Are you a night person?

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I love staying awake at nights. It's so dark and quiet. Nobody interrupts, few people are up and about etc. This translates into less sensory issues for me, less work into social interactions and communication, and more time for myself or to do things on my own terms.

I'd stay awake all nights and sleep during the day if I could. Unfortunately I have to work during the day. I would love to be able to switch my work to nights. That would be awesome.

I used to work at night and I used to also stay awake a lot at night while I was a student and single and my circumstances allowed me to be a real night owl. I often miss being a night owl. I'm not much of a day person.

I prefer the night there are fewer people on the sidewalks, in the stores, and I am big so people avoid me in the dark I guess they are afraid I might get them. The only downside is I run into more @ssholes and trouble making drunks but that is pretty rare these days.

One of the advantages of being laid off I go to bed when I am tired and wake up whenever I can. It has made a big difference in my mood. I am rarely angry or depressesed anymore.

I am a huge night owl. I usually go to bed around 3 or 4 AM and wake up around 1 or 2 PM. I once experimented with becoming completely nocturnal - going to bed at 8 or 9 AM and waking up at 6 or 7 PM, but I eventually grew tired of it (no pun intended) because it caused me to rarely ever leave the house and I missed spending time with my family.

Has anyone tried a multi-phasic sleep schedule? Summer 2009 I tried adapting to a biphasic sleep schedule, but I couldn't get it to work. Basically, what it is, is that you sleep for 3 or 4 and a half hours at night, then 90 minutes in the evening, and the idea is that you sleep enough to get from one sleep period to another, and then you get more free time that you would normally be sleeping in. My body is stupid though, because I tried sleeping 3 hours, but then I was wide awake the next day, so I couldn't take a nap, and then I slept 3 hours and was wide awake for two more days, then I got so tired after I woke up at 4:30am that I just couldn't stay awake, so I gave up.

During the Summer holidays (which are conveniently occurring now) I usually stay until about 1 AM, and sleep in until about 9 AM/10 AM. The system seems to be faultless as I am awake early enough to participate in day activities, but I am also able to stay awake at night to some extent.

Ugh, last night I laid wide awake in bed for two hours, 1am to 3am. I wonder if I have insomnia, because I can even remember as a little kid in elementary school, laying in bed awake for an hour or two every night. Many times it's because I can't stop thinking about things. Usually nothing important, but I think about what I did today or something, then I think of something else, and then I just can't stop. And when I wake up in the morning, it's very hard to get out of bed, and even if I sleep for 9 and a half hours I'm still tired throughout the day. Is that insomnia, or something else?

When I was younger I was a night owl. I would stay up all hours reading (when little), or going out with my friend (when older). I struggled getting up for school/work, but once there, was OK.

These days, I'm a "sunlight" person. In the winter I struggle getting up before the sun and start getting tired at 4pm (almost unconscious by 9pm!) though I don't sleep very well either. I'm going to try getting a "bodyclock" alarm clock that simulates sunrise to try and help me get up at 6.30 - several hours before sunrise! I've been late for work SO much this winter that this is my last resort.

I love being awake at night!
The streets are empty so you don't have to think about all those crazy social rules,
and couse you are expected to be asleep you don't have to be social at home either!
I feel the most awake and can think the clearest at 9pm-2am, that's when I get all the meaningfull/intressting things done
I garantee that if they would test my IQ between those hours insted of insisting on doing it at day, I would get about 10 more points.

The best part is that I only need to sleep about 4 hours per night and those can be at almost any hour of the day (or postponed to the next night without hustle) , so I can be awake at night AND I don't miss the day couse of it

Wow; I'm a rare case!

Charles

When I do not have a schedule to follow, I have the tendency to shift towards a night person. If it were up to me, I'd probably wake up no sooner than 6pm and get to bed no sooner than 10am. Unfortunately it's practically impossible to do this when you have a job and a social life to take care of, so I'm forced to adapt... which I absolutely hate ! ! !

Far from it! Im a morning person. If im not up by 530am, i feel like ive wasted half the day. If i sleep past 7 i wake up with a wicked headache (google: headache and oversleeping). Im usually asleep by 930 pm, but if it were up to me, i would never sleep. my work schedule is 7a-3p so being a morning person is a plus, especially when the other 7-3 person is always late, makes me look good when i show up at 6.

Def a night person. A coworker at 8am said to me you look tired. I told him I'm not a morning person.

Simply yes.

I have been nocturnal as long as I can remember. I've always worked the night shift, or the afternoon shift and remained awake until early morning.