Are you an early riser or a night owl?

[NewWaveChick1981]

I'm a night owl by nature but I've had to adjust my body clock to fit my work hours. :( If I could get up when I please and go to sleep when I please, I'd go to bed about 2 AM and get up around 10 or 11 AM. But when work starts at 8 AM, I've got to get up by 6 to get here on time. My husband sets his own schedule (he's a freelance artist) and finds he's more productive between 9 PM and 3 AM. He usually sleeps until about 11 AM.

Bastard. :P :rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. exact same situation as you. am a night owl forced to work during early AM hours

:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. It stinks, doesn't it?

:( :hi:

[buddhamama]

3. early riser

up at four, in bed by ten usually. i love my quiet coffee time in the morning. :hi:

[terrya]

4. I get up at 3:30AM

[azmouse]

5. I love the morning.

If I sleep past 7am I feel like I've wasted the best part of the day.

[NewWaveChick1981]

11. You sound just like my mother.

:rofl: That's the same thing she says.

Mom used to be passive-aggressive against her three night-owl children by vacuuming in our rooms at 7 AM on Saturdays trying to wake us up. :yoiks: It never worked, though. :P

[azmouse]

14. Sounds like you had a great mom!

:hi: LOL

[hippiechick]

6. Neither:

... I can sleep in, or I can crash early.

Seems like the older I get, snoozin' is pretty much my favorite past time. :)

[greatauntoftriplets]

34. You sound like me...

;)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Night owl, for sure.

I don't mentally "wake up" until 3:00 PM, anyway. :D

[dropkickpa]

8. Oh god I hate mornings

I have never been able to adjust my internal clock to fit my work hours (this is after 4 years atthis job). I wake up at 6am, work from 7:30-4. Without fail, no matter what I do, I cannot fall asleep before 12:30-1am on work nights (this includes chemical help). My natural schedule is awake from 10am - 3am. I function great on that schedule. I actually did really well when I worked nights 11pm-7am, I got home at 8 and slept until 2-3 and still got tons done.

If I didn't have a kid I'd be working nights, definitely.

[azmouse]

13. Wow I'm the exact opposite.

I tried a 3rd shift job for 3 months. I don't think I got 2 hrs a day. I just couldn't sleep in the daytime. And working all night when my body wanted to do nothing but sleep... I was a mess for all that time. Had to give it up, and the 10% bonus for night shift, and work days.

[dropkickpa]

31. Odd

How people can have such drastically differing natural schedules.

All the different people making the world go 'round!

[azmouse]

32. I think some of it must be genetic.

My dad was always an early riser. He and I would read the newspaper together in the morning while my mom and brothers slept in.

It's a fascinating subject. Someone, somewhere, must have done studies on this morning lark, night owl thing.

[dropkickpa]

36. You know what? Everyone in my family is a night owl

now that I think about it!

[CatholicEdHead]

37. Same here, I take a beating if I am up 3rd shift

I have worked many before and never got more than 4-5hrs/day. That led to a physical breakdown and shingles coming around. Give me 1st or 2nd, but not 3rd.

[skygazer]

9. I'm an early bird

I've always gotten up early - around 5 or 6 sometimes and my present job has me up at 3:20. But I've often liked staying up late, too so I'm sort of both. I can't stay up too late with this job but normally, I like to go to bed around midnight.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear NWC!

Big time Night Owl, here!

I typically stay up till midnight......

And since I'm retired (sorry, sweetie!) I can sleep in, and often do...

It's been two years since I worked, and I can scarcely remember it now...

:hug:

[cwydro]

12. I feel your pain

I was always a night owl, but trained myself to go to bed early so I can get up and do what I need to do before work. I wake early now, but still want to stay up late.

Even now, I wake up in the middle of the night and prowl around the house, but maybe that's the Leo in me.

[mike_c]

15. I get up early and go to bed early, too....

eom

[fizzgig]

16. another night owl here

but i am lucky enough to have a job that doesn't (usually) require me in the office before noon or 1, which is great because my natural sleep time is from around 2 to 10. there are times, though, that i have to be in the office at 8 or 9 x( i feel like i waste the first half of the day because i'm so tired

[NMDemDist2]

17. i had to go with neither

i naturally am an early riser, but am tending bar nights so sleep in after those shifts

[sammythecat]

18. Definitely a night owl by nature

forced to adapt to a world of early risers.

I love the morning and I've missed many, but I have just always felt more "awake" and focused at night.

[Guava Jelly]

19. 3 am every morning

:)
In bed by 9:30 pm

[u4ic]

21. Do you wear trousers up to your waist, too?

Oldtimer. :P

[Guava Jelly]

22. sometimes :)

:7
:hi: Canadian :hug:
i need to get me some prune juice. :silly:

[u4ic]

28. You need to move into the modern, scientific age

and get Metamucil instead. :*



:hug:

[Guava Jelly]

40. I may need someone to change my depends :o)

Nurse u4ic :silly: :loveya:

[u4ic]

42. You better whip that butt into shape then!

x(

[Guava Jelly]

44. Or you can whip it

:hide: :rofl:

[u4ic]

46. Ask and you shall receive...

I've got a riding crop:



Jump bat:



or a Lunge whip:



:evilgrin:

[Guava Jelly]

49. Being that you are an equestrian

I'll take the riding crop.
I'm a pony, I'm a pony :silly:
I have been a bad GoPsUx...I should be disciplined :evilgrin: :silly:

[ohiosmith]

20. Early Bird. But it's not to get the worm.

[SeattleGirl]

23. Definitely a night owl.

And thank goodness, my job is such that I can set my own schedule!

[graywarrior]

24. Night owl...or vampire..whatever.

[u4ic]

25. Definitely a night owl

:-)

[The2ndWheel]

26. In a perfect world

there wouldn't be any time.

But, have to get up for work in the morning. I don't have a car, and I live roughly 3 miles, give or take, from work, so I walk it. An hour and a half each way. When I wake up, I like to have time to just do nothing. A couple hours so I can take a shower, eat, do whatever, all at a snails pace. I can barely stay up past 9pm most nights, because I get up at 5, to leave at 7:30. I like waking up in the middle of the night though, it's quiet, slow, it's nice. On the other hand, it messes me up since it makes me tired later in the day.

I don't know what I am. I love sleep, but I like staying up, and waking up. The feeling of being tired, and fighting to stay awake is always a fun battle. Either way, not a fan of time.

[YankeyMCC]

27. I used to be a night owl but

now I'm completely the opposite I get up early and I'm at my best early in the day and go to bed at an embarrassingly early hour :)

[bicentennial_baby]

29. Both!

Up late, up early! :bounce:

[ForrestGump]

30. The night time is the right time

I've always been a night person, and have had sleeping troubles since I was a baby.

I've had jobs for which getting up inhumanly early was required and I never got used to the idea.

:hi:

:hug:

[lildreamer316]

33. Other: Both.

I am originally a night owl, but due to having the baby three years ago I turned into a nap-owl (that dosen't make any sense). I am now regularly up very early AND very late. I nap in the late morning and sometimes early afternoon; and about 10-12 or or 1 am. I'm used to it now, and it doesn't really bother me, but I do believe you can see the circles under my eyes. Every now and then, when husband has a full day off, I seem to relax better and sleep deeper and longer; and you can see the difference in my eye circles.
Weird, weird.

[CatholicEdHead]

35. Neither if possible

I prefer, if no other schedules mattered, to get up around 8-9am and in bed by 11pm-midnight. I always have a hard time staying away from Midnight-7am.

[VenusRising]

38. I am a night owl.

I've been that way as long as I can remember. In high school, I would go to bed at 10 or 11 at night and then wake up around 2 or 3 am and clean out my closet or my room. I would go back to bed around 4 or 5 and get up for school at 6:30.

Now, I'm a housewife, and my time is mine to do what I wish. I think my husband secretly likes that I am a night owl. Since he has a heart condition, he says it's like having a guardian angel there for him while he sleeps. And I do admit that I always check to make sure he's breathing, especially if he hasn't moved or snored in awhile.

[Aristus]

39. I've always been an early riser.

I started waking up around 6 every morning (without an alarm), starting in about the 7th Grade. Early morning habits served me well in the Army, when usual bed roll-out is 5am, and ya gotta be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

I still enjoy getting up early. Even on the weekend, if I'm not out of bed by 8, I feel like the day's getting away from me.

:hi: NWC! :loveya:

[Nicole]

41. Other: Both

I have no schedule. Sometimes I'm a night owl, other days I'm an early riser. Once or twice a week I do both, I stay up late & get up early.

Most of the time I'm up until about 4 AM. I sleep in until 9 AM. I take a nap around 2 PM.

[caty]

43. Both

As an insomniac I am up late at night and am up early in the morning.
:woohoo: :boring: :woohoo:

[bleedingheart]

45. I am both...and it annoys my husband...

he laughed hysterically at that commercial with the guy who is the "early morning guy"...who annoys all the people in the car pool..etc

he thought it was modeled after me...

In fact...I am like that until I decide I should go to bed...normally around 1am...

[huskerlaw]

47. Night owl

by nature, but forced to work early hours.

My perfect sleep schedule would be 2am-10am. But now it's more like midnight-6am.

And now, even on the weekends I'm lucky if I can sleep past 8, no matter how late I go to bed. It's ridiculous.

[Wapsie B]

48. Night Owl big time.

There does seem to be a lot of people who's body clocks would prefer working later in the day. But due to career concerns we've got to shove ourselves into morning work, like forcing a square peg in a round hole. I wish there was a way for businesses to function and allow people to have their natural sleep needs met.

[crim son]

50. I'm a night owl who needs to switch her schedule around

so it looks more like yours, NWC. And yes, your husband IS a bastard. :P :pals:

[Kat45]

51. Tell me something--how did you adjust your body clock?

I'm also a night owl by nature, and I never quite got my clock adjusted for my last two jobs. Had trouble getting to work on time and/or was always exhausted. I'm not working now--in the process of looking for a job--so of course I'm back to my natural hours, but when I do get a job, I'm going to have to find away to adjust my body clock, for real this time. :-)

[Maineiac]

52. I'm up at 3 every day

at the gym by 5, work by 6:30 an hour and half before anyone else. I had two sleep studies and they confirmed that my sleep cycles are all messed up, but the hours between 3 and 9 AM are so productive for me, I'd hate to change now.

[InvisibleTouch]

53. I picked "Night Owl," but...

...I could also have gone with "Other." Really I'm a "Morning Hater" more than anything else. That is, I hate mornings no matter what time they happen. I've had jobs for which I've had to get up at 4 AM, 6 AM, 10 AM, noon, and 9 PM, and no matter what time it was, I always hated the "morning." It's far easier for me to stay up than to get up - thus by default I tend to stay up late and sleep in when I can.

[texanwitch]

54. NIghtowl.

I don't do mornings well.

I can get up but my brain is still sleeping until about 1 PM.

[bigwillq]

55. Night Owl

:)

[LynzM]

56. I'm the same as you...

2 am to 10 am would be fantastic... but I'm usually up by 7, at the latest. Ugh.

To your husband: :P :P :P