Getting up in the early hours.

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Does anyone else here love getting up at 5am or thereabouts to experience the early morning?

I got up at 05:20 this morning and it was therapeutic.

I'm usually up at 5 AM...

...getting ready for bed.

me too, up at 5am getting ready to sleep. Can't stand sleeping at night

Most nights..or maybe should say mornings..I'm still up at 5:00

Unfortunately I get migraines if I stay up all night. And anyhow 20mg olanzapine knocks me out. But waking up at 5am works well after I have slept.

If it weren't for olanzapine and migraines I'd stay up all night as often as possible and go to bed at 7am.

Are there side effects with olanzapine? I take ambien, sleep walk, trancing, bizarre behaviors

Right now I get up about 7:30 (and immediately go to work) but would really like to start getting up earlier. Do you have any advice for making that change? And how many hours a night do you usually get?

No.
But I love to stay awake till 4AM to experience the deep night hours.

Yes!A lifelong thing with me. It's the one time every day that life seems full of worthwhile-ness.

I did when I was a bit younger. I find daybreak the most still and peaceful time of day. It's the time when all the dust has settled from the previous day and everything looks clear and the air is fresher.

I also love to hear the birds singing first thing in the morning.

oh god I hate it Dx

I don't really have a regular sleeping pattern. So when I have days off work, I may be awake at any time of the day and night. I just sleep whenever I feel like it. I agree that being awake around the sunrise time is a good feeling (except when you are going to work soon).

Same here. xD

I second that. I find myself staying up all night, having the most amount of 'energy' at around 4-5:30am, then crashing super hard and feeling almost completely drained when the sun begins to rise. I had no idea that it could be related to AS, always figured that's just how I naturally am. Interesting...

I find I often like staying up really late because there's peace and quiet and I can actually think, but lately it's more so been because my sleep schedule has just been really screwed up, and the novelty is starting to wear off. I actually feel like sleeping more often than not, and I just feel really sh***y when I wake up.

If I sleep too little, I feel bad. If I sleep too much, I feel bad. I don't feel anything remotely close to "right" unless I get just the right amount of sleep.

'Late' and 'early' are subjective concepts. Arguably, our internal clock as diurnal mammals is set to wake at sunrise and sleep at sunset, at least if it allows for a 6 or 7 hour sleep. But what we basically perceive in the 24-hour day is the Earth revolving around its own axis. It's no 'later' or 'earlier' at midnight than it is at noon.

Having said all that, i usually wake at about 6 o clock in the morning. Even when 'm not working, i wake up early.