Why Are You Up At 2 and 3 AM?

[saturneptune]

When I work the afternoon shift, it takes a few hours to wind down so I can go to sleep. If I try to go to bed as soon as I get home, I will not be able to go to sleep for hours.

TC,
I tried the afternoon shift briefly and never liked it. I preferred the midnights. So, I would get off say at midnight, and as you said, could not get to sleep until 3 am. If one does not make themselves get up at a reasonable hour, it is very easy to sleep until it is time to go to work again. I got much more done around the house on midnights.

 

[saturneptune]

Sometimes the Lord wakes me up at different times to call me to pray for certain folks/things.

Sometimes He wakes me up so that I'll hear what some preacher(s) have to say over the radio (I leave mine on at night tuned to Bott Radio Network -- www.bottradionetwork.com ).

And then sometimes I just wake up to answer the effectual call of my enlarged prostate to go to the porcelain throne!! :smilewinkgrin:

Put the Lord's phone number on block until 6am so you can get a full night's sleep. LOL.

Seriously, when I am up in the middle of the night is when I think more about spiritual things than any other part of the day.

As for your last statement, I can relate.

 

[salzer mtn]

I know as a Christian I should not be jealous, but that post makes me jealous. LOL. No, I worked a midnight shift for 36+ years as a mechanic and electronics technician. (networking in later years). I would come home about 8 when I did not get stuck on OT, do some chores and go to bed about 11 or 12. By 3 pm, I was wide awake. I did some more things around the house and cooked supper for us because my wife got off late. At 8 pm, I would go back to bed and get up about 10:30 to get to work on time. I never learned to sleep all at once during the day.

I am not as active as you (maybe that is part of the problem), but I do work part time at an adult day care, and do my church work. I stay fairly active with chores like push mowing our one acre yard. Also, about four months after I retired four years ago, I had a six way heart bypass, which is going fine. The thing is, by 8 or 9, I go to bed. My wife stays up till 11. At 2 am, I am wide awake, so I do various things like post here. Then about 4:30, I will go back to be for a couple of hours. I salute you for making the smooth transition. It does not bother me that much, but it is not the norm.

Thanks for your response.

The older a person becomes the less they should eat, also try eating your last meal of the day around two o'clock. Going to bed on a full stomach will cause you to build up heat and keep you awake. For breakfast I mix one measuring cup of instant breakfast powder in a glass of milk plus one measuring cup of Ensure powder, stir it up and this gives me vitamins and minerals, protein ect. without having to take a bunch of vitamin pills. It is also quick energy. About eleven I eat a chef salad and a bowl of corn flakes & milk with berries, grapes and raisons mixed in. For dinner which country folk call supper I eat a hot meal. I also eat fish or chicken without the skin, I very seldom eat red meat. I do not think all of this will prolong my life, that is in Gods hands but we can choose to live healthy lives or sickly lives.