Seafarers body CLOCK

[John Arton]

After years away from sea how many of us here still have our body clock on the day work or watch keeping routine of our seafaring days.?
Myself I cannot sleep past 0700 whatever state or whatever time I turn in at.
I need coffee and breakfast by 0800 and by 1000 need more coffee and biscuits.
By 1200 I am in need of some light food and more coffee.
1500 coffee and tabnabs again
I always want tea around 1800 with more coffee.
Also any noise during the night and I'm awake before turning over and going back to sleep once I have figured out that it is not an intruder or the dog wandering about or something similar. This results in grumbles from wife as I once agin try to snuggle up in the lee of bum island.
All this drives the rest of the family mad as they like their long lie ins at the weekend and having to eat at set times also gives rise to much arguments.
Anyone else still suffering similar symptom's?
Rgds
JA

[j.sabourn]

I wake up at 0500 every morning regardless. Would try and drink myself into oblivion but doubt that would work either. Doesnt help either as suffer from sleep Abpnia and supposed to wear a thing pumping air up the nostrils which is very inconvenient. Only a matter of time once again when I give it away as did about 5 years ago. Cheers JS

[Ivan Cloherty]

#1, I must be a carbon copy John!, but then again having tinitus doesn't help the sleep mode either, can't wait to get up sometimes, so have to lay and wait and suffer in silence as not fair to rest of household when you are wandering around in the early hours, so cat nap when I can

[Keith Tindell]

I also developed the habit of cat napping while working on coasters, and has proved to be very useful, a quick 10 minute battery charge during the day, and i feel refreshed. Its very useful on long haul flights etc, not many things have come in useful from my seagoing days , but that one is , KT

[Keith at Tregenna]

I tend to wake, before I go to sleep.

My cat naps always end with the recurring:

"One fine day in the middle of the night" (Journal Versions)


1.One fine day in the middle of the night,

2.Two dead boys* got up to fight, [*or men]

3.Back to back they faced each other,

4.Drew their swords and shot each other,



5.One was blind and the other couldn't, see

6.So they chose a dummy for a referee.

7.A blind man went to see fair play,

8.A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"



9.A paralysed donkey passing by,

10.Kicked the blind man in the eye,

11.Knocked him through a nine inch wall,

12.Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,



13.A deaf policeman heard the noise,

14.And came to arrest the two dead boys,

15.If you don't believe this story’s true,

16.Ask the blind man he saw it too!

K.

[Louis the fly]

It took me a long time to adjust to life ashore, the only way I could sleep was to have my wife throw buckets of water against the bedroom window.

[robpage]

I hope you live in a bungalow Louis , she will have a nightmare climbing the ladder with the buckets , it is so not Health and Safety

[happy daze john in oz]

Know the feeling, awake each day at a round five and rarely go back to sleep and rarely go to bed before 2300 hours. Drinking has little effect on my sleeping habits but I do find that about an hour after any meal I need a ten minute cat nap. On the side of our fewways there are signs warning of the dangers of driving when drowsy. It says if you are feeling tired take a ten minute power nap. Apparently though you are meant to pull over and stop for this.

[John Arton]

There is a number of groundings around the U.K. coast recently where the Officer on watch could have heeded that notice John.
rgds
JA

[gray_marian]

I love my bed and I am most reluctant to leave it in the morning, my hubby says the beauty of being married to me is that the bed is still warm when he retires in the evening......cheeky devil!!