Nocturnal, Diurnal or Crepuscular

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Are you mostly:

Diurnal but I have to work at night so make myself Nocturnal instead.	3%	[ 1 ]
Diurnal and loving it, I got plenty of things on during the day time.	3%	[ 1 ]
Nocturnal but I have to function during the day and it sucks. Thank god I don't have to eat garlic as well.	33%	[ 13 ]
A creature of the night (nocturnal) and loving it. I got a night job/hobby/lifestyle and Egor my butler keeps the peasants in plentiful supply for me so I always have something to snack on!	18%	[ 7 ]
Crepuscular...I like twilight and dusk. Its pretty!	21%	[ 8 ]
Crikey, I don't know, I keep really weird hours man!	23%	[ 9 ]
I don't sleep...ahem. I stay away 24/7 and am severely sleep deprive...zzzzzzzzzzz snort Huh what was I doing?	0%	[ 0 ]

Total votes : 39

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30 Nov 2011, 6:38 pm

I am curious about the Circadian rhythms of many of the posters here.

So what is your preferred sleep pattern?

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30 Nov 2011, 6:45 pm

Some clarification of the terms:

Nocturnal active during the night
Diurnal active in the daytime
Crepuscular active in the twilight, that is during dawn and dusk.

I am a Daywalker, live by day but prefer the night.

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30 Nov 2011, 6:52 pm

Nocturnal. I like the calm that the night brings, the darkness and quiet is soothing to me.

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30 Nov 2011, 7:13 pm

Nocturnal, forced to function during the day and I'm not happy about it. Meh. I'd prefer if everything started after noon.

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30 Nov 2011, 7:28 pm

I picked nocturnal but wasn't sure which one fit really. I was going to say crepuscular, because I love twilight, but I hate getting up early. I'd rather be asleep at dawn. I like to sleep around 2am-10am.

I used to have a really terrible time with my sleep cycles, I called it chasing myself around the clock.

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30 Nov 2011, 7:34 pm

I'm not an owl..

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30 Nov 2011, 7:38 pm

Diurnal when I have things to do during the day (ie. the school year).

Nocturnal when I don't.

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30 Nov 2011, 8:36 pm

When left to myself (e.g. during the summer), I start having 26-27h cycles, so I end up sometimes sleeping at day, sometimes at night, it rotates through a week or two. When I have slept enough, I work most efficiently in the morning, but I still prefer the night.

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30 Nov 2011, 8:48 pm

- voted "Nocturnal but I have to function during the day and it sucks. Thank god I don't have to eat garlic as well."

- "I don't sleep...*ahem*. I stay away 24/7 and am severely sleep deprive...zzzzzzzzzzz *snort* Huh what was I doing?" reminds me of a funny joke, though: "Chuck Norris doesn't sleep...he waits."

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30 Nov 2011, 8:53 pm

Although I enjoy dusk and twilight, I don't recall having ever specifically Crepusculed.

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30 Nov 2011, 8:56 pm

I was leaning towards 'crepuscular' but picked 'weird hours' because I'm not consistent in it.

Lately I've been getting up at 4 am every day, then going to bed exhausted around 7-ish. Used to be I'd get up same time as everyone else and stay up late into the night many nights. Other times I'd keep normal hours.

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30 Nov 2011, 10:04 pm

I choose crepuscular, but now that I think about it im more early nocturnal.

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30 Nov 2011, 10:18 pm

"Nocturnal, Diurnal or Crepuscular"

Jeez, you just happened to know of one of my favorite word groups in the English language, didn't you? :p

I also like the word 'matutinal'.

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30 Nov 2011, 10:30 pm

I'm mostly active during the daytime. That's when I function at my best.

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30 Nov 2011, 11:06 pm

I just sleep when I'm tired. I'm kind of forced into staying awake during the day, due to school and all, but on breaks anything goes.

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30 Nov 2011, 11:26 pm

I function best from 10p-2a generally... which really stinks due to societal standards for living.

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