Need a group for night owls LOL like myself. I'm always awake.

[YOHABLO]

[Skittles]

1. HERE!

[klook]

2. Go the F**k to Sleep!

I say this as a friend.

[SergeStorms]

3. I'm a night owl as well.

I love being awake and alert when the rest of the country is sleeping. I've been this way since I was a teenager. I'm almost 70 now, and I've tried all types of "remedies" to make me "normal" but nothing has ever worked. I like being this way!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Same here, Serge. Love the peace and quiet of night.

I'm 71 and while learning about my personality and nature as a very long extension of my recovery from alcoholism beginning back in the 90s, I've discovered I'm what's known as a highly sensitive person (HSP), along with being a life-long introvert and stoic.

Whew!

The combination of those bits of genetics (along with being raised in the country) add up to a poor soul that shuns big crowds and looses all concentration where multiple noises or voices are heard. I will notice a train coming many miles before anyone else, and it's a difference in brain function rather than ultra-sensitive hearing like I assumed for years.

Anyone fitting part or most of that profile makes us around 5-to-10% of the population, perhaps more depending on the metrics are done. I've enjoyed discovering the reasons I'm different.

[SergeStorms]

11. Like Jerry Jeff Walker...

we're both a little "Contrary to Ordinary". Now there's a guy who re-invented himself. Born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942, Oneonta, New York, he constructed an entirely new persona and rode it all the way to Austin, Texas.

I love being "different". Sometimes it seems that everyone is on the stage and I'm the only person sitting in the audience.

Here's to being "different".

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. In reflection of my youth, a pattern emerges that I see in most people...

of being in denial of our true nature and personality. Most of us try to mold ourselves to be just like that "ideal" boy or girl we read about or see on TV. For example, introverts like me may try to force ourselves to be extroverted in order to keep a job, but that can be very destructive emotionally and cause serious long-term health problems. I'm now convinced that's the primary issue that pushed me into alcohol abuse (contrary to my upbringing) in my 20s and 30s.

As you said, a better way would be to somehow become aware of our personality and nature at an early age, then embrace it and be proud of it rather than fight against it.

Between Hank Williams' pain songs
And Jerry Jeff's train songs and Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain
Out in Luckenbach, Texas there ain't nobody feelin' no pain

....... ......

[irisblue]

4. Yep. But that is GD & Lounge spaces my friend.

[chillfactor]

5. same here.....

ever since I retired I became a night owl......love reading until the early hours of the morning when everything I so quiet around me.

[watoos]

6. Lol, I have a hiatal hernia,

and it wakes me at all hours. I know that I shouldn't eat before going to bed but sometimes it doesn't matter whether I eat or not.

Going to sip some organic carrot juice and try for some more sleep. I have to catch my outside stray cat and get him to the vet. Last week he had a fight with a big raccoon, he got his tail bitten up pretty good. I got him to the vet to patch up his tail, the vet called me later and asked me if I knew what all of the blood was doing on his chest since he couldn't find a wound there. I told the vet that it was probably raccoon blood. My cat is friendly but one tough character. Over 4 years he has wiped out, and eaten, well over 100 chipmunks, 7 red squirrels and 1 gray squirrel. Mice, moles, mourning doves are no challenge to him. Wish me luck getting him in his carrier at 7:30 AM this morning. They learn fast what a cat carrier means.

Oh and I feed him quite well, he just likes chipmunks and I can't find chipmunk flavored cat food.

[Raine]

7. Insomnia is a way of life for me

I'm on the west coast and usually up till 4 or so in the morning. I'm not always on the internet, sometimes I read and or watch TV.

[arthritisR_US]

8. You are not alone mate, my brain won't

shut off and my aching heart follows.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. Storming here in KCMO. I am up with my scared dog.

Her meds just kicked in and she is asleep. Finally


Now I can't sleep

[Rizen]

12. I have insomnia too.

I woke up at 3 AM and couldn't go back to sleep.

[yankeepants]

13. Yes! I am an insomniac and read everything on DU

In the middle/wee hours but wish I had a group who understands this life. Just the comments on this thread make me feel more comfortable. What makes me tired is reading article after article telling me what the catastrophic results of my sleepless life will be. I'm 61and have never really slept through the night. I'm still here baby. Let's start a group. I'd love to know what the other people of the night are doing.