Top Five Reasons Why People Stay Late at Night

Ever wonder why some people stay ;ate at night? Why they are in their active physical state at night than during the day?

They are not vampires or something. And they are not looking for blood either. 

Or are you staying late at night too? What have you been doing?

This article shows why people stay up late at night.

Let’s start at the bottom of our list and move way up.

5. Watch a TV/movie show

This is true to those home buddies out there that stayed late at night in their abode.

Watching Late Show by David Lettermen? Then you are in this category. 

But not only that, people may watch TV series late at night. Watching Glee? Or perhaps House? Smallville? 

Some got large repositories of movies at home making them easy to do a movie marathon. Perhaps a marathon on Shrek 1,2,3 & 4? Or the Twilight Saga?

And some watch their favorite Anime series (japanese animation). Naruto Shipuuden? Bleach? One Piece?

Whatever show you’ll watch to stay up late at night, may it be an action show, drama, documentaries, or whatever gruesome or eye-popping that might be, then you are in this category.

4. Play video games

Video games, video games, video games. Those hardcore gamers out there can relate to this. 

Have you been playing in Playstation console? in XBox? in Dreamcast? in Nintendo? or in your PC?

People spend hours and hours playing their favorite game. They tend to forget time due to the fact that they want to complete the game. They want to complete the mission. They want to defeat the boss. They want to level up. Sitting down and holding those controllers, staring at those screens, thumb movements pressing the buttons, time flies so fast you don’t realize it’s late at night. 

3. Work

Well, many people stay up late because they work.

Working night shift for call centers are common. Some work in the bar. Some work in the hotel. Others work in the pharmacy, some in the hospitals, and other medical institutions that needs employees at night for emergency reasons. Let’s not forget to mention firemen and policemen too. They are awake at night for duty.

There are also soldiers awake at night. Staying alert and prepared for ambush and attacks. That’s work too right?  And there are spies, and secret agents…oh well, back to main topic. LOL!

Most people in this category sleeps in the day and awake at night. And their time mechanism on their bodies adjusted to that habit. Energy drinks and other energy-giving products were used to achieve awareness during the night. 

This is all for the sake of profit, some for extra income, some for the sake of duty, some for honor, and some for livelihood.

Prostitutes, anyone?

2. Fun night

Well, this is common. People stays out at night to go to bars and parties. They meet up with people and hangs out with friends (and other women…gosh!). They dance along blinking lights, they eat, drink liquors. It’s like party all night. 

Some went to restaurants, others went to casinos to gamble. Some just stays along the streets with their buddies doing crazy stuffs.

This category is all fun. A picture of smile engraves along their faces that signifies enjoyment.  

1. spend time on the internet

Oh this is one of the main reason why people stay late at night. Internet has been growing and helpful nowadays. It helps connect to friends, may it be old lost friend, or a friend physically away from you. Communication here is the key. And this is what social networking is all about. Facebook, MySpace, Friendster and Twitter to name a few. Several of people are now addicted to this social networking stuffs. And the numbers are getting bigger.

Aside from social networking, we got video and audio streaming. YouTube is an example for this. Lots of videos and lots of music just at the tip of your hands. It’s about Entertainment. Anybody can search for specific videos, may it be a hilarious video, or a tutorial video, video streaming is abundant these days.

Another thing to consider here is about Peer-to-Peer sharing. Torrent downloads, for example, might ring a bell. With torrents, you can download movies, softwares, games, music, videos. 

And there are lots of stuff in the net that injects you with virtual caffeine to stay up wide awake at night. And there are millions and billions of people grab on to this virtual caffeine, making this the top list of why people stay late at night.

Irene makes landfall on quiet, anxious NYC

NEW YORK (AP) — Rainfall overflowed sewers and seawater lapped at sidewalks at the edges of New York City from densely populated lower Manhattan to the far reaches of Queens as a weakening Irene made landfall over Coney Island early Sunday.

Ocean water streamed into the main streets of the Rockaways, a peninsula in Queens that Mayor Michael Bloomberg had ordered evacuated. In Brooklyn, Coney Island streets were also under water, and in Red Hook, also along the harbor, water was coming in about 100 yards.

In Manhattan, water from New York Harbor washed the edge the sidewalk at Battery Park along the tip of the island. About a foot of water lapped over the wall of the marina in front of the New York Mercantile Exchange in lower Manhattan. A low-lying section of the promenade hugging Battery Park was also submerged.

One of two tubes of the Holland Tunnel, one of the main conduits between the borough and New Jersey, was closed because of flooding, authorities said.

Irene weakened after landfall over the North Carolina coast Saturday, but it was still a massive storm with sustained winds of up to 65 mph as it approached the city. Coinciding with a tide that was higher than normal, water levels were expected to rise as much as 8 feet.

Power was already out for hundreds of thousands of customers around the city and on New York's Long Island.

A possible storm surge on the fringes of lower Manhattan could send seawater streaming into the maze of underground vaults that hold the city's cables and pipes, knocking out power to thousands and crippling the nation's financial capital, forecasters said. Officials' feared water lapping at Wall Street, ground zero and the luxury high-rise apartments of Battery Park City. A tornado warning was briefly issued for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens early Sunday.

Battery Park City in lower Manhattan was virtually deserted as rain and gusty winds pummeled streets and whipped trees.

Resident Colin Mahoney was one of a handful of people in his building to defy the evacuation order and ride out the storm. "I'm from New England. We do storms there," Mahoney said as he walked along the Hudson River promenade in the pouring rain.

But, he added, "The mayor did the right thing. He had to."

Building supervisors who stayed behind were busy preparing for possible damage.

"We unplugged the drains and we fastened anything loose or removed it," said Malachy Darcy, the supervisors at 17 Battery Place, a 36-floor building facing the New York Harbor.

Darcy went to check the headwall across the street which would hold back any water surge, hoping it would hold back water.

In Times Square, shops boarded up windows and sandbags were stacked outside of stores. Construction at the World Trade Center site came to a standstill.

But taxi cabs were open for business as some residents donned rain gear and headed outside to check the weather or to head home after hotel shifts.

"I have to work. I would lose too much money," said cabbie Dwane Imame, who said he worked through the night. "There have been many people, I have been surprised. They are crazy to be out in this weather."

Bloomberg ordered more than 370,000 people out of low-lying areas, mostly in lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Only 9,600 people checked-in to shelters and an untold number defied the order.

"Oh, forget Bloomberg. We ain't going anywhere," 60-year-old Evelyn Burrus said at a large public housing complex in Brooklyn. "Go to some shelter with a bunch of strangers and bedbugs? No way."

Late Saturday, Bloomberg said it was no longer safe to be outside.

"The time for evacuation is over. Everyone should now go inside and stay inside," he said.

Many New Yorkers took the evacuation in stride. Some planned hurricane parties — some streaked through Times Square.

"We already have the wine and beer, and now we're getting the vodka," said Martin Murphy, a video artist who was shopping at a liquor store near Central Park with his girlfriend.

"If it lasts, we have dozens of movies ready, and we'll play charades and we're going to make cards that say, 'We survived Irene,'" he said.

The center of the storm was supposed to pass east of Manhattan about midmorning. The wind and rain wasn't to taper off until Sunday afternoon.

All subway, bus and commuter rail service was shuttered so officials could get equipment safely away from flooding, downed trees or other damage. It was the first time the nation's biggest transit system has shut down because of a natural disaster.

Boilers and elevators also were shut down in public housing in evacuation areas to encourage tenants to leave and to prevent people from getting stuck in elevators if the power went out.

Some hotels also shut off their elevators and air conditioners. Others had generators ready to go.

At a shelter in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, public housing residents arrived with garbage bags filled with clothing; others pushed carts loaded with their belongings.

Tenants said management got them to leave by telling them the water and power would be shut off.

"For us, it's him," said Victor Valderrama, pointing to his 3-year-old son. "I didn't want to take a chance with my son."

Con Edison brought in hundreds of extra utility workers from around the country. While the foot of Manhattan is protected by a seawall and a network of pumps, Con Ed vice president John Mucci said the utility stood ready to turn off the power to about 17,000 people in the event of severe flooding.

Mucci said it could take up to three days to restore the power if the cables became drenched with saltwater, which can be particularly damaging.

The New York Stock Exchange has backup generators and can run on its own, a spokesman said.

Con Ed also shut down about 10 miles of steam pipes underneath the city to prevent explosions if they came in contact with cold water. The shutdown affected 50 commercial and residential customers around the city who use the pipes for heat, hot water and air conditioning.

It could take days for the power to be restored. The subway system, which carries 5 million passengers on an average weekend, wasn't expected to restart until Monday at the earliest.

As Irene passes by, tides are higher than usual. The phenomenon adds about a half a foot to high tides, said Stephen Gill, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The storm surge was likely to be as much as 4 to 8 feet.

More than 8.3 million people live in New York City, and nearly 29 million in the metropolitan area.

A hurricane warning was issued for the city for the first time since Gloria in September 1985. That storm blew ashore on Long Island with winds of 85 mph and caused millions of dollars in damage, along with one death in New York.

City police rescued two kayakers who capsized in the surf off Staten Island. They were found with their life jackets on, bobbing in the roiling water.

The area's three major airports — LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark Liberty — were closed. With the subways closed, many were left to hail taxis. To encourage cab-sharing and speed the evacuation, passengers were charged not by the mile but by how many different fare "zones" their trip crossed.

Dozens of buses arrived at the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league ballpark in Coney Island to help residents get out. Nursing homes and hospitals were emptied.

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Associated Press writers Beth Fouhy, Jennifer Peltz, Amy Westfeldt, Verena Dobnik, Tom Hays, Meghan Barr, David B. Caruso, Colleen Long and Deepti Hajela in New York contributed to this report.

15 Interesting Facts about Dreams :)

1. You forget 90% of your dreams. Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

2. Blind people also dream. People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.

3. Everybody dreams. Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think, you are not dreaming, you just forget your dreams.

4. In our dreams, we only see faces that we already know. Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

5. Not everybody dreams in color. A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today, only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.

6. Dreams are symbolic. If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

7. Emotions; The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.

8. You can have four to seven dreams in one night. On average, you can dream anywhere from one or two hours every night.

9. Animals dream too. Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.

10. Body Paralysis.

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.

During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.

11. Dream Incorporation. Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means that sometimes, in our dreams, we hear a sound from reality and incorporate it in a way. For example you may be dreaming that you are in a concert, while your brother is playing a guitar during your sleep.

12. Men and women dream differently. Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.

13. Precognitive Dreams. Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher, ranging from 63% to 98%.

14. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.

15. You can experience an orgasm in your dreams. You can not only have s e x as pleasurable as in your real life while dreaming, but also experience an o r g a s m as strong as a real one, without any wet results. The sensations felt while lucid dreaming (touch, pleasure and etc..) can be as pleasurable and strong (or I believe even stronger) as the sensations experienced in the real world.