Early bird or night owl?

Early bird or night owl?


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Great! I've been standing up on the board on everything. Saw dolphins tonight too.

And the other people in the hostel seem fine but are all quite young so haven't been socialising much with us thank god. :)

Edit: I sound like an oddball but I'm really not.

Ha! Yay I'm glad it's going well. I never got past a stomach surf on my one attempt at surfing so kudos to you!
 
Night owl for literally as long as I can remember. Unless i'm ill, going to sleep before midnight isn't just unheard of for me but actively difficult even if i'm tired.

It helps my social life but i'm actively resentful of how the work day is set up for early birds (even flexitime hours only stretch to a 10am start). I think uni was the only time of my life where I was largely able to keep a sleep, life and work pattern that mostly suited me.

When I was in high school and since I started working I RARELY get enough sleep.

I honestly feel that this is just the way I am and I find it frustrating that I should have to somehow "correct" myself to fit with the working day.
 
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I'm with Sheena in that I'd rather not sleep at all if the option was presented, but completely agree with Tetris above. There's no way I'm going to bed before midnight because I'll never get to sleep but I'm just so nonfunctional when I wake up.

I've had a few 8am meetings booked recently where the assumption is that everyone's awake because of homeworking. Yeah, that ain't happening. Soz.
 
I genuinely don't understand how you can NOT ENJOY SLEEP.

A mid-afternoon nap is genuinely the best thing ever.
 
Sleep is fine, but it's just dead time. I'd rather be doing something instead (if it was an option)

I never nap though, unless ill. Feeling groggy for 2 hours for just 30 minutes of sleep? Nah, doesn't seem worth it.
 
I love a good sweaty nap on the sofa

I do my best sleeping on the sofa actually
 
Cwej, how do you cope with this when you're a TEACHER?

It is the absolute WORST thing about my job. I force myself to be in bed by 1am and get up around 7:15am. That's just about doable but the day after the holidays begin I start edging back towards 3am... at the height of lockdown it was 5am and I was doing work at night, recording lessons at 1am and then setting them to be released at 9am, because I just preferred it so much.
 
Sleep is fine, but it's just dead time. I'd rather be doing something instead (if it was an option)

I think this opinion is disproportionately highly represented on things like internet forums. People look at me completely agog when I say things like this to them in 'real life'.
 
I genuinely don't understand how you can NOT ENJOY SLEEP.

A mid-afternoon nap is genuinely the best thing ever.

And yet you're a night owl. If you love sleep so much why don't you go to sleep when all the other early birds go to bed, I'm sure that's what they'd wonder?
 
Night owl for literally as long as I can remember. Unless i'm ill, going to sleep before midnight isn't just unheard of for me but actively difficult even if i'm tired.

It helps my social life but i'm actively resentful of how the work day is set up for early birds (even flexitime hours only stretch to a 10am start). I think uni was the only time of my life where I was largely able to keep a sleep, life and work pattern that mostly suited me.

When I was in high school and since I started working I RARELY get enough sleep.

I honestly feel that this is just the way I am and I find it frustrating that I should have to somehow "correct" myself to fit with the working day.

All of this I relate to so much. It is so frustrating. There have been some active campaigns to get secondary schools starting school later to fit in with the 'natural' sleep patterns of teenagers, but because this country is so fucking traditionalist it will never happen en masse. I think it could be a massive game-changer for teenagers personally.
 
There have been some active campaigns to get secondary schools starting school later to fit in with the 'natural' sleep patterns of teenagers, but because this country is so fucking traditionalist it will never happen en masse. I think it could be a massive game-changer for teenagers personally.

I mean, WHY would we do something that would make sense and help children to engage better with learning? I imagine 90% of the reason things are the way they are is because the current school day fits better with parental work schedules.
 
And yet you're a night owl. If you love sleep so much why don't you go to sleep when all the other early birds go to bed, I'm sure that's what they'd wonder?

Because my body just isn't attuned to going to sleep at 10pm. I don't nap all the time, but if I'm feeling worn down or flagging in the middle of an important job, a 45 minute power nap is amazingly refreshing and I get so much more done afterwards.
 
Just because I can’t get to sleep at a reasonable hour doesn’t mean that I don’t LIKE sleep.
 
Very much an early bird. I’m usually bedded by around 12.30-1 then am usually up at about 6 and out running for 6.30. Obviously of a busy weekend that is entirely changeable.
 
I mean, WHY would we do something that would make sense and help children to engage better with learning? I imagine 90% of the reason things are the way they are is because the current school day fits better with parental work schedules.


For primary schools maybe, but for secondary schools I see no reason why it would make it easier to have schools fitting work patterns. The vast majority of kids make their own way to school etc.

I think the reason is literally 'because it's always been that way'. No other reason. Just because it's what people are 'used to'. Same with most offices being 9-5 still (though obviously things are moving a bit with flexitime etc). It's just schools are often the last to change and catch-up with the rest of the country on things like this.
 
Very much an early bird. I’m usually bedded by around 12.30-1 then am usually up at about 6 and out running for 6.30. Obviously of a busy weekend that is entirely changeable.

I think of early bird as being bed by 10 or 11 at the latest. Sounds to me like you just run on not that much sleep either way!
 
Just because I can’t get to sleep at a reasonable hour doesn’t mean that I don’t LIKE sleep.

I LOVE sleep once I go - but I refuse to do it until my body is 100% ready for it... which is super super late.

The thing I really don't understand is people who are like 'I was rolling around and couldn't sleep for hours last night' when they tried to go to bed at 9pm... maybe your body is telling you that you don't need to sleep yet?

When I decide to sleep I am out in SECONDS because I wait til so late and my body is literally exhausted!
 
Very much an early bird. I’m usually bedded by around 12.30-1 then am usually up at about 6 and out running for 6.30. Obviously of a busy weekend that is entirely changeable.
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I would love to be able to do that, but I just can’t in the mornings
 
neither - I get up at 9 and can't function until I've had two coffees, and i'm usually asleep before midnight. I am most productive in the small window between 10am and midday, and then I start thinking about lunch, porn, Katy Perry or other less important things and it all goes to shit.
 
I think of early bird as being bed by 10 or 11 at the latest. Sounds to me like you just run on not that much sleep either way!

I have always found 5 hours more than sufficient. I don’t use an alarm clock but my internal body clock always seems to get me up at the same time every day.
 
I genuinely don't understand how you can NOT ENJOY SLEEP.

A mid-afternoon nap is genuinely the best thing ever.

I really struggle to nap, its a big thing when it happens and its usually a result of me dodging an entire nights sleep, drugs basically.
 
That said I do tend to find I work productively first thing in the morning and then in the early evening, so I totally follow the 'siesta' pattern, but I prefer to just mooch about for a bit after lunch, either reading or having an hour on the ps4 for example.
 
I love going into work super early. alone for the first hour, drinking coffee and coming to on paytime, then leave an hour earlier than everyone else when the office is literally on fire :disco:

THIS! Used to often get into my office for 6am and spend a few glorious hours alone. Would get LOADS done.

The more I think about it, I think I'm naturally an early bird to be honest...
 
@Chlammy - Where are you surfing? I really want to learn at some point and any recommendations gratefully received. Unless it's all 12 years olds...
Bundoran in Donegal! The whole Atlantic coast is great for it apparently. We got a lesson a few years ago which was fun (though made me self conscious).

This time was heaps better as we had the whole day to work on it by ourselves now that we had the basic skills. Not a twelve year old in sight either. And we missed it cause we'd left our boards back, but we sat up on the cliff and the surfers below had dolphins swim up and around them.

I loved it.
 
I'm not an early bird, but I do get the majority of my work done before lunch, as soon as I eat I can barely focus.
 
I think I'm more productive in the afternoon partly just because I have a greater sense of URGENCY in terms of wanting to get stuff done before I go home. I've definitely got a pattern of when I've got a morning clinic letting it run over and being more inclined to faff about a bit in general. In the afternoon/evening I think I'm a lot more boundaried timewise, and more clearly focused - but I don’t achieve any less or leave anything undone.

But I guess that pattern is probably due to me not being a morning person.
 
I guess I used to be a vers for years due to doing a job where one week I could be starting work at 5:30am and the next I could be doing shifts that finish just before 1am. Since starting a job with normal office hours a few months ago, I'd call myself more of an early bird - going to bed around 11pm, up about 8am and that's the way I like it, no desire to stay up any later into the night usually.
 
I'm not an early bird, but I do get the majority of my work done before lunch, as soon as I eat I can barely focus.

The post-lunch slump can be related to what you are eating, particularly if you have a large meal. It’ll cause an increase in the blood sugar level followed by a crash.
 

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