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Generally I'm up by nine in the morning after having gone to bed sometime near midnight or one, giving me a good long nice time in bed. The last hour and a half or so of this generous sleep time is spent alone in the bed as Maria gets up for work, prepares, and eventually leaves. It's nice because I get to spread out a little, and steal all the best pillows that she hogs for herself.
This week I've been having to get up early, with Maria, and every day it's getting harder and harder to drag myself out of that beautiful queen-sized cloud that carries me into my dreams. It doesn't help me wake up that for the rest of the day I'm stuck in this little room with the dogs, breathing paint fumes and working. Fun times.
I also find that the earlier I wake up in the morning, the later I want to go to bed that night/the next morning. Sunday I came to bed at midnight, Monday was 1 AM, Tuesday I was in bed by 1:30AM but didn't fall asleep until 2. This is a phenomenon that amazes and astounds me because every morning that I wake up I'm just as tired as the day before! Not more tired, but just generally tired. It's strange and slightly disconcerting since I used to be able to get away with very very little sleep, maybe two to four hours if I really wanted to push myself.
If I sleep for only two hours now it's a nap in preparation for going to bed - have to practice you know!
Many doctors tell us that 8 hours is the minimum and maximum amount of sleep you should get in a night and that seems to be overly much to me. If you sleep 8 hours in a day you're losing a year of your life for every 3 that you live! That's unacceptable. Other doctors claim that 8 is too much and leads to things like cancer*. These medical professionals will usually tell you that somewhere around 6 hours is a good mark to shoot for, which is more reasonable at only losing one year of life for every four.
Where do you come in? How many hours do you tend to sleep, and if it's less than seven, how the hell do you wake up before noon? I can get out of bed and function in the mornings that I get little sleep, but be awake? To be cognizant seems an unreasonable goal before I've been up at least four or five hours. How do you people do it?
I'm very much looking forward to when the painters are done, I don't have to trap myself in this little room with the dogs, and I can sleep in in the mornings. I want to be able to get a restful nights sleep full of quiet (or even exciting) dreams and to get the blissful sleep I need. Doing what I do, transcription, doesn't require much brain power, but it would still be nice to be able to think while I'm awake. I'd like that back pleaseandthankyou.
*just like everything else, including star light. Yeah...
This week I've been having to get up early, with Maria, and every day it's getting harder and harder to drag myself out of that beautiful queen-sized cloud that carries me into my dreams. It doesn't help me wake up that for the rest of the day I'm stuck in this little room with the dogs, breathing paint fumes and working. Fun times.
I also find that the earlier I wake up in the morning, the later I want to go to bed that night/the next morning. Sunday I came to bed at midnight, Monday was 1 AM, Tuesday I was in bed by 1:30AM but didn't fall asleep until 2. This is a phenomenon that amazes and astounds me because every morning that I wake up I'm just as tired as the day before! Not more tired, but just generally tired. It's strange and slightly disconcerting since I used to be able to get away with very very little sleep, maybe two to four hours if I really wanted to push myself.
If I sleep for only two hours now it's a nap in preparation for going to bed - have to practice you know!
Many doctors tell us that 8 hours is the minimum and maximum amount of sleep you should get in a night and that seems to be overly much to me. If you sleep 8 hours in a day you're losing a year of your life for every 3 that you live! That's unacceptable. Other doctors claim that 8 is too much and leads to things like cancer*. These medical professionals will usually tell you that somewhere around 6 hours is a good mark to shoot for, which is more reasonable at only losing one year of life for every four.
Where do you come in? How many hours do you tend to sleep, and if it's less than seven, how the hell do you wake up before noon? I can get out of bed and function in the mornings that I get little sleep, but be awake? To be cognizant seems an unreasonable goal before I've been up at least four or five hours. How do you people do it?
I'm very much looking forward to when the painters are done, I don't have to trap myself in this little room with the dogs, and I can sleep in in the mornings. I want to be able to get a restful nights sleep full of quiet (or even exciting) dreams and to get the blissful sleep I need. Doing what I do, transcription, doesn't require much brain power, but it would still be nice to be able to think while I'm awake. I'd like that back pleaseandthankyou.
*just like everything else, including star light. Yeah...
