[Whitebread]

Yes everyone. I'm an addict and I need help. I'm addicted to music. Many a night I say up late listening and enjoying music well past the time I should. Last night I was listening to music from 8 to 4 in the morning straight!!!!!!!

I woke up 45 minutes ago at 1:30 where I live. My day is shot, luckly I'm on summer vacation though...... I just need some help cause soccer starts next week at 9 in the morning and school starts on September 4th. Getting back into the routein will be difficult. Help me please.

 

[minya]

I think I'm naturally nocturnal.

My sleeping schedule has been ****ed for years. If left to my own devices, I will go to to bed later and later, until I fall asleep at about 7 AM and wake up at around 3 or 4 PM. I'm not usually able to do this, though, so I regularly get 4-5 hours of sleep. Years of this is finally catching up to me, I think. I'm starting to suffer from a mild perma-headache and I'm tired always.

Jesus Christ, I'm only eighteen. I need more sleep.

- Chris

 

[Whitebread]

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Originally posted by minya I think I'm naturally nocturnal. My sleeping schedule has been ****ed for years. If left to my own devices, I will go to to bed later and later, until I fall asleep at about 7 AM and wake up at around 3 or 4 PM. I'm not usually able to do this, though, so I regularly get 4-5 hours of sleep. Years of this is finally catching up to me, I think. I'm starting to suffer from a mild perma-headache and I'm tired always. Jesus Christ, I'm only eighteen. I need more sleep. - Chris

Jeses man. Untill you said you were 18, I thought you were about 40 or something. I hope you can fix that.

 

[Rizumu]

I actually have a theory that music sounds best at 2 am. Or at least it seems that way for me. I usually stay up until 2-3 am listening to music, although last night I stayed up until 4. x_x 4-5 hours would kill me. I've done that before and I've been a zombie. You feel like ****, sleep through classes, and can't concentrate. I need 6 hours at least, 7 is perfect.

 

[Whitebread]

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Originally posted by Rizumu I actually have a theory that music sounds best at 2 am. Or at least it seems that way for me. I usually stay up until 2-3 am listening to music, although last night I stayed up until 4. x_x 4-5 hours would kill me. I've done that before and I've been a zombie. You feel like ****, sleep through classes, and can't concentrate. I need 6 hours at least, 7 is perfect.

I'm the same as you. Usually, during the school year, I go to bed at 11 and get up a 6:15 for a shower. And yes for some reason I enjoy music best at night when everyone else is sleeping, it's dark and it's quiet in the house. I'll gonna kill me thougth as soon as school starts. Soccer isn't too much of a problem cause we run for about 40 minutes to start out.

 

[D-EJ915]

During School year: Bed: 10:30PM-12:00AM, Wake up: 6:30AM

now: 12:00AM-3:00AM, wake up: 11:00am-12:00pm

 

[lini]

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Originally posted by Rizumu I actually have a theory that music sounds best at 2 am.

Probably because of maximum snr due to least outside noise. And maybe also maximum relaxation and concentration capability due to least outside influences (phone calls, friends, whatever...).

It's the same for me, btw, and I also tend to rotate my sleeping schedule as long as I don't have a job that requires regular shifts. And sometimes, especially when I sacrifice a lot to the god of smoke, I have days with three sleeping periods of ~ 4 hours each. By the other way, I think, when a "natural human day schedule" experiment with excluded outer influences was made, most test persons actually tended to adapt a 26 hours day...

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[ricks584]

I used to listen to a high-end loudspeaker based system all night. My own discovery was that music sounded best starting at about 3:00 am. But let's not quibble.
I figured the reason for that was twofold: lower ambient noise level in the wee hours, and less noisy ac power due to vastly reduced power usage by industry and residential at those hours.
The difference was so great to me that I almost became convinced that listening during "normal" hours was a waste of time.
Unfortunately, I eventually took a full time 9 to 5 job, and I haven't done any listening in the early morning hours for a long time.

 

[radrd]

Get a night job. That's what I have done this summer. I get two days off every week, and I spend pretty much the entire night listening to music.

The downside is that my night job is a pain in the butt. You'd better believe that 9 PM to 7 AM of taking down shelves, putting new ones up, and moving stock at Lowes gets old fast.

 

[averydonovan]

You all seem to be used to 7 or 8 hours of sleep at night. I'm used to 4 or 5. An 8 hour night yields around 5 hours of sleep on a decent night. I've been used to this for a few years, at least around 3 years, but it was easier during high school. Now I have to suck up a 4-cup pot of coffee in the morning to just be able to think straight. I'd take 8-hours solid of sleep or even just 6 hours solid, I can't even remember what that's like. But damn, at 4am in the morning when I can't sleep music sure does sound good

 

[Whitebread]

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Originally posted by donovansmith You all seem to be used to 7 or 8 hours of sleep at night. I'm used to 4 or 5. An 8 hour night yields around 5 hours of sleep on a decent night. I've been used to this for a few years, at least around 3 years, but it was easier during high school. Now I have to suck up a 4-cup pot of coffee in the morning to just be able to think straight. I'd take 8-hours solid of sleep or even just 6 hours solid, I can't even remember what that's like. But damn, at 4am in the morning when I can't sleep music sure does sound good

But what about the weekend or friday nights?? You still can't get an 8 hour night sleep then?

 

[GSTom1]

Whitebread, I'm curious as to people's musical tastes these days ...

What kind of music (artists, genres) are you listening to on your late night music binges?

 

[chadbang]

I completely agree with the benefits of noctural listening. My listening hours are 1am until 5am. The world is quiet and I'm grooving.

 

[Whitebread]

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Originally posted by GSTom1 Whitebread, I'm curious as to people's musical tastes these days ... What kind of music (artists, genres) are you listening to on your late night music binges?

All reggae, Aswad, Anthony B, I-Roy, U-Roy, Skatalites, Jimmy Clif, Greggory Isaccs just to name a few.

O wait, it's not all reggae, I do sometimes throw on some Bryon Lee and other soca artists as well as some music from other caribbean islands usually in a foreign language.

 

[lan]

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Originally posted by Whitebread All reggae, Aswad, Anthony B, I-Roy, U-Roy, Skatalites, Jimmy Clif, Greggory Isaccs just to name a few.

Cool another reggae fan. I like more of the dub and roots style. But it has to be old. Early 80s or before.