Night Owl or Morning Person?

[KINGDINOSAUR]

Is the stereotype of B-movie fans true?  Do all of us stay awake deep into the night?

On average I usually stay awake until 3AM and don't wake up until after 12 noon.  I stick with a work schedule to accommodate my life-long sleeping pattern.

Are any of you actually a "morning person"?  If so, had you always woken up shortly after dawn and been sound asleep well before midnight?

[Cricket21a]

I'm a morning person sort of, but it's only because I stay up all night at work.  Some nights I don't get home until 3 or 4 am.  It takes a few hours before I seem to be able to sleep alot of the time, so some mornings I'm going to bed at 6 or 7am, just when the sun is coming up :)

[AndyC]

I used to be a night owl. My work schedule is somewhat flexible, and I'd often come home at 11 or 12 (I must have been working 60-hour weeks on a salary at one point), flip on the TV and watch two or three hours. Weekends, I'd either be watching movies until the wee hours, or sometimes at the bar until closing time. I'd also use weekends to make up the sleep I lost all week.

Getting married has turned me into a morning person. Now, I seldom stay up past 11, and usually go to bed by 9:30 or 10. I'm often awake at 6am. I even turn in early Saturday nights, since my wife is a minister, and we have to be at church early. When I'm reading a really good book, I might accidentally read until midnight, but I'm almost always asleep by 11. I'm also not the workaholic I was a couple of years ago. Been finding family time.

I've found that my internal clock has changed, and when I do get the chance to stay up late, it's not always easy. I usually get sleepy by 11 o'clock.

[The Burgomaster]

I'm both a night owl AND a morning person.  If I go to bed before 1:00 a.m., I usually get up around 6:00 or 6:30.  If I go to bed after 1:00 a.m., I usually get up between 6:30 and 7:30.  No matter what, I rarely sleep past 7:30.  I think it's psychological.  As far as sleeping until 12 noon, I can't remember ever doing this in my life.  I can barely remember any times when I slept past 9:00 a.m. (a VERY RARE occurrence).  Even if I stay up drinking until 4:00 in the morning, I'm still up by 7:30 getting ready for the day.

[Susan]

I was born nocturnal, in fact I have to keep a regular sleeping schedule in order to stay sane, otherwise i suffer from insomnia ;-)

[dean]

I'm a university student so of course I'm more of a night person!  We are on holidays at the moment and for the last few weeks I've been going to sleep between 2:30 and 3:00 on average, and waking up around midday.  My sleeping patterns used to be really erratic, but seems to have calmed down a bit so I'm happy.  

If I have an opportunity to sleep earlier I'll either go online or watch TV until around 2:30 or 3:00 [It's currently 2:36am so I'm going to go to sleep soon!]

But I find that TV keeps me awake longer, I'll watch something and find it hard to get to sleep after I turn it off.  I had a conversation about this with my girlfriend, and she has now coined the phrase 'Brain-rape' which is, I guess her way of saying her brain is overstimulated after watching TV even though you don't want it to, you just want to sleep.  Quite an odd term actually.  Quite an odd line of conversation too, I just felt the need to ramble in my sleepy state and slip the word brain rape into conversation.

Off to bed now, 'night all!

[Velvet Brotha]

I'm only a morning person because of my job. I remember the good 'ol days when I would get up around 1:00 PM. ; ) Then again, I didn't have a job and it really sucked to miss most of the day. On the bright side, I did get to see plenty of cheezy movies though.

[Scott]

Really more of a morning and early to bed person, it just feels better and is more natural I suppose. Circumstances can change that occasionally. The computer can keep me up till 1 a.m. at times.

[jmc]

I'm not working right now, so I can make my own schedule.  Lately my wife and I have been staying up until 2 or 3 and getting up around noon.  We'll be working again next month and we'll have to get used to a regular schedule again.

I worked nights for 2 and a half years and it took a long while to get used to that.  Even after that I worked afternoon/evening shift.  I'm 31 years old and other than a brief summer job right after high school I've never worked a traditional 9 to 5 workday.  It's always been night shifts or afternoon shifts.  I'm really hoping to change that soon.

Until I quit my last job, I've had to work weekends for the last few years too...that's no good either.

[Max Gardner]

I'm sure as hell a night owl.  I'm not fully awake/alive until I get a few cups of coffee in me around nine a.m.

[JohnL]

My friends call me a vampire and joke that going out in the sun will kill me.

[FearlessFreep]

I used to very much be a night owl, up until 2-3am no problem

no my work schedule means I have to be at the bus stop a bit after 6:00 so I'm getting up really early and thus going to bed pretty early

[Scott]

I've worked night shift for a total of about 6 years in my life. 2 years as 11-7 Security and 7pm to 7pm taxi driver in Atlantic City.

Believe it or not the Security job was the harder of the two because you had to stay awake. The taxi job I could simply pull of the road and take a nap like in a cab line or anywhere as I was an independant driver and self-employed.

Even now if I stay awake on the computer till 1 a.m. on my day off I still get up at 6 or 7 a.m. .

[Gus Nukem]

was that a Watchmen reference?
A (super)hero vs a normal life?

[KINGDINOSAUR]

Gus Nukem wrote: was that a Watchmen reference? A (super)hero vs a normal life?

No.  I'm an admirer of Alan Moore's writing and WATCHMEN is up there with his best work (with visuals by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins).

A more compatible birdie reference would have been:  Are you a night owl or an early bird?