I’m usually barely in bed at that time….I’ve always been a nightowl, and as time passes, my habits haven’t improved. I’ve never wanted to miss out on anything……….

When my huge dog running in his dreams on “our” bed,good boy…atleast someone is asleep. When I sleep on my back I dream like crazy…and I mean crazy…so I have to do one of those…”Wake up,Susie, this is a dream, WAKE UP!!” When up I always think, “Oh, Man I am now my parents.” The weird thing is I start to get anxious if it is dark out and only if is dark out…If I wake up to early and the sun is up..no anxiety, hmmm. Am I afraid of the dark?

the desperate need to go on a 15 mile run before the scorching houston heat sets in

My bladder, fudge fix, my dogs barking are the only things that can wake me from my dream-life. I can go right back to my dream. It’s a wonderful life there.

My brain seems to function so much better in the morning so I, by choice,awake at around 3:30. It gives me hours to accomplish things before work without interuption, except from the cats,who love getting up at this time. It started when I was student teaching. I was so frazzled by the end of the day that I had trouble thinking and preparing for the next day. I found that if I went to bed early and susequently woke early I could get so much more done. It also got me out of the habit of wasting time watching TV. Sorry Jane, I get the whole nesting comfort thing and TV is the Glass Teat (Thank you Harlon Ellison) that suckles our comfort instincts. If I need to function while other people are functioning, which is highly overrated, I take naps. I’ve also found that if I stick to the routine I like I can do the occasional 3-4 hours sleep and I’m fine. With Super Markets open 24-7 I also have been known to do my shopping at 5:30 before work. Saves time in the long run because the store is empty. It’s pleasant because I have a one on one relationship with the check out girl who always works nights. It’s like it was years ago almost in little local stores. I also live in an area that gets a ton o snow through the winter. I am OCD enough that I need it shovelled before work and this allows me time to do just that. In the summer I love being outside in he early morning before everyone else is up. It’s quiet and peaceful and a wonderful way to start the day.

My meds, it time for me to start the day, don’t really know why. But at 2 or 4, my feet is on the floor.

wow, ladies … signing on this morning & reading everyone’s respobses is so amazing. i’m laughing, i’m tearing up, & i’m realizing that no matter where we live, what we do, what our financial status is, how famous we are (or not), we are all living the same basic life!! wow … my little boat has suddenly turned into an ocean liner … can you imagine what ‘girls night’ at my house on the back deck would be like!!!!!!! riotous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Other than a next day meeting or leg cramps, usually family issues are the only thing that will wake me in the middle of the night. I just start praying myself back to sleep.

I have to go to the bathroom, my cat, an idea for a project or sometimes something I forgot to do during the day.

Usually my cat jumping on my face!!!

I’m a night owl so I’m awake then. 4:30am is my favorite time of the day. It’s so peaceful and feels like my own private world. I love it. :) SES http://www.sarantos.com

Lately I’ve not been getting to sleep until at least 1:00 a.m. and sometimes as late as 3:00 a.m. for reasons I haven’t quite figured out but know at its roots my insomnia is based on anxiety. Once asleep I manage to sleep until about 7:30 a.m. when Nicholas my 13 year old dog paws on the bed and insists on going outside. If I do wake up in the night as I used to do almost every night I simply turn the TV on to something like one of the home shopping networks and am lulled back to sleep unless I make an impulse buy as I’ve also been known to do to my deep regret.

wondering where the money will come from, who i will talk to if I outlive everyone, why we let some peole have kids or vote, knowing we are all one, wondering if the news industry will have a much needed correction like the stock market, when America’s greed will stop, if I should move to a condo, how long the dog will live, knowing I am so blessed and have it better than so many others, thinking I honor single mothers above all others … .

My 16 year old son and all of my trials and tribulations of being a mother of 2 teenagers! It is tough and there is not an owners manual to tell you what to do! Also, what I didn’t finish the day before.

Her name was Annie—she died in Vietnam and she returns to me frequently at 3-4 in and morning as she has for the past 40 yrs