I’m up later than i planned to be, was playing quizzes online, and after climbing into bed amd getting out my tablet to waste more time in front of a screen i got a sudden wave of nostalgia, comfort and joy washing over me and thought "huh, i guess that’s why i alwaya used to push my bedtime to its limits!
But i haven’t gotten that feeling for the last few dozen times i stayed up too late. Just felt tired.
Wondering how it is for other people - what’s your relationship with late nights?
Late nights are necessary for teens, because adults control their entire daytime. Night is when they have privacy to engage in what they actually enjoy doing. As an adult, you can do that during the daytime, so you don’t need to exhaust yourself.
As an adult, you can do that during the daytime
Oh, my sweet, summer child… 🥲
nah, teens have so much more free-time then adults they do it in the daytime too.
Well that’s a helpful perspective. I guess i just feel like i don’t have enough time in the day to do everything i want - maybe qnother consequence of ADHD
Welp, it’s 5AM here… didn’t even sleep…
👀
Years of staying up late to finish projects when i was a student in design school wired my brain to be creative between 10pm and 1am
If feels great because i enjoy having my brain explore new ideas, but also i kind of wish i had a more “normal” schedule
A very complicated and toxic relationship.
The other night I stayed up until 4am. Why? Something meaningless drew me in and kept me going until I realized “holy shit, it’s morning!”.Sleeping had its own thing. Don’t force it or it rebels against you.
My sleep schedule is notoriously messy (e.g. 3AM here, and I’m translating stuff), so it neither drains me nor it gives me dopamine. But it helps me a wee bit because of the silence, I guess.
I get woken up a lot in select evenings, right after i’ve gone to sleep, by inconsiderate people. Started to use noise cancelling headphones even though i don’t like wearing them that much. But the brain feels so much clearer when you have the white noise on.
I get woken up a lot in select evenings, right after i’ve gone to sleep, by inconsiderate people.
Gotta love this sort of inconsiderate people… /s
I hear ya. Sometimes the same happens to me, the whole day except at late night. (“Inconsiderate people” in my case includes the neighbour who owns a dog, who LARPs as a rooster, waking the neighbourhood up. She’s just barking by the way, 6AM now, still translating stuff.)
I tried noise-cancelling phones once. I hated them. To the point I’d rather deal with the noise.
I feel my natural inclination is staying up late but the work world over decades has sorta force me away from it. I bet if I could control my schedule again I would want to go to sleep after midnight and wake up about 9ish.
That’s what i did today 😁 Studying at home for the next few weeks so i don’t need a schedule.
I actually like the extra 2 morning hours you get from waking up at 7 or earlier, but if i manage to get out of the house (on a weekday) during them then I can’t actually utilise those hours to the fullest; too many cars and pedestrians, everythings slower. The early morning bus is peak though, something magical about being surrounded by all the most productive people in society on their way to work
when I was bike commuting leaving early is nice in the summer before the sun heats things up to much. Ill admit to when I did excersise its nice to get it done in the morning but me and like gym type excersise routines never really lasted for long. Lastly I do like getting to work before everyone else and having some nice slow time to ease into the day. Usually this though was working around the schdule forced on me though. My being leans toward the dark.
