Is preferring NOT to go to sleep being addicted to being awake?

[RiverStone]

Ok, its a goofy question --- but most of my adult life, I prefer to be awake! And it's not that I have any trouble regularly falling asleep once I make it to bed.

I work a normal work week, yet usually do not go to bed till 1-1:30, and it's not unusual for me to be up till 3:00ish Then always wake at 6:30. Sometimes I wonder if being chronically sleep deprived puts me in an altered state that I enjoy? Though in reality, I just don't think I need more than 4-5 hours of sleep a night.

Anybody else share my inclination to be awake while most of the folks (in my time zone anyway) are snoozing?

Happy Dreams :boring:

[texanwitch]

1. I am a night owl and haven't had a good night sleep for two months.

I am making it.

Sleep, who needs sleep.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. It may just how you are naturally

But, have yet to read a study that doesn't indicate loss of brain cells and problems that can develop over time from not getting enough sleep.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=brain+cell+loss+sleep&btnG=Search

[Zookeeper]

3. I'm a night-owl who is just a lot more excited about being....

alive and awake at night, than I am in the morning.

I hadn't thought of it as being addicted to being awake, but it makes sense. Except that I'm kind of a slug in the a.m.

On that note, G'night! :hi:

[murielm99]

4. Once, a doctor told me

that it was much like the opposite of depression.

I have never slept much. Sometimes that makes me tired during the morning, but I live with that.

He said it was the opposite of depression, because I like being awake so that I will not miss anything. There is a lot of truth to that.

BTW, I was not seeing that doctor for sleep problems.

[RiverStone]

8. I like that!

And what would we call the opposite of depression? :think: :)

How about...vitality - think energizer bunny!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Uh... mountain? -nt

[medeak]

5. well...you aren't menapausal....

like me! ;-) Am always up damn it.

[SKKY]

6. I live very much the same way, but believe me it isn't by choice...

...I just don't know how to fit all this stuff into a 24 hour period.

0530ish - Wake up Breakfast
0600 - Shower, dress, get wife breakfast and coffee
0700 - Arrive at work
1800 - 1900 - Leave work
1900 - 2000 - Family time.
2000 - 2100 - dinner, get kiddo to bead
2100 - 2200 - Wife time
2200 - 0130ish - Study, class work, catchup on Du.

Any scheduling gurus out there who think they can help me organize this nonsense better, I'm all ears.

[wildhorses]

7. i just call it insomnia ---but, yeah

i am afraid i will miss something...at 3am :wtf:

[Dora]

9. Try getting 8 hours a night for two weeks.

Then see how you feel.

[mark414]

11. i never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death

Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined,
I think of crime - when I'm in a New York state of mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk1XnVlc5J0

[zanne]

12. Maybe you just enjoy life....

And you don't want to miss any of it?