Rediscovering Waking Hours
I usually love a lie in. I also love staying up late and seeing the night roll on.
So, what’s different?
Recently, for no reason whatsoever I’ve started going to bed at a reasonable hour. 10pm, 11 - but never after midnight. I’m surprised what it’s done to me already.
I woke up at 8.30am this morning, naturally. I lifted myself out of bed with a smile and fixed myself with an Americano and breakfast (something that always seems to be too much effort for me in the morning). I went to class, and paid attention - even though the actual lecture is something I may already know or something I don’t care about.
I’m eating properly. 3 square meals. Something else completely unheard of.
No more insomnia. I can sleep all I want and know that when it’s dark - I rest. Nothing else too it, it’s like my brain’s being reprogrammed to it’s ordinary state.
The one thing I do find strange though, is that I used to have this fixation with being up till all hours. I love the night, but with sundown being just after 4.30 pm here, what’s the point to staying up late? It was something liberating - something that while in primary and high school we never saw much of, as we were forced into bed at what seemed to be not-so-reasonable hours - but something that as I grow more aware becomes less of an issue. It’s actually more liberating to get up early and feel refreshed, not squirming each time the alarm goes up in the morning.
I just hope this isn’t a temporary high, as the night become less each day and sunlight becomes the norm, will I feel this good in June as I do now?
Corinne | February 7th, 2008 at 12:50 am
It’s always nice to hear when someone is feeling good. Here I find that with my schedule so hectic, and my being involved in everything; I get home after dark anyway. Here it’s 6:45pm and it’s been dark for hours now and I just walked in the door. I find the sleep I lose during the weekdays catches up to me on the weekends. On Saturdays I’m like a bear in slumber. I hope to someday find a time where exhaustion doesn’t simply knock me out! I also hope June brings you a good night sleep.