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Will I always be a night person?
So I'm up early this morning studying for a test I have at 1:30 (I went to a hockey game and snuggled with the man meat instead of studying last night OOPS). I got up at 7:45. This seriously sucks. I haven't woken up earlier than 11 AM in a very long time. My boyfriend was all perky ironing his shirt and drinking his coffee. I was like "Ok, time to study!" and 10 minutes later I was ready to go back to sleep. Some dayquil and coffee fixed that.
I've always been a night person. Why is this? Is it nature or nurture? Can you become a "morning person" over time by going to bed early and strictly waking up early? I'm worried about life after dancing. I usually go to bed at 3 or 4 AM and wake up at 11 or noon. It's easier for me to stay up late and wake up late with 6 hours of sleep than it is to go to bed early and wake up early with 8 hours.
Are you a morning or night person?
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^ the problem is, I want that traditional day life someday! I really do!
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you can be a day person once you have a reason to get up early on a daily basis.
once school starts i stop dancing every year. it takes me about a month to get back into the swing of going to bed by twelve up by eight.
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likewow
I'm also very happy being a career dancer
what do you plan to do when you are older, saggy,or tired of dancing?
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I'm naturally a night person, but now I'm living in the daytime world (first class at 9am!). In between terms I'm right back to staying up until 2am or later and sleeping in until 10-11am.
During school terms, I must take melatonin to reset my sleep schedule. I must go to bed at 9:30pm and I read something boring until I fall asleep. My alarm is set to 5:45am because I hit the snooze at least three times most days. Then it takes me another 45 minutes or so to feel fully awake enough to actually think about doing something more involved than reading a magazine or watching tv. I sip my coffee for that first hour or so in the morning and by 7:30am I'm usualy feeling ready to exercise or clean house or study.
I can't sleep in. Not during school. Even on the weekends I have to get up around 6:00. If I don't stay with my schedule, even one day will have me reverting to my night owl status.:-[
I could never do shift work. I get sick when I keep changing up my sleep cycle.
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likewow
I think you should just cultivate a deep sense of superiority to the daywalkers. }:D
Lol I love this.
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I used to never be able to go to bed before 5-6AM. For years and years. Since I had my son, even if I work the night before, I am up at 7:30AM. If needed I will take a nap when he does and I am fine. If I don't work that night I am in bed asleep by midnight. Even on the rare days he sleeps past 9AM I am up before that.
Personally I really hated feeling like a vampire after so many years. It was great for a long time but then it started taking its toll on my body and my mental health. Now I am ecstatic I can say I am up at 9AM and it's not because I haven't gone to bed all night. :)
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At least you wake up around the same time every day...
I wake up 8 hours after I go to sleep, like clockwork. So, on the weekends when my club closes @ 8 and I get in bed by 9:30 am... I wake up around 5:30 pm. :O
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i'm a night person. likewow...it's neat to see someone else with the same theory behind it as me. i'm convinced that some of us just evolved that way.
but i can be a day person. the only thing is that to do that i have to be in bed by 8. the second i stay up till 9, something seems to just click in me, and i can't sleep til dawn. 8 is a really crappy time to be in bed.
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kikidejavu
what do you plan to do when you are older, saggy,or tired of dancing?
i'm not a career dancer, but if i was going to be...the obvious smart answer to that would be to plan, save and invest all my money wisely. 10-15 years of dancing money would be more than enough to comfortably live on if you are smart with your money and make wise decisions....
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Nightwalker here. Ive NEVER been good with the day - i remember my parents trying to get me out of bed as a teenager and i HATED it. Dancing suited my natural energy pattern and even though i retired from dancing a year ago i'm still a night person. I go to work for a 9am start like a regular person but i am useless before mid-day really. The brain just doesn't function well until about 11am at best. I desperately need to start my own business and work hours that suit me...
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Ms. Mia Roberts
i'm not a career dancer, but if i was going to be...the obvious smart answer to that would be to plan, save and invest all my money wisely. 10-15 years of dancing money would be more than enough to comfortably live on if you are smart with your money and make wise decisions....
the rest of your life? i dont think you would want to depend on what you earned at 30 when you are 70. if you stop dancing at the latest 40, even with good investing and spending, you would be okay with not working the next 40 years? and hoping your money holds out? i hope thats not her plan.
not with the economy, and stocks like they are.
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^ If you're smart, and invest your money wisely, you can for the most part retire in your 40's if you started dancing when you were 18 /19 ;)
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kikidejavu
the rest of your life? i dont think you would want to depend on what you earned at 30 when you are 70. if you stop dancing at the latest 40, even with good investing and spending, you would be okay with not working the next 40 years? and hoping your money holds out? i hope thats not her plan.
not with the economy, and stocks like they are.
it depends on how much you were making. If your making on average less than 50 grand a year, then yea, you might not be well off. But if you were making more than that and danced for 15 years.... 750 grand.... alot of people don't make that after 20, 30 years. If she saved a quarter of that...and invested 15 percent. Put together with her husbands income. She will be set for the rest her life.
then again....you are right about the economy....and who knows....mccain might weasel his way into office.... and then we will really be fucked... sooooo, i take that back......SHE COULD HAVE MADE IT B4 BUSH!!
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modlgrl
^ If you're smart, and invest your money wisely, you can for the most part retire in your 40's if you started dancing when you were 18 /19 ;)
i would say maybe 35...if she is really good.. and takes some investing classes
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I'm a night person, and have been for as long as I can remember. It's really hard on me now since I have a day job that requires me to be up at 7 am. I get home from work at 5, fall asleep til about 12, and then am up until I need to go to work in the morning. Even if I am able to fall asleep at night, I can't STAY asleep for more than 4-5 hours. It's seriously killing me. >:(
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I kinda skimmed... Here's my answer - NO. And my Grama's - NO.
When I took a 3 year break off, I still wanted to sleep during the day than the night. And I'd still be hyper during the night.
My Grama worked 3rd shift at a hospital, and she's been retired for 5 or 6 years, she still prefers sleeping the day away (with occasional days she does get up and run errands). Lol, my Grama at 70 goes to bed at 1 am and still feels that's early.
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im a night person and ave always been one, even since childhood. i have never had any interest in changing that so i have no idea if its possible. and i have seen dancers as old as 55 that still looked pretty good and made decent money, so i do totally believe in career dancing, as long as the person's personality is suited for it, i guess.
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nightwalker here, always been this way
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likewow
I'm totally a night person and I embrace it. I remember being a teenager and getting 8 hours of sleep every night but still going through my days in a haze and feeling awful and thinking that this kind of life wasn't worth living. I had no idea being a night person was a valid option. As soon as I got to college I discovered that I felt 100% better if I just stayed up all night, went to morning classes, and then slept during the day. My husband is a night person who was lucky enough to be raised by night people who didn't care that he stayed up all night, went to school, and then fell asleep in the afternoon and slept until nighttime. Now we live happy, healthy night lives together.
I sound kind of melodramatic about the whole thing, but it really does irritate me how much night people are discriminated against. There's a reason some of us evolved this way. Someone had to watch the fire and look out for attackers! Daytime-only living made sense before electricity, but today there is not one good reason that everything from malls to banks to government offices shouldn't be open 24 hours. I refuse to conform to arbitrary, illogical societal standards. I'm also very happy being a career dancer, so it all works out for me...not so much for someone who aspires to a more traditional lifestyle.
I think some people are more adaptable than others and can adjust to either day or night living while others just can't. Unfortunately, if you've always been a night person you probably will never be totally happy as a day person.
likewow, you just made me feel 120% more normal.
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I *think* I'm a morning person. I do my best thinking in the morning and I preferred taking classes in the AM too. I thrive on routine and I'm more productive.
I shift schedules for a week to ten days a month and I HATE it. Prior to me going back to work I start forcing myself to stay up till 3am and sleep till 11am. Still I'm exhausted my first night back.
The worst is when I come home and stay up past 5am doing absolutely jack shit but watching the discovery channel until they start interviewing doctors about colon cancer then I know I've got to force myself to sleep somehow, lol.
Melatonin helps me reset but the shift in sleeping pattern still kills me. No matter what, one or more days I have to be sleep deprived to get back on track and nothing turns me into a bigger bitch than lack of sleep.
I can't wait to someday be back to being a day dweller.
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i detected some attitude in there, so i should clarify that i was not trying to be a smartass.
i honestly wanted to know your plan with the hope that you werent just an idiot who thought they were going to dance forever with no savings.
i hope you can make that work like. sounds like a good plan.
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MeanGirl
You will totally be able to do it someday. I grew with early rising parents and was always up by 5am until i was like 17. then depending on my job I would be either a night or day person. I went from 5 years of a night schedule to 3 years of a normal days schedule and then started dancing so im back on nights. It takes some getting used to foe a few weeks, but you do what you have to do. With dancing you sleep in b/c you can, with a normal job you make the adjustments rather quickly.
^ iThis isn't about Nature vs Nurture though. Scientific studies show that some people are naturally 'night people' and others 'day people'. There are measurable differences in hormones and brainwave activity between these types of people. Morning people find it easier to adjust their routines than night people.
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Im a 24 hr. owl !
In work night shift, but have kids and other daytime obligations.
I swear, I must sleep in 2 hr increments.
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MeanGirl
You will totally be able to do it someday. I grew with early rising parents and was always up by 5am until i was like 17. then depending on my job I would be either a night or day person. I went from 5 years of a night schedule to 3 years of a normal days schedule and then started dancing so im back on nights. It takes some getting used to foe a few weeks, but you do what you have to do. With dancing you sleep in b/c you can, with a normal job you make the adjustments rather quickly.
I don't know, I think some of us are just wired to be night people. I remember having trouble waking in the morning even as a small child. Then there were the daily fights with my parents over bedtime. This happened over my whole life.
I remember when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, my parents would put me and my brother to bed around 8 or 8:30. I figured out that if I sat in my room with the door open and used a hand held mirror, I could watch TV (in the living room) from my bedroom, undetected. I did that until we moved out of that house a couple of years later.
High school was extremely hard for me. I'd fall asleep in most of my morning classes, and the teachers were always yelling at me to "wake up". My school started at 7:45am and got out at 1:45pm. Man! That was very hard on me. I'd come home from school and fall right asleep until about 6 or 7pm most days. I did well in my afternoon classes (both of them, LOL) but I struggled in all of my morning classes. I almost didn't graduate due to poor performance.
So, yes, some of us are hard wired as vampires ;).
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since i quit dancing, i like to go to bed early and get up early...no problem. but i still can stay up allll night sometimes,wishing i could go to bed.
maybe it will just take some getting used towhen u quit dancing. reprogramming ur body and stuff. soon as i quit dancing, i COULD NOT make myself go to bed for nothing!!!! but now im getting used to this nice good morning sun routine..