When I wake in the morning and the sun is streaming through the curtains, I automatically jump out of bed and want to be doing things.

When I wake and it's dark, overcast and I can hear the rain splashing in the guttering, I feel even more sleepy and ill and sometimes even think of pulling a sicky!

Why is this? does anyone ever feel great when it's raining?.

I don't let the weather affect me in any way.

It always affects me - I also get change of season effects - when it warms up in sprng I get a hyper session and dont sleep for a wile and loose weight and then in autumn go the other way and sleep and eat solidly for about a week!

The weather certainly makes me warmer or colder.... wetter sometimes too...

Gotta be a Rainking ;)

Originally posted by evildrneil
It always affects me - I also get change of season effects - when it warms up in sprng I get a hyper session and dont sleep for a wile and loose weight and then in autumn go the other way and sleep and eat solidly for about a week!

Thats another thing! I also tend to sleep more in winter. When I get home from work I can sleep till the cows come home, but in the summer, I just want to be out and about!

I think it's because of the dark afternoons, mixing my brain up and making me want to hibernate! :confused:

I love the dark nights and mornings and I am a much happier bunny in the winter than I am in summer. I love getting home from work, curling up on the settee with a hot chocolate, the fire on and watching the elements rage outside! You know where you are with winter - its cold, dull and dark as it should be!

Will only say yes it does. Summer storms are the worst.

Yup!

Heavy weather makes me grumpy and headachey.

When I was a school governor I was told about 'Billy Wind', which was the name that the teachers give to windy days. All the kids get hyperactive.

The 'Mistral' in the South of France blows up from North Africa and that's also known as a wind that brings mood changes - it carries a lot of ions on it from the desert.

Apart from the humidity - I love cold, clear dry days in Winter. Late October always depresses me irrespective of weather.

Joe

I love getting up early on a dark winters morning as much as getting up on a bright early summers morning:thumbsup: Snow, rain or sun, it doesn't bother me at all.

Originally posted by JoePritchard
Yup!
Heavy weather makes me grumpy and headachey.
Joe

If the yup was at me then, no that is not what it does to me ;)

It certainly does, if it is raining or wet I am peed off, sunny - happy. In fact I know somebody that hates rainy days so much he had to change shifts because he doesen't get up if the weather is so bad. He gets depressed!

Alex

I prefer the cool weather during the working week, means I dont have to work in a sticky-tacky office surrounded by PC's and a building with no Air Con (been knackered for years and still not repaired!)..

Originally posted by beckb
I love the dark nights and mornings and I am a much happier bunny in the winter than I am in summer. I love getting home from work, curling up on the settee with a hot chocolate, the fire on and watching the elements rage outside! You know where you are with winter - its cold, dull and dark as it should be! Beckb - my Idea of a nightmare, snuggling up as you describe! I struggle and slip my way down the hill to the pub, and back again, in the snow, and ice...
and yes, I do hate the dark, short days
Is your 'star' ie sun sign cancer, by any way? What you descrbe is supposed to be stereotypical of sun in cancer...
I used to be an astrologer:loopy:

I hated standing at bus stops in the freezing wind and cold. So - I emigrated. Now I welcome the rain and cooler weather, are we never satisfied ?

Yes the weather does shape your mood - in fact i lived in germany for 3 years and when they did a weather forecast on TV they always followed it with bio-wetter for the regions - this would let you know how the weather would affect your mood for the day - for example if it was a damp kind of day this would bring on your aches and pains and affect older people in particular, especially if they have rheumatism etc

nice fresh crisp weather makes you feel good, energetic while humid close weather makes you more lethargic

so in essence to a certain extent the weather shapes you biologically - no surprises there really!

or having said that though i wonder then if people that live in humid climates for example are 'biologically' more lethargic ?!?!
i doubt it
erm i'll shut up now :D

Its no lethargy its indolence *points to sig*!!!!

Originally posted by Bedhead
Yes the weather does shape your mood - in fact i lived in germany for 3 years and when they did a weather forecast on TV they always followed it with bio-wetter for the regions - this would let you know how the weather would affect your mood for the day - for example if it was a damp kind of day this would bring on your aches and pains and affect older people in particular, especially if they have rheumatism etc

nice fresh crisp weather makes you feel good, energetic while humid close weather makes you more lethargic

so in essence to a certain extent the weather shapes you biologically - no surprises there really!

or having said that though i wonder then if people that live in humid climates for example are 'biologically' more lethargic ?!?!
i doubt it
erm i'll shut up now :D
Spot on, humidity wraps it'self around you like a blanket. Makes you sweat so much that even when you've had a shower you feel no better and still can't get dry. So - yes it does make you lethargic and really gets you down. It's winter now and it's marvellous, catch up with all the jobs its too damn hot to do in summer, especially in the yard and I can even manage a game of golf.

I'm with the thread originator here.

When it is raining and still completely dark by the time I have got to work in the morning, I feel suicidal.
Knowing that you have to leave the warmth and comfort of your bed for the driving wind/rain/frost on the windscreen makes me so depressed.

When the birds are singing and the sun is shining, I cant get out of bed fast enough. Staying in bed late just feels like a waste of a nice day! Early mornings in summer are ace as they set me up in a good mood for the entire day.

Originally posted by jackthedog
When it is raining and still completely dark by the time I have got to work in the morning, I feel suicidal.
Knowing that you have to leave the warmth and comfort of your bed for the driving wind/rain/frost on the windscreen makes me so depressed.



i was a brickie for 10 years - there's no worst feeling in the world than waking up in the middle of winter on a dark wet cold n windy morning knowing i'd be spending the day outside knee deep in sh*t, soaked and laying wet (and therefore heavier) 9' thick concrete blocks, so slippery that they'd tear the skin off ya fingers every now and then - even worse if i was in a trench laying foundations - how the hell did i do that for 10 years :loopy:

anyhow i digress!

Bedhead

How very strange ! Some brickies once did a job for me and at the slightest hint of rain out would come the poly sheets and off they'd go to the pub..."Can't lay bricks in the wet" was their excuse. :D

Back on topic, - I'm happy to go to work in the cold, wet and windy weather but hate going to work on fine sunny days, whatever the season.

I am a much happier person when the sun is shining and its nice and warm (ie about 3 weeks out of 52)! I wish we could hibernate during the winter... its so horrible having to get out of bed and go to work in the morning when its cold! Maybe I'm really a hibernating animal such as a hamster but trapped inside a man's body... I may have to go to the doctors to discuss having a species-change operation next winter! But having said that, once I get used to the winter season I spend all my time longing for snow lol

Originally posted by Greybeard
Bedhead

How very strange ! Some brickies once did a job for me and at the slightest hint of rain out would come the poly sheets and off they'd go to the pub..."Can't lay bricks in the wet" was their excuse. :D



yes that's true can't do face brickwork in the rain - but you'll note that i was referring to blockwork :)

isn't there a medical condition that makes the typical weather of particilar seasons affect you?

Is is called SAD (Seasonal Affected Disorder) where people get depressed for winter?

I'm sure i read that, or maybe it was a dream...

Wilf

Not a dream! Can be treated (apparently) by sitting in front of a 'light box' for less than an hour a day, the type of light source is significant, I seem to remember, but a search on google would sort it out, I'm sure

Me and my mum get S.A.D. in the winter, although the current weather situation aint being helpful!

We've got a special 'daylight' lightbulb. It's very odd, it actually make the room feel like the middle of the day when it's dark outside!

Originally posted by Patchy
Maybe I'm really a hibernating animal such as a hamster but trapped inside a man's body...


Reminds me of Richard Gere for some reason.
Dunno why...

When the weather changes, it makes me happy. It's when we get the same weather for weeks on end that i get sad. I like the sunshine, but solid sunshine for three weeks would start to make me fidgetty. I love the rain, but if it rained solidly for three weeks, I wouldn't want to go outside. I like a bit of everything, but if I'm on holiday, i expect it to be nice and sunny and warm!! lolol :D

Isnt it called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? Im sure it affects me in the mornings, because if its all dark and rainy I really dont want to get up for work (more than usual anyway!)