I am a nocturnal member of a diurnal species. My biological clock must have been set wrong at birth; added to that is the fact that i love the night; it has day beat six ways to Sunday. My reasons for preferring night are psychological, aesthetic, social, and spiritual Almost as soon as i could toddle, i snuck from my room to explore the darkness.
When i was young and middle aged, this did not bother me, and as a married man, i liked to sleep beside my spouse, who slept at night.. At any rate it was easy to have both a day life and a "night life." I could sleep for six or four or two hours and still put in a reasonably productive day (unless my day involved late afternoon scheduled meetings where "business" was to be discussed)/ I could keep one foot solidly planted in the day world, the other, in the night.
In old age, i pay for wakeful nights with sleepy days. Thurssay evening, i slept through "final Jeopardy" and then through the time of my Al Anon meeting. Oh, tine! I have seven hours of my week committed and i missed one of them, I would start my "discipline by setting limits on my waking day. I would go go bed at 10pm and awaken eight hours later. If i needed a sleep aid to get in the habit, i would take one.
So i went to bed at 11, fell asleep quickly without a pill, slept FOUR hours, woke long enough to use the batroom, slept another FIVE hours. A prayer of gratitude was in order and i complied.
So far (3pm) my head has not fallen onto my keyboard, into my coffee, or any other inconvenient place.
When i was young and middle aged, this did not bother me, and as a married man, i liked to sleep beside my spouse, who slept at night.. At any rate it was easy to have both a day life and a "night life." I could sleep for six or four or two hours and still put in a reasonably productive day (unless my day involved late afternoon scheduled meetings where "business" was to be discussed)/ I could keep one foot solidly planted in the day world, the other, in the night.
In old age, i pay for wakeful nights with sleepy days. Thurssay evening, i slept through "final Jeopardy" and then through the time of my Al Anon meeting. Oh, tine! I have seven hours of my week committed and i missed one of them, I would start my "discipline by setting limits on my waking day. I would go go bed at 10pm and awaken eight hours later. If i needed a sleep aid to get in the habit, i would take one.
So i went to bed at 11, fell asleep quickly without a pill, slept FOUR hours, woke long enough to use the batroom, slept another FIVE hours. A prayer of gratitude was in order and i complied.
So far (3pm) my head has not fallen onto my keyboard, into my coffee, or any other inconvenient place.
