I’m a night person, too. Not only do I always stay up till at least 11:30, unless I’m really exhausted, I don’t do my best work first thing in the morning, like most people seem to. I take a little longer to get up to speed.
I used to be a night person - within the past two years something changed and I started getting up very early. Now I’m up before my 5:00 AM alarm. Bleah! I liked it better when I could sleep in!
I can’t sleep for more than 4 hours. I’m wide awake at 12…1…2…and hopefully can sleep by 2.30 or 3am.
Up at 7, alarm doesn’t wake me. What snooze button?
Doing more physical labor doesn’t help.
You are right about that. The “wasting the morning” comment tends to come from morning people as if it is a virtue. The opposite isn’t true of course. The night hours are meant for reflecting on what the morning will bring at best and debauchee and evil at worst.
I am a night person and always have been. I force myself to go to bed by 11 pm these days because of work and small children but I don’t like it much. I lived without commitments and even in isolation for weeks or months at a time through the years and I will just start going to bed later and later under those circumstances until the sun coming up knocks me to sleep.
I have always been a 5 1/2 to 6 hr sleeper. I never take naps. If I go to bed at 2 ,I am up at 7 or 8. I am just done sleeping. Sometimes I go to bed at 2 and lay there. I decide I am not tired and get back up. I have watched Letterman.Leno, Carson, Jack Paar. Steve Allen. Nowadays the Twilight Zone comes on Sci. Channel.
My usual bedtime is around 12.30 - I wake at 7am because I can’t sleep any longer. Last week we went away on a trip interstate and I was going to bed at 10 pm - at 4am I was wide awake, it was a nightmare. Before I had kids I’d sleep 12 - 14 hours at a stretch, no problem. Now 7 hours is more than enough.
My natural sleep schedule seems to be sleep at 3 a.m., wake up at 10 or 10:30 a.m. About a year ago, I went from having an office job (which required me waking up at 7:30 a.m.) to go fully self-employed again, and after a few weeks of going to bed at midnight and waking up at 7:30 or 8:00 a.m., my body settled into the usual 3 a.m. - 10 a.m. sleep pattern which I had for years previously, when I was also able to set whatever sleep schedule I wanted.
Yeah, I see that. I do get up early. But don’t necessarily consider myself a morning person. I’ve worked 2nd and 3rd shifts too. It’s tough.
And phone calls past 9pm agravate me. Sort of like the shoes on or off in the house thread, we are all different.
I like getting up early because I can get off early. Often, I have to plow the driveway. It’s a lot easier to do it in the remaining light of the day. And It helps that I beat my Wife home and don’t have another vehicle to jockey around. (I actually managed to get my Pathfinder up the drive tonight before I plowed. 18 inches of snow in May sometimes changes your prioritys.)
Also, I’m working on a addition on my house. The local lumber yards are only open to noon on Saturday, and not open on Sunday at all. So if I need something, there is no choice but to be on the road and go get it on Saturday morning. If I lounge around, my whole weekend can be shot.
I get home from work between 4 and 4:30pm. I like it.
As to the OP. Perhaps pre-prepare a good breakfast. Something to look forward to.
I get eight or nine hours of sleep a day, just not all at once. Yesterday, I went to bed at 4 AM and woke up at 10:30. This evening, I had a nap from 6:30 to 9:30, and I’ll probably repeat that cycle. I used to be able to sleep for ten hours, but the older I get, the less able I am to sleep for extended periods. I can’t go to bed at 11 and wake up at 7, because I’d have nothing to do for hours before I go to work. I’ll probably end up like my father-in-law when I’m retired - go to bed at 5AM, wake up at 2 PM. I was always a night person, anyway.
I’m 21 and I’m hoping that you are right. Though my situation might be different than you as a teenager because I really do want to wake up and enjoy the morning. I just can’t. I can’t end the day without enjoying the evening a little bit. Going to bed right after I come home from work is such a repulsive thought for me, that I get a little depressed thinking about it. I rarely wake up fresh in the mornings anyway, maybe that is why the idea has such little appeal to me?
When I try to fall asleep early, I get in bed and lie there thinking about all the other things I could be doing. Then I would eventually wake up at noon the next day anyway.
I generally go to bed at 2AM (sometimes as late as 3) and get up at 7. If I go to bed earlier or get up later, I tend to spend the day with a nagging headache. This becomes something of an annoyance when I’m not at home, as it’s not always convenient to do this when staying in someone else’s house, or on holiday.
Arrgh! I hate that! I get it all the time, too. I’ll get calls from coworkers at 8 in the morning asking me if I’m coming in today. Of COURSE I’m coming in, you twit, but I don’t start until 10:00! Dammit!
It’s not like this is a new thing, either. I requested this shift and got it a long time ago (year-plus); it’s like they’re genetically incapable of understanding that not everyone works from 8-5.
Being able to get up early is not a virtue. It’s just an ability. One that I do not happen to possess. As it is I’m a zombie during the week because I have to get up at 7:00 to make sure my son’s at school by 8:30; if I go to bed before midnight I end up lying there awake anyway. Gaah.
My best work happens during the 10pm - 2am phase, personally. Luckily I’m able to put off ‘project’ work until then fairly often, so I can pound it out while the pounding’s good. 
I’ve been like that my whole life. My favorite time of day is 11 p.m. to 3 a.m., and I was happiest when I worked 2 to 10:30 p.m. I’d go to sleep at about 4 a.m. and then spring out of bed at 11 a.m. without an alarm and be perfectly alert and not a bit groggy.
I work days now, though, so I’ve had to force myself into a day schedule. I’ve found it hard to get to bed early enough until recently, and as a result, my mornings have been characterized by hitting snooze five times, stumbling into the bathroom at 7:30 when I wanted to get up at 6:30, waking up to some degree in the shower, skipping breakfast because I’m running late, and then falling asleep at my desk at around 10 a.m.
I started taking melatonin, though, and I’m finally starting to be able to get my ass to bed on time (between 11 and 11:30 p.m). I take it at about 10:30, and about an hour later, my eyes get all heavy and I can go to sleep. For the first time ever, I woke up at 6:30 this morning, before the alarm, and actually felt good.