# Are you a night owl? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 27, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009 "2011-06-27T08:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009/21 "2011-06-27T17:26:08Z")
Since I’m self-employed and work at home, I can pretty much sleep whenever I want (unless I have appointments). What happens is that I work all night, get to bed around 5 am, sleep for a few hours, then have breakfast and maybe some chores. Then I go back to sleep in early afternoon for a few hours. There are times (like today) when I don’t go back to sleep in the afternoon, but maybe take a nap in the evening. But no matter what, I’m up all night. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009/22 "2011-06-27T18:12:47Z")
Owls are early birds as far as I’m concerned. > [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Okay, I must be getting tired because I read that as > > \ > > and I was kinda grossed out. :smack: You’re thinking of “faps”. “Fwaps” would mean he went through the thread hitting people with a rolled-up newspaper. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009/23 "2011-06-27T18:20:11Z")
My natural sleeping hours are 9pm-5am (except in midsummer and midwinter). The Bestest Ex’s, 5am-1pm, and he worked the night shift. When people said “I don’t know how can you two be together!”, we explained that whenever one was asleep, the other one was working: thus, “fun time” was actually the same for both of us! ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009/24 "2011-06-27T18:27:40Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Owls are early birds as far as I’m concerned. > You’re thinking of “faps”. “Fwaps” would mean he went through the thread hitting people with a rolled-up newspaper. 😉 [Huh](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fwap). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009/25 "2011-06-27T18:33:06Z")
Definitely a night owl. It’s rare that I’m in bed before midnight. Sometimes I’m up as late as 2am, but that’s not something I like to do often; I just feel too tired the next day. Midnight to 1am is the norm, and then out of bed just after 7am weekdays. Weekends, I sleep in if I can. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009/26 "2011-06-27T18:40:31Z")
> [@rinni](#): > > 4:47 AM here! Starting to get light out, almost time for bed. Back before parenthood, when I could set the alarm for 6am, it seemed like 4:47am was my most common wake-up time. I wasn’t happy about waking up so damned early, but by the time I got back from the bathroom, my mind would already be yammering, and I could pretty much forget going back to sleep. So yeah, I’m an early bird. But it wasn’t my idea. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009/27 "2011-06-27T19:35:24Z")
Used to be a night owl, worked lots and lots of late shifts in the clinic, ER, Urgent Care center, late on-call nights catching babies, etc. Got a M-F 8-4 type job back in the late 90’s, and morphed into a regular daytime person. Now I work M-F about 7 to 3, on average. I like it. Of course, crawling into bed about 10 PM to rise at 5:30 still seems rather odd… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009/28 "2011-06-27T19:39:13Z")
I used to be. Now I can barely stay up past 9:00. Some nights I force myself to stay up that late because it feels too sad for someone to go to bed earlier… But I’ve been working with the Brits and our 5 am is their 10 am, so I have (until recently) had to be up early. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-night-owl/587009.md?page=1)