Experimental Little Invention Takes Existence

dipdap

You gone bed now savvy?
Still nobody about?
Interesting article on that bloke and the tube map

dipdap

Might have to chat to myself to keep me awake

dipdap

Need to write my shopping list for tomorrow
As vs Ts looks a good option

dipdap

DH says we don't need any more zest :think:
I don't think he gets the concept of 'nearly free'

WishI'dReadSooner

Well I've just caught up. Night owl as per normal for me.
Savvy saw your post about not needing 8hrs - I never used to need 8hrs, however, do NEED 4.

Went by for years & years on around 3-4hrs a night BUT I have been known to go to bed on a Friday night (actually silly hours Sat Morning) and woken up on what I've thought was Sat morning at a reasonable hour only to find out I'd missed all day Saturday & it was Sunday.

Hubby used to think he was a 'night owl' - that was until he met me!

I don't think I have a 'body clock' if I do it's way out of sync with 'normal' people. I often go 36-48hrs without sleep but then my body needs to catch up or I'm totally zombiefied.

I actually do some of my best work after 11pm. I also procrastinate really badly so often things that needed handing in 1st thing Monday were done the early hours of Monday morning.

I often chat to my stepdaughters and friends/family in the US in the early hours - they have now given up on telling me I should be sleeping. Unfortunately when I go to the US I'm not on their time frame either - just on mine!

dipdap

Maybe scamps went to check out the 4p underwear.....

Savvybuyer

Possible DTD?? And Tosco vs Morries?
Natural Confectionery Co. Jelly Snakes (200g) - just increased from £1.00 to £1.59 according to msm, £1.00 in M.

Savvybuyer

WishI'dReadSooner wrote: »

Well I've just caught up. Night owl as per normal for me.
Savvy saw your post about not needing 8hrs - I never used to need 8hrs, however, do NEED 4.

Went by for years & years on around 3-4hrs a night BUT I have been known to go to bed on a Friday night (actually silly hours Sat Morning) and woken up on what I've thought was Sat morning at a reasonable hour only to find out I'd missed all day Saturday & it was Sunday.

Hubby used to think he was a 'night owl' - that was until he met me!

I don't think I have a 'body clock' if I do it's way out of sync with 'normal' people. I often go 36-48hrs without sleep but then my body needs to catch up or I'm totally zombiefied.

I actually do some of my best work after 11pm. I also procrastinate really badly so often things that needed handing in 1st thing Monday were done the early hours of Monday morning.

I often chat to my stepdaughters and friends/family in the US in the early hours - they have now given up on telling me I should be sleeping. Unfortunately when I go to the US I'm not on their time frame either - just on mine!

I have that! Sunday night ironing (9pm on the night before...) - is legendary now.

Oh I do need 8 hours!! Even 9 or 11 sometimes. I'm actually the opposite: a really deep sleeper and, certainly being here through the night (my 'natural' hours I feel!) does sort of confuse me as to what day I'm on - but, again, the opposite way: I'll go to bed, wake up and think it's Sunday (as now is Saturday)... and it'll still be Saturday. Then it'll go dark!

And then I probably wake up and have a shower!:rotfl::rotfl:And get up for the "day". The nightlight just brings me out! I'm surprised to hear someone regularly staying up for 36-48 hours at a stretch - you must be shattered! Although I feel there is something in, if you are not sleeping enough hours (regardless of what 'time' of day you get them), staying up until you feel tired and, until it's gone dark, then going to sleep and 'resetting' yourself. Every occasionally, in a while, I stay up till 4am, then go to sleep... and wake up at 4am the following morning! Then I'm 'reset'.

Now, though, I'm doing all nights - just my 'natural hours' - and why not when I'm on a week's 'break'? But, of course, it does vary - we are all humans and get tired and exhausted and then wide awake and etc. Today (tonight?), just after I said I was going to do the big Morries updating, I then almost immediately felt really tired and could have gone to bed. Then I turned the lights up:eek:... and stayed and stayed. Powered now by the light of the computer!

Anyway here are some links:

(Of course I can't vouch for the accuracy or otherwise, but nonetheless)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_sleep_phase_syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep-wake_syndrome (this one is described as a 'disability' as its sufferers are unable to conform to normal occupational hours)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregular_sleep_wake_rhythm (this also described as an invisible disability)

If you have a serious problem, I can only suggest a visit to your GP.

As for our bodies insisting on there being more than 24 hours, the 'normal' human clock works on there being about 25 hours a day. But of course there are not. So we're actually forced to get up earlier and earlier out of step with our body, because the Earth's day is actually around 24 hours (23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds I think I read [red] somewhere about 25 years ago and remembered ever since:rotfl:).

And don't get me started on "summertime"...

Savvybuyer

Brilliant! Pringles Original 190g, Sour Cream & Onion 190g, Smokey Bacon 190g and Prawn Cocktail 190g shooting up from £1.25 to £2.30 in A today, obviously for those weekend shoppers (and Salt & Vinegar 190g, Roast Chicken & Herbs 190g, Xtra Saucy BBQ 175g and Extra Spicy Chilli Sauce 175g from £1.50) - so if there's a £1.25/£1.50 price still on the shelf?? Try also to compare vs Morries (£1.24 until 25/9). Also on bogof in T - but check that that includes only items of the same individual price for T.

Savvybuyer

Even dipdap's gone home now:rotfl::rotfl:.