Body clock shift

[PeterW]

I don't know if any other retired people here have found this, but I find as I get older that my body clock seems to have shifted to anti-daylight-saving.

For years my waking hours were from 6.30 am to around 10.30 pm. During the past few years they seem to have shifted and are now from about 9.30 am to midnight or 1 am.

I seem to be wide awake at 10.30 - 11 pm and either get on with something I want to do or find something interesting on the internet that keeps me occupied for another couple of hours.

Perhaps it's my subconscious mind telling me that nowadays I can please myself what I do and when I do it, that I don't have to get up early next morning if I don't want to and if I don't feel like getting up I can turn over and get another hour's sleep.

Whatever the reason it can often be annoying. Like the rest of the family I've always liked a cooked breakfast but by the time I put in an appearance breakfast is finished, cleared away and forgotten. If I want egg and bacon I can blooming well cook it myself, and wash up afterwards - or get up earlier. As someone said, there ain't no justice no more.

And it's made bargain hunting at car boot sales or flea markets useless. I used to get there about 7 am but by the time I get there now any bargains have long gone.

Maybe I'm just getting old or maybe I'm just an oddball but I certainly don't take after my mother or father. Even when in their late 80s they seldom got up up later than 7 am and were usually in bed by 10.30 pm.

Anyone got any views?

PeterW

PS: It's now 1.10 am and the evening meal was a long time ago. Everyone else in in bed and I'm feeling peckish. I think I'll go and get myself something to eat. PW.

[mickeyobe]

"Anyone got any views?"

Have I got views.

I am now usually up by 4:30 am.
Being diabetic I am also up several times during the night as well and will read a book or go on the computer or try to fix a camera or do a crossword puzzle.

Fortunately I live alone so bother no one.

If I feel peckish I know am on the verge of or into hypoglycemia so I must check my blood sugar and eat something preceded by some apple juice or glucose tablets which I keep at my bedside.
Bed time is a disgusting 9:30 despite a 1 hour afternoon nap but always feel OK later than that if I am attending some function.
Even if I manage to stay up until midnight, I wake for good by 4:30. Once awake I cannot lie abed but must get up.

I always cook my own meals, usually from scratch as I don't order in or take out.
Tonight was artichokes. Last night pasta. My meat loaf is world renowned and my family insists it was the cause of our last garbage collectors' strike.

I was always an early riser - 6 to 6:30 and I feel cheated if I miss the sunrise. The sound of the birds is also something I would miss if I slept later.

However, I think my internal body clock must have a weak mainspring.

It is 11:24 pm now. Fortunately no hunger pangs.

"PS: It's now 1.10 am and the evening meal was a long time ago. Everyone else in in bed and I'm feeling peckish. I think I'll go and get myself something to eat. PW."
Enjoy.

"And so to bed." Again.


Mickey

P.S. I notice the time at the top of this letter says 10:29. It too must have a faulty mainspring. M.O.

[Deleted]

I still get up at about the same time I did before retiring in March--from 6 to 6:30 a.m. I usually am in bed by 10:30 or 11 p.m.I usually wake up once. If it's at 2 a.m. or earlier I normally go back to sleep. if it's 3 a.m. or later I sometimes have trouble getting back to sleep. Ah for the days of my youth when I could stay up until 1 a.m. or later. I thought when I retired I would stay up later but I don't.

A lot of younger people nowadays in the surrounding urban area seem to have their evening meal as late as 9 p.m. If we eat any later than 7 p.m. it guarantees a lot of tossing and turning. We usually eat around 5:30 p.m.

Wayne