What is your go to schedule for when you absolutely must fall asleep before sunrise?

Prefer from a scientific point of view more so than a memoir of a night owl. Does any such book(s) exist? Thanks.

It’s midnight where I am and I’m about to start making the two dishes I’m bringing to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. I’m making my kick ass mushroom rosemary gravy and also Armenian green beans.

This way I can have a less stressful time getting ready to leave tomorrow and just reheat them.

The attitude of YOU MUST BE A LAZY OAF if you don't want to get up?

It drives me bonkers now that I'm retired and for the first time in 45-effing-years I don't have to submit to the man and be in the office by 8 or 9 am.

Morning people are so "above" everyone else. If I wanted to have a meeting at 10am instead of 8am people looked at me like I had 3 heads. As if 10 am was the middle of the afternoon.

The only polite way I could counter the criticisms about late morning (God forbid), was to say I was a night owl. I still got looks like that was just an excuse for being lazy. Like literally trying to explain to people that my body is on a different time clock, that it runs differently was met with smug superiority. If I was feeling snippy I'd give them this: How would you like it if I held our weekly mandatory meetings at midnight? Not so good, right? Exactly. I thought so. Because asking me to be here for YOUR 8am mandatory meeting is the equivalent for me.

And guess what? Morning people are TOAST by noon. They can hardly think they've been up so long. They need a damn nap by 3pm. I'm just hitting my stride. ALOT of work got done between 3pm and 6pm when those self-righteous dolts went home!

I've had to kneel to the demands of the morning people for 45 years. I don't schedule anything before noon now. Even if get the holier-than-thou attitude. But I had to fight my "bio-clock" for that many years to earn the right to be a night owl!

And how have your nights been going?

My mom said that I would always suddenly start kicking and flipping around at night while she was pregnant with me. She said I would rarely kick during the day and I caused her some gnarly sleep deprivation (oops🌚). Ig I’ve been a night owl since before birth😅. On the other hand, my siblings would move around the most early in the morning. They both consider themselves early birds.

How about you?

That tiny bit of light that creeps in is my nemesis. I need to redo my black window film

Owls. Whats good? Tell me something good.

I think I would love to go to sleep somewhere around 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. And sleep until 11:00 or 12:00. I find that I need to experience some amount of daytime hours or become depressed. Which is weird because I love when it's dark out. It's my most productive time. I'm in the New York City area and it now gets dark around 5:00. And it's hard mentally.

If you could live your best life (or already do) what would be your ideal hours?

Hey everyone. I work night shift at an Amazon warehouse. My work hours are 6:00pm to 4:30 am. I usually fall asleep around 7 or 8 in the morning and wake up at 5pm during my work days. On my off days? I wake up around 7 or 8 at night and sleep around 10 am. I'm always bored and lonely and can't really socialize because of my hours. I'm a recovering alcoholic so bars are out of the question. Anyways Is this the right subreddit and if so, how do you guys cope with the lonliness?

I'm a night owl and I go to sleep at 9:30 pm; wake up at 1:30 am. Recently, I've been having a hard time picking the right chair to stay awake in. I tried staying awake in my bed but 20 minutes in and I end up falling asleep. I tried staying up on my couch, but I don't like my feet to be dangling in the air when I'm sitting so usually, I end up lying on the couch. I always fall asleep on the couch even when I don't have a blanket around me. I just wanna know what chair you guys use to stay up in. Recently, I've been using this custom lounge chair with pillows taped to the front and back of the chair, and an electric toothbrush in a pillow on the floor. So far, It has not been very comfortable as I have to use some random crutches as the supports for my chair. The chair has a very stern/hard cushion on it too which really does a number on my back.........

How we doing?

Hoooooot gives a

I'm not certain but I believe I'm a night owl.

-creativity is much better, struggle all day to write then wham 11:30 I get to work on a wonderful scene.

-even when I'm tired at night I often still feel more awake then at day.

-my mood seems generally less In the gutter.

-when I don't have a obligation to be up early for months straight I naturally start to fall into going to sleep later and later in the night. Kinda annoying.

-idk man the night is just awesome, sucks I can't see though and nothing is open.

So I need a night owl perspective. to live life ya kinda have to be up and do things all day and im not sure how to continue this if its actully a problem. If I'm lucky I might be able to get a night shift for a little while. But being asleep when the family is awake feels odd.

Can I make this go away? Is it worth trying for a night job somewhere? Do I just suck it up like the capitalist slaves we are and deal with it?

Frequently I see many including medical professionals claim that being a night owl causes a host of issues, ranging from diabetes, heart disease, depression etc do you feel as if there is any validity to these claims? are these issues caused by an unhealthy lifestyle rather than the time someone sleeps? I feel as if allot of these claims are sensationalized, or misrepresented, would love to hear your opinions on the subject as fellow night owls.

Hello all I am a night shifter and proud of it. I have been a night shifter for 3 years now and enjoy the peace and quite at work less traffic weird things happening out on the streets etc. I work as a lineman so I see a lot of crazy.!

Well anyway hello from the dmv area

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Sometimes all ya need is a good nap

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And not something like our modern enviroment full of lights and stress? Like is there a medical test or something? I find it way to difficult to sleep at the time my shrink says i should sleep, and no offense to him he is a good doctor, but he is old and he doesnt believe that there is such thing as a night owl. I do believe it but his argument makes sense, how do you know if it isnt our modern enviroment with all this nightlights? Please help and thank you for your time.