Night Owls

[MissTerious]

I have just realised that being a night owl means my circadian rhythm might be the reason that I prefer night to day because I have always been tired during the day and had more energy from evenings through to early morning. My mental abilities too are much sharper at night. My son is the same, and always had been.

I avoid morning appointments because they really are a struggle. It can be a real problem.I also get a better quality of sleep during the day. I actually love darkness too and find it comforting.

Fortunately my husband doesn't need lot of sleep and we are often up and about when others have been tucked up for hours.


Are their any other ABers who are like this?

[jennyjoan]

I try to avoid morning appointments like hell as I have a very old aunt to tend to in the morning (liar LOL)

[Barmaid]

Gness, amazing what you see and hear at that time of night, isn't it?

I once came face to face (well, about 3ft) from a badger walking up the lane at around 2am.

The munti comes very close to the house - we sat and watched her in the moonlight the other night from the living room window.

The noise the owls make is beautifully haunting (unless you have a couple of noisy hungry tawny babies in your garden) who SQUAWK. Incessantly. The sound of the deer splashing in (what is left of) the pond; the munti barking across the fields; the rippling effect of a pheasant being disturbed so they all kick off sequentially; the triple bark of the fox.

[burlyshirley]

I much prefer it as the day wears on, especially in this heat as it goes slightly cooler as night time draws on. I love to close the curtains and shut the world out and never go to bed before 4 a.m. So glad autumn is on the way, my favourite season, and that the nights are drawing in.

[tiggerblue10]

I'm usually up till around 12, 1ish even though I have to be up between 6.30 and 7 for school runs and work. I only go up to bed when my eyes won't stay open.

As it's the summer hols I'm having a mini lay in till......7.15, lol. Weekends I lay in till 8 or 9.

[gness]

Hate street lights too, MissT. Only happened to me once when I came home to find new lights put up in different places and one was outside my house. I was moving otherwise I'd have got out the catapult TonyAV bought me.
Night is beautiful, BM. The late birds and animals in the forest are a joy. We live in the Kerry Dark-Sky Reserve which makes being outside listening and star gazing just magical.

[Hazlinny]

Magical indeed. Love where you live .. once flew back from Kerry Airport after "doing" Killarney and area.

[goodgoalie]

When I lived in London I was much more of a night owl, but then again I was going out a lot more and had, er, a social life. I've sometimes thought to myself how surprised my London self would be at how early I sometimes get up: the other day I was in Morrison's car park at 7:45am to do my weekly shop, as I couldn't sleep in the heat, so just got up.

I, too, need a totally dark, totally silent bedroom to sleep, but (unlike sunnydave, it seems!) I have no problem if I have to get up for a pee in the night: I don't have to put on any lights, or even wake myself up properly as at home I always sit down to pee. Often thought of starting a thread on men sitting down to pee - why would you not in your own home? Much more comfortable! The Germans even have a word for it : sitzpinkeln

[Canary42]

/// Often thought of starting a thread on men sitting down to pee ///

Go on then - should get some entertaining replies ;-)

[gness]

We haven't flown now for years, Hazlinny but Kerry Airport was the only one I could cope with. Laid back, great breakfast and not bad Guinness.
If you did the Ring of Kerry you'll have driven close to our house and even closer to my old family home which was once on a lane.
It's a stunningly beautiful place to live.

[gness]

GG. Dave has a choice when he wants to pee in the upstairs bathroom. It's under the eaves and Dave is very tall. He can either stand out in the landing and aim well or reverse in and sit.

[goodgoalie]

I've got myself so well trained, that I can get up for a pee and get back into bed and continue the dream I was having :)

I fully close the bathroom door if I've had to get up, otherwise I wouldn't know whether I had or not - that's how 'still asleep' I can be. Why would anyone put the light on and wake themselves up to aim?!

[Hazlinny]

17.47 Airport such a change (then anyway) from the bigger airports - think only 2 flights going out! Sadly, did not do the Ring of Kerry as time was a bit scarce and the elderly lady I was driving rather dictated where we went. She was "re-living" the journey she and her late Norwegian sea captain husband had made on honeymoon years earlier.

[MissTerious]

So I come back to find my thread has morphed into men sitting down for a pee. Actually, I wish us ladies could stand and pee!

[gness]

Sorry, MissT. Some of us here on AB have peculiar minds that just wander around.

Don't think I'd like for women to stand to pee. Sitting down in a locked room for a few minutes is sometimes the only time you get some blissful peace and quiet. ;-)

[tonyav]

I'd have got out the catapult TonyAV bought me.
Gawd blimey, more blame ;-)

[tonyav]

reverse in and sit.
No rolicking for leaving the seat up ;-)

[gness]

That, Tony, is a very sore point! Never mind the uselessness of men with the seat...it's the lid! Both have to go down.....but....

We all have instruction not to put down the lid as Dave is unable to reverse in in the dark and find the lid to raise before he sits. Life can be so difficult. :-(

[tonyav]

Life can be so difficult. :-(

LOL, not for us blokes. Lift it and leave it.

[MissTerious]

Gness, I agree. But hovering above stinging nettles behind trees in my younger days in the dark, when taken short, could be a bit difficult!

[tonyav]

LOL ^^^^^^^