Are you a Night Owl or Early Bird?

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I really wish I was an early bird. I've have tried lots of different things to try and trick myself into getting up early but none of it has worked. I've set several alarms and slept right through them. I;ve had my OH wake me early and tell me it's time to get up and afterwards I'll have no recollection of the conversation. I bought the Lumie lamp, have put alarms in other rooms, have tried going to bed early and just lay there wide awake. I've set the clocks an hour ahead so to try and trick myself into thinking that it's an hour later. None of it works.

I would love to be an early bird and jump out of bed but for some reason I think I come alive at night. Less people around, no phone calls, you can watch TV and read without interruptions. Problem is that being a night owl doesn't suit my lifestyle which means I have to drag myself out of bed at the last minute to get ready and be on time.

Does anyone else have this, are you one of those people who wakes up and just pops out of bed or are you a night owl?

Stevieluvsye

Early bird. 6 hours kip does me, awake 6.30 during the week, 7 at the weekends. Nothing better than waking up at the weekends in blissful peace, nice coffee and sky news

Plopsu

Being an early bird does not equate to 'jump out of bed'. I don't much care for getting up at 5:00, I do it because I have to.

B-D-P--

Same, Bed by 10.30 up by 5.30
But still hate getting up put of bed.

completedit

Night owl but prefer chilling in the morning especially in summer

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Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Early bird. 6 hours kip does me, awake 6.30 during the week, 7 at the weekends. Nothing better than waking up at the weekends in blissful peace, nice coffee and sky news

Sky news?

jimgoose

Early bird here I suppose, bed by eleven and up at 7-7.15 but I am also incredibly good at impersonating a beached blue whale on weekend mornings.

Stevieluvsye

Rory Chubby Babbler wrote: »

Sky news?

I'm not sure what the question here is? I wrote sky news and your asking if it is sky news

Better "level" of presenters on the shows i watch in comparison to BBC News

yourdeadwright

Used to love proper late nights out coming home when the sun was back up and even if I wasn't out i'd up to all hours watching movies ,

Now I can't make it to 11 without passing out , i'm normally bed by 10/ 1030 ,

Weekends I will be up and out of the house with the little one by 0830hrs,
Have to make the most of your the weekends ,

Salary Negotiator

Early bird, particularly during the summer when it's bright at 5/6am. Less so during the winter.

Do enjoy a late night if there's booze involved, otherwise bed time is between 11-12.

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Stevieluvsye wrote: »

I'm not sure what the question here is? I wrote sky news and your asking if it is sky news

Better "level" of presenters on the shows i watch in comparison to BBC News

Seriously, who gets up early to watch Sky News and Kay Burley. Would you not make better use of your time rather than watch tabloid television?

Graces7

VERY early bird as in around 3-4 am.

I know, crazy, but that is how it has been for many years. Turn in very early too and as I live alone no harm to anyone. Walking the shores at first light in total peace is a joy

My extended family are in Canada so I get to call them in their evening...

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Graces7 wrote: »

VERY early bird as in around 3-4 am.

I know, crazy, but that is how it has been for many years. Turn in very early too and as I live alone no harm to anyone. Walking the shores at first light in total peace is a joy

My extended family are in Canada so I get to call them in their evening...

What do you mean by extended family, I've never heard that term used like that before?

Stevieluvsye

Rory Chubby Babbler wrote: »

Seriously, who gets up early to watch Sky News and Kay Burley. Would you not make better use of your time rather than watch tabloid television?

LOLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

@ 7AM on a saturday morning

Stevieluvsye

Rory Chubby Babbler wrote: »

What do you mean by extended family, I've never heard that term used like that before?

Are you on d hash? Serious question

jimgoose

Rory Chubby Babbler wrote: »

Seriously, who gets up early to watch Sky News and Kay Burley. Would you not make better use of your time rather than watch tabloid television?

Kay Burley is sex-ayyyyy. :cool:

SEPT 23 1989

depends on the time of the year

Arghus

Night Owl 100%

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Maybe you're tired in the morning from staying up all night thinking "what innocuous question can I ask people on boards.ie so that I can have a go at them when they answer?"

What are we at now, how clean is your house, how much sport does your boyfriend watch, when do you go to bed. I feel like you could get a commuting angle going if your offline life is still as bereft of human connection next week as it clearly is now?

debok

Albert Cool Strife wrote: »

Maybe you're tired in the morning from staying up all night thinking "what innocuous question can I ask people on boards.ie so that I can have a go at them when they answer?"

What are we at now, how clean is your house, how much sport does your boyfriend watch, when do you go to bed. I feel like you could get a commuting angle going if your offline life is still as bereft of human connection next week as it clearly is now?

He didn't force you to comment.

Ficheall

Went to sleep at 10.30am, now begins the struggle to get out of bed

endacl

jimgoose wrote: »

Kay Burley is sex-ayyyyy. :cool:

I think you may be severely sleep deprived.

chrissb8

Used to love staying up at night til ridiculous times and thinking 5 or 6 hours is more than enough. It really wasn't and if I don't get at least 6.5 hours sleep I'm useless and kinda depressed throughout the day.

I can stay up late and I do on the weekends if I'm tucking into a new tv series or just hanging with friends/GF. But I have to have the time to get me 7 hours. Think it's a weird point of pride for people who say things like "I only need 4 or 5 hours" with some pride. Just because you can work fine on that doesn't mean you should. You're not some elite efficient human you need the same sleep like the rest of us.

Rubberchikken

i work nights so i dont know what i am any more:)

freshpopcorn

I'd say I'm a night owl.
I also find it easier to do things at night time because others are gone to bed and it's easier to stay get things done without others help.

Junkyard Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLQelRVklB8

Church on Tuesday

Night Owl here.

I love the peace and quiet and I don't really come into my own until about evening time.

I like mornings too but I'm just not wired to be a Early Bird, I'm basically a cranky zombie then.

Leg End Reject

Night owl, I feel like the world is conspiring against me in the morning.

Wanderer78

Early bed, which hates getting up early

Gorgeousgeorge

Night owl. Love the peace and quiet of night but unfortunately I'm up at 6 so dont get to embrace it all that much

Scarinae

I'm generally a night owl; I don't usually get tired in the evenings, I go to bed more out of habit. It also takes me a while to fully wake up in the mornings, I run on a sort of autopilot. When I was doing college exams though I used to go to bed at 8-8:30pm and get up at 4am, I found that worked much better for me for going over notes etc before the exams themselves.

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Albert Cool Strife wrote: »

Maybe you're tired in the morning from staying up all night thinking "what innocuous question can I ask people on boards.ie so that I can have a go at them when they answer?"

What are we at now, how clean is your house, how much sport does your boyfriend watch, when do you go to bed. I feel like you could get a commuting angle going if your offline life is still as bereft of human connection next week as it clearly is now?

What's the matter did I trigger you? Are you and your band of merry men who constantly thank each others posts going to report me again so you can close down the thread because your feels are hurt? Give me a break, nobody forces you to post and then you try to get threads closed because you can't stand over your own comments and say that you are being trolled.

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Albert Cool Strife wrote: »

Maybe you're tired in the morning from staying up all night thinking "what innocuous question can I ask people on boards.ie so that I can have a go at them when they answer?"

What are we at now, how clean is your house, how much sport does your boyfriend watch, when do you go to bed. I feel like you could get a commuting angle going if your offline life is still as bereft of human connection next week as it clearly is now?

debok wrote: »

He didn't force you to comment.

I don't worry about it. There's a gaggle of them who spend most of their time on here thanking each others posting and call me ignorant, judgemental, an idiot and plenty of other names yet they always seem to be the virtuous ones who want every thread closed because they don't like the topic under discussion.

Stevieluvsye

Rory Chubby Babbler wrote: »

I don't worry about it. There's a gaggle of them who spend most of their time on here thanking each others posting and call me ignorant, judgemental, an idiot and plenty of other names yet they always seem to be the virtuous ones who want every thread closed because they don't like the topic under discussion.

In fairness to her, you seem to talk a lot of ballix

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Albert Cool Strife wrote: »

Maybe you're tired in the morning from staying up all night thinking "what innocuous question can I ask people on boards.ie so that I can have a go at them when they answer?"

What are we at now, how clean is your house, how much sport does your boyfriend watch, when do you go to bed. I feel like you could get a commuting angle going if your offline life is still as bereft of human connection next week as it clearly is now?

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

In fairness to her, you seem to talk a lot of ballix

It's called facts and truth. Many people have difficulty accepting both and you won't get those from watching Sky news either.

kowloon

I remember seeing a documentary that had a proportion of the population who were natuarally night owls as being something like one in ten or less. I suppose forums draw in the sleepless. Personally, I've always had trouble keeping a sleeping pattern but it wasn't truly messed up until I worked night shifts that everything was truly messed up.

Stevieluvsye

Rory Chubby Babbler wrote: »

It's called facts and truth. Many people have difficulty accepting both and you won't get those from watching Sky news either.

See the thing is, i can do whatever i like with my time. And i wouldn't call catching up with current affairs a waste of time or whatever it was you were suggesting.

You remind me of one of those kind of people, what's the name again..............oh ye, have it, a cockwomble

Agricola

Night owl. If at home, could easily stay up til the wee hours every night. Especially nice in winter, catching up on a book or series. If out, I love the peace and quiet of the world after dark. The roads are empty, the streets are barren. Nothing nicer than a long night drive with good music or a good podcast on the car radio. Something very relaxing and zen about it.

maudgonner

There are people whose body clocks aren't calibrated to 24 hour cycles, so their sleep time will gradually get later and later.


https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/non-24-hour-sleep-wake-disorder/


I definitely think I have a mild form of this. If left to my own devices (not having to get up in time for work etc) I'll gradually go to sleep later and later and after maybe 5 days I'll have a night when I don't sleep at all, just go straight through. Luckily I don't seem as badly affected as people mentioned in that article, but I do constantly feel as if I'm battling against my natural sleep pattern in order to get up in the morning. And I'm worse than a spoiled child for not wanting to go to sleep when I know I should

Mister Vain

Rory Chubby Babbler wrote: »

are you one of those people who wakes up and just pops out of bed or are you a night owl?

I'm neither. I go to bed at a reasonable time and drag myself out of bed at 6:30. At weekends I get up around 7:30.

IAMAMORON

It depends on what substance I am abusing at the time....

But more of a night owl I would say. I only tend to be up early in the morning when I haven't been to the nest yet.

I have nightmares about alarm clocks. One time I was trapped in a room with a thousand clock radios bleeping at me with the alarm going off and the RTE Radio early morning weather forecast rambling in behind a fuzzy tone, " 1005 millibars …. rising slowly", I try to turn off each of the alarms but they keep rushing through their snooze. I end up waking again but then my head is sore and I feel paralysed lying in the bed, my throat becomes parched and I can smell the distinctive smell of day old female underwear... I begin to lose my breath as images of an old haggard neighbour emerge besides my bed. She is prodding me with an old oak walking stick and repeating the words " go on, get up you lazy phuck ya, get up to phuck". Her halitosis is abysmal and I begin to feel sick, sometime feeling bits of pre puke tickle the back of my tonsils. If I don't wake up I could projectile across the entire room. The alarms keep drilling until I eventually get up. Always with a large morning glory which takes 5 minutes to die down before I can urinate. It can be distasteful at times.

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Stevieluvsye wrote: »

See the thing is, i can do whatever i like with my time. And i wouldn't call catching up with current affairs a waste of time or whatever it was you were suggesting.

You remind me of one of those kind of people, what's the name again..............oh ye, have it, a cockwomble

Great comeback.

Still waters

Im a night owl at heart, but all the jobs ive ever had require me to get up early, ive always thought my ideal job would be a late afternoon start finishing around 12 or 1 but jobs like that are hard to come by obviously

ArnoldJRimmer

I'm an early bird, but mainly, I just love sleeping. So I have no problem going to bed and getting to sleep really early, sometimes 9, usually between 10 and 11. And then wake up naturally early. I tend to be a lot more productive in the mornings, so leave the housework to that time. I've even cooked up dinners for the week and put them in the fridge at 6 in the morning

rainbow kirby

Used to be a serious night owl, two kids later and I'm now an early bird.

Total night owl, I just don’t do mornings at all. Rarely will I get up before 8:30am on weekdays and often closer to 9. Work in tech so the places I’ve worked are very flexible so starting around 10am is grand.

Even the thought of having to get up every day at 7am or something like that would kill me never mind having to do it.

ILoveYourVibes

night owl i wanna turn myself into an early bird tho

I am destined to be a penniless novelist ....when i die my work will become famous and popular making others millions.

However during my life i will not be appreciated. I am pretty annoyed about this so i am resisting it.

My best ideas ..come at night.

So i am a night owl who resists it.

ILoveYourVibes

Melissa Muscular Jellybean wrote: »

Total night owl, I just don’t do mornings at all. Rarely will I get up before 8:30am on weekdays and often closer to 9. Work in tech so the places I’ve worked are very flexible so starting around 10am is grand.

Even the thought of having to get up every day at 7am or something like that would kill me never mind having to do it.

I have to get up at 6.45 ...to just to avoid traffic really ..it can take an hr and half to make what would be a 30 min journey sometimes.

It doesn't suit me.

ZX7R

Early bird I am happiest in the morning
Goes down hill from then on

ILoveYourVibes

ZX7R wrote: »

Early bird I am happiest in the morning
Goes down hill from then on

You a leo?

Bobblehats

It’s a daily struggle. Some of us are just born vampiric but I had to give up being a fiend of the nite