I like to think about science in the evening, after dinner. It's a good time for me to think structurally about upcoming experiments: what order to carry them out; reagents to order; protocol details; analytical aspects. If I'm on a roll, I'll write down a list of everything in my head and tuck it in my bag for the next day.
For me, this clears my mind--all the ideas buzzing around get written down so I don't need to carry them in my brain, and I can go to bed clear-headed. For Dr Hyde, though, evening is the worst possible time to think about experiments. He starts ruminating and brain-storming and fretting, and insomnia is the inevitable result. Writing things down just makes him think more about them.
So we live in a strange evening split, where I am often thinking about my upcoming week but I cannot mention any of it to Dr Hyde, who will grab his head and cry "No, no science now!"
Instead he thinks on the bus in the morning, which I can't do at all--too groggy and easily distracted. So if we ride the bus together, he wants to tell me his latest, and I only nod and smile because I really can't follow logic in the early morning.
It's good we eat dinner together or we might never find out what the other is up to.
15 years ago
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I like to think about science in the morning and the evening.
I just don't usually get to ("Daddy, transform him!" "WAAAAAA" "What's for dinner?" "What should we make the kids for lunch tomorrow" "Did I leave the iron on?").
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When I was in graduate school, my advisor was trying to convince me to obsess more over science. He says: I was up at 4am thinking about you project, were YOU?
I though, God, I don't want to be like that even if I aspire to be a successful scientist. I found out later he has insomnia. He was up at 4am no matter what, why not think of my project?
I'm a science in the morning person, myself. My commute is where I get my best thinking done, but most of it leaves my head quickly if I don't write it down.
Much like Dr. Hyde, if I start thinking about anything late at night, it leads to really crap sleep, if any sleep at all. My brain just won't stop.
Last night was an example when my husband tried to have a real conversation about things post-midnite. I was up another two hours even after making a list and he kept happily chatting. He knows I zone out, though.
Yeah, it's impressive to get in a few words edgewise between "I think he's hungry, again," and "This diaper is calling to you."
Dr H totally wakes up at 4am and thinks about science. If I wake up at 4am, i think about getting back to sleep.
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@PIU prof - my prof is the same way. And I felt the same way the first time an insomniac scientist tried to use the fact that they are up at all hours "thinking about research" to impress me - and then found out they would be up anyway.
LOL! I love this. I am totally like Dr. Hyde. CANNOT do science at night, insomnia is the inevitable result. MrPhD is forbidden to ask me about certain things after dinner.
I also prefer to make plans in the morning, although I picked up a habit from one of my role models to make a list at the end of the day for things to do the day after. I still sometimes revise it in the morning, but it really does help to keep the stress levels down.
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