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[xiphias]

It is winter. In winter, when it is cold and the days are short, I wish to hibernate. A good winter would be waking up at sunrise, basking in the sunlight for a couple hours, perhaps doing a very few things, maybe reading, and then back to sleep at sunset. The winter makes me want to sleep for sixteen hours and be awake eight.

Yet I am, ostensibly, a human, and, ostensibly, humans don't hibernate.

It's just that we SHOULD.

I want to spend the winter curled piled in a room with sleeping friends and family, with a stove for warmth on which we occasionally cook stews or thick soups, and have hot drinks, sometimes alcoholic, sometimes not. And not come out of the room until spring.

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[michele-blue.livejournal.com]

That sounds like utter perfection.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

My vote is for living somewhere that doesn't have such severe winters, but that's just me.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

If you know of a place with mild winters and not too hot summers, please share this wonderous location with the rest of us! What keeps me from moving down south is I react badly in high summer heat. Winter driving I can find a way to tolerate, but when I overheat, I have a very hard time cooling off and staying cooled off.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

...plateaux in sub-tropical regions?

I don't know if you have any there (I'm in Oz, where we do, but I don't live on one)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I tolerate heat a lot better than I tolerate cold. Also, one of my favorite leisure activities--motorcycling--cannot easily be engaged in when there's frozen crud on the roads.

Besides, you don't have to shovel heat.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I LIKE winter. I just want to enjoy winter mostly curled up in my little den.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

I think we should too. We should start something like daylight savings time but instead call it daylight hibernation time.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Now there's a plan *brings floofy floor cushion and blankie to share* Shift over a bit... :)

[navrins]

See, I feel similarly about the summer. A good summer would be waking up at midnight, when it's cool, doing a few things, and back to sleep just after sunrise.

Winter is fine. Run the heaters, bundle up when going out, and cope.

[aethelflaed2.livejournal.com]

This sounds alot like what I did today. I went out to run a few errands in the sunshine. When I came home, I found my Maggie and my roommie's Simon curled up on my bed. So, I grabbed a book and snuggled in between the two cats. Alas, the purring immediately lulled me to sleep.

Yay for hibernation!!

[kiya]

My inner bear agrees with you entirely.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Count me in - hibernation is winter heaven. But, alas, I am working and in school. Curling up with a good fiction book rather than hard to understand philosophy would be great with me right now. Just one more paper to write...

[alandd.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on that... Would be nice.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I so agree with you.

Long ago, a similar train of thought led me to write this:
http://browngirl.livejournal.com/36737.html

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

I've barely left the house in over a week. Brrrr!!

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

Me too... sort of...

I'd like to go to bed with the sun, and get up with it too...

... but I might be too restless a person to sleep so much while the sun was up.

I think I would most like to spend the winter reading.

Kiralee

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Going through some old computer files, I came across this from an article I wrote on the Hebrew month of Kislev:

Kislev is related to the stomach, and its healing energy is associated with sleep. As we enter Kislev, with its shorter days and darker nights, let us pay attention to our need for rest. Many animals hibernate during this season. Perhaps humans, also, need to slow down and enter the quiet place of our stomach, our center. Kislev offers an opportunity to learn from night consciousness. Our dreams have much to tell us. Take time for reflection, meditation, and introspection during this month of Kislev. (written November 1995)

I guess I've felt this way for a very long time!