Night Owls vs Larks

I‘ve always been a night owl. Waking up at any time before 8am just left me groggy for most of the morning. It didn’t matter if I established a sleep schedule where I got a full 8 hours, my body just doesn’t like getting up that early.But after returning from a trip to a different time zone, I discovered something kinda bizarre. If I wake up around 4:30am, I feel amazing and I’m super productive for the whole day. I have to be in bed by 9pm, but even with slightly less than 8 hours sleep, the

Same here. I assumed the article would be about someone who discovered the joys of being a night owl. I tend to head to bed around 1 or 2am, but if other life constraints allowed me to stay up later I almost certainly would.Once when I was in my early 20s I had a magical period of 2-3 months where there was no work, no school, and not really even social or family obligations. I would go bed when I was tired and wake up when I woke up. What I found was that every night I stayed up about an hou

You might find that, like myself, you function much better in the evening and night. Even though I keep a normal daylight schedule for work reasons, I long to fall back to my natural rythmn: rise at 4pm, and sleep at 7 or 8am.

yes, I might have this although I'm not entirely sure. I'm in the midst of a 1 week holiday (at home) and where I usually had to wake up at 8:30 am now after just 5 days I'm already at 1 pm wake-up time, just naturally. I always enjoyed the evening hours and the silence it brings with it (not just audio but also visually), these are the hours I feel most at peace. Why cut them short by going to sleep at midnight? ... well because I have to wakeup at 8:30..... all in all maybe I sh

I just switched to being a morning person for the past few weeks. It was driven largely by a temporary shift in my work schedule and I'm pretty certain I will revert back to crashing at 4am eventually. Not because the morning schedule negatively impacts the quality or quantity of my sleep or anything, but because when I don't have a bunch of morning meetings, my sleep/wake cycles naturally start drifting 30 minutes to an hour forward each day until it settles on sleeping from 4am

Same - part of it may have been natural shifts in circadian rhythms - in college I'd often be up until 3am during the week, not even particularly busy. Just not tired, so I stayed up. Any class up to and including 10am was an active struggle to get to. Now I am regularly up before 5am to work out and typically start work around 6:30.People absolutely have natural tendencies one way or the other, but if you want to change you can. Too many people approach it as if they're stuck in on

I am living proof that it's possible to change from a night owl to an early riser. I used to stay up till midnight or 1am as often as not. By nature? and lifelong habit, for over 40 years I was in the "stay up late, sleep in to compensate" camp. But a couple years ago someone I respect and admire challenged me to reset the pattern. I started setting a daily alarm and jumping into a brief ice-cold shower at 5am. It only took a few days to acclimate, and nearly everything about my d

I fall asleep around 2-3am every night and am up at 7:15am during the week. I'm 39. I've been a night owl since I was a teen, and even today I have to force myself to sleep. During vacations it becomes extreme, I easily stay up till 6-7am and sleep till 12 or so - which seems to be ideal as I always revert to those times given 3-4 days where I'm not required to be up early. Adjusting my schedule back to "normal" involves skipping sleep for a night.

I won't say it's impossible for me, but there's a huge, tangled mess of psychological, social, habitual and lifestyle reasons that prevent it. Starting with, ever since I finished high school and was no longer forced by my parents to get up on time, my natural awake time is between ~11:00 and 04:00. Any attempts to shift it to what society considers normal tend to drift back to baseline within a week. These days, 報復性熬夜 (revenge bedtime procrastination) is a significant factor, too

I had the same feeling but like much else in life it turned out to be adaptable. I find similar feelings from mornings while the world is asleep.As someone else mentioned, if I camped without artificial light I would get tired at eight. So I switched my evening routine to only use lamps, created a wind down routine, and now I get sleepy around ten and don’t feel good if I stay up.Feel free to stick with your schedule. But if it is causing you trouble you are probably more adaptable than yo