Do you enjoy spending time alone, by yourself, in silent reverie with nobody bugging you?

Question

Well silent, except for blabbering to one's self.

Answer 1

Yes...I love spending time alone, I use to have some difficulty with why would I rather be alone than out with friends and family doing the "visiting and socialization" thing. Finally accepted the fact that I'm a classic introvert and started doing some research on the subject. Great book "The Introvert Advantage" by Marti Olsen Laney.

Those of us who are introverts not only find spending time alone enjoyable we actually seek it out, sometimes to the exclusion of others, and we require our solitude in order to recharge ourselves. Laney likens the introvert to a rechargeable battery that must be plugged in from time to time to get back up to full speed.

Statistically....25% of the world population are introverts and there is a correlation between introversion and high intelligence (something like 50% of the introverts are above average intelligence). Note to self: Don't get to puffed up...you may not be in the upper half of this particular statistic.

Folks who are classic introverts: Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Jordan, Thomas Edison, Grace Kelly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Gates, Clint Eastwood, Charles Schultz, Steve Martin and Harrison Ford to name a few....all folk who love(d) spending time alone.

Answer 2

I am a natural recluse, which has made relationships and marriage hard for me. I have to stay up until the wee hours of the morning in order to have solitude and peace and quiet and that doesnt go over well with most partners.

And I never get enough sleep because I need this time alone. I hate it when you are reading and someone comes and sits down and starts chatting as if you are only reading because you are bored and have no one to talk to.

Nothing offends people like saying "I really would rather not talk to you, or anyone else, I want to read for awhile and have some time to myself".

Without fail the person asks "Are you mad at me? Why are you mad at me? What did I do? Why are you being like that?"

I cant go to bed with a partner at night without having that time alone at the end of the day. I feel smothered, and oppressed and "crowded" -

IF I do I always get up and go out into the LR to be alone, meditate, think, read, talk to God, listen to the silence, centre myself - just me, the moon and stars, and God -- the silence of the night, when the world slows down, the noise is hushed and you can hear a cricket in the yard.

And people tend to be offended if you get up and dont want to "cuddle" in bed.

I am a night person. I love the night, I sometimes go for drives, late at night, sit outside and look at the stars. I should have been a cat burglar, slipping through the shadows.

I dont talk to myself, never have, too noisy.

Because I am a night person I have heard the Northern lights humming when the rest of the world is silent when I Iived up north, I have seen the silver foxes playing in the snow under the northern lights, I have seen the great white snowy owls hunting in the moonlight. My husband and kids were sleeping and missed these amazing sights.

Answer 3

I also live alone and enjoy the silence reverie of nobody bugging me. I can dress as I want, Eat when and what I want, Go to bed and get up when I want and change the channel on the Tv as I want.

Have 2 cats who sleep most of the day and pull security at night.

Company is nice but it's nicer when they leave

I can IM and Y!a all I want.

Answer 4

Yes, I love my own company. My hubby told me along time befoe we married that I could contentedly live alone for the rest of my life. He was correct. I have anough children and now grandchildren that alone time and total quiet are a rare event. I use to stay up much later and get up much earlier than everyone in the house just to get those 1 1/2 to 2 hours alone.
Still getup in the middleof the night and sit at the dining table and pray, meditate, do reality checks or read.
If you do not take time to know and love yourself how can you expect others to...

Answer 5

Ab-so-lute-ly.

I need that time in the morning especially, when I am sipping my coffee and watching the birds outside.

I also love, love love the late night hours when I can watch old movies on television. All by myself without interruption by the telephone, etc. I have always enjoyed being away from the silly gossipy girls as I was growing up. I enjoyed reading a lot too. I am a female, I am just not a "groupie."

Answer 6

I have some "ME" time early in the morning and when I get home before my wife does. I like to get off by myself from time to time. Years ago I'd just take a day off (late spring, all summer), go south of town, go out on the beach and walk 1/2 hour to 3/4 hour almost to North Carolina, strip down and spend the day nude sunbathing and body surfing. No one around, and those that DID come by hardly gave me a glance.

Answer 7

I have always enjoyed being alone.

My parents could never understand it, my grandparents always enjoyed the fact that I could always entertain myself.

My favorite thing to do now is sit alone in the park or on the porch and look at the birds or read a book.
I even enjoy lunch alone.
Maybe it stems from coming from such a large-close family.

Answer 8

I believe those are some of the best moments in life. And I also believe that most people enjoy those moments alone. Notice I said most. My wife does not handle being alone well. She enjoys company. She had a bad experience when she was young.

Answer 9

I have always been this way. As a young person mom had to scoot me outside to get me away from my guitar, listening to music, reading, writing poetry. I wasn't known as a loner or anything, I just enjoyed my hobbies. But once outside i had a ball with my friends.

Answer 10

I live alone and enjoy the solitude of just letting my mind happen. People are okay in small doses, it's like taking cod liver oil.