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Whether documented as a fact or not, I believe that any of us who have mostly worked during the night or very early AM can't easily shed the habit. Like you, I don't stay in bed waiting to go back to sleep. I get up and, in truth, it is my favorite part of the day.

posted by adnohr on April 15, 2023 at 4:24 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Annicita

Interesting.

posted by TAPS. on April 14, 2023 at 10:45 AM | link to this | reply

I use a face mask. I also have some hypnosis recordings that I can listen to if I can't sleep.

posted by Annicita on April 14, 2023 at 9:58 AM | link to this | reply

I am not too bad at sleeping.  Sorry just woke up whilst reading Blogit. 

I must not get in that bad habit of sleeping after lunch only old men do that.

Those who have passed that stage know the secret. Don't sit down.

posted by C_C_T on April 14, 2023 at 9:20 AM | link to this | reply

I never did any more night shifts than I had to. I couldn't sleep through the day and it ruined my patterns of sleep time. Did What I had to, no more.There were adventures though.

posted by Kabu on April 13, 2023 at 11:15 AM | link to this | reply

Re: FSI

You are probably right.  No one forced me to take the night shift, I chose it.

posted by TAPS. on April 13, 2023 at 9:08 AM | link to this | reply

It's in your blood to be up at night. We had an employee, Eric Redman, who was used to get up at 4 in the morning. For a long time, even after he retired from his utility inspector job, he would do that.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on April 13, 2023 at 8:49 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Some nights are like that - sleep evades us. Makes the next day a

I slept a little later this morning, but everything is bright and cheery--even me.

posted by TAPS. on April 13, 2023 at 8:44 AM | link to this | reply

Some nights are like that - sleep evades us. Makes the next day a

long foggy tunnel, too. I hope you can catch a nap.

posted by Pat_B on April 13, 2023 at 8:36 AM | link to this | reply

My sister came and stayed for two nights, Taps, over Easter.  It was a nice visit, apart from the fact that I could not get to sleep and spent two restless nights.  I am only three years older than she is, and in better overall health - but - I am the quiet type, generally, and she talks non-stop.  Could my brain have been over-stimulated? 

Needless to say, this was at my house; it just isn't practical to have anyone stay at my partner's place, so could I have been missing him? 

Don't think so (although I did miss him) .. this week, he and his son are away for two nights, I am at my home and I have slept very well, in spite of a nasty cough I have picked up somewhere.  

posted by mneme on April 13, 2023 at 7:06 AM | link to this | reply