Do you ever think your the only one awake?

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Once it gets dark, and the hubub of people stop passing by the window and even the cats stop fidgeting outside, it's easy for your mind to trick you into beleiving your the only person awake, period.

I'm having a bad patch with anxiety & whatnot at the moment, and when I'm like this I sit up a lot at night wishing the phone would ring, even a wrong number call would do, just so I know someone else is awake.

I often wish something, anything would happen just so I would have to go out & see other faces at night. We don't have a lot of money, and my days of sitting at bars seem to have died a dying death.

When I was younger, I had pets like hamsters & rats, and when I couldn't sleep I used to sit on the couch with the rats on my shoulders. I would tell them my whole life story over a piece of cheese, lol. I used to beleive they enjoyed my boring life because they chattered their teeth, probably from being stuffed with so much cheese they should have been mooing, lol, but I figured they didn't really care. They were awake because many rodents are active at night, perfect pets really.

Anyway, tonight is one of those nights. It's only 11pm, but I already feel like everyone's taken off in a spaceship & left me behind.

The internet never sleeps! ^_^

Any chance you could get another pet?

We have a cat & rabbit, but as much as I love them to bits, they just don't fill the same gap the rodents did. My partner is afraid of rats & mice, and says he would not go in the same room as them. So sadly it's not really an option anymore.

Does talking to people on the internet help? Or does it need to be closer than that?

This is why I am always on the net until bedtime.

That reminds me -- does anyone have an Aspie chat room? I looked around for a while and didn't find one. They have one attached to WP, but I can't make it work. I need something more user-friendly.

I would stay up all night, still do if I stressed out, and I would imagine I was the only one in the city
that was awake, its funny I am on second life all night and it seems like I am the only one online.
Your ratties sound so sweet, I wish we could have them where I live, but they are illegal

Yeah, I have nights like that. I usually go out into the garden if the weather's OK and star-gaze or read, or check my bank statements or crafting...something quiet so I don't disturb normal people who can sleep at night (damn them! lol) But if it's actual company you want...if you live near a city maybe there's a night shelter for the homeless you could help out at or something like that? Maybe your local library or CAB could help you find out with organisations near you who need people in the evenings. You might meet some 'night friends' that way.

I have had those kind of nights before. Sometimes if I'm awake at 2am or 3am, I feel like everybody else in the city must be asleep by now and I'm the only one awake.

I go to Georgia Tech. I KNOW I'm not the only one awake.