Are you an early riser?

[potsy]

My alarm goes off at 3.15am I start work at 5 in the mornings.

Wow what do you do citybabe? As much as I like my morning shift I always enjoy the late shift for a 'lie in' too.

 

[beanzontoast]

Get up at 5 every weekday. You realise how brief summer's longer days are when you are up and about early.

 

[Hilldodger]

Wow what do you do citybabe? As much as I like my morning shift I always enjoy the late shift for a 'lie in' too.

Burgler.

 

[citybabe]

Wow what do you do citybabe? As much as I like my morning shift I always enjoy the late shift for a 'lie in' too.

I work for a wholesale butcher.
The delivery lorries need to be ready to go out by 7.30 so I'm in early to sort out any late orders.

 

[Cush]

For over thirty years I worked shifts mainly 17:00 - 02:00 and 22:00 - 06:00, which translated as 17:00 to 06:00 with the odd 06:00 to 14:00 and 13:00 to 21:00, which meant 06:00 to 23:55. Since finishing work four years ago I am nearly always wide awake by 05:00 and up by 05:30.

 

[Dayvo]

I wake at 05.30 and am up ten minutes later and left home by six.

In the summer months, when it's light here at 02.00, I occasionally get up and either have a longer, but casual ride to work, or play golf before starting work (at the golf course).

I finish work at the end of September and CAN'T WAIT for some long lie-ins before I find a new job somewhere in late October.

Wish I could hibernate, really, cos I'm an early bird in the warm summer months and love to be up, but HATE getting up when it's COLD and DARK!

 

[Leah]

I'm terrible in the mornings. I get up around 8am to be in work for 9am. I usually try to plan well so everything is ready for me in the morning.

 

[Bill Gates]

It's 5.00am and it's pitch black. The dogs have run ahead to the park through a line of trees and are temporarily out of sight. Suddenly there is a lot of barking and I hastlily follow their tracks torch in hand. There on a park bench is a polish guy drunk out of his head and empty cans of booze by his side, laughing his head off. I thought it was a raid he said. What are the dogs names he asks. So I tell him and get the dogs aay and continue my walk. Laughing away to himself he continues to call the dogs names.

I do a circuit of the park and sure enough he se's still there and the dogs start barking again. With that he staggers over to me and engages me in a conversation about home and the dog he has there. Shakes me by the hand before I manage to gather the dogs and take them back to the house.

This was last Friday morning. This morning the same thing. Out of the dark a drunken voice. It's alright it's only me.

 

[Crackle]

I am not an early riser. 7am is good for me and it feels very special on the rare times I do wake at 6 and get up early and go out with the dog. Even during the holidays I have to set my alarm to get me up at 8 so I don't sleep on until 9 or even 10 on rare occasions. I do sometimes stay up late but most times I'm in bed by 12 but I take a while to fall asleep, normally the days subjects revolve in my head before they dissolve into half thoughts and eventual sleep.

 

[tyred]

Wow! In 54 years of asking doctors and other folk I have never met or heard of anybody else with the same problem. Today, two others. Do we have a syndrome or an acronym for our little affliction?  I'd like to be able to point Mrs Gti to the website because she has never quite believed me!

I have no idea what it's called. My mum has the same problem.

 

[Paulus]

For many years I did rotating shift patterns, sometimes starting as early as 04.30 so then I would be up at 3.30, take the dog out for a quick walk and then off out the door. Now, I start at 07.00 on the earliest duty so I am awake by 05.30.

 

[Keith Oates]

I also get up around 0500 hours but I'm normally in bed by 2130 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cush]

When I first moved in with the wife and was on regular night shifts an old family friend of the wifes stopped me in the street and in the manner of a North Cumbrian country man, asked me bluntly when I was going to get a job and stop walking the streets, I left it to the wife to explain about shifts, something the poor fellow had no experiance of.

 

[fatboysoontobeslim]

i wake between 3 and 5am every morning ben a poor sleeper for many years. usually get out with the dog about 520am some mornins he looks real p-ss-d off with me and gives me a look as to say when the bleep bleep bleep are you gona give me a lie in!!!! sorry gnasher me old mate but id look abit odd walkin the promenade at that time without you!!!

When I first moved in with the wife and was on regular night shifts an old family friend of the wifes stopped me in the street and in the manner of a North Cumbrian country man, asked me bluntly when I was going to get a job and stop walking the streets, I left it to the wife to explain about shifts, something the poor fellow had no experiance of.

 

[zacklaws]

Wow! In 54 years of asking doctors and other folk I have never met or heard of anybody else with the same problem. Today, two others. Do we have a syndrome or an acronym for our little affliction? I'd like to be able to point Mrs Gti to the website because she has never quite believed me!

I have the same problem too, but I resolved it when I found out that it was the pillow pressing down on the top of my head. Now I'm always wary of when the pillow gets pushed up to the top of the bed against the wall or headboard getting slightly raised and compressed, that my head does not push into the pillow but only rests on it. At one point, I was resting my head on the palm of my hand on my cheek where their is a hollow which the base of my thumb fits perfect and naturally and my fingertips curled inwards which kept my head off the pillow which also worked. At the moment I'm trying memory foam pillows which after just a week seem good so far, but cannot fathom out why.