I’ve always wondered how people who take a shower at night, rather than in the morning do it. For me, showering in the morning is a big part of waking up. Also, if I don’t wash my hair, there is now way it is going to be combable in the morning.
Also, I would never feel really clean during the day if I showered at night. Showering at night would seem to make me cleanest for when I’m unconscious and sometimes I sweat at night (also sometimes my wife and I have the sex at night) so when I wake up, I don’t feel clean.
Of course, sometimes I take a shower in the evening, but I still always need a shower the next morning or I don’t feel right all day.
So my questions for night showerers, how do you do it? What is your morning routine like and also why do you do it that way? I have a guess that a lot of night showerers come from larger families and had to shower at night so everyone got some bath time, is that your experience?
I usually shower or take a bath at night. I grew up taking baths only up until my teens. I take 30 minutes in the shower, so taking one in the morning would mean getting up way too early. Also, they make me sleepy. I like to get into a bathrobe and fall asleep afterwards. I only wash my hair every other day.
Well, for me, it just depends on what kind of mood I’m in. I prefer showering at night because I sleep better after I do. (By the way, one can shower after night sex – in fact, I recommend it.)
My hair is…nearly non-existent, so there are no issues with manageability for me. And I’m a morning person, so I don’t really need the help waking up. Granted, I do feel more refreshed if I shower after I get out of bed, but I hate the time it takes out of my morning routine.
I do tend to sweat at night, though, particularly during the summer, so I’m more likely to take morning showers then. However, if I’ve showered the night before and I’ve had a sweaty night, I’m more likely to use a wash cloth and some soap in the morning for a quick once-over rather than doing the whole shower routine again.
Oh, and I came from a very small family – it was just me and my mom growing up.
So you don’t sweat during the day? You don’t want to be nice and clean to sleep, and maybe for the sex? I almost always shower or bathe in the evenings. I don’t like the idea of going to bed dirty and grungy.
I am a night showerer by choice, as I find it puts me to sleep more than wakes me up. I like to wash my day off and it’s a ritual for switching off my type A brain (or at least subduing it). I shower at least partly in the morning now. Formerly, I would have washed my showered at night, then brushed my teeth and washed my face in the morning. Actually that’s how I still do it on the weekend as long as I don’t have a special occasion.
Now I just jump in at night for about five minutes, and wash my hair and everything in the morning for ten minutes - then another fifty of trying to recover! If I don’t shower in the morning, the combination of my 16 hour+ day plus my oily skin makes me look like a gorgon by noon.
When I was growing up, my parents made us shower at night so they wouldn’t have to worry about us all trying to use the bathroom at once in the morning. (Well, except to brush teeth/wash faces.) For awhile, there were six of us and just one bathroom.
I just got used to it. Now I can’t sleep without a shower. It feels so grungy and nasty to climb into bed without taking a shower first.
Also, I am not a morning person. I want to roll out of bed and not have to fuss too much because I am in a foul mood. I have very long, fine hair, and it takes a long time to dry. I am not going to mess with blowdrying my hair in the morning, so washing it at night is a better solution.
I make sure I always have clean sheets and clean nightwear. I don’t sweat while I sleep because I keep a very cold house. I wash my face in the morning. If I feel gross for some reason, I can always take another shower in the morning.
I would say a lot of it is conditioning. Some, like myself, find that a shower wakes them up, because we’re used to taking showers in the morning. Others find they make them sleepy, because they’re used to taking them at night.
Sometimes I take a shower at night if I feel grungy or before sex, but it’s not my shower routine. It’s more like the morning people who say they sometimes take a shower in the morning.
I’m interested in the off the rack, typical work day shower when people either shower at night or the morning as part of their routine.
Here in Indonesia, it is certainly possible about once a month for the power to be out in the morning (which means no electricity for the water pump). In those cases, I have to stagger out into the day with no morning shower. Even if I took a shower the night before, I just don’t feel right. I know this is largely a matter of what habit I became used to.
I am curious though, how night showerers get ready in the morning. Do you wash your face only? What about your hair, do you wet it? When I wake up, my hair is sticking straight up like I got an electric shock, there is no way I can go out without at least wetting my hair down.
I have long thick hair that takes forever to dry, and I hate blow-driers. I avoid washing my hair before I need to go anywhere if at all possible, but I still need to wash my hair every day. I usually shower before I go to bed and go to sleep with my hair still wet, and in the morning it’s straight and normal-looking. If I’ve sweated during the night, I’ll rinse off my body quickly in the morning, but not a full shower.
The idea of getting into bed without showering is gross to me for some reason, and I can’t imagine how people do it. Even if I’ve been drinking all night and am falling down drunk, I still shower and wash my hair before I go to bed.
For the record, I take a bath at night to wash myself and and a shower in the morning to wake myself up.
I could never understand how people could go to bed without washing themselves of all the day’s accumulated dirt and grime.
But then again, there are a lot of people who use the bathroom and then don’t wash their hands.
I still feel relatively clean when I get in bed if I’ve showered that morning. I work in an office and I don’t sweat that much. I definitely don’t feel gross, by any means, when I slip between the sheets.
I worked at a hospital for years and couldn’t get into bed without showering.
Some of the things I saw on shift could make you wish for a way to scrub your eyeballs…
I like to sleep clean and if any sex occurred in the night I’d hop into the shower again in the AM.
Seconding the shower-to-get-clean-at-night-and-quickly-to-wake-up-in-the-morning crowd. I shower before bed because if I don’t, then all the crud and microorganism shit throw a block party on my face. Now, I’m a guy and it’s not like I’m in the bathroom with Neutrogena and Noxzema and cucumber slices, but I need to shower at night so I can sleep without marinating in my own unexfoliated filth. I pop in the shower for a minute or two in the morning to simply “moisten up and wake up” and so I can groom my hair while it’s wet. I don’t shower in the morning to get clean because by that time, it’s already too late to get clean because the crud has already had time to settle in, and if I kept up a pattern of doing that my face would probably look like a cheese pizza.
My morning routine is to get up and get dressed. The reason that I shower at night has nothing to do with having come from a large family and needing to “stagger” shower times. I just don’t like getting into bed feeling unwashed.
I shower at night because in the winter the idea of getting out of a nice, warm bed and taking all my clothes off in a cold tiled room seems unbearable. Getting out of the shower you’re all cold and wet, it sucks.
At night it doesn’t seem so bad and when you’re done you can crawl in bed. For me, getting up is actually EASIER without the shower. YMMV, of course.
I was a morning person for years, even though I remember nighttime showering being the standard growing up so all of us could have a shot.
I work in a filthy greasy factory, and it seemed to make less and less sense to bother getting clean to go get dirty. But it was my routine, so I stuck with it since I figured horrendous hair would happen if I showered at night instead.
Then I found my partner, and going to bed clean trumped the morning habitual shower. So now I shower at night.
I shower in the afternoon, either after lunch (if I’m not going anywhere) or when I get home.
I don’t blow dry my long hair, so I need the time to let it dry. Sweat, what’s that? Yes, I do sweat, but rarely (even in the summer). And I don’t need the shower to wake up, being a morning person.
I don’t shower usually at all. I bathe, because I like the water scalding hot (I look like a lobster when I’m done) and showering in water that temp makes me really light-headed.
I don’t have strong opinions either way. If I shower in the morning and haven’t gotten dirty or sweaty that day (most days because I’m not exercising like I should :() I don’t feel dirty getting into bed unwashed. If I shower at night, I don’t feel gross during the day.
Most of the time, I’d say I’m a night bather. Because a bath seems to be a bit more time consuming, waiting for the tub to fill and all, I don’t want to wake up 30 minutes earlier to do it in the morning. But depending on my schedule, sometimes I do.
I don’t wash my hair everyday, it’s thick, curly, and dry. So usually I’ll wake up in the morning, run my fingers through it, and be on my way. If I ever wash it in the morning (quite infrequently) it takes forever to dry and usually doesn’t look as good. If it doesn’t have a little oil in it, it turns into a frizzy mess.
I do come from a large family (6) with one bathroom, so bath time was hard to come by, and us kids took baths at night. Later on, it was only 3 of us sharing one bathroom, but 3 girls fighting for bathroom time in the morning sucked, so I usually bathed at night. Now I’m only sharing a bathroom with one person, but I still bathe at night most of the time. Very relaxing.