# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![woodstock989](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@woodstock989](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstock989)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/21 "2005-09-17T23:10:21Z")
Night owl. Bad habit of coming home from work, napping for a few hours, then staying up until 2:00-3:00-4:00am. Thank God for Vivarin. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/22 "2005-09-17T23:28:17Z")
Night owl. I’m at my most awake and alert around two in the morning. And I prefer not to awake before noon if at all possible. Yes, my earliest class during the week is at 11:30, but that’s so much better than the possibility of an eight o’clock class. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/23 "2005-09-18T00:08:07Z")
Night owl. The only thing that gets me through starting work at 8:30 is copious amounts of coffee. Starbucks knew what they were doing when they opened up a location directly across the street from my apartment. Growing up, my bedroom faced southeast. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/24 "2005-09-18T00:11:26Z")
addendum: I moved around waaay too much as a kid for bedroom sunlight to be a factor. As a baby, for the first two years I had a bed that got neither direct sunrise or sunset as it was in my great-grandmother’s heavily draped bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/25 "2005-09-18T00:13:52Z")
Evening. Nightime. Early morning. That’s me. I’ve never had an opportunity to demonstrate that I would be happy on a 27-hour clock, but I’m sure that’s where my body would like to take me. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/26 "2005-09-18T00:15:26Z")
morning lark until about 10ish then nightowl from then to now. window faces north-east, still does. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/27 "2005-09-18T00:23:13Z")
I’ve always thought of myself as a night person, but a couple of periods without a schedule that I had to adhere to revealed that I was really on a 26 or 27 hour internal clock. left to my own devices I will go to bed (and get up) two to three hours later each day than I did the day before. This mean that given enough time, I will go all around the clock. I had several bedrooms and most of them faced either east or south. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/28 "2005-09-18T00:40:07Z")
Night person. We lived in many different houses while I was growing up, so I’ve had bedrooms on all different sides. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/29 "2005-09-18T00:44:24Z")
I’m a morning person. I’m also a college student, which means I have a completely different schedule than anyone I know. I’m usually out of the house before my roommate wakes up (and this is after two hours getting ready and bumming around online), and she doesn’t usually come back until after I’m asleep. Neither of us minds the other’s schedule, though, so it works out. It’s just kind of strange walking outside at 8:00 on a Saturday morning and feeling like I’m in a science fiction story where I’m the last person left on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/30 "2005-09-18T00:50:52Z")
Night person all the way. My ideal sleep schedule is to stay awake until 4:00 am and wake up at noon. That is what I revert to anytime I get a period of carefree time. ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/31 "2005-09-18T02:08:04Z")
I’m a night person, although when left to my own devices, I do tend to drift in the 26 hour a day way. I’m not sure I’d make it all the way around. I tend to feel guilty about not getting up until 3 or 4 in the afternoon, even after only 5 hours sleep, though, so I break myself of the habit, only to relaps. But I do do better at night. I will always be wide awake from 9 pm to at least midnight, regardless of when I got up or how much sleep I had. My window faced sort of south eastish, but got very little sunlight do to a hill and a big tree. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/32 "2005-09-18T02:30:00Z")
Moderate evening person. During the holidays I would ideally be going to bed at about midnight, asleep at 1am, awake at about 9:30, up at about 10am. The problem is I come from a family of Morning People - one went to boarding school as a child so automatically wakes up at 5:30am, the other works in the construction industry and so starts work at 7am - and so I can’t shake off a sense of GUILT, that I’m WASTING THE DAY!!! whenever I live like this. I’ll get over it eventually - I really hate early mornings. My first bedroom hardly got any sunlight (age 0 to 9); my second got the morning sun (age 9 to on/off present day). It doesn’t bother me as light doesn’t seem to wake me up - I frequently fall asleep reading in bed with all the lights on. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/33 "2005-09-18T02:33:42Z")
Morning, but not by choice. My carreer requires my presence at ungodly hours of the morning, and even earlier starts on the weekends. If I am up at 10pm, it’s an aberration. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/34 "2005-09-18T02:43:29Z")
I’m a night person. I’ve had jobs where I have to wake up very early, but it’s still hard to sleep at night. I do my best thinking then and my body feels more energetic. Even on hard days when I feel like I could pass out by seven p.m. if I can just make it past ten o’clock my energy is restored. My SO is a morning person and it really irritates him that I don’t want to go to sleep at eight at night with him. It doesn’t bother me that he gets up at five though. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/35 "2005-09-18T04:19:31Z")
My brain doesn’t turn on for 3 hours after the body wakes up. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/36 "2005-09-18T06:07:47Z")
As you can see from the time of this post… During the week I have to get up at about 7:45 to make it to work on time. I am never on time. However, I stay later at work so nobody cares and I think they would be in shock if I ever made it on time, let alone early. My bedroom as a kid got afternoon sun, but unfortunately, my mother was my little ray of sunshine and there were little indentations on the door where she knocked every morning about 100 times to get me up before she would throw open the door and bellow in my ear to get up. I was born at 6:27 A.M. and that was the last time I ever got up that early on my own free will. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/37 "2005-09-18T06:15:51Z")
Right now, it’s 1:25 AM where I live. 😉 Although I can function fine with six hours of sleep, and can hop right out of bed feeling great with eight. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/38 "2005-09-18T06:42:47Z")
I’m writing this at 11:54pm, which means another two hours before bed… ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/39 "2005-09-18T07:53:39Z")
Hoot! Hoot! Hoot! Serious night owl here. I find it hard to get up before 11 a.m. Fortunately I have a job where that usually isn’t a problem. I’ve always been that way. As a child my bedroom faced the setting sun. ---
**Author:** ![Pensandfeathers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Pensandfeathers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pensandfeathers)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141/40 "2005-09-18T08:00:10Z")
Night Owl. I had a lot of different bedrooms growing up, but I believe most of my windows were facing either south or west. It’s 1am as I type this, which means I’ll probably be up for another 2 hours. There really isn’t anything for me to do in the mornings, especially on the weekends. Practically everyone I know has the same sort of sleeping schedule, and any place that’s open at 8am is still going to be open at 3pm…so what’s the rush? What am I going to do, what TV? I’ll just fall asleep on the couch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-morning-or-evening-person/322141.md?page=3)