After Decades I Did It!
By Kandase
@Kandae11 (55163)
December 20, 2024 9:21am CST
I stayed in bed until 8 a.m !. Usually my awake and out of bed time is between 5 and 6 a.m every day of the week - which means weekends and holidays.
This has been my sleep pattern for over 2 decades - l don't like staying in bed and l don't like daytime sleeping either.
However, yesterday l decided to try remaining in bed just to see how l would feel - BORING - l won't be trying it again in a hurry - unless l am very sick.
What is your sleep pattern ? Do you ever change it up ?
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13 responses
@Beestring (14692)
• Hong Kong
23h
I am a night owl. I go to bed at midnight or even later. Wake up at 9:00 am. I usually take a 15-30 min afternoon nap everyday.
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@DaddyEvil (137636)
• United States
23h
I am in and out of my bed off and on day and night. I take morning meds between 5 and 6 am and eat something (The meds can make me sick if I don't eat after taking them) and then go to sleep for between 2 and 4 hours before waking up to use the bathroom... Then I'm awake again until sometime in the afternoon. I may or may not be in bed reading, watching movies/YouTube videos or in the kitchen cutting up veggies or cooking until around 6 pm when I take my evening meds and eating a small meal with them. (Pretty wakes up around 5 pm and clocks in to "work" around the house either playing online or helping me if I can't see that day.) Then I fall asleep for 2 to 4 hours and wake up to go to the bathroom. Between 10 pm and midnight, I usually cook our evening meal, wash dishes and clean the kitchen counters. Then I go online again or read until I doze off for a while...
It's not really a schedule but I don't have to be awake at any certain time or do anything I don't feel like doing.
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@DaddyEvil (137636)
• United States
22h
@Kandae11 I loved working nightshift before Pretty was born but after her mom and I started getting divorced, the judge made me switch to day shift so I was home when she was home. Then I never switched back, even after she started school.
Pretty has never worked a real job. She's paid by Medicaid to help me when I can't see. She clocks in for 3 hours a day and, when I can't see, she'll microwave something for me to eat from the meals I've cooked and put in the freezer or she'll make sandwiches for me. (She can and does cook but she usually just cooks for herself. I don't like most of the things she makes.)
Thanks but doctors have already said my eyes will never get better but will gradually get worse as I get older. (I have Graves' Disease and my eyes swell shut for few days to a week at a time. And that is with me taking meds for it every morning.)
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@Kandae11 (55163)
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22h
@DaddyEvil Where there is life there is hope , don't call it quits just yet. Who knows, scientists could come up with a cure soon. I must read up on Graves disease. They should come up with a way to reopen them once they swell shut - that must be scary not knowing when they will reopen. You have a wonderful caring daughter.
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@snowy22315 (182158)
• United States
20 Dec
It is not hard for me to get up early,but generally I prefer staying in bed where it is warm and comfortable until about 8:00 or 8:30. If I can get some extra sleep while I am lying there it is better.
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@aureategloom (11399)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
23h
this is how i read that BORING: https://www.tiktok.com/@caryscookes/video/7404449698431421728 
if waking up at 5-6 works for you, i don't think you should change it. i get more things done when i wake up early. i'm waking up around6:20 during work days and on weekends i also wake up early, but sometimes go back to bed.
if waking up at 5-6 works for you, i don't think you should change it. i get more things done when i wake up early. i'm waking up around6:20 during work days and on weekends i also wake up early, but sometimes go back to bed.https://www.tiktok.com/@caryscookes/video/7404449698431421728
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@kareng (61618)
• United States
13h
I wake up every 30 min to an hour from 4:30 am to around 7:30-8:30 am every morning to go to the bathroom. I sometimes will get up at 7:30--in the summer, but not in the winter when it is cold and my joints are hurting. I will stay in bed sometimes n the winter until 9:30 - 10:00 am. I am usually up until midnight until 1:30 or 2:00 am every night.
@popciclecold (39499)
• United States
19h
I get up about 3am, and I go back to bed about 9. By then I am tired.
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@allknowing (137708)
• India
10h
I have fixeid hours too Even if I sleep late and that too occasionaly I get up at the same time.
@RebeccasFarm (90447)
• Arvada, Colorado
20 Dec
I do not stay in bed..I just cant do it..I am up with the birds..well before the birds. But congrats to you for suffering.
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@Marilynda1225 (83112)
• United States
20 Dec
I'm rarely up before 8-8:30am every morning. My days of getting up early ended when I retired
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