with assorted animals from about 8am to 10am,then it is home to check my e-mail and Bloglines account, do the housework/laundry that is needed and try to finish up by 12:30pm. A quick trip across the street to do the Noon check on the horses and I'm done for the morning! Geoff comes in for lunch at 1. After eating, I curl up on the couch and usually catch a quick nap from about 2 till 4pm. If I am feeding the horses the evening meal, I get up at 4pm and trot over there to do that. Geoff gets done around 5pm. So, I do manage to get around 8 hours of sleep most days, just not in a row!
Extra Credit: If you had no work or family scheduling obligations, would your sleeping pattern change substantially?
Oh Yeah! I would sleep when I was tired and wake up when I wasn't. To me that would be the best. I've never really been good at doing the going to bed and sleeping 8 or 9 hours and then staying up the rest of the time. I actually seem to do better on a couple of broken up periods of sleep... eh, go figure, I'm not normal!
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6 comments:
Well, if you are not normal, then I am not normal either! I am pretty much the same way in my sleep habits! I do better breaking it up than doing it all at one time like when I was younger!~
Love the pic!~
Blessings!~
Susan
I'm with you on 11pm to 3am being my most energetic time.
xx
Russ
I think the older I've gotten the less sleep I actually get or perhaps need. I tend to be fortunate if I'm in bed by 1am. Even then I'm up at 6-7 in the morning and ready to go...I've never learned to sleep a full 8 hours. (Hugs) Indigo
Great picture. :) I have to have my sleep. I have a little alarm clock called Phoenix on the back of the couch remember...lol..so even if I do go back to bed when Ian leaves for work, he will see it it that I wake up in a couple of hours after that. Sounds like you got a plan and a schedule worked out that works for you. I love afternoon naps anyway.
I was so happy to learn that sleep is cumulative. I generally fall asleep watching TV when the program ceases to hold my interest. But the older I get the more difficult it is for me to sleep 8 hours straight through.
So I collect a few hours here and there and hope that they add up to the obligitory 8 hours of required sleep
Jo
I'm a night owl forced into an eagles day time routine. Somedays I'm exhausted from sleeping at night! LOL
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