Getting up in the morning

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I am a night owl, but I did spend most of last Summer being up by around Midday which is impressive for me... I like to get some daylight. If I wake before around 10, I tend to feel terrible, but alas, no amount of sleep seems to suffice for me anyway as I am constantly exhausted and have forgotten what it is like to feel alert and full of energy. Currently, I stay up all night and am rarely in bed before 9-10am.

I am a morning person, probably an anomaly here. I am sometimes up at 4 a.m., although I don't go downstairs to begin my actual daily routine until 6. I spend those two hours reading. I tend to tire around 9 p.m.

I get the impression that those of us who like to snooze, before getting out of bed, feel a little guilty about it. The sensation of drifting in and out of sleep in the morning is delicious and is highly prized by me and I love it. It gives my subconscious mind time to digest my problems and suggest solutions. Enjoy it guilt-free if you are able to get away with it.

Many of us seem to be more comfortable as 'second shifters'. If you happen to be one, my advice is to try to find a way to do that. Life is difficult enough without forever having to fight your natural inclinations.

vanRand

It depends what's going on that day, but 90% of the time I dread waking up. I hate mornings.

When I haven't had enough sleep, it's terrible. Feels like being born or something - all these new stimuli. The burning light, the loud noises, the coldness. Ugh!

When I was younger I had a paper round (who says child labour only happens in the 3rd world...). This forced me out of bed every morning at 5:00am.
I stayed like that till going to uni. I still wake up in the mornings but several hours later.
I don't necessarily stay in bed, but find I take forever to get ready in the mornings.

I've been nocturnal for about two years now. The hustle and bustle [and people, and daylight] of daytime life is too much for me. I naturally wake up at about 11pm, and go to sleep at about 7am. I don't necessarily plan to live like this forever though.

It simply doesn't, and never has, felt at all natural to start the day in the morning. I've often wondered whether perhaps I have an unusual "body clock", or whether I'm simply trying to prevent sensory overload by avoiding the day. Reading other people's posts here has been interesting.

It took me 7 hours before I could summon up the energy to get dressed this morning. Night person with depression is what that is. Oh plus arm pain

I like to get up at least an hour and a half before I have to leave the house so that I have time to properly wake up. I go to bed early but it doesn't seem to help my tiredness.

I find that sometimes I wake up just before the clock goes off and I'd wide awake - must have woken naturally. The worst is when I'm in the middle of a dream and the alarm seems to tear me from sleep.

i only hate getting up in the morning at the moment because im depressed.
but usualy i love starting a new day, and i know each day is different and each day has a new set of problems which i like, well as long as everything is in the order im used to though

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Different is cool-Luke Jackson, teen with aspergers.
Having aspergers is like a more extreme version of life, and i love it

With me it's not the getting up that's the problem, it's the prospect of having to do stuff. You know, the whole go and sort out the BS that's going hit at work and the dealing with people. Oh boy, the dealing with people

Catch 22

I go to bed late to "push" tomorrow as far into the future as possible (irrational, yes ... but who said I was ever rational ?).
So I'm too tired to cope with the next day.
So more stuff hits the fan because I'm less able to cope.
So I'm stressed about the coming day.
So I go to bed late ...

Having said that, I've always preferred the night anyway.

omg this is me in the morning, scary!
look at my hair!