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Old 09-12-2015, 07:45 AM
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Because no one else does, I slept in the front bedroom last night rather than the master in the back of the house. This place never sleeps. I laid down about 10:15 or so and read for awhile. I had just fallen asleep when a mosquito spraying truck came through. Jump forward to about 3 and this place is hopping. The newspapers are delivered. Multiple cars (like 10 or so) doing who knows what. Who are all these people? This is not a rhetorical question.
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I am sure some are early job workers. Amazing what happens at night when we are safely tucked in.
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Last spring, I thought it looked like our mail station had been painted. I go past it a lot, but I never saw anybody painting.

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Old 09-12-2015, 08:20 AM
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Once I got up really early (around 5:00 a.m.) and went some place (I don't remember where) and there were all kinds of people out walking and jogging. It was like a whole new world I had never seen before since I usually don't go out of the house before 9 a.m normally.
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Old 09-12-2015, 07:57 PM
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The older you get the less sleep you get, or so I have been told.
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Old 09-12-2015, 08:21 PM
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Pretty quiet here in Sanibel...sounds more like you're having sleep issues than anything really happening that's interrupting your sleep...even if you had a place 100 miles from anywhere there are noises all night long...use a sound machine...we do...
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Old 09-12-2015, 08:22 PM
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Once I got up really early (around 5:00 a.m.) and went some place (I don't remember where) and there were all kinds of people out walking and jogging. It was like a whole new world I had never seen before since I usually don't go out of the house before 9 a.m normally.
Once in a while I get up really early , but I can't imagine willingly doing it daily.
I notice there are many, many activities geared for early risers. Obviously people have very different circadian rhythms.
I sometimes envy early risers, but not really!
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The Villages, the city that never sleeps?
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About two months ago I woke in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep so I started looking at totv. There were more than 300 people on line. I thought well.....I guess I'm not the only poor soul that can't sleep
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The Villages, the city that never sleeps?

The Villages, the city where someone is always sleeping.
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The Villages, the city where someone is always sleeping.
You may be right. On my first long term visit after flying into Orlando and driving over to TV I stopped by the Publix on Colony about 9:30 pm to pick up some breakfast fixings for the next morning. They were closed! I just could not believe it. In the residential areas in which I have stayed in TV activity died down and it got quiet after dark, at least compared to suburbs in which I have resided.
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Because no one else does, I slept in the front bedroom last night rather than the master in the back of the house. This place never sleeps. I laid down about 10:15 or so and read for awhile. I had just fallen asleep when a mosquito spraying truck came through. Jump forward to about 3 and this place is hopping. The newspapers are delivered. Multiple cars (like 10 or so) doing who knows what. Who are all these people? This is not a rhetorical question.
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The Villages, the city that never sleeps?
But unlike NYC, it's due to insomnia here
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You take 1ooKpeople, mostly of mature years from all different backgrounds, you're going to get many different sleep patterns. The joke is that everyone in TV goes to bed at 9 p,m, but that's just not true. They may not be dancing in the squares at midnight but they're up, some of them are watching the late late show . Some are reading and posting to TOTV. some are taking a walk. Some are calling friends in a different time zone. And just as many,maybe not the same ones, are up again at 3 a.m. Or 5 a,m.
Actually older adults don't need to sleep for 8 hours. 5 hours wil do just fine.
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When it's too hot I run between 3 and 4am. Depending on where you are workers are going to golf courses, spraying something at the pond across the street from us. Community watch checking to make sure I am safe (yes as they drive by ask if I am doing ok). Newspaper guys, garbage trucks. And don't forget those pesky coyote's trying to get my heart rate a little faster.
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