To walk go for walks at night?

[AVirginLitTheCandle]

I suffer from depression and anxiety and sometimes I have episodes that usually occur in the middle of the night where I get really anxious, I can't sleep and I just have thoughts buzzing through my head.

One of the things that help me with these is going for a walk. I find the night time air really refreshing and it really helps clear my head. I also find the quietness very relaxing too if that makes sense.

However when I told DP that I do this he was horrified and thinks I'm being silly to go for walks at 2/3 in the morning despite the fact we live in a safe town with very little crime.

That and a few other comments recently have made me feel like I'm doing something wrong.

I also live in a student town, and yours must be much safer than mine. It simply wouldn't be sensible to do that here.

Nope, I have done this for nearly 30 years, it's fine, it's a good time of day to go out if you're introverted and want to see the world as it is.

My favourite poem is by Charles Wright

Clear Night

Clear night, thumb-top of a moon, a back-lit sky.
Moon-fingers lay down their same routine
On the side deck and the threshold, the white keys and the black keys.
Bird hush and bird song. A cassia flower falls.

I want to be bruised by God.
I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.
I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.

I want to be entered and picked clean.

And the wind says “What?” to me.
And the castor beans, with their little earrings of death, say “What?” to me.
And the stars start out on their cold slide through the dark.

And the gears notch and the engines wheel.

I love walking at night, but am too well socialised to do it. :( If you are being safe about it - walk on!

I like the crisp air that I don't have to share with anyone else or cars. I used to run in the middle of the night when my brain wouldn't switch off. These days I take the dog for a walk parts at night when the mid takes me, which is quite often I suppose.

Walk on.

Pre-children, I used to go running at midnight quite regularly. And I would love to go for walks at 3am these days, the world feels so much calmer and soothing!

I live in a high-crime area so personally wouldn't do this myself but can totally see the appeal. Must be a great way to cleae your mind.

Oh wow before I met my husband I would get restless at night and head out for long walks at 10/11 at night. I loved it - my DH finds it odd and unsafe so I've dropped it over the years but I miss it very much.

I never felt it more unsafe....I suppose I rationalized that it was they were the same spaces as during the day and the likelihood of someone crouched behind a bush low, but I suppose that could be naive...

I am much less fit and healthy than when I did this so...perhaps it's time to revive the practice

Typing errors...I mean they are the same spaces as in the daytime!