lullableYou do not properly get going until the sun has gone down. Midnight is early; one or two is more honest. Mornings, when they cannot be avoided, are endured. The mind that keeps you up is the same one that does its best work at eleven at night, and with three hearts' worth of curiosity it needs somewhere quiet to go when it is done.
What your night tends to look like
- Sleep window
- About 1:00–2:00 am to 9:00–10:00 am
- Sharpest hours
- The evening, often past 9 pm
- Last coffee
- Before 4 pm
- Wind down
- From half past midnight
A story for your wind-down: The Midnight Museum Beneath the Sea.
Or a sound with no words at all: Far shore, distant Pacific surf at Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, free on greensound.
Whatever hour you finally lie down, the moment is the same: a mind still running. Lullable reads you true, quietly fascinating things in a voice that gets softer every minute, so the thinking has somewhere to go.
Get the appThe other four
- BlackbirdDefinitely a morning type. The first voice in the dawn chorus, singing before there is light to sing by.
- TortoiseModerately a morning type. An early riser who keeps to the daylight and is in no hurry inside it.
- SheepNeither, and in good company. Neither lark nor owl, and the most common of the five, which seems fitting.
- MothModerately an evening type. The evening is where you come alive, usually near a lamp.