Hey Everyone,
I find this question fascinating.
Several years ago when I started working nights, Lynx was helping me adjust by leaving me voice texts. Because I was the only one working in my department (which is one of the things I loved about it -- no one telling me what to do or how to do it!) I rarely conversed with other people. I would say hi or have quick chats with others passing through from various departments, but otherwise I was the Lone Ranger from night 'til dawn. Checking his messages on my break (due to us living in very different time zones) and leaving answers made me feel like I still had a human anchor, which really helped me form a new routine.
One of the things I asked Lynx was when he thought night crossed over into day. With me being a natural morning person, going in at 10 PM was pretty rough at first. But over time, my system started to "see" 2 AM as being "morning," and I could feel myself starting to kick in.
It was really odd because there were no other clues except my internal mechanisms. I was inside all night, the lights didn't change, nor did the temperature -- there wasn't even any kind of discernible staff or shift change. Nothing "told" my biological clock that something was shifting -- except God.
These days, my internal clock starts to "shift" between 3 and 4 AM. If I wake up at 3:30 AM, it still feels like night (which my system interprets as, "Time to wind down,") but right around 4 AM, I can feel my inner workings start to "recognize" "day", which it then interprets as, "Time to wind up and GO!"
I don't know why, but for me, "Night" changes into "Day" precisely in between two specific hours on the clock.
I often think about how God "called the dark 'Night' and the light 'Day'" at Creation -- and I wonder how that got translated into the biologies of people who are early birds vs. night owls.
What about the rest of you?
* How do you, or how does your body determine the shift/difference between night and day?
* Do you go by a specific time, feeling, routine, or even? (Having dinner, watching TV to a certain hour, etc.)
* Do you feel a drastic change in energy, motivation, mood, etc. when the "shift" (between day to night or night to day) changes?)
I am always interested in how differently people can be made, and how we all react uniquely to the things set in God's creation.
I find this question fascinating.
Several years ago when I started working nights, Lynx was helping me adjust by leaving me voice texts. Because I was the only one working in my department (which is one of the things I loved about it -- no one telling me what to do or how to do it!) I rarely conversed with other people. I would say hi or have quick chats with others passing through from various departments, but otherwise I was the Lone Ranger from night 'til dawn. Checking his messages on my break (due to us living in very different time zones) and leaving answers made me feel like I still had a human anchor, which really helped me form a new routine.
One of the things I asked Lynx was when he thought night crossed over into day. With me being a natural morning person, going in at 10 PM was pretty rough at first. But over time, my system started to "see" 2 AM as being "morning," and I could feel myself starting to kick in.
It was really odd because there were no other clues except my internal mechanisms. I was inside all night, the lights didn't change, nor did the temperature -- there wasn't even any kind of discernible staff or shift change. Nothing "told" my biological clock that something was shifting -- except God.
These days, my internal clock starts to "shift" between 3 and 4 AM. If I wake up at 3:30 AM, it still feels like night (which my system interprets as, "Time to wind down,") but right around 4 AM, I can feel my inner workings start to "recognize" "day", which it then interprets as, "Time to wind up and GO!"
I don't know why, but for me, "Night" changes into "Day" precisely in between two specific hours on the clock.
I often think about how God "called the dark 'Night' and the light 'Day'" at Creation -- and I wonder how that got translated into the biologies of people who are early birds vs. night owls.
What about the rest of you?
* How do you, or how does your body determine the shift/difference between night and day?
* Do you go by a specific time, feeling, routine, or even? (Having dinner, watching TV to a certain hour, etc.)
* Do you feel a drastic change in energy, motivation, mood, etc. when the "shift" (between day to night or night to day) changes?)
I am always interested in how differently people can be made, and how we all react uniquely to the things set in God's creation.
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