Do you ever have to wake up before dawn?

@TheHorse (238325)
Walnut Creek, California
October 28, 2015 9:13am CST
I'm sitting here sipping my first cup of coffee, waiting for the sun to come up. During the late Fall and early Winter months, I have to wake up before dawn to teach my 8 AM class. Fortunately, it only meets two times a week. On other days of the week, I don't have to wake up quite so early. We used to wake up before dawn on Summer days to stack hay in Montana, so we'd get most of our work done before the day got too hot. I still feel a bit like a ranch hand on these early days. Do you ever have to wake up before dawn? I'll attach a picture of a sunrise I watched last Winter, taken from my desk through the screen on my window.
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amnabas
@amnabas (14877)
• Karachi, Pakistan
28 Oct 15
Yes i do wakeup as i pray in the mornings.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
Is there a certain time for prayer? Or is that up to the individual?
AbbyGreenhill
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
28 Oct 15
The sun has never been up before me! I am up and ready to go usually 5:30 or so.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Oct 15
Are you a ranch girl or something?
AbbyGreenhill
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
28 Oct 15
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill I hope that means you're just too ready to SOAR into your day!
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Beatburn
@Beatburn (4286)
• Philippines
29 Oct 15
Yes. I wake up before dawn every day. I got used to it. I like it when I have the time to myself, either doing some chores or just spending time online.
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hereandthere
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
29 Oct 15
@beatburn i remember an officemate whose bedtime was 9pm to 3am.
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Beatburn
@Beatburn (4286)
• Philippines
29 Oct 15
@TheHorse vintage loudspeakers? Sounds technical. @hereandthere maybe I'm that officemate. Heehee
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
Evenings are when I spend time doing whatever I want. Right now, I'm doing some work on some 1972 Acoustic Research vintage loudspeakers I'm restoring.
Anna
@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
28 Oct 15
Most of the time I am up before dawn, we use to get up around 5:30 and enjoy the early morning.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
29 Oct 15
@TheHorse The air is completely different and also the morning sounds are different. The first to sing here are the blackbirds, they start when the sky is still completely dark.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Oct 15
@LadyDuck We have birds singing early some times of the year.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Oct 15
I actually find mornings quite beautiful. It's so quiet, and the air is different from evening air.
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Nancy Zink
@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
28 Oct 15
I don't wake up before dawn because I don't got to bed until about 2am. My last 8 years of my working life, before I retired, I worked from 4am to 1 pm, Monday through Friday. I lived an hour from work so I got up at 2am to leave the house at 3am. I actually loved it after I adjusted as the morning crew was so much fun and we would talk about so many different things. The bad thing was in the summer when I went to bed at 7pm, I was wide awake and the kids were playing outside and it was very bright. The winters were ok. Now I am making up for it. My husband is an early bird and is up about 6am and I get up between 9 and 10. He usually goes to bed about 8 pm to watch any sports that are on and that is when I watch all the tv shows I record and then get on here for hours.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
The kid part of me would hate having to go to bed while the sun is still shining.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
@ramapo17 I'm not sure I could do it. Summer evenings are one of my "happy times."
Nancy Zink
@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
29 Oct 15
@TheHorse I did hate it especially when I could hear all the kids outside playing. I got use to it but I never liked it.
Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
25 May 18
@TheHorse Most mornings I am up before the sun comes up and just sit and savor most of the peace and quiet here so can enjoy the morning before most get up.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 May 18
I enjoy the quiet too.
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Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
27 May 18
@TheHorse It is very rare that I have it here so it means so much more when we are the only ones here or there is quiet.
TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
29 Oct 15
right now it's dark when I wake up
TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Oct 15
@TheHorse Correct, and I have to get up at 6 on school days.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
Is that because of the shortening days?
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Oct 15
@dawnald I wonder if it will be light when I get up once the time changes.
marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
28 Oct 15
My life haschanged a lot these last years. I never liked to get up early, but first I had to study and then to teach at early hours. For some time I helped my husband and stayed up at the computer (until around 3 AM) Then I would open my eyes at 10 or 11 AM. Now I live alone and stay late and get up late.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Oct 15
That sounds like a lot of changes! My days actually vary a lot, but my pattern has not over the past few years. Tomorrow AM, I can actually sleep in.
megamatt
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
28 Oct 15
Yes, pretty much every day I do. I don't have to, but my body has been trained to get up at an earlier time. I figure, I'd just be laying in bed, staring at the ceiling, and not really getting any sleep or doing anything productive. So why not get out of bed. Granted, it's harder to justify rising out of bed, when the weather gets cold, the day gets shorter, and dreary, but eventually I man up and just do it.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Oct 15
I never stay in bed TOO long. I always have stuff to do.
inertia4
@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
29 Oct 15
I wake up most days before dawn. Not that I have to, it just happened like that. I don't mind it much because I can get online with my coffee and get some things done. I totally enjoy that. The only downside to this is that I wind up getting tired by the afternoon. I wind up napping sometimes. And that I am not happy about.
inertia4
@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
29 Oct 15
@TheHorse I don't like taking naps. They ruin my entire day. it basically gets in the way. i know that sometimes I eat something I am not supposed to and that puts me down. I used to try and fight that tired feeling. It is harder to do that these days.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Oct 15
@inertia4 My daily schedule doesn't permit naps right now. But there are times I'm pretty pooped by late afternoon!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
I don't do naps, but I'm generally ready to get home by evening!
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Belle Starr (Iz)
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
29 Oct 15
Gorgeous picture. With the time change coming I will be waking much earlier.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
I'll be waking up at the same time, but there will be more light in the morning.I wonder if that will affect me or my students.
peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
29 Oct 15
It's the early to rise here early to bed.
peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
30 Oct 15
@TheHorse They might be needing to reevaluate the situation.
peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
31 Oct 15
@TheHorse Well time will tell.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
Makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise, they say. But I'm not sure if I believe them.
Shannon
@fawkes62 (1276)
• United States
28 Oct 15
Unfortunately I have to get up before dawn much of the year. 5:30 comes early and dawn seems to like to sleep in starting in fall and lasting through spring.
Shannon
@fawkes62 (1276)
• United States
29 Oct 15
@TheHorse It will be over here too. We will have more morning light for a while, but then our days will be pretty short. There will be many days, starting soon, where it will be dark before we even have supper.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Oct 15
@fawkes62 Those days always struck me as strange when I was a kid in Chicago.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Oct 15
Soon, Daylight Savings Time will be over here. There will be light earlier in the mornings, and late afternoons will be dark.
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Colene
@cpefley (1941)
• San Jose, California
28 Oct 15
That is such a beautiful sunrise! They aren't very pretty out here as the sun has to come up over mountains first. I used to go for walks before sunrise because it often gets too hot out here to walk/jog during the summer.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Oct 15
Now that Fall is in the air, our mornings are pretty cool and refreshing in the Bay Area. Where is Hemet? Not sure I've been through there.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Nov 15
thats stillhard for me and I have been here at this tiresome retirement center for 8 long years getting up at 6 am to eat breakfast at 7am youi wo uld think we were all in the army lol lol
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Nov 15
It builds character! Now drop down and give me ten push ups.
Always smiling
@allknowing (153529)
• India
29 Oct 15
I am up early as I get to bed early. I like those beautiful morning hours when I am fresh after a cuppa to be here and chat with all of you.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
I enjoy waking up early and getting things done. This morning, the sun was up, but I already entered grades from yesterday's exam.. Now I get to chat here a bit.
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hereandthere
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
29 Oct 15
somehow my first thought was forest fire. oops. one time my work started at 6am and it was a long commute so i had to leave the house by 4.30am.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
The picture reminds me of a forest fire, as did the sunrise that morning.
jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
29 Oct 15
@TheHorse,I get up before dawn everyday.Now it has become my habit.I have to leave for my workplace and doing yoga,other physical exercises and prayer takes me time.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
Those sound like good ways to spend time.
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Gudheart
@gudheart (12659)
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31 Oct 15
Very rarely, and when I do it is Saturdays (today) as I have an early start.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Oct 15
I woke up about 9 AM today. No need to see the dawn on a Saturday!
Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 Oct 15
I've worked shifts around the clock, so I have had to get up before dawn. Beautiful picture.
The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 15
Thanks. I've never worked night shifts! That would be interesting and different.
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