Whoa! Me, too! It’s always described it as sort of a stretching, tearing feeling in my stomach. Not really painful, but uncomfortable.
I can go either way, but given my choice I’d rather get up early and go to bed early. I have no problem going to sleep and no problem waking up.
I’ve worked jobs where I was up until two a.m. and then slept until ten a.m., and I’ve worked jobs where I got up at five a.m. after going to bed at nine p.m.
For me it’s more of a luxury to go to bed early than to sleep in in the morning. Some Fridays I go to bed as early at eight p.m.
I am another of the apparently few morning persons here. I’m generally up at 4 AM and fast asleep by 8:30 or 9 PM at the very latest. I’ll occasionally take a short nap on Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
I am definitely most alert and energetic during mornings. This has been true as long as I can recall.
I’m a morning person–if I sleep past 9, I feel disoriented, and my brain basically gives out around midnight. Even in the summer, I keep to about a 12-8 sleeping schedule. This makes me completely different from normal college students, including my roommate. Living with her works out because I make fun of her in the morning for going “grghrlx” and saying weird things, and she makes fun of me at night for the same thing. 
When I get into work in the morning, the guy on the other side of the cube wall says to me, “Good morning, Grumpy!” and I want to put my fist through his head. That’s pretty much how it affects me.
Count me in the camp which loathes mornings. Getting up at the crack of a chicken’s ass so I can queue at the turnpike interchange and sit in traffic never made much sense. Now that I run the business, I make no appointments before 1000. I don’t arrive at the supply house or lumber yard and stand around with the other early birds-I show up when the place is empty and get immediate service. I also don’t charge customers a premium for service calls before 2000, because that’s my chosen 8 hour slot. They like it and so do I. Customers can call my office up until 2300 and I’ll personally answer the phone. Not too many contractors will do that. 
In high school I barely slept. I worked a lot, took a bunch of honors and AP classes and had tons of homework, and went out with my friends every day. I’d go to bed at 2 and get up at 6 and be mostly fine. Only fell asleep in class when I didn’t feel good. Now, my junior year of college, I can’t fall asleep before 1 and don’t sleep well so I never get a full 7 hours even. I am perpetually tired. I had to be at work at 9 am today. I got up at 730, showered, and went back to sleep until 830 and was 10 minutes late for work. I think it’s mainly stress though - one of the reasons I’ll be moving back home for school next year.
The real question is how the fuck you people got the entire world operating on your schedule. The mind boggles.
Having to wake up early is the worst. I try to sleep in until at least 7:00 every morning but often am awakened early by Papa Hounds sleepwalking or his talking to his deceased mother in his sleep. He says it gives him comfort but it is difficult to catch a few extra z’s with that type of thing going on in the bed beside you. So, yes, I am certainly not a morning person.
Left to myself, I’m a night person. However, I can do any sort of schedule as long as it’s consistent (I did have some trouble in high school with being tired a lot, but I’m thinking that might’ve been due to depression, not my sleeping habits). For years I got up at 6:30 to catch the bus, then later 7 when the route changed slightly. Neither was an issue, and as long as i was consistent I could wake up fine.
One of the worst periods of my life was the summer I was working security. I didn’t have a regular shift, and I was working at all different hours in different places. That screwed me badly, and got me onto (or perhaps just hastened) a bad downward spiral that has severely affected my ability to perform in school for over a year. Certainly there were other factors, but that was a royal pain to deal with. Add in that I was trying to work nights when possible to keep some semblance of order, (No, I won’t work at 8am. Why? Because I am physically unable to sleep until 5am due to my schedule), and often something would wake me up during the day–most commonly the office offering me a shift, I occasionally turned off my phone to get a good day’s rest
I really shouldn’t multi-task, didn’t mean to hit submit yet. However, thanks to a lack of sleep lately, my brain has turned to mush and I can’t remember the rest of my thought. So I’ll just leave it be for now and maybe try to pull it together in the morning.
Amen to that. When a minority of people basically forces another group to live their lives in ways that may be harmful to self, self, and home, we usually rise up to defeat the oppressors. In this case, we honor them and their virtue.
OTOH, they did have a powerful PR machine going early on. An early campaign slogan:
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
What utter crap. Ok morning people, raise your hands if you have those three things like they promised.
Can somebody make an even catchier slogan for night owls please?
Actually, that’s precisely the scenario I get up earlier to avoid. There’s a certain tolerable traffic seesaw point in the morning to which those that leave before miss and those that leave after are increasingly penalized from. For my area it’s by 6:00 am. Leave by 5:50 and you’re golden. Leave at 6:10 and you’re screwed, progressively punctuated in either direction.
You took the words out of my mouth. I’m not a hardcore night owl like my husband (he also gets the morning nausea when he’s up before 9 - i.e. every work day), but I’m not a morning person, either. I’m a nightish owl, I guess.
I used to apologize for not being a morning person, and feel sort of guilty about it, but screw that noise. I don’t want a job that starts at 7:30 am, not because I’m lazy, but because I want to sleep my normal, healthy for me hours - 12 to 8. Getting up earlier than that makes me tired and lethargic. Getting up really early makes me nauseous, too. Night shifts damned near killed me.
Stupid world, expecting everybody to have the same circadian rhythm.
Less traffic, earlier in the morning. The morning time is quiet time, and that’s all right by me. I’m alert (maybe a little groggy sometimes), and I can take the time to think, without the nightowls coming around to hassle.
Worst problem is the feeling that I’ve missed out on some good parties, where the fun stuff seems to start happening after 11 p.m. or so. I’ve missed out on some of the late-night TV talk show stuff, so I’m probably never the first person to have heard what so-and-so said in response to so-and-so’s insult. Can’t say that I’ve ever gotten a good share of early-bird worms, not that I’ve got any taste for worms. Well, darn, but I yam what I yam.
Late to bed, late to rise…
is way fucking better than getting up a 6 am.
Wakko Warner said: “Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, but socially dead.”
I wish more businesses would run on a slightly different schedule…rather than the bank and the post office being open from 10 am to 4:30 pm or whatever their extremely short hours are, why not be open from 8 am to 8 pm? This would be best for everyone, and that way maybe the location would actually be open when I need to go there. My local post office recently set up an automated system that is open 24 hours and I haven’t been inside before 10 pm since, but there are things that you need assistance with sometimes and it would be nice to have a live person there to help.
I’ve always held that too many businesses stick to these conventional business hours to the detriment of their business. I mean, you don’t think that a bank that advertises that it has late hours would steal business from it’s competition?
There’s so many stores that would benefit from it, when I’m working until 7PM five days a week it usually means that there’s certain businesses i will never patronize. Wasn’t this the key selling point of e-commerce?
Morning person here. My problem is that, although we all have to be at work at 8:15, the immense majority of my coworkers don’t wake up before 12:30 or so… and they go have lunch at 13:00, so why bother do anything before lunch, right? And because lunch is too heavy, then they go back to being woozy for about one hour.
So by the time they actually become active it’s about 3pm. I’ve noticed similar trends in many jobs.
The one thing that leaves me wondering how can people know themselves and their own bodies so badly is the people who insist in waking up early to study even though they’re afternoon/night people (ok… so, you’re not getting enough sleep, your reason to get up early even though you’re setting your own hours is to study, but you’re not really able to concentrate before 3pm? Someone here is dumb and I hope it ain’t me) and those who insist that working shifts isn’t particularly tiresome and that people who whine about having the night shift are just babies (I’ve never heard this rant from someone who had ever worked shifts).