Are You a Morning Person or a Night Owl?

I am a night owl, and will probably always be. It feels like the day should switch over for me to get in sync! When I start to work early in the morning I do get up on time, but give me a day or two off and I'm back to going to sleep at four or five in the morning.

I am both. I worked nights for a decade and I just loved the early morning between 0300 and 0500 as the cuty sleeps. It is a great time to be awake and enjoying life. I work days now and start fairly early and like the early morning too.

granger1900, I am definitely NOT a morning person! I feel like I'm DISABLED when I have to get up early in the morning, and I move really slow. The 9-5 workday that almost the entire globe uses is purely a SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION, and I'm not sure why the whole world allows this to be the 'dominant' format of our days. I know an awful lot of people who are not morning people. They struggle constantly with alarm clocks in the morning and drink copious amounts of coffee at 7am to get their system MOVING in the morning so they're not late to get to work, classes, etc. I know some people who struggled with 'the standard work day' for years but were finally able to find a job that had non-standard hours (evening shifts) and these people are much happier now. They are also MUCH HEALTHIER now - because they get a good amount of sleep on a consistent basis most of the time, no matter if they are now sleeping at odd times, as compared with the 'average' person. I am definitely a Night Owl! I also love the dawn - but the dawn is most beautiful to me when I can view it and then go to bed. I've also had non-standard job schedules before where I worked all night - and these were much more suitable for me and I felt much more 'awake' and healthy doing night jobs. I have found a partial solution to the 'morning person' dilemma for when I have early morning classes (I've returned to higher-education training as a mature student) that works pretty well. If I have a 8 or 9am class, I still conduct my homelife on a different schedule than most people. I go to sleep when I am tired after classes (around 5-7pm) and then I simply wake up when I've had enough sleep (around 2am). I do my homework from 2-7am, which is a very quiet time and the chance of someone phoning me to interrupt or invite me someplace that will distract me from my lessons is very VERY slim. I also get to see 'daybreak,' when I am able to do this, so as long as people aren't upset that I'm not attending the 7-9pm movie with them or something, this schedule works out pretty good, even if other people think it is a strange way to live. I get way more sleep - good, restful sleep (as long as I turn my phone ringer off) this way whereas when I am trying to fight my natural 'Night-Owl-ness' and then get up in the early morning (5-7am) I sleep fitfully. Luckily, my friends know I'm working hard at studies, so they don't phone me very often, anyway, to invite me to activities that distract me from my lessons. I can see friends on weekends, so a schedule such as I have mentioned really affects nobody but me. In the end, I feel better being able to maintain my 'Night Owl' status and be awake when most people are sleeping.

i tend to turn into a pumpkin around 10:30 or 11...but i usually get up at 7...even on the weekends i usually wake up around 7:30 or at the latest at 8...i guess i am a morning person...i like to get up early and get stuff done lol!

As for me,im not really a morning person,haha a lot of people can attest to that. Even before, when I was still in my college days,I really had a hard time waking up so early in the morning for classes and duty internship.And even up to now,unless it's a very important stuff that I have to attend to like emergency cases, or important errands, no one can really make me get up from my bed. haha It's like,my body system functions much much better from 5pm onwards. haha weird really.. My earliest sleeping time is 2am,which made me a certified insomniac.haha

Hi, it is all the patterns you develop & believe! It is always BEST to wake up before SUNRISE [it adds to your intelligence],& if you take a Morning WALK-the fresh Air would totaly energise your body & you would be fit as a fiddle to do your work during the day.The minute you feel sleepy in the night, go to bed-it does not matter.But a 6-hour Sleep is necessary for a normal adult.I prsonally believe this & follow this. Thanks www.creatingcolourfulfuture.com

Definitely a night owl! I hate mornings. I hate waking up in the morning and I'm well known for being grumpy in the morning around here, lol!

i am actually a morning person as i have to work normal office hours everyday... i have to wake up around 6.30 am everyday to prepare breakfast for my hubby... so the latest i sleep is at 11.00 pm...

I am definitely a morning person as I always get up early in the morning and perform better during the day. I only stay up late at night on the weekends since I do not have to get up early for work. I used to work the late night shift at the bank so at that time I was more of a night person. I would rather get up and take advantage of the sunny weather and daylight.

I'm definitely a night owl. But there are very very few days that I become a morning person. I don't know why. Maybe because I got so tired the other night and fell asleep early so I have the energy to get up in the morning. But right now I am such a night owl. My earliest sleeping time is midnight or 1am, unless I'm super tired that I'd fall asleep earlier. This semester, all my classes are in the afternoon. I didn't really plan on it but it has its good side. I get to sleep until lunch! But the bad thing is that I just sleep and sleep. At night I just watch tv. I haven't gotten anything done yet! Yikes!

I am definitely a night owl. I do not know why no matter how early I wake up and like try to accomplish something, I just end up stoning until my brain wakes up with the rest of my body. It is at night that I am at my optimum best. Somehow I accomplish more from the midnight to 4 am hours then I could for the whole day when the sun is up.

I am sorry to say that i am a night person, i can stay awake till late but have great difficulty getting up in the morning, I do miss the sunrise.

Because your biologic time clock had changed already, it is not good for you if it is changed often. Become a morning person is very good for you, because of the metabolize. Take care!

I'm more of a morning person than a night owl, I don't really enjoy staying up too much, plus I don't want the sunshine to go to waste. I also am not a big fan of cloudy/rainy days, like today...

I am definatley a night owl. I stay up all night and sleep almost all day. I prefer it that way. I always hated getting up for school or work. But now I only work on the computer and I can do that anytime I please. Its so quiet and peaceful during the night. I can get more things done that way.

Well, usually I'm a definite nightowl when I'm having a "normal" day, and often stay up until the wee hours of the morning lol. Like you, I seem to have a hard time going to sleep unless I'm exhausted. Lately, however, it feels like I'm passing out while in the middle of something (reading, surfing, movie-watching, etc.), only to wake up pretty earlier than my average time--which is pretty dang late (work from home). I'm starting to appreciate the morning hours, being able to get done with at a decent time, rather than working late in the evening. It's nice being able to enjoy the rest of the day after and is starting to feel more natural. The falling asleep thing in the middle of something is kind of new and disturbing though haha.

I am usually more of a night person when it comes to doing work and studying. Maybe because its more quiet during the time but I find that I complete more work and am more productive during late at night even though I get really tired. But during Summer, I can work just as well in the early mornings but never seem to get anything done during winter, maybe its too cold and my brain is suffering a freeze. The middle of the day, well it depends, usually not much can be done possible due to a lack of motivation. But whenever there is an assignment due the day or so, time doesn't seem to matter and seems irrelevant. For some reason then anything seems to be done well and more productively regardless of time and period.

I'm a little bit of both. I can stay up pretty late and yet get up early in the morning and not have any issues about being really sleepy. When I use to work at a movie theater I wouldn't get home until almost midnight and then turn around and be there again at 11am. I guess my body is just use to it.

i was always a night owl, but having children has turned it right around god love them now i am a morning person

On Friday's and Saturday's I tend to be a night owl. I always love to stay up and watch TV on a friday and saturday nights. I can't stand getting up early on the weekends. It has never been my thing. I am a morning person during the school week because I get up early and I am more involved with my studies in the morning. I participate in class in th morning. I hate staying up late on the weekdays.