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Remember I was asking if it were possible? It is folks....it is. I'm Nocturnal. I stay up almost the entire night each day (what did I just say? ) and then sleep in till the afternoon-evening. Now....since I have no current job this isn't such a big deal, but its starting to unnerve me.

Why is it that I can't sleep? What is stopping me? I just don't feel tired. I have too much going on in my mind to lie down and sleep. I contemplate shite a little too much I guess. Could it be because I currently have very little to do each day? Could it be because I feel my current direction in life is 'nowhere'?

I don't know.....its just getting a little wierd that staying up the whole night has become 'normal' for me. I doubt its good for you either...

[Dangerzone]

i get like that every now and then........but every night i stay up a half hour later than the previous night and wake up an hour later the following day, so every few weeks i am back to sleeping at night again........then in a few weeks later i am back to sleeping in the daytime again, it is a vicious cycle

[SCRUGAtes13]

i understand you, it's the life of an emcee: Nightlife. maybe these lyrics can aid you on your nightime ventures:

Chorus:
[Evidence]
Night life..
Ready to spit
Tags what? Evidence
Taking Cross the planet
Step it up this year weather man
The times right, sleep all day to wake up for night life
Ready to spit
When it drops, we gonna hit
We step it up, no doubt the times right
Sleep all day to wake up for night life

i'ma Start every verse with something to quote:
"The devil you know, is better than the devil you don't"
Last year.. a test, true colors where shown
Kings remained in chess on the board and life in thrones
Music catch the force of my mic
Thats why at night I be out postin' up my own snipes
For years I sat back, played the role, what for?
This here disc, hear us raw
Can't fake it anymore
Check it out: You now witness the scenes
2nd release, Expansion Team
Shit thumps, shine bright headlights seen on
They like laser beams drive fast things and tee green

(chorus)

You know these nights ain't gettin' any longer
Put your best out and bail
You never know, you might get stronger
I stood back a bit, take punchlines out raps been more legitimate

Solidify our place in the game, pleasure with pain
Tropical flow: see sun but feel rain
Its easy to seclete yourself up in the mix
That's why its good to get out at night and holler at chicks
I take it back before studio racks,
before I understood the concept of seperatin' tracks
Before...
Around the time my life when I swore
That the mic was a device not to be taken light

chorus

Night life...
Graffiti artists get armed
Cans get shook, the walls get bombed
This is the time when shadow rocks get thrown
At your tinted car windows sound off the alarm
This is the time you execute your plan
While other people sleep, jewels get ran
In get away vans exit off ramps
Smaller operations are shops bigger one camps
Rock knots in pocket pants
Got the advance, and back for my back end in hands
And things ain't always what they seem from a glance
But up close shit'll change your whole prespective
Shadows close in, you realize you ain't protected

(chorus)

[Fairygdmther]

Get a night job - I have one because I'm nocturnal as well.

Lynsie

[Huz]

Some people are naturally 'larks', some are naturally 'owls'. Guess which you are!

I suspect, if you're anything like me, that the reason you're able to stay up all night is that you have no real reason to be awake during the day. Sounds obvious, I know, but without the discipline of waking up at a set time each day, it's surprisingly easy for your sleep pattern to slip. I'd get yourself back to normal - Dangerzone's method is a good one, or you can just spend an entire day in bed if you want a quick fix - and then set yourself rigid times by which you have to be in bed in the evening, and out of bed in the 'morning'. My time is 1pm so it's not exactly onerous.

Works for me, kind of.

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Fairygdmther

Get a night job - I have one because I'm nocturnal as well.

Lynsie

"If life hands you lemons, make lemon juice."



-

P.s.: Though I sometimes prefer saying "If life hands you lemons, throw them back at it."/"[...], squirt them back at it."

[RLacey]

I was about to suggest "If life hands you lemons, demand a refund."

[Dangerzone]

"if life give you lemons, make lemonade..........and find someone whos life is giving them vodka, and have a party" - Ron White

[Fairygdmther]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

"If life hands you lemons, make lemon juice."

-

P.s.: Though I sometimes prefer saying "If life hands you lemons, throw them back at it."/"[...], squirt them back at it."

It's supposed to be - "if life hands you lemons, make lemonade" lemons make lemon juice - lemonade is sweetened water and lemon juice.

Lynsie

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Fairygdmther

It's supposed to be - "if life hands you lemons, make lemonade" lemons make lemon juice - lemonade is sweetened water and lemon juice.

Lynsie

Oops, I knew it looked kind of wrong. I think it's because I was pondering to write "[...], make a Lemon Eclair." for too long, before deciding otherwise.

*And* I just remembered the geeky version I had come up with some time ago before falling asleep at night: "If life hands you lemons, make batteries."/"If life hands you lemons, use them as batteries" (I need your opinion. Which one sounds better of the two?)


-

[Wormsie]

I always thought it was "if life pees on you, make lemonade"...

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by Wormsie

I always thought it was "if life pees on you, make lemonade"...

Using pee? That's gross!


Anyway, isn't it just a matter of habit? I doubt it that people can be inherently/genetically decided nocturnal, it's just unnatural. Just set your alarm 15 or 30 minutes earlier every day, slowly move back to a regular sleep pattern. Don't do it too harshly, or you'll only make your own life miserable.

[Fairygdmther]

Originally Posted by Phantom

Anyway, isn't it just a matter of habit? I doubt it that people can be inherently/genetically decided nocturnal, it's just unnatural. Just set your alarm 15 or 30 minutes earlier every day, slowly move back to a regular sleep pattern. Don't do it too harshly, or you'll only make your own life miserable.

Maybe it isn't inherently/genetically decided, but it's a good thing that some of us can do it, or there'd be a hell of a lot of patients not being cared for every night; mail would be delivered a day later than it is; bread would be baked later in the day, giving us day-old bread most of the time; cops, firemen, and ambulance services wouldn't be available; road services on highways would be closed; electrical outages would have to wait until morning; and many, many other things wouldn't be available to us - it's estimated that 15% of the US workforce works the "graveyard" shift.

And there are some who simply cannot adjust to sleeping days, and being awake all night.

Lynsie

[jjacob]

Originally Posted by SCRUGAtes13

i understand you, it's the life of an emcee: Nightlife. maybe these lyrics can aid you on your nightime ventures:

Chorus:
[Evidence]
Night life..
Ready to spit
Tags what? Evidence
Taking Cross the planet
Step it up this year weather man
The times right, sleep all day to wake up for night life
Ready to spit
When it drops, we gonna hit
We step it up, no doubt the times right
Sleep all day to wake up for night life

i'ma Start every verse with something to quote:
"The devil you know, is better than the devil you don't"
Last year.. a test, true colors where shown
Kings remained in chess on the board and life in thrones
Music catch the force of my mic
Thats why at night I be out postin' up my own snipes
For years I sat back, played the role, what for?
This here disc, hear us raw
Can't fake it anymore
Check it out: You now witness the scenes
2nd release, Expansion Team
Shit thumps, shine bright headlights seen on
They like laser beams drive fast things and tee green

(chorus)

You know these nights ain't gettin' any longer
Put your best out and bail
You never know, you might get stronger
I stood back a bit, take punchlines out raps been more legitimate

Solidify our place in the game, pleasure with pain
Tropical flow: see sun but feel rain
Its easy to seclete yourself up in the mix
That's why its good to get out at night and holler at chicks
I take it back before studio racks,
before I understood the concept of seperatin' tracks
Before...
Around the time my life when I swore
That the mic was a device not to be taken light

chorus

Night life...
Graffiti artists get armed
Cans get shook, the walls get bombed
This is the time when shadow rocks get thrown
At your tinted car windows sound off the alarm
This is the time you execute your plan
While other people sleep, jewels get ran
In get away vans exit off ramps
Smaller operations are shops bigger one camps
Rock knots in pocket pants
Got the advance, and back for my back end in hands
And things ain't always what they seem from a glance
But up close shit'll change your whole prespective
Shadows close in, you realize you ain't protected

(chorus)

DILATED PEOPLES! F*** YEAH! Just when I thought non-mainstream hiphop was dead

The Platform is still one of the best albums ever You sir, have EXCELLENT taste in music

Oh and I have thesame qualms every now and then, no biggie, you just have to stay up a day until you're tired enough to go to sleep at a normal time; but you really have to want this, else it won't work..

edit:

Rakaa;
Aiyyo you could probably find rakaa at the rockery
Puffin’ a k sippin cafe au lait
In amsterdam chillin in the cafe all day
Bang my shit between classes in your school hallways
You’re ****in’ with expansion all-access
Hard journeys make you treat your mic like a cactus
Rap iconoclast that loves to sound flash
And sticky green grass with orange and brown hash
Take your tape up and take this on
I heard anything that does not kill will make strong
And I build one of the sickest holding this still
You need a dose of eccinacea with a little golden seal
If you boots turn up my two boots
Babu slice and dice your crew and produce hits
Misunderstandings go back to the blues but ah-
There ain’t nothing like hip hop music

[Jeysie]

Originally Posted by Phantom

Anyway, isn't it just a matter of habit? I doubt it that people can be inherently/genetically decided nocturnal, it's just unnatural.

From my personal experience, I don't think it's far-fetched for someone to naturally be a night-owl.

For instance, as near as I can tell, my natural sleep schedule is falling asleep/getting tired at 3-4AM and waking up at 11AM-noon.

Doesn't matter that I've spent 26 years of my life with long periods of school and work where I need to wake up at 6-8AM 5 days a week and go to bed at 10PM-midnight, my body just utterly refuses to be trained to a "normal" sleep schedule. The moment I have a period of time where I'm able to sleep and wake whenever I want, unless I actively force myself to keep the same schedule my body reverts to that same 4AM-noon cycle.

Which of course is annoying as heck, since it means I can never have a day job without being chronically tired, but, ya know. ;P

Peace & Luv, Liz

[jjacob]

Somewhat related, but slightly off-topic; if you're interested, check out BBC's Time with Michio Kaku, in which there's an experiment where a geologist in the sixties went cave-exploring. After a couple of days he decides to do a little experiment; he would reside in the cave for 6 months straight without so much as one clock, and report all his activities to a team on the surface. It quickly turned out that humans have a natural biological clock of almost exactly 24 hours, REGARDLESS of any sunlight.

So yeah it's unnatural, and not very healthy (we need sunlight) but it's very improbable that it'll affect the functions your biological clock regulates (which is A LOT, almost our whole body is hardwired to perform according to this bioclock). If you really want you can reset it easily, but I find it interesting to be a little "nocturnal" every now and then

[SCRUGAtes13]

you've heard stories about the angels and brotherly love, this is for the sisters and jjacobs we love!!

[Junkface]

All the best people are nocturnal. It fits in better with strip club schedules.

[Jolaes]

...and the idea to burn to ash out there in the sunlight doesn't sound right.
_____
Lestat

[Stoofa]

My body's clock is such that it wants to sleep at 4 am and wake up at noon. It's a pain in the ass and I'm always fighting it (and insomnia).

Part of it might be because I'm neurotic. I feel a lot safer sleeping in the day rather than at night. However, my thinking is always clearest after 8pm.

It sucks because if you sleep all day you miss out on a lot of things, and then are very isolated and separated from society at night.