Are you a day person or nocturnal?

[RottenDeer]

I'm definitely nocturnal.

 

[Mm80]

I'm definitely nocturnal.

I don't trust morning people tbh. They are not right
Especially when you walk into work on the morning and people are enthusiastically saying good morning in horrible high pitched voices.

 

[Viro_Major]

Used to be more nocturnal than an owl

Now took the habit to wake up in the middle of the night. Same achievement with a twist but way healthier imho. The sleeping hours before midnight are positively more regenerating. Feeling a lot more rested with clarity, immediately ready and it's just grand to enjoy the dawn before anyone gets active as busy bees (obviously, the thick darkness and heavy sound of quietude before, too). It sort of gives you an edge to warm up in advance of a schedule. Whereas when I'd wake up late I'd feel guilt and I'd be crippled with rumination of mini nightmares of the past leading to procrastination in bed

Spoiler

 

[gcarb]

100% nocturnal.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I used to be balanced between the two. Now, as i get older, my body needs to balance it's hormones as the only way I can get any meaningful sleep. So I have no choice but to follow diurnal/nocturnal light cycles to give my metabolism the best chance possible to function better. That means I get up with the dawn and go to bed not long after dusk, as well as spending as much time outside as possible to expose myself to natural light. We may have culturally evolved to function at night, but biologically we are still a daytime species. When you are young, this is often meaningless because your physiology can compensate. As you grow older, you lose that resilience and have no choice but to adapt.

 

[puppy9]

I don't trust morning people tbh. They are not right
Especially when you walk into work on the morning and people are enthusiastically saying good morning in horrible high pitched voices.

Yeah me too, they suck. I'm a night dude. It's when people shut the fuck up, so I can have my peace.

This is how I imagine them in the morning shouting I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready......

 

[Deleted member 1465]

LOL I spend 7am to midday, everyday, as the exact opposite of a morning person. I have to manage a sometimes gruelling medication and personal regime to achieve a little bit of functionality in the afternoon. If I could, I'd lie in bed all morning. Unfortunately I don't have that luxury.
Not does sleep come easily. Everyday is like running a hard race, finishing, then being given an insufficient amount of rest before having to run it again. And again and again. It wears me down physically. At times when I have failed to get any significant sleep, there is even no rest and day and night bleed into one and become meaningless.

 

[stoned-cold]

Nocturnal. I always seemed to function better, or feel more 'awake' during the late hours and early mornings.
For the marjoity of my life I followed a normal sleep schedule for school/work and I can almost never stay awake. Always just so tired and burned out. Poor focus and concentration, moodswings, etc.

 

[Ghost2211]

I don't trust morning people tbh. They are not right
Especially when you walk into work on the morning and people are enthusiastically saying good morning in horrible high pitched voices.

Us morning people can really brighten your morning with a big cup of cheer and enthusiasm!

 

[DetachedDreamer97]

Nocturnal. There's just so much to do at night.

 

[grungeCat]

Definitely nocturnal. I like when it's dark outside.

 

[sadworld]

Definitely nocturnal 100%. Because at night there are less people, so less anxiety

 

[Good4Nothing]

Nocturnal, but I work a 9 to 5.
I spend the first 3 hours of my day just waking up and getting my brain in gear.
I messed a job up just this morning, in fact, because I can't fucking think until I'm fully awake. I'm useless in the morning.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I'm usually nocturnal but I'm also more productive only during the day...

 

[karaboudjan]

Absolutely a night owl. I feel much more calm at night; no phone calls, no emails, no knocks at the door, everyone and everything is inactive until the morning. It almost feels like you can hit 'pause' on the world for a while.

 

[Sensei]

Definitely a nighthawk. When I'm free from work I often go to bed at dawn. I've basically been like that my whole life and it hasn't changed when I've grown older.

 

[Pho3nix]

Very much a night owl. I'm a person who finds daylight too bright, stressful and noisy. I love it when it's dark and quiet outside and enjoy the early darkness in the winter months. In the summer I go insane because the days are way TOO LONG, getting dark at about 10.00pm. If I didn't take a sleeping tablet every night, I'd be awake half the night and sleeping the day away.

 

[Mm80]

Us morning people can really brighten your morning with a big cup of cheer and enthusiasm!

You see just that statement alone upsets me lol.
I could imagine rosie, i bet youre arse is bouncing off the walls in the morning.
I bet you even have the washing machine spinning away at 6.30 am lol

 

[Ghost2211]

You see just that statement alone upsets me lol.
I could imagine rosie, i bet youre arse is bouncing off the walls in the morning.
I bet you even have the washing machine spinning away at 6.30 am lol

That energy can be put to good use. I can get up make your coffee and breakfast and then motivate you to get out of bed in the cutest way possible. You'll tell me you're annoyed but you'll really be leaving full of energy and love!

 

[antigone_iris]

Ugh, I'm not so sure anymore

 

[Mm80]

That energy can be put to good use. I can get up make your coffee and breakfast and then motivate you to get out of bed in the cutest way possible. You'll tell me you're annoyed but you'll really be leaving full of energy and love!

Thats probably true actually.
Ive not been motivated to wake up in a cute way in the past lol.
Thanks rosey, im now a morning person !

 

[Deleted member 19654]

I used to be a morning person and I have no idea how.

 

[woxihuanni]

I am not nocturnal, but I don't get up at ungodly hour and go jogging either.

Coffee and fags, knead the dough for the daily bread.
And, soon no bread is wanted and there is no days or nights anymore.

 

[Lilacmoon]

most of my life i've been diurnal since I get my energy from socializing with others.
these days I'm neither though, just permanently sad and tired.

 

[BPD Barbie]

100% night time person. I feel wayyy more productive at night, have more energy, love the peacefulness that night brings. But, it's also a rough time, alone with my thoughts, insomnia etc, still, I'd rather be awake all night and sleep during the day.

 

[Broken Chimera]

I'm definitely a night person. Thanks to my old job and insomnia I can't really sleep anyway.

 

[AvaAdore]

Either way is the same for me

 

[sufferingalways]

I used to be balanced between the two. Now, as i get older, my body needs to balance it's hormones as the only way I can get any meaningful sleep. So I have no choice but to follow diurnal/nocturnal light cycles to give my metabolism the best chance possible to function better. That means I get up with the dawn and go to bed not long after dusk, as well as spending as much time outside as possible to expose myself to natural light. We may have culturally evolved to function at night, but biologically we are still a daytime species. When you are young, this is often meaningless because your physiology can compensate. As you grow older, you lose that resilience and have no choice but to adapt.

Talking of getting older .. can I borrow your walking stick? (Teasing you) :)

 

[waived]

I quite like mornings.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Talking of getting older .. can I borrow your walking stick? (Teasing you) :)

I can make you one. It's one of my weird hobbies. I collect fresh fall tree limbs from the woods and whittle them into walking sticks. I have a walking staff, two quarterstaves (used to fight off geese) and an old walking stick I made in '93 that's now seasoned to the point it's probably hard enough to stop an axe blade. I know it's odd, but I find whittling and sanding wood to be very therapeutic.