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Warpy

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2. Some of us are natural night owls

Reply to PADemD (Original post)

Sun Dec 7, 2014, 04:44 PM

Dec 2014

Others start to fade at 8 PM. I wish our jobs respected that difference. I always scrambled for evening and night jobs because day jobs have been pure torture.

I tried to be a day person for five years after I retired. It didn't work, spectacularly so.

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These Simple Steps Can Increase The Quality Of Your Sleep [View all] PADemD Dec 2014 OP

kick 840high Dec 2014 #1

Some of us are natural night owls Warpy Dec 2014 #2

I absolutely agree. 2theleft Dec 2014 #9

I like sleep shenmue Dec 2014 #3

Isn't sleep deprivation one of the "enhanced interrogation" techniques? 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #4

I think it is the linch pin of most courses of torture Doctor_J Dec 2014 #6

I get 9-10 hours a night. 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #7

Every bit of research about sleep indicates that SheilaT Dec 2014 #5

A teaspoon of organic raw honey before bed works surprizingly well. tridim Dec 2014 #8

It's possible that expecting to get most of our sleep all at once... Silent3 Dec 2014 #10

Thank you for that link. PADemD Dec 2014 #11

from the article re meditation and sleep: ellenrr Jan 2015 #12

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