# Are you a morning or evening person? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141 "2005-09-17T19:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/1 "2005-09-17T19:09:05Z")
Some people are up at the crack of dawn; others are night owls. Which are you? Further, when you were growing up, did your bedroom get the morning or evening sun? ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/2 "2005-09-17T19:26:02Z")
I’m definitiely a night person. I have been since adolescence. Now that I don’t have to wake up before 9 AM, I never do. And I often have a nap in the evening for a couple of hours, and then stay awake until 2:30 or so. I don’t remember if the sun came in my room or not; I haven’t been in there in 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/3 "2005-09-17T19:27:53Z")
“Nocturno” should have been my middle name. ---
**Author:** ![The\_New\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@The\_New\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_New_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/4 "2005-09-17T19:35:42Z")
Night person. My window faced SE from K-4th grade, and we moved in 5th grade, where it faced North. Why? Do you have a theory? ---
**Author:** ![Fringe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5a626/32.png) [@Fringe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fringe)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/5 "2005-09-17T19:35:56Z")
Night person. The sun came into my room in the evenings. I’m interested to see the responses of others. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/6 "2005-09-17T19:36:54Z")
Let me put it this way - I went to bed at 6:30 this morning. And I switched bedrooms several times as a kid, so I was on both sides of the house. THAT should screw up your data! Mwahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/7 "2005-09-17T19:39:54Z")
I’m more of a morning person, although I will sleep in if I get the chance. I hardly ever stay up later than ten PM. My bedroom as a child faced west. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/8 "2005-09-17T20:01:13Z")
I am a very early morning person. My ideal day has me going to sleep around 4:30pm and getting up at midnight. I’m with **Smeghead** in switching rooms growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/9 "2005-09-17T20:03:48Z")
Night person. I sleep roughly from 4am-noon when left to my own devices. Other schedules make me grumpy. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/10 "2005-09-17T20:24:35Z")
Definitely a night owl. Growing up, my bedroom got the morning sun. However, when I say “bedroom” i mean living room. It was a small apartment and I was nice enough to give the 2nd bedroom to my little sister, so I slept in the living room where, of course, everyone else woke me up early with their morning schedule. Don’t think that has any correlation though, because I’ve always been a night owl. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/11 "2005-09-17T20:30:40Z")
I’m a morning person - I always have been. As far as whether my room got the morning sun or evening…I’m pretty sure it was the evening sun because now when I get stuck sleeping on the sofa at my parents’ house during a visit, the sun usually wakes me up coming in the front door - and the living room faces the opposite direction of my old room. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/12 "2005-09-17T20:30:42Z")
Night. My bedroom window in both houses faced north. My windows now face east and north. Getting up is easier than it used to be, but I still hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/13 "2005-09-17T21:11:57Z")
Very, very morning. Up at 4:20 AM. Bed before 9. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/14 "2005-09-17T21:31:35Z")
Morning. Up by 5am, in the gym by 6am. On with my day. I’m usually in bed by 10pm. I relax the schedule on weekends by an hour or two. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/15 "2005-09-17T21:40:23Z")
Don’t get off work until midnight, so night person. Actually pretty much always was. My window faced East, but we had so many trees behind us, I never got any direct sunlight. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/16 "2005-09-17T21:54:26Z")
I’m a moring person as far as as my peak times for making any kind of sense. I usually get up at about 6 and go to bed about 11 or 12. But in the evenings I am pretty worthless. I just read or watch a movie after about 8 pm. Sometimes I get interested in something and don’t go to bed til later and then I use the snooze in the morning but I don’t feel like I need to stay in bed an extra hour or anything. If I am in bed on time I usually will wake up before the alarm and I feel like getting up. When I was a kid my bedroom faced Southwest. I always stayed up late and slept in as much as I could as a teen but it was mostly because I felt like going to bed was going to be the end of all my fun. I was very depressed then and I think it was bad for me to stretch out the tired part of my day that way. I am just happier in the morning so I am better off enjoying the first part of my days and then knowing when to call it a day. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/17 "2005-09-17T22:14:19Z")
I hate mornings. Hate them with a passion. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/18 "2005-09-17T22:27:50Z")
Morning person. I get up at 4:45 for work, and on weekends, I rarely sleep past 7AM. I love watching the day being born, and once the sun sets, I’m ready to crash. If I’m still awake at 10PM, it’s a rarity. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/19 "2005-09-17T23:02:11Z")
Lemme put it this way: morning people need to be keelhauled and made to drink coffee until they explode. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/20 "2005-09-17T23:07:07Z")
Kind of in the middle, and incapable of being too flexible with it. Generally I am up at about 8 AM (if I have a choice) and am in bed by 11 and asleep by 12. I prefer getting up early to staying up late because if I stay up really late I have trouble getting to sleep, but I wouldn’t classify myself as a morning person. I had a bunch of bedrooms as a kid and I’m sure I’ve had windows in every direction. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141.md?page=2)