Turning into…...An Insomniac
We’ve established the fact that winter days are short in Norway, with around 6 hours of day light you would think that I would turn into a marmot when in fact it’s quite the opposite; I think I’m turning into a vampire.
Let me state first that I’ve never been a morning person. I’m not, It’s not me, that’s it. I’ve had to wake up early to go to school, then work, then later on to care for my children, I did it and I would do it again. But if I follow my natural rhythm I’m a night person, always been and probably always will be. On a side note Jeffrey on the contrary is a morning person, I don’t even want to count the number of time I’ve watched the end (middle and quite frequently even the beginning –save the first 10 minutes) of a movie with a sleeping Jeffrey by my side (with both of our sleeping patterns we could almost cover an entire day with at any given time one of us being awake -one has to wonder how we ended up with two kids!). But I digress once again.
Lately I have fallen into a very bad sleeping routine, I stay up way later than usual and when I finally make myself go to bed I toss and turn and end up back up. So of course I have an even harder time getting up in the morning. You would think that with complete darkness by 6pm, I would want to head to bed my 8pm or even 10pm, but no. I think the problem comes from the morning. You see my body tends to wake up when the sun rises (well more accurately a little after BUT never before the sun rises) so during the dark season the sun rising later, my body naturally wakes up after the sunrise which is currently pretty late (you really should have click on that link at the top of the post to check the sunrise and sunset time!). Even Jeffrey has a harder time getting up in the morning. It will be back to normal this summer when the sun rises way too early for my liking (In fact he used to play a round of golf before going to work at 7.30am when we lived in Aberdeen!). I now need to find a way to go back to MY natural rhythm because I don’t think I can wait until the sun decide to go to bed at more reasonable hours.
Let me state first that I’ve never been a morning person. I’m not, It’s not me, that’s it. I’ve had to wake up early to go to school, then work, then later on to care for my children, I did it and I would do it again. But if I follow my natural rhythm I’m a night person, always been and probably always will be. On a side note Jeffrey on the contrary is a morning person, I don’t even want to count the number of time I’ve watched the end (middle and quite frequently even the beginning –save the first 10 minutes) of a movie with a sleeping Jeffrey by my side (with both of our sleeping patterns we could almost cover an entire day with at any given time one of us being awake -one has to wonder how we ended up with two kids!). But I digress once again.
Lately I have fallen into a very bad sleeping routine, I stay up way later than usual and when I finally make myself go to bed I toss and turn and end up back up. So of course I have an even harder time getting up in the morning. You would think that with complete darkness by 6pm, I would want to head to bed my 8pm or even 10pm, but no. I think the problem comes from the morning. You see my body tends to wake up when the sun rises (well more accurately a little after BUT never before the sun rises) so during the dark season the sun rising later, my body naturally wakes up after the sunrise which is currently pretty late (you really should have click on that link at the top of the post to check the sunrise and sunset time!). Even Jeffrey has a harder time getting up in the morning. It will be back to normal this summer when the sun rises way too early for my liking (In fact he used to play a round of golf before going to work at 7.30am when we lived in Aberdeen!). I now need to find a way to go back to MY natural rhythm because I don’t think I can wait until the sun decide to go to bed at more reasonable hours.
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| Gone in 60 |
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