Member since: 7/28/2007
It's 3:00am and I'm back again... You know, I started wondering what other people who are up at 3:00am would be doing right now.
Crazy as it sounds, a lot of people are up and working at this time of night. I found a post from a cartoonist who was uploading his latest creation onto his website. Another person was writing and testing Perl (ouch). And yet another was a single mom working full-time, going to school online at night, to make a better life for her family.
There are people who wish they could sleep, but can't. These people try to find things to do that will make them tired enough to go back to bed. Household chores, paying the bills, baking bread. Some were writing in their journals (obviously). Those who really wanted to get back to sleep quickly later reported sitting quietly in their favorite chair or listening to relaxing music.
Speaking of music, I found one lady who is "so moved by song lyrics" that she could not sleep because of the emotions racing through her body. Another man is regularly woken up from sleep by severe panic attacks, so he has to get up and walk the dog to calm down. He reports that he's becoming "scared to sleep." Me? I'm writing this post, brushing my dogs, eating cereal, watching TV, and working on a closed captioning project. Looks like I'll be up for a while...
"You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tried to run Tried to hide Break on through to the other side"
- Jim Morrison, The Doors
Lily, I'm really liking these middle-of-the-night posts from you! I know you'd probably rather be sleeping, but your last two posts have been awesome. There's something calming and surreal about the night, about the dark stillness. Usually when I can't sleep I just lay still and think, or if my sleeplessness persists I'll get up and read a little.
Hope you sleep better tonight.
When I can't sleep, I get up and do a few things online at 3 a.m. too!
hey lily, i'm up late alot too. i love the midnight hour, always have.
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