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Is it normal that I constantly crave to walk through a dark, empty city at night, to find some place with a good view to sit and think? I've been doing this for a few weeks, and it's become a habit. Usually I'll go walking at three in the morning for a good few hours. Please answer, it's seriously messing with my sleeping habits.
It's been a habit of mine since I was about 16. I don't do it often these days but it used to be a couple of times a week at least, usually between about 3am and 5am. Like you, I sometimes do it for peace. But sometimes not...
I love how the city has an entirely different life at night. People only think of cities as daylit commercial centres. They never realise that the city they think they know is shared by those who inhabit it at night. It's an entirely different place then, when the darkness falls.
I've always felt slightly more at home with the night shift, the whole twisted, mad carnival of it all.
I completely agree. It's a very nostalgic feeling. Not sure why, just dark cities and late nate carnivals etc make me all nostalgic. However, it really messes up my sleeping scheldule. Hypothetically, I could stop, but it makes me all depressed the next day if I don't walk. Any suggestions?
I'm not sure. I think we do it for different reasons. I don't really have a sleeping schedule. It's just something I do when I can. I'm the same with eating and drinking. It makes me feel like a freak.
I guess, for you, you could go with the Spanish model of sleeping twice a day rather than once (and which is generally thought to be better, anyway). Or you could just swing your day around by four hours so rather than go to bed at 11pm and wake at 7am, you go to bed at 7pm and wake up at 3am, and start your day with some night-thinking. For me personally, I'd rather end the day with the night, than start it though.
Over the summer, i ride my bike at night. Its relaxing, a very cool time of the day :)
I would love to do this, but it is not safe to walk around at night where I live and there is nowhere good to go.
I sometimes have a short nap in the afternoon if I have free time so I can stay up late.
I love doing that. There is just something so great and intimate about walking around alone when no one else is out.