biorhythm poll IOW who's a nightowl and who's a morninglark?

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all my life i've been nocturnal. that played havoc for me in the work world as it made me work when i was the most tired and prolly aged me prematurely. i am just curious how many other night owls [regardless of work schedule, i'm talking about tendencies here] are there here?

I'm not really a morning person. That is why I have a job where I work evenings, because I don't like being forced to get up early. In my previous job I had to start at 7.30am, although some say it isn't drastically early but it was too early for me, and I ended up hating the job because of the early start (well, there were other reasons too but the early start didn't help). The wintertime was the hardest because it felt like torture to have to drag myself out of my warm bed and go out into the cold when it was still dark when my body wasn't ready to wake up. Yes I know everyone feels like that but it was actually affecting my motivation and function at work, and raised my anxiety levels for the first couple of hours of the shift, sometimes even affecting my mood and enthusiasm.

Because of ADHD, each night is different for me and it has nothing to do with how early I go to bed or how much I stick to a routine or whatever. Sometimes I sleep well, other nights I don't. But even if I did go to bed early and sleep well, sometimes my body still wasn't ready to get up early for work in the morning.

I read somewhere that if you get your body clock into a rigid routine, you shouldn't need an alarm to wake you up and that being woken up by an alarm is bad for you, even if you use the snooze feature. But that is easier said than done. It's hard for me to have a rigid bedtime routine, and I would not want to go to sleep without relying on an alarm to wake me up, because that would be disaster.

So I'm glad I don't have a job where I have to get up early each morning, although I still use an alarm to wake me up otherwise I would sleep 'til midday.

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Me too - if I sleep at all that is. I hate mornings (which for me usually start around noon )

Morning person here. Up between 5:00 and 5:30 am every day, weekends included. Without an alarm too. The morning is the best part of the day.

Not sure. I'm best focused in the morning but that may be because this is when no one is bothering me.
I think the amount of sleep is more important in my case than its timing.

I keep "farmers' hours" -- awake by 04:00 and asleep by 20:00.

Disclaimer: I was all ready to slam this thread for promoting a pseudoscientific belief until I realized that it is all for fun.  Bummer.  I was looking forward to a good argument.

Neither? Both??
But I was able to record mine and it has some sort of pattern in it:

My sleep time tends to move hours to hours ahead of itself.
It's like whether or not my sleep shortens or extends, somewhere along the line I've been disproportionally been awake by at least several minutes or hours more.

So... I'd go from the regular night to day sleep, to sleeping at afternoon then back within 2-4 weeks in cycle.

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I don't know which I am. I go in cycles with sleep where I'm either up all night, sleeping until 10am-noonish, or going to sleep before 10pm and getting up around 5am. Lately I've been a morning person unless commitments keep me out late or I have too many of them back to back. i like getting up early. It's when I get my alone time in.

Very much a lark though I have to force myself to be an owl at times for work.