You know you've stayed up too late when...

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<p>That’s when you know you suffer from a phenomenon called, “Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder”—Ask me how I know…:smiley:
[Delayed</a> Sleep Phase - Diagnosis and Treatment Options at Mayo Clinic](<a href=“http://www.mayoclinic.org/delayed-sleep-phase/]Delayed”>Delayed sleep phase - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic)</p>

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<p>OK, how do you know?? Would posting at 2:37 have anything to do with it?</p>

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<p>For the Pokemon players out there: …when the screen gets brighter because it is ‘day time’ in the game… (time in the game corresponds with the time you set in the DS)</p>

<p>…when the shower goes on. My parents wake up at 5 T__T</p>

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<p>When I am sitting here at my desk and am holding my head up with my propped arm.</p>

<p>Love summer nights and am not willing to give up ANY of them (but pay back in the morning!)</p>

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<p>How do you guys get through work the next day??? I have found as I get older, I can less function on little sleep. Production levels go down, both personally and professionally, if I stay up too late.</p>

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<p>When my kids come down for school/work at 5:30am and say ‘I’m glad for the hot breakfast, but you really should have gone to bed.’. They know I’m not getting up that early JUST to cook breakfast…but if I’m STILL up, why not?</p>

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<p>That’s extreme!!! ^^^^^</p>

<p>(Late to me means past midnight when getting up at 6:30 for work!!! - so we all may have a different idea of LATE!!!) :)</p>

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<p>^Same for me, abasket.</p>

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<p>I recall a stand-up comic saying you know you’re up too late when you turn on the TV and there’s a boxing match between two Caucasian guys.</p>

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<p>garland, i find that my ‘up in the middle of the night’ mom mode can easily be called on - and it helps that i learned to function on intermittent sleep when on call in my job, and i play catch up sleep on the weekends- i know that this is not ideal but being in medicine i have been doing this since my 20’s and am now in my mid 50’s. also one cup of morning coffee helps.</p>

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<p>When the advertisements on the TV channel you are watching are all Enzyte and Phone whores - (and no it’s not that sort of channel - just repeats of old sitcoms like Frasier and According to Jim).</p>

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<p>When I hear Craig Ferguson’s theme song…and I see Pink’s…I used to go out with the kids for Pinks. Or…speaking of Hawaii, when we used to hear Hawaii Calls on the radio late a night.</p>

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<p>Poetsheart, yes, tell me how you know…</p>