Are you a Night Owl or Early Bird?

dd973

Night Owl, people who like the mornings are seriously weird for me, I find them depressing and being a Night Owl I'm always knackered at that time, they must be fresh and well able to sleep from 9 or 10pm onwards.

Leg End Reject

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

You a leo?

Ah here!

Potential-Monke

100% Night Owl and don't want to change. I feel most natural between 4pm and 9am, and with a new job for the last few months I get to keep it that way. I now work 12 hour night shifts, 8pm to 8am so I keep the same schedule on my days off, not getting up until about 4pm and heading to bed around 9am. It's fantastic. The thoughts of being part of the rat race, the 9-5 people, it terrifies me. The traffic, the queues, I hate it. When i was working a 9-5, I would have to get up at 7am to be in time for 9am due to traffic. None of that anymore! And there's something nice about going against the incoming flow of traffic, makes me smile!

John_Rambo

Early bird. But, I like the odd late night (like tonight... woooooo... nearly 11pm!!). I don't seem to need much sleep. My dad's the same, so are all my siblings. Don't like the day drifting away when I'm in bed, I've too much enjoyable stuff to be doing. Thankfully I married an even earlier bird.

John_Rambo

Potential-Monke wrote: »

100% Night Owl and don't want to change. I feel most natural between 4pm and 9am, and with a new job for the last few months I get to keep it that way. I now work 12 hour night shifts, 8pm to 8am so I keep the same schedule on my days off, not getting up until about 4pm and heading to bed around 9am. It's fantastic. The thoughts of being part of the rat race, the 9-5 people, it terrifies me. The traffic, the queues, I hate it. When i was working a 9-5, I would have to get up at 7am to be in time for 9am due to traffic. None of that anymore! And there's something nice about going against the incoming flow of traffic, makes me smile!

Good for you, congrats on the new job, it's good you found your natural clock niche.

(Those hours would absolutely kill me)

buried

Total early bird over here. Tonight now is pretty late for me but I work for myself and today was a late one so I'm only after eating and will head off now to zzzzzzzz in half a hour. Wintertime is total hunker down time for me, would go to bed most evenings at 9-10pm, might wake up at 1-2am for 30 minutes, then back to sleep until 7am. Summer time it would be much less sleep , go to zzzzzzz whenever it starts to get dark, but once the Sun comes up in the morning I will get up then and stay up for the day, that could range from 4 or 5am.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Long-standing night owl. From secondary school onwards, I refused to go to bed before 12am-1am. It would leave me knackered the next day in school but I just hated going to bed early. It made me feel claustrophobic. That continued into my working life.

Stacksofwacks

I'm a night owl. If left to my own devices I would sleep during the day and stay up all night. However I don't think that's good for your mental health. Sure its a bitch getting out of the bed in the morning(especially the cold dark ones) but you feel better overall adhering to a regular structure. Just my opinion.

monkeysnapper

I ussually go to bed around 12.30am....

I spend evening with family and put kids to bed 8pm with stories ... walk dogs for hour then make mine and kids lunches and watch a bit of tv or phone like now...

I'm up at 5.45 and straight to gym or go for run for roughly 35mins then do stretches and watch sky sports videos , shower and home for 7.30 ...

Get kids up and dress them then out door to work 8.30am

I have to say I love that 2 hours in morning and dog walking at night. .

I generally dont do much weekend , maybe a cycle sat morn during summer .... weekend is kids time

Night owl or early bird......prob a bit of both

John_Rambo

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I ussually go to bed around 12.30am....

I spend evening with family and put kids to bed 8pm with stories ... walk dogs for hour then make mine and kids lunches and watch a bit of tv or phone like now...

I'm up at 5.45 and straight to gym or go for run for roughly 35mins then do stretches and watch sky sports videos , shower and home for 7.30 ...

Get kids up and dress them then out door to work 8.30am

I have to say I love that 2 hours in morning and dog walking at night. .

I generally dont do much weekend , maybe a cycle sat morn during summer .... weekend is kids time

And I thought I didn't need much sleep!!! I'd say you eat like a machine.

bfa1509

Rory Chubby Babbler wrote: »

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.

Did you try drinking 12 glasses of water before going to bed?

dartboardio

Deffo night owl. But would love to be an early bird. Can often stay up until 2am on a work night.


Then again whenever I do try get up really early like six am and have time to get breakfast, coffee, put on nice makeup/clothes and have a peaceful morning before the day starts I really enjoy it.

ILoveYourVibes

Its not getting up early i find hard ..its SLEEPING early.

monkeysnapper

John_Rambo wrote: »

And I thought I didn't need much sleep!!! I'd say you eat like a machine.

I'm 44 and I weigh about 12st 10 ... I eat a fair bit alright ... ha ha ... when I've told people my daily diet I have been told I eat a lot .....

I do probably have a problem in that I've fallen asleep while my son reads story at night many nights , I'm ok during work but if I go to bed early say 11pm I wouldn't be able to sleep ..... when I go to bed at 12.30 I'm out like a light and could sleep through a earthquake.

John_Rambo

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I'm 44 and I weigh about 12st 10 ... I eat a fair bit alright ... ha ha ... when I've told people my daily diet I have been told I eat a lot .....

Yeah, I socialise and holiday with some high energy athletes and I'm sometimes shocked at how much they put away. Particularly the over 40 endurance gang. Would you like some pasta with your pasta? (for desert after your steak and spuds)

Raconteuse

Thelephyde wrote: »

any later and I get a headache.

Yeah what is with that? And also extra sleep makes me feel absolutely shattered.

lulu1

Night owl I just love sitting in the quietness at night when everyone has gone to bed

nthclare

I tweet in the morning and hoot at night...

endacl

Night owl here, but I live the life of an early bird.

I’m a perplexed pigeon most of the time...

Leg End Reject

endacl wrote: »

Night owl here, but I live the life of an early bird.

I’m a perplexed pigeon most of the time...

It's a living nightmare. I'm wide awake but will feel like death when the alarm goes off.

If I ever win the lotto I'll live like my body clock intended.

I'm a total early bird, love the mornings. I'm annoyingly chirpy and active right out of bed. I love those few hours before the work day starts.

Vita nova

Hoo me? I've always been a night owl. It was a problem when I was school kid, a student and an employee but finally now that I'm self employed I can get up when my body tells me to get up and I feel so much healthier and content for it.

Potential-Monke

Saw it mentioned a few times about getting a bit of extra sleep and being worse for it. People need to remember that sleep works in cycles of roughly 90 minutes, so as long as you sleep 1.5 hrs, 3, 4.5, 6 or 7.5 hours you'll wake up feeling ok (maybe not after 1.5, but it's better than 1 or 2). Maybe that's what's happening to some folk. Like, 6 hours is perfect, but 7 is bad, but 7.5 is perfect. Will take a while to get used to it, but once you're sleeping as per your cycles, you should feel better.

Waking up in the middle of those 90 minute cycles means you're waking up during REM sleep, thus the feeling like ****!

joejoggs

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Saw it mentioned a few times about getting a bit of extra sleep and being worse for it. People need to remember that sleep works in cycles of roughly 90 minutes, so as long as you sleep 1.5 hrs, 3, 4.5, 6 or 7.5 hours you'll wake up feeling ok (maybe not after 1.5, but it's better than 1 or 2). Maybe that's what's happening to some folk. Like, 6 hours is perfect, but 7 is bad, but 7.5 is perfect. Will take a while to get used to it, but once you're sleeping as per your cycles, you should feel better.

Waking up in the middle of those 90 minute cycles means you're waking up during REM sleep, thus the feeling like ****!

Nonsense

Potential-Monke

joejoggs wrote: »

Nonsense

Apologies, I was slightly wrong, the REM period is the last of 5 stages of the 90 minutes. This is when you dream, stage 3 and 4 are deep sleep and waking up during them will leave you knackered.

But sleep does go through 90 minute cycles and waking up after a cycle is the best way. Adapted it myself years ago and it works. Anyone who has tried it has agreed, and there's plenty of studies supporting this.

randomspud

My job involves shift work so I don't get to decide which I am. I'm pretty much constantly tired from having absolutely no regular sleep pattern.

ZX7R

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

You a leo?

No

Greyfox

I've always been a night owl as my brain works better when its really late, in bed is the best place in the world in the mornings.

Due to sleeping in a few times I tried to do the going to bed earlier a few times but it almost never worked. Either it took ages to get asleep or I'd fall asleep quickly and wake up 3 hours later and not be able to get back to sleep

Hector Savage

Night Owl, but once I get up and am out on a sunny morning I love it ...

ILoveYourVibes

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

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.

I miss the traffic by going after it has eased rather than before it. Generally leave the house between 9/9:15am and that gets me to work for around 9:35/9:45am. If I left at 8am I’d be an hour easily. I’m later going home in the evening also so miss the traffic then also.

_Kaiser_

NOT a morning person.

Like the OP, if I go to bed early I just lie there and reading posts of people who go to bed at 10pm so they can be up at 5am, I just shudder. What kind of life is that, unless you're home very early after work to make up for it.

Me I go to bed around 11 and read/watch videos for a bit and turn the lights off after midnight. Get up then around 7:45, shower, get ready and drive to work for about 9:30 (which has the bonus of missing a bit of the traffic).
Leave at 6pm, home by 7, make a bit to eat and watch TV, online gaming with the lads, read and repeat.

Work from home 1/2 days a week too which is a big plus.

sheriff2

Used to be a night owl, until we had a baby. Now anything after 6am is a lie in!

Mister Vain

randomspud wrote: »

My job involves shift work so I don't get to decide which I am. I'm pretty much constantly tired from having absolutely no regular sleep pattern.

That must be tough alright. I did an night shift for 2 years in my old job but I didn't have to change shifts, I was always on the same hours. I'd imagine changing shifts regularly would be very difficult.

bitofabind

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Like the OP, if I go to bed early I just lie there and reading posts of people who go to bed at 10pm so they can be up at 5am, I just shudder. What kind of life is that, unless you're home very early after work to make up for it.

Yeah this. I just point blank don't understand the bed-by-10pm folks, I'd feel like I was living half a life if I hit the hay by that hour. Sometimes I don't get out of work til 7 or 8, then with the gym or fitness class of some sort or some other social thing, it'll be after 10 and maybe closer to 11 by the time I'm home. Then I need to eat something like and just chill for a while, hit the bed by about 12 at the earliest and up at 7.

Raconteuse

But what if people have to get up at 5am? You need to be asleep by 10 if that's the time you get up every morning.

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Apologies, I was slightly wrong, the REM period is the last of 5 stages of the 90 minutes. This is when you dream, stage 3 and 4 are deep sleep and waking up during them will leave you knackered.

But sleep does go through 90 minute cycles and waking up after a cycle is the best way. Adapted it myself years ago and it works. Anyone who has tried it has agreed, and there's plenty of studies supporting this.

Read that too by a sleep expert, who said the ideal is 7.5 hours (five 90-minute blocks). I find it occurs naturally for me as I fall asleep usually about 1am or shortly before it, and wake at 8.30am, with or without the alarm.

joejoggs

Anyone ever see Mark Walhberg's routine. Seriously considering giving it a go as definitely a night person. Have an onsite gym as well.

Raconteuse

Raconteuse wrote: »

But what if people have to get up at 5am? You need to be asleep by 10 if that's the time you get up every morning.
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I don’t know how people end up having to be getting up at 5am regularly but there must be an element of choice in it as while I would actively avoid getting into a situation I had to do it’s never something that’s even remotely come on my radar.

I’m mid 30’s and have never had to regularly get up before 8am.

Raconteuse

Early work shifts that start at 6 or 6.30 of course. Yeah it is a choice but someone has to do them.

Getting up to a baby at that hour.

Bit of "That's not the way my life is, therefore it doesn't exist" going on here.

lainey_d_123

bitofabind wrote: »

Yeah this. I just point blank don't understand the bed-by-10pm folks, I'd feel like I was living half a life if I hit the hay by that hour. Sometimes I don't get out of work til 7 or 8, then with the gym or fitness class of some sort or some other social thing, it'll be after 10 and maybe closer to 11 by the time I'm home. Then I need to eat something like and just chill for a while, hit the bed by about 12 at the earliest and up at 7.

TBH I'd feel like I was living half a life if I was working until 8pm and still had to get up at 7...that's almost all your waking hours at or getting ready for work and hardly any proper evening time!

I tend to do a lot of early shifts (I can choose my hours), which means up around 6am, in the office by 7ish, then finished between 3.30 and 4pm. Means the commute in is almost stress free because public transport/streets are quiet, can get stuck into work before the office gets noisy (people tend to come in around 9.30, so that's up to 2.5 hours of blissful quiet time to get on with stuff), I get lunch around 11.30 when lunch places are almost empty and no queues and office kitchen is quiet, then transport is also not too crowded when it's time to leave. Can then hit the gym before it gets really busy, do errands, a bit of clothes shopping, whatever I want for a few hours, and still have time to meet friends for a drink after they finish work or to do whatever activity in the evening.

I try to be in bed by 10.30 to 11pm, which isn't that much earlier than you, and still get 7 to 7.5 hours' sleep. People are always asking me how I can hack the early shifts, but tbh I think the massive advantages outweigh having to go to bed that tiny bit earlier. I do sometimes do later shifts if I have a big plan midweek and don't get to bed until midnight or later, but I always find them a drag. I find time seems to go way more slowly when working late, and I then feel like I have no evening.

I wouldn't say I'm naturally an early bird and I used to be someone who would stay up very late most nights, but I've trained myself to get up early and make the most of the mornings. I get up way earlier on weekends than I used to as well, and much prefer it. Feel like I have so much more time now!

cj maxx

I tend to be a bit of a night owl but mornings are so so more productive

bitofabind

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

TBH I'd feel like I was living half a life if I was working until 8pm and still had to get up at 7...that's almost all your waking hours at or getting ready for work and hardly any proper evening time!

Yeah I work a lot. I have a high stress job in a US company so tend to always be "on", regardless of office hours.

I can totally see the benefits of being an early riser, I just can't seem to overcome the challenge of being homicidal in the morning. Plus when I know I'll be responding to emails late into the evening, my toddler morning brain just won't get onboard at getting up before I have to.

Steve F

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

I would have questioned if you'd said RTE News Now
Good God that is some crap news channel

JupiterKid

Complete night owl, always have been and probably always will be. Hate getting up.out of bed and definitely not a morning person...but I have a little thing called a job and I have no option but to get out of the sack in the mornings. Like so many other people...

Love the long lie-ins at the weekend and days when I'm working from home.

Strumms

Committed night owl. Whoever invented mornings is a complete fûcking nob.

I do my best thinking and planning at night, I’m more relaxed at night, the pressure of the day with multiple people and stresses more often then not brought on by ‘people’ are absent.

BeerWolf

Both. What is this "sleep" ??

Snails pace

Kind of both, this time of year I dont have to get up early and finish when it's dark , during the summer I'm up at 6am and go to bed whenever the job is done, self employed and the job is seasonal

Gael23

I’m generally in bed early at night and then up early in the morning