Late Nighter's. - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Rune Son of Bjarne · 12-26-2006, 04:07 AM

Actually the Downs is the reason I have this weird sleeping pattern. . .

In the begining (over a year ago) I would sit up watching the quiz room until 12 maybe 1 am and then slowly it would get later and later, until I was not able to go to bed before 3 am. It all culminated in a marathin msn conversation which started pretty early in the evening and on my part ended at 7am in the morning.

Now I am more likely to get to bed around 4-5 am than 3 am, but one thing has changed. These last months my addiction has kind of disapeared. I no longer feel the need to reply to almost anything and where I would refresh the page every other minute, I will now only check in a few times a day(with exeptions).

I think it is because I have started LJ and because I have gotten more busy these days.

The Might · 12-28-2006, 05:06 AM

well, I guess I qualify for this category as well...last visited the site today at 01:56 CET
anyway, currently this isn't a problem, since I am on vacation, but when it's over I guess I'll have to stop staying up late, it would probably have a bad influence on my performance in school.

Mänwe · 12-28-2006, 05:16 PM

Naria, yes, I call that second wind 'Barrow-down' syndrome. However I think it a wonderful affliction, something I think The Might should embrace.

I long ago gave up resisting the alure of the Downs.

Rune how could you loose the bug!?!

Rune Son of Bjarne · 12-28-2006, 05:25 PM

I don't know. . .It just happened

The Might · 12-28-2006, 05:30 PM

well it's 2 o'clock again, and I'm here looking at the Downs...which is GREAT as far as I'm concerned...

well I am actually online only 50% of the time, the other 50% I spend looking for quotes

Rune Son of Bjarne · 12-28-2006, 05:39 PM

I am watching comedy while having a democracy talk with Formendacil!

quite the mixture, everybody should try it

The Might · 12-28-2006, 06:24 PM

well...one hour, and 2 South Park episodes later, I am still on the Downs, and I am starting to ask myself when I'll go to bed...
At least I haven't ended up as bad as in my last summer holiday when I sometimes happened to go to bed at 5 or 6 AM...the birds were already singing outside

Rikae · 01-20-2007, 07:28 PM

Not necessarily, Might. I, for one, have written some of my best essays at 4 am (the day they're due, natch.)

Brinniel · 01-20-2007, 09:14 PM

I often write my papers around 4am as well. I am always amazed how I usually manage to receive A's and B's on them. I also write my RPG posts around 2-3am.

I suppose I tend to be more creative around the wee hours of the morning.

Laitoste · 01-23-2007, 01:06 AM

It's 1:30 here. I'm writing a paper and trying to read for class tomorrow. I try to avoid late nights, because I don't have time to nap during the day. But it doesn't work very well, so here I am.

Mänwe · 01-23-2007, 08:16 PM

It seems we are all more productive late at night or early morning! Laitoste, don't we all try and avoid them! Just too damn hard to avoid completely. For once I am up late "against" my will. Revision for an exam this morning (

) at 9:30am.

I intend to have no sleep, thus completing 16 hours of revision. Anyway, back to it, any other late posters out there on the Downs who have evolved nocturnal habits for answering the great threads I am missing in the Books fora, while I am away!?

Lhunardawen · 11-23-2007, 10:59 AM

I hate to double-post, but I just realised that the Downs is actually more effective in keeping me awake than coffee is. Not that I would know, since I don't drink, and don't intend to learn drinking, coffee.

PS. I also noticed that a good number of the posters in this thread are (was, in the case of Celuien) Biology -- Biochemistry in the case of Farael -- majors. Ironic that those who are supposed to be studying life seem to end up having less of it...

Lush · 11-23-2007, 01:31 PM

I just checked my initial posts in this thread...

Right now, I have a new job (as editor of two webzines - holla and I'll drop you a link sometime if you want to write for me, btw), and so my schedule is... ridiculous.

It's very free, and very unstructured, and I often find myself talking to someone in China while it's 4 a.m. wherever it is that I'm at.

It's a Barrow-Downs kind of schedule...

The spooky, walking-dead schedule.

I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

Thinlómien · 01-24-2007, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brinniel

I suppose I tend to be more creative around the wee hours of the morning.

I at least really am. When there was the Great Golden Hoard game, I wrote my definitely best post a bit before 2 AM after even falling asleep of being too tired...

Roa_Aoife · 02-09-2007, 02:01 PM

I've done my share of late nights on the Downs, especially during werewolf games. Of course, now that I have to get up at 6 AM to face a classroom of 3 yr olds, that's faded. Still, don't feel so bad if you're the only on the "Who's On-line" page. Remember, there are those of us who never come out of invisible mode.

We're there- you just won't know it until we post.

Nogrod · 02-09-2007, 02:29 PM

Funny to notice that I probably have'nt yet written to this thread as I should be the one to really call this mine...

If I don't have an early wake up call and there's something interesting going on, like RPGs or WW-games, I can hang around and participate to early morning hours (I guess I once played a heated ww-game up to 6 or 7 AM!). Happily that doesn't happen too often.

But what's much more normal is that the bedtime gets streched with an hour or two. So if I have thought that I should try to get to sleep around midnight (that's my normal rhythm), a game, an RPG post or an interesting discussion pushes that to 1.30-2 AM. That's more than commonplace.

But that's also understandable. My days are normally quite packed so the only time I can hang around here is basically the evenings or late nights...

Nice to see others share this condition.

05-16-2007, 05:49 PM

I am in the same league as you.
I sleep very little, I am usually awake until just near dawn.. I like to think I am awake so late out of choice, but that would be foolish of me to believe.

Lhunardawen · 07-29-2007, 02:33 PM

Methinks I am in the right position to pull a Heren on this thread...

It is 4:32 AM where I am as I type, and I have a two-part, three-hour exam coming in four hours. And I only had one hour of sleep.

Ooh, look at all the numbers.

I wrote a reaction paper on MRSA and nosocomial infections for Microbio class instead of a post for the Mead Hall. That's crazy.

Maybe the fact that the Full Moon comes tonight has something to do with this.

12-28-2006, 05:06 AM	#2
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	well, I guess I qualify for this category as well...last visited the site today at 01:56 CET anyway, currently this isn't a problem, since I am on vacation, but when it's over I guess I'll have to stop staying up late, it would probably have a bad influence on my performance in school. __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

12-28-2006, 05:16 PM	#3
Mänwe Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: May as well be the Arctic Circle Posts: 283	Naria, yes, I call that second wind 'Barrow-down' syndrome. However I think it a wonderful affliction, something I think The Might should embrace. I long ago gave up resisting the alure of the Downs. Rune how could you loose the bug!?! __________________ "I am, I fear, a most unsatisfactory person." - (Letter #124 To Sir Stanley Unwin)

12-28-2006, 05:30 PM	#5
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	well it's 2 o'clock again, and I'm here looking at the Downs...which is GREAT as far as I'm concerned... well I am actually online only 50% of the time, the other 50% I spend looking for quotes __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

12-28-2006, 06:24 PM	#7
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	well...one hour, and 2 South Park episodes later, I am still on the Downs, and I am starting to ask myself when I'll go to bed... At least I haven't ended up as bad as in my last summer holiday when I sometimes happened to go to bed at 5 or 6 AM...the birds were already singing outside __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

01-20-2007, 09:14 PM	#9
Brinniel Reflection of Darkness Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull. Posts: 2,983	I often write my papers around 4am as well. I am always amazed how I usually manage to receive A's and B's on them. I also write my RPG posts around 2-3am. I suppose I tend to be more creative around the wee hours of the morning. __________________ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

01-20-2007, 07:28 PM	#8
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	Not necessarily, Might. I, for one, have written some of my best essays at 4 am (the day they're due, natch.)

01-23-2007, 01:06 AM	#10
Laitoste Wight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Behind the hills Posts: 164	It's 1:30 here. I'm writing a paper and trying to read for class tomorrow. I try to avoid late nights, because I don't have time to nap during the day. But it doesn't work very well, so here I am. __________________ "If we're still alive in the morning, we'll know that we're not dead."~South Park

01-23-2007, 08:16 PM	#11
Mänwe Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: May as well be the Arctic Circle Posts: 283	It seems we are all more productive late at night or early morning! Laitoste, don't we all try and avoid them! Just too damn hard to avoid completely. For once I am up late "against" my will. Revision for an exam this morning ( ) at 9:30am. I intend to have no sleep, thus completing 16 hours of revision. Anyway, back to it, any other late posters out there on the Downs who have evolved nocturnal habits for answering the great threads I am missing in the Books fora, while I am away!? __________________ "I am, I fear, a most unsatisfactory person." - (Letter #124 To Sir Stanley Unwin)

11-23-2007, 10:59 AM	#12
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	Time check: 1 AM I hate to double-post, but I just realised that the Downs is actually more effective in keeping me awake than coffee is. Not that I would know, since I don't drink, and don't intend to learn drinking, coffee. PS. I also noticed that a good number of the posters in this thread are (was, in the case of Celuien) Biology -- Biochemistry in the case of Farael -- majors. Ironic that those who are supposed to be studying life seem to end up having less of it... Last edited by Lhunardawen; 11-23-2007 at 11:12 AM.

11-23-2007, 01:31 PM	#13
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	I just checked my initial posts in this thread... Right now, I have a new job (as editor of two webzines - holla and I'll drop you a link sometime if you want to write for me, btw), and so my schedule is... ridiculous. It's very free, and very unstructured, and I often find myself talking to someone in China while it's 4 a.m. wherever it is that I'm at. It's a Barrow-Downs kind of schedule... The spooky, walking-dead schedule. I'm enjoying it while it lasts. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

02-09-2007, 02:01 PM	#15
Roa_Aoife Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Someday, I'll rule all of it. Posts: 1,696	I've done my share of late nights on the Downs, especially during werewolf games. Of course, now that I have to get up at 6 AM to face a classroom of 3 yr olds, that's faded. Still, don't feel so bad if you're the only on the "Who's On-line" page. Remember, there are those of us who never come out of invisible mode. We're there- you just won't know it until we post. __________________ We can't all be Roas* when it comes to analysing...* -Lommy I didn't say you're evil, Roa, I said you're exasperating. -Nerwen

02-09-2007, 02:29 PM	#16
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	Funny to notice that I probably have'nt yet written to this thread as I should be the one to really call this mine... If I don't have an early wake up call and there's something interesting going on, like RPGs or WW-games, I can hang around and participate to early morning hours (I guess I once played a heated ww-game up to 6 or 7 AM!). Happily that doesn't happen too often. But what's much more normal is that the bedtime gets streched with an hour or two. So if I have thought that I should try to get to sleep around midnight (that's my normal rhythm), a game, an RPG post or an interesting discussion pushes that to 1.30-2 AM. That's more than commonplace. But that's also understandable. My days are normally quite packed so the only time I can hang around here is basically the evenings or late nights... Nice to see others share this condition. __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...

05-16-2007, 05:49 PM	#17
Elladan Guest Posts: n/a	I am in the same league as you. I sleep very little, I am usually awake until just near dawn.. I like to think I am awake so late out of choice, but that would be foolish of me to believe.

07-29-2007, 02:33 PM	#18
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	Methinks I am in the right position to pull a Heren on this thread... It is 4:32 AM where I am as I type, and I have a two-part, three-hour exam coming in four hours. And I only had one hour of sleep. Ooh, look at all the numbers. I wrote a reaction paper on MRSA and nosocomial infections for Microbio class instead of a post for the Mead Hall. That's crazy. Maybe the fact that the Full Moon comes tonight has something to do with this.

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