Sleeping pattern binary - early bird or night owl?

[kyle_lawrence]

I'm also a night owl forced by the need for a paycheck to be a semi- early bird.  It used to be almost impossible to fall asleep before 3am and I was often up till 4 or 5am, but it worked ok because i worked a 2-10pm shift at the time.  Now I have a "real office job"  working 10am-6:30 with a 40 minute morning commute, so Ive gotten used to getting up around 8:30 (ok, so its normally closer to 9 and I run around frantically in the morning and barely make it to work on time everyday).   Now I normally go to bed around 12-1 am, and find myslef unable to stay in bed past 10, when a couple years ago I could easily sleep till 2 in the afternoon.  I dont know if its a force of habit from my work schedule, or if I've just calmed down from getting older and partying and getting wasted less.

[Lily]

I would be completely nocturnal if I could be. I'd love to be able to wake at 7PM and go to sleep at 10AM.

[Ann Onymous]

I'm neither, all things considered.  I'm one of those people who would do far better with a 28 to 30 hour clock. 

There are some mornings where I am up well before a 5AM alarm goes off and there are other nights where I may get to 3-4AM before realizing 'oh hell, I need to get some sleep.'  That being said, I also tend to have problems adjusting to other time zones precisely because of the habits that come with too many years of having to be into an office around 8:30AM...when I was in Californina last week, I was rolling over and was wide awake before 5AM their time simply because if I was not awake by 7AM CST, I was WAY late for the day...

I think some of this is also why I can run marathon poker sessions (not Phil Laak marathon, but certainly some 24-30 hour blocks when I was running good)...

[Hadrian]

I'm neither, all things considered.  I'm one of those people who would do far better with a 28 to 30 hour clock. 

This is exactly how I feel sometimes; there just simply isn't enough time in a day.

[Vaerama]

My natural cycle has me asleep in the late morning, with at most a nap in the evening-early night.

As Hadrian says: "there simply isn't enough time in a day"... it's such a pain to keep up with those who are awake when I'd like to be asleep

[tekla]

there just simply isn't enough time in a day.

Sleep less.  Or, why do you think there is such a huge meth problem?

[Ryno]

night hawk. I get a lot of thinking, writing, and drawing done at night. My creativity just plummets during the day. I do try to get to bed before midnight when I work any earlier than 2pm the next day though. Otherwise I just won't wake up.

While I was unemployed I would stay up until 7 or 8 in the morning, after taking walks through the park when the birds start chirping around 4am. It kept me relatively sane

[AbraCadabra]

both, nocturnal and still rise early

Axelle

[insanitylives]

lol, vampire.

I've been sleeping 2-5am to 9am-1pm