I can take all of your troubles away with a nod and a wave

[cupcake_goth]

Previously, whenever it was time for the biweekly 7am meeting, I would go back to bed when it was over. Because sleep, right? More sleep! And then it would take me an hour+ to get back to sleep, and when I staggered upright again (around 10:30ish), I would feel jet-lagged and woozy for the rest of the day.

So today I thought I'd try an experiment, and not go back to bed after the meeting! Just stay up, and see what life as a morning person / daywalker was like!

... wow, that was not great. In fact, it pretty much felt the same as the times I got up early, then went back to bed after the accursed meeting.

I do not like being a daywalker. I just want to sleep. Sleeeeeeep.





"Sleep" is a different bandom song than the one the title is taken from, and by an entirely different band. This has been your Tangential Bandom Reference.

Comments

[staxxy]

The lesson here is very clear:
ultimately, there is no winning with daywalking.

[melchar]

This - so much this! Daywalking does not work for me, either.

I've tended to insomnia for decades. Having recently had the chance to let myself sleep when my body tells me to [not withstanding when sick and suddenly sleeping 12-14 hours a day] - I find I can drop off easily shortly before dawn and wake mid-afternoon.

[sistawendy]

You are not David Bowie: you have tried mornings and found them wanting.

[solstice_lilac]

I almost always feel jet-lagged if I try to get up early for an hour or so and then go back to bed. Something about that messes me up, as though I've split one morning into two and then can't adjust to the fact that it's still the same day. And I am more or less a "morning person" now--I regularly get up before 8, and usually with the sunrise, although I still think 7 a.m. is much too early to be expected to contribute productively to a meeting or almost any kind of work! So I can imagine it's even harder on you when you are certainly not a morning person. I hope you get a chance to recover the sleep you've lost!