Are you a morning person or a night owl?

[debm55]

[pandr32]

1. I'm all for the daylight!

I love mornings, quiet, and coffee before the day's activities begin. Having kids changed me. Before them I was a night owl and a great view to me was the city nightscape.

[Turbineguy]

3. Morning

Surly to bed, surly to rise.

[pandr32]

8. So you are a grumpy guy?

I'm your opposite.

[debm55]

43. Thank you very much, pandr32 for sharing with us.

[Dave in VA]

2. I'm neither

I have a plaque someone gave me that states, I'm not a early bird or a night owl. I am some form of a permanently exhausted pigeon."

Author unknown

😴

[CrispyQ]

35. Well, you can comfort yourself knowing that somedays you're the pigeon & somedays you're the statue,

so you, lucky man, are the pigeon everyday!

[Dave in VA]

49. And I don't think it

is 50/50

🙃

[debm55]

42. I like that. Thank you very much, Dave in VA.

[stopdiggin]

4. what is this 'morning' thing to which you refer .. ?

I don't think that happens where I live. Must be only in certain parts of the country ...

[AZJonnie]

5. HAH! That's one of my jokes too!

Someone says they were up at 5am I'll quip "so, that's an actual time that exists? 5AM? I wouldn't know".

And there's my answer to the OP. The only reason I actually know early morning hours exist is because I've been "still up" then

[debm55]

40. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHHAa. Thank you very much, AZjonnie.

[patphil]

9. I've read about it in books. They say it's real, but I'm not convinced.

[debm55]

38. Thank you patphil. Thank you for sharing.

[debm55]

41. Getting up very early . Thank you stopdiggin.

[hlthe2b]

6. Well, I am up typically by 3:30AM and out the door before 5AM. In bed by 8 when possible... I consider that morning...

But all my Fitbit and Apple Watch apps apparently think that makes me a night owl? What say the crowd on the thread?

[debm55]

37. Thank you, I think you are a morning bird. Thank you for sharing, hlthe2b.

[CrispyQ]

39. Fitbit needs more info to accurately call it.

It all depends if 3AM is the start of your day or the end of it.

[hlthe2b]

47. Well, it does have my sleep data so...?

[CrispyQ]

48. Omg, is Fitbit woke?

Fitbit let's you decide which bird you're most comfortable being associated with, night owl or mourning dove.

[lastlib]

7. Yes.

It's the middle of the day that drives me nuts.

[debm55]

36. Mine hits around 3:00 PM Which is a pain in the butt.

[flying_wahini]

10. Night owl

Need to work on my sleeping schedule this year.

[debm55]

34. Me too. Since we switched times my sleep patterns have been mixed up. Thank you fly_wahini

[rsdsharp]

11. I hate mornings. I used to have to get up at 4:00-4:30 AM.

I’m still catching up on sleep.

[debm55]

33. Wow , that is early. You catch up on your sleep, You deserve it.

[Raven123]

12. Lark here.

[debm55]

31. HAHHAHhahaha. thank you very much, Raven123.

[doc03]

13. Used to be a night owl, now at 77 I am

both.

[debm55]

30. Same here, thank you doc03 for sharing with us.

[Niagara]

14. I'm neither a morning person or night owl

On my most days I'm more like a intermediate bear chronotype.

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/chronotypes


I work morning to afternoon shifts but I never feel rested, like ever.


I feel most awake in the afternoons.


I'm exhausted by the time 6pm, 7pm, 8pm rolls around. The fact that it turns pitch black outside at 4:30pm doesn't not help me at all.


Sometimes it doesn't matter how exhausted I am, I wake up at weird hours (generally midnight to 4am) and I have a hell of a time trying to get back to sleep.


Then I get up to go to work and my brain clunks out on me because I didn't get 8 to 9 hours of sleep that I need to function.


Bah Humbug.

[debm55]

29. Thank you very much for sharing with us, Niagara.

[LogDog75]

15. Definitely a night owl

I like to sleep-in in the morning and get up around 8:30 - 9:00 in the morning after going to bed around midnight. When I was working, I'd get up at 6 am and I'd be tired during the morning and as the afternoon progressed I'd find I had more energy to work. Since I retired many years ago, I'll watch some TV or read a book until bedtime.

[debm55]

28. Thank you very much, LogDog75 for sharing with us.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. Night Owl. Worked in IT for many many years and the times we often had available to bring IT systems (batch and

online) new releases and new programs implemented.

Usually, these shifts began the start of the evening shift until the very next morning, from 6-7 p.m. to usually by 4-5-6 a.m., so you could quickly test all of the online and batch systems quickly (and of course, you had tested everything fairly well before putting the new code out there, often weeks at a time), before giving everything an OK (to implement LIVE or production vs. a test system).

So, you bring the systems down, implement the new or revised code on your test platforms, test, test, test, and then bringing the systems back up, at normal times, and then hold your breath, hoping for the best. Usually, 95% of the installs went ok, but sometimes they didn't, and you couldn't figure out why the install didn't work. Perhaps a module was missing...perhaps code in one or more modules were messed up. Perhaps steps were omitted by the vendor when you were going through the installs...perhaps you didn't have enough resources (Storage, DASD for example, direct access storage device) for a particular file or table. Numerous things.

And you had to get it all done by your deadline. Especially if you had a large online presence. Batch was usually better, as you could hold off on not running a batch cycle or two (a batch cycle is like a single run of a stream of software programs and/or tables, etc. Could be one instance per day, or each instance a magnetic data tape was received). Online was a little different, as you actually have live people interacting w/ the systems then.

[debm55]

27. Thank you very much for sharing your post with us. What I hated most the year I worked in a factory was swing shift.

[QueerDuck]

17. Morning! Up before the sun!

[debm55]

26. Two early for me. Thank you QueerDuck for sharing with us.

[Emile]

18. Morning person who likes an afternoon nap.

[debm55]

25. Me too, Thank you Emile for sharing with us.

[JMCKUSICK]

19. My body wants to be a night owl.

[debm55]

24. Thank you very John for sharing with us.

[LoisB]

20. Both, either. It all depends on how I feel and/or what I'm doing on any given day/night.

[debm55]

23. That's very true. Thank you LoisB

[Tikki]

21. Morning...especially on shopping day.

I hit the grocery store at 6:30 am.
There can be a lot of traffic later in the day.

Tikki

[debm55]

22. Thank you very much Tiki for sharing with us.

[CanonRay]

32. Definitely morning

I used to get more work done between 630 am and 900am than the whole rest of the day.

[debm55]

44. thank you very much, CanonRay. for sharing with us.

[chouchou]

45. My husband and I slither in the darkest night...

The Sun is not our friend...

[debm55]

46. Thank you chouchou.for sharing with us.

[Dorothy V]

50. Night owl. It's heredity.

Dad was a night owl, and his dad, and his dad before him.
Mornings don't even look right. I can get a knot in my stomach just looking at the way the morning sunlight slants in the wrong direction.

[debm55]

56. Oh my, Thank you very much for sharing with us, Dorothy V

[marble falls]

51. All depends on how the cat feels. I only live to serve the cat. Dammit.

[debm55]

58. Hahahahahhaha. That's so funny, Cats are like that. Thank you you marble falls.

[mucifer]

52. Both Insomnia ☹️

[debm55]

62. So do catch naps here and there? Take care mucifer.

[kimbutgar]

53. Neither

I am an insomniac and try to sleep in when I can go to bed early!

[debm55]

61. Oh, I am sorry kimbutgar. Have you gone to a sleep clinic for that? I wish all the help in the world , my friend.

[kimbutgar]

64. I have but it hasn't helped much!

[Goonch]

54. ;-{) Hard to say............

[debm55]

55. HAHAHHAHAHAHA. Thank you Gooch.

[Cirsium]

57. Night owl

I was a night owl, and I was very happy with that thank you very much. Then some idiot dumped a poor little kitten near our house, and she insisted on adopting and domesticating us (the cat, not the idiot). It took her a while to train me to greet the dawn with her. At first she would walk on my head to wake me up, then it was scratching my pillow near my ear. But now, just a little meow is all it takes to rouse me. I never knew what I was missing. I still don't, really, but she's the boss here now.

[debm55]

63. What a sweet post Circium. Thank you for posting. Take care.

[PJMcK]

59. Yes

The mornings have always been best for my work. I’m usually fresh and creative and there aren’t any distractions, I.e., phone calls, emails, etc.

But I love the night, too! It’s when most of the fun happens.

These days, a siesta nap of 30-45 minutes is rejuvenating.

Merry Christmas, Deb!

[debm55]

60. Yes, I take an hour nap in the afternoon. It refreshes me. Merry Christmas, PJMcK

[PXR-5]

65. I'm a hobby Astronomer

So even if it's raining, I am naturally up most of the night till about 3AM

Then sleep like a kitten till 11AM.

[debm55]

67. Thank you, PXR-5. That's wonderful. Thank you for sharing with us.

[woodsprite]

66. Night owl!

We're a family of 4 - my hubby, daughter, and myself are all night owls and all were born in the late afternoon.

My son is the only morning person, and came into the world about 6am.

Makes me wonder if birth time plays a role in determining sleep habits.

[debm55]

68. Thank you woodsprite. that is very interesting.

[OldBaldy1701E]

69. I was a night owl because of my career.

But, I am now waking up around 5-6 am every day thanks to my failing body. And, thanks to the drugs, I seldom get to stay up past 11 pm.

But, c'est la vie!