WE DON'T HAVE A SLEEP DISORDER, SO STUFF YOUR AMBIEN!
I have a theory about people with the nocturnal 'gene'.
I'll present it after these tidbits...
From: http://www.systemsthinker.com/interests/mind/nightowls.shtml
-I have always been a night owl, preferring to stay up until all hours of the night and sleeping late when my schedule allows. It's not that I'm lazy. I'm liable to do far more work in the hours I am awake than many people do who are on a more "normal" sleep schedule. In fact, part of why I love the night so much is that it offers peace and quiet which allows me to concentrate and get more done...
Trashier than the 3 Wolf Moon T-Shirt
A couple years ago, a friend of mine mentioned that her mother was harassing her about her sleep schedule, which was similar to mine. She was quite upset because she felt there was no way to change this schedule, which felt completely natural to her... What I found out was that being a night owl is as natural to some people as being right or left-handed. It is not something we can change and in fact researchers are even discovering genetic explanations for this sleep pattern. I feel that this expectation that all people will share a similar sleep schedule is just another in a long line of examples where our culture tries to override individual differences and the natural drives and instincts, prefering to try to fit them to a mold that serves production better.-
Look out! This article links to a group that claims we are oppressed.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/studios/5423/
You are A Nocturnal
and have been designed that way by nature.
There's even a manifesto...
Find out why you would rather swallow broken glass than go to work at 7:00am by visiting "The Nocturnal Manifesto"! You ARE being oppressed!
Children of the night...
The human animal learned early on that it had a weakness. No matter how fast or clever it may be it was still, at times, as vulnerable as a new born baby due to the fact that Man must sleep.
Given the critical importance of having someone watch over the fire and guard the home against invaders during the night, it is logical to assume that evolution would provide for a small percentage of individuals whose natural inclination was to be awake after the others had gone to sleep. These few Nocturnal men and women would have made it possible for the rest of the clan to sleep soundly throughout the night and spend the day in the state of alertness that was absolutely required by the world in which these early humans lived.-
Well friends, it goes on and on and I haven't read too much about this so called gene but I have a sneaking suspicion that nocturnal people are just cut from a finer cloth.
Hear me out...
Even before knowing about my background (see http://sickitten.com/2010/01/16/the-king-was-a-queen.aspx) I had the suspicion that nocturnal people came from a well to do background. Just my experience in life.
Could this just be logic? I mean, back in the old days, I would think that anyone who had the means to keep a fire going or the means to have ample candles and lamp oil to burn at all hours was probably well to do or was practicing a skill or craft involving the merchant class. Surely not a proletariat or peasant class who relied on the sun for their lighting needs. Just a theory from someone with a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology.
Not to be a dick, but those people who never understood a natural nocturnal nature and would give me and others a hard time of it all descended from peasant stock. Think about it in your own life. Think back. I'd always get more done than they would ever do in their early bird hours. They thought they were the bee's knees by being up at the crack of ass but they only toiled in simple lives, in my opinion. You know the term 'the early bird gets the worm'? In modern society, I'm the early bird at 4 a.m. EST, especially by Asian time zones. There's also the conflicting term to the early bird, it is : The second mouse gets the cheese.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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I'm not sure I agree with you. I was having lots of trouble sleeping before I installed a ceiling fan. With the cool breeze over my bed I fall asleep quicker and sleep more sound than ever before. Give it a shot!
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