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Cowley

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Just out of curiosity really.
Sometimes I find myself up really late, or even at times I wake up in the middle of the night and I end up going on the forum for a bit at 2am or even later because I can’t get back to sleep.
Quite often though I see the same people posting at silly o’clock in the morning and I was just wondering what their story was?
Night shifts?
Insomnia?
Nightmares?
Any other reasons?
;)
 
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When i get too early to bed i get off earlier (or yes go to the WC). But real interneting no. Often i open my PC for 10 to 20 minutes; starting at around 5.30. I check for: if rain is coming in the morning, the trainwebcam at La Plata, Missouri (around 2.00 am UK time there is an Amtrak train to the West and you can rewind 4 hours) and looking when the ISS passes around my head.
 

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I end up getting in a bunch of conversations &just forget the time. I try to put my phone down before 1am though for fear of falling asleep in my GCSE revision sessions!
 

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I never go onto the internet after going to bed, nor turn radio on, etc, until about 8 a.m. (I am retired, after all!) The only recent exception was, getting up at 6 a.m. to go to the loo, for some reason I turned the radio on to be informed of the Grenfell Tower fire, after which sleep was impossible.
 

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2am is about bedtime for me, although I tend not be on too much for a couple of hours before that
 

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Just out of curiosity really.
Sometimes I find myself up really late, or even at times I wake up in the middle of the night and I end up going on the forum for a bit at 2am or even later because I can’t get back to sleep.
Quite often though I see the same people posting at silly o’clock in the morning and I was just wondering what their story was?
Night shifts?
Insomnia?
Nightmares?
Any other reasons?
;)

In my case, it’s mostly due to being awake at funny times due to work.

Insomnia is probably too strong a word, but it causes disturbed sleep patterns most certainly.
 

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Occasionally I just can't get to sleep so I'll read through threads on here and occasionally comment. However when that happens it means there's less to read on the train into work the next morning!
 

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Late evening is, most days, the only time I can really get things done at home. Just as well I'm a night owl with a normal bedtime of 00.30 to 01.00 and can run on about 6 hours sleep a night...
 

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Late evening is, most days, the only time I can really get things done at home. Just as well I'm a night owl with a normal bedtime of 00.30 to 01.00 and can run on about 6 hours sleep a night...
I’m quite similar normally. 6 hours is about right for me too.
 

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I live and work in Chicago, which has a 6 hours time differences to the UK. Therefore, most of my posts are at silly a-clock for you guys
 

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Funny shift patterns for me - sometimes I'm finishing at 2-4am and browse for a while after work, other times I'm starting early and go on the internet over breakfast.
 

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Because I can't let an argument drop if I think someone's missing the point?
 

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I never go onto the internet after going to bed, nor turn radio on, etc, until about 8 a.m. (I am retired, after all!) The only recent exception was, getting up at 6 a.m. to go to the loo, for some reason I turned the radio on to be informed of the Grenfell Tower fire, after which sleep was impossible.

I'm retired too, but in my case it means I go to bed and get up when I feel like it. My IPad makes it (too?) easy to be online in bed and if I get absorbed in something and stay awake into the early hours ..... so what?

Having said that, going by what some who work nights have said elsewhere in the forum perhaps I should try to be more regular for the sake of my health.
 

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I've always been a bit of a night owl, and since I get to choose my own work hours, I don't start any earlier than midday, and usually it's 1pm. It's not unusual for me to be around until 4/5am and perhaps a bit later than that. 6 hours' sleep usually does me, and if needs be I have a bit of a nap in the evening after dinner.
 

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For me, if it's before 1am then it's just before I go to bed after a late shift. Any later than that (like now), then it's night shift break time. Very rarely will you find me posting between 5am and 8am, if I do it means I have an early break on an early shift.
 

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People who post in the middle of the night are obviously sad people with no life.




(D'oh!)
 

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People who post in the middle of the night are obviously sad people with no life.




(D'oh!)

Unfortunately for all of us, I reckon anyone posting on a railway forum, at any time of the day or night, would be considered pretty sad according to the “normal” standard :lol:.
 

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Because I can't let an argument drop if I think someone's missing the point?
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Comic: "Are you coming to bed" "I can't, this is important" "What?" "Someone is wrong on the internet."

;)
 

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Uhh yeah he would!
I’ll come back to this argument at 3am, when I’ve had time to simmer and think of a reply that no-one can disagree with. :lol:
 
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