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Night Owls vs Early Birds

DaisyRose

DaisyRose

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I like being a night owl! I like to stay up and do whatever I want. I feel like it can have its pro’s and con’s sometimes. Being a night owl can suck when their are times when I want to go to sleep, but can’t shut off my brain. I don’t know if other people feel the same, but I was thinking about it and wanted to comment on it.

I also would like to be an early bird as well. I feel like you can get more stuff done. It can make you more productive with getting things done. It can also be painful to get up, which is what I struggle with. I try to do it, then I end up going back to sleep anyways.
 
I love getting up early. These days I go to bed around 7-8 PM and wake up around 3-4 AM. I get nice quiet time to do what I want before work. I also feel like I can engage in my interests and accomplish things before it's light out, and people in my area are up. Then I have most of the day ahead of me.
 
Mr. Stevens said:
I love getting up early. These days I go to bed around 7-8 PM and wake up around 3-4 AM. I get nice quiet time to do what I want before work. I also feel like I can engage in my interests and accomplish things before it's light out, and people in my area are up. Then I have most of the day ahead of me.
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That’s awesome to hear I’m happy you are able to do that for yourself. Thinking about how everyone has a different way of going about their day and accomplishing their goals is so cool. We all operate differently in a way that works for our individual needs.
 
I'm a morning person these days. Used to be a night owl when I used to drink. These days I'm in bed between 20:30 - 21:45 and awake between 05:00 - 06:00.

Being a morning person feels helpful in winter. Back when I used to drink I found it a little bit disconcerting when I would wake up late - around midday, and then after a few hours daylight it's dark again outside.

Scientific studies suggest being a morning person is the healthiest approach. Although I understand the appeal of being a night owl. But now I'm in my new process, I see that being up early is more beneficial.

"Darkness is like a mirror: It shows you what you don’t want to see.”

Ed
 
Mr. Stevens said:
I love getting up early. These days I go to bed around 7-8 PM and wake up around 3-4 AM. I get nice quiet time to do what I want before work. I also feel like I can engage in my interests and accomplish things before it's light out, and people in my area are up. Then I have most of the day ahead of me.
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Night owl here.
I go to bed about the time you get up.
Then I sleep until almost noon. When others are having lunch, I have breakfast.
Dinner is at 8pm.

That's just my circadian rhythm, I guess. Always been that way, except during
grade school.
The man I house-share with is the same.
He is a retired cop and had all different times for his shifts when he worked.
So did I when I was a pharmacist and did night deliveries afterwards.
We pretty much do our own thing during the day and eat dinner together.
Then we watch TV at night until 1 am.
He goes to bed at that time, and I go to my PC until 3 or 4 am.

@Raggamuffin the night is quite and a peaceful time for me. I enjoy it.
 
I always got up early as a kid, and was stuck watching televangelists until cartoons came on. But, at least I was the only one awake in the house.
 
SusanLR said:
Night owl here.
I go to bed about the time you get up.
Then I sleep until almost noon. When others are having lunch, I have breakfast.
Dinner is at 8pm.
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I get up at noon and lunch is considered breakfast to me. I’ve been like that for four years now. I was in online learning most of the time I was in college, so it worked perfectly for my schedule. I usually eat dinner around 4 or 5 pm with my family. We always stick to a schedule with eating at the dinner table together.
 
My rhythms have been all over the place for the last year or so but I prefer it when I go to bed about 10:00 and wake up at 6:00. That was a rhythm I had for more than 25 years of working life and I prefer it. I like seeing the world brighten at dawn.
 
I’ve always been an early morning person. As a young child i delivered morning newspapers and was back home before anyone else was up. I loved being outside under the starry night sky.
The quiet when no one else is awake is soothing.
 
Night owl here. I was never a morning person at all. Then one day at my old job, my boss asked if I would like to give night shift a go while one of the regular night crew was on holiday. I have never been more alert, awake and productive. I continued the night owl life as best I could after I left there. Quiet, peaceful, electricity is cheaper, internet is faster. Just have to respect the early birds and not make too much noise!
 
I've always been a night owl. But for my responsible adult life (ie family, etc) I almost never stay up past 2:30. My wife is starting to become a morning person which she never was before. She's starting to go to bed as early as 8:30pm and getting up between 3-4am. It's starting to rub off on me a bit because I'm starting to go to bed earlier too. The main disadvantage to staying up very late in my opinion is when I sleep until 10:00-10:30 and finally get going, it's already afternoon. Half the day is already gone.
 
I am both. I think it probably all began when I worked a split shift for over a decade. 7 to 11 in the morning and 4 to 8 at night. This started a pattern of a long afternoon nap and a short sleep overnight. This still seems to be my main habit, but I do notice my sleep patterns currently evolving, three months into sobriety. Just not sure which way the patterns are forming.

Like many of you, I fully enjoy the wee hours. The late late night and very early morning both are my favorite times, so this fractured sleep doesn’t seem all bad to me.
 
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I'm both. I'm primarily a Night Owl, because daylight makes me ill and I love the calm energy of darkness. I like to stay up until almost dawn so I can enjoy the dark as much as possible. I usually go to bed around 4 am., but sometimes as late (early?) as 5 or 6.

Unfortunately I also have sleep disorders, meaning I only sleep for about 4 hours. I wake up around 8-9 am most mornings because of daylight, anxiety, and my pets who want to eat. Despite the lack of sleep I enjoy being up early when the house is quiet and everything seems peaceful, so I can identify as an Early Bird as well.
 
I'm running at a solid 10 am - 6 pm sleep time right now. If I was fully alone and without responsibility, I'd be okay with any schedule and I'd just adapt to what I wanted out of a day. Sadly there's more noise and obligations at certain times of day so it's awkward to move things around. Really wish I was free in this regard, I believe sleeping with alarms is very bad for you.
 
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