At 8 p.m. you look at the clock, and you just can’t help it. Your PJs are calling out to you, and in a flash you’re ready for bed and fast asleep. Friends and family know the drill, despite lots of offhand comments about how lame you are for going to bed so early. Don’t worry though, we are here to support your sleep choices, and share your struggle of being the friend that goes to bed really early.
1. You get tired ridiculously early–sometimes even at 6 p.m.
Which basically means you’re useless for all nighttime activities. Don’t even get started on how you feel about night classes!
2. You are absolutely incapable of taking an afternoon nap. Either you’ve been cursed by a very powerful wizard or it’s genetically impossible.
4 p.m. or 8 p.m.—what’s the difference? If you take a nap you might as well sleep the rest of the night.
3. This makes afternoon plans with your friends really hard since they’re all busy napping.
While you’re left in sleepless in bed to watch more Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
4. Making nighttime plans with your friends is even harder.
And it means missing a lot of those crazy “college” type activities.
5. It’s pretty common to go to sleep wrestling with FOMO and thinking about all the fun you might be missing.
That is until you realize that your bed is 1000 times better than going out.
6. In the morning you usually wake up to bunches of text messages asking “where are you?” and “are you seriously asleep already?”
Any solicitation to hang out after 8 p.m. will likely go unanswered. Sorry, not sorry.
7. You passionately feel that dinner should take place at 5:00, not 7:00.
Eating when the moon is out is essentially sacrilege. Everyone should be sleeping by then.
8. Going out to see a late movie is impossible, because you will inevitably fall asleep as soon as the previews start.
Action movies are accompanied by the exciting sound of your snores.
9. You only manage to make it out to a party or bar about once a month—if that.
Wometimes you pretend to fall asleep extra early just to avoid going out.
10. If your friends do manage to drag you out, there’s a horrifying probability that you will pass out on a couch in public.
While normal college students sneak off to a bedroom to hook up, you sneak off to take a quick nap.
11. Most people load up on coffee in the morning, but your caffeine intake happens as soon as it’s dark out.
Oh, is that starlight? Pardon me while I take 15 shots of espresso so that I can make it past sunset.
12. There is no such thing in your vocabulary as an “all-nighter.”
Those words incite a well-deserved scoff.
13. Half of your wardrobe consists of pajamas.
When you sleep as long as we do, PJ selection becomes just as important as daytime clothes.
14. The thought of exercising at night makes you want to throw up in your mouth.
If you tried to run on a treadmill, you would just fall down and stay there.