Staying Up All Day
April 19th 2009 02:11
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It was when I woke up to light from the sunset penetrating through the window, putting me in a kind of light-deprived haze, that I knew my adventure was beginning.
I had performed this feat before, not once or twice, and knew what to expect: The depression that comes with spending most of your hours in darkness, the eyeball's inability to process natural light smoothly after being exposed to darkness and the feeling of being tired even though you've had enough sleep that resulted... not to mention having to explain yourself to family, friends and acquaintances, to whom the idea of altering your sleep cycle dramatically over a small period of time seems foreign from their experience.
How do I explain that it makes you think about time, the division between day and night, the 24-hour cycle and the week in an entirely different way? Why it's an enjoyable kind of torture to find yourself suddenly chatting to Europeans or Americans at a time that is convenient for you, bleary-eyed as you may be. (After all, who says that you can't live your life like those that inhabit other timezones do, just because you happen to in Australia?) Why it's fun to change your daily routine once in a while in a way that most people don't get to experience...
This will be my last day of waking up in the dark, and I cannot wait for my face to be greeted by health-disseminating daylight tomorrow.
I had performed this feat before, not once or twice, and knew what to expect: The depression that comes with spending most of your hours in darkness, the eyeball's inability to process natural light smoothly after being exposed to darkness and the feeling of being tired even though you've had enough sleep that resulted... not to mention having to explain yourself to family, friends and acquaintances, to whom the idea of altering your sleep cycle dramatically over a small period of time seems foreign from their experience.
How do I explain that it makes you think about time, the division between day and night, the 24-hour cycle and the week in an entirely different way? Why it's an enjoyable kind of torture to find yourself suddenly chatting to Europeans or Americans at a time that is convenient for you, bleary-eyed as you may be. (After all, who says that you can't live your life like those that inhabit other timezones do, just because you happen to in Australia?) Why it's fun to change your daily routine once in a while in a way that most people don't get to experience...
This will be my last day of waking up in the dark, and I cannot wait for my face to be greeted by health-disseminating daylight tomorrow.
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Comment by Janet Collins
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That is interesting PM because most people don't weigh up things but you certainly do.
Comment by Postmodern Critic
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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i think family members associate odd sleeping patterns with suicide so they can get a bit concerned
i like sleeping in shifts so im not in the way of the people i live with . . . its the next best thing to living alone
Comment by Postmodern Critic
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My parents don't think my sleeping patterns signify depression or suicidal thoughts, they just have a hard time understanding why I do what I do.
I think at the end of the proverbial day, you have to find the day/night pattern that works for you, and not for somebody else.
Comment by Morgan Bell
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i like your attitude towards the issue!