For me, it depends on what my day’s schedule is (Air Force, in tech school at the moment). If I have PT that day, I’ll shower soon afterwards, which puts my shower in the early evening right before dinner (PT after class three or four days a week in this squadron). If I don’t have PT, I’ll shower in the morning right after I get up. If I have a formation that morning, I usually will try to shower the night before.
Really, what it comes down to, is I’ll wake up as soon as I realize I only have 20 minutes to be wherever and I’m only halfway into my uniform. The deep-rooted fear of my Flight Chief who I have to report to when I screw up tends to be a great motivator for waking up at that point. An apple also helps quite a bit, probably from the fructose in it. And if all else fails, if I don’t make the coffee before class, one of the other guys in my class usually will.
As far as feeling clean in the morning? Eh, I’m wearing BDUs all day in a classroom with no AC; that clean feeling lasts until I start paying attention to my immediate surroundings. It IS very nice, regardless, to have that clean feeling, whether I am just waking up (which the shower helps with) or if I am planning to retreat to my bunk and go to sleep (which a HOT shower helps with). Also, as cold as it gets here at 6AM, that hot shower is mighty inviting in the morning.
I hate going to bed dirty, and messing up the nice clean sheets, which I’m going to have to get back in the next day. I don’t sweat at night, so I feel nice and clean in the morning. I also stay up way too late, and showering in the morning would mean I’d have to get up earlier, which is a bad thing.
The only exception is that on weekends I shower after mowing the lawn, but that is late enough I don’t feel dirty at bed time.
Shower at night. I finish my day pretty grotty and need to clean up. Morning is: pee, start cooking porridge, grind off whiskers, have breakfast, make lunch, clean teeth and go. I haven’t combed or brushed my hair since high school, don’t even own a comb or brush. Just run my fingers through it. I’ve still got a deodorant stick from the mid 90’s.
If I’m really dirty, I’ll shower when I get home. If I’m going out in the evening I’ll shower before dressing up. Else I’ll shower just before bed. Sometimes work drags on til dawn. Then, I’m often that buggered that I’ll go straight to bed and shower when I get up a couple of hours later. It feels good.
Waking up sweaty doesn’t disgust me. Anyway I’m often dirty 30 minutes after leaving home.
Also, living on tank water means I (and when growing up, our family) have always had to conserve it. So multiple daily showers aren’t possible, except in winter. Our family water tank was 23,000 litres and summer drought was say 10 weeks with 6 in the family.
I think this might be one of the most viewed OPs I’ve ever written (sadly). It’s funny, my wife and I were talking about this and I just had to know. I think morning routines are probably some of the most ingrained habits we have, partly because we are half asleep while performing them.
I get up at 5 in the morning and don’t leave for work until 0630, so I have plenty of time to … wind up? for work. I have no hair on my head (I shave it once a week) so I don’t have to worry about that issue.
My routine incorporates letting my dogs out when I get up, turning on the news, waking my son up, and oh… Coffee? Y’all have heard of that, right? I think it works slightly better to wake me up in the morning than a shower
My family is all night showerers. I think this comes from the fact that my grandparents were the first generation off the farm, and when you come in from the fields you seriously want a bath before bed or else your sheets are going to be hella grungy in a couple days. So mom grew up that way, and she passed it down to me.
Also, neither my mom nor I are big hair-care-products-users. She just twists hers up into a bun, and I just brush mine. (Both of us have long, straight hair). I will sometimes use a little hairspray after brushing mine in the morning, but that’s erratic at best. Neither of us blowdry, and I was in my early twenties before I started using conditioner. Anyway, the point is, there was no need to have wet hair in the morning.
Plus, if you wash your hair then braid it, then go to bed, it dries overnight in the braid and gives you an insta-perm for the day!
I used to shower at night as a teenager because I had two sisters who would fight to monopolize the bathroom in the morning. I was lucky to be able to get in there long enough to brush my teeth, and sometimes that took parental intervention.
I stopped doing it once it ceased to be an availability issue.
I started twice daily showers when I was doing the Martial Arts (come home and shower off because I sweat a lot), and then again when I started working more physical and/or outdoors jobs.
Nowadays; I get up in the afternoon (I work nights), shower and get ready for work. Have a couple of hours to do my stuff before heading to work. Come home, shower and change, have a couple of hours to do my stuff before bed.
Showering upon waking is an absolute necessity for me, at least from a ‘morning ritual’ standpoint. I crawl out of bed and stumble into the shower, where most of my actual waking takes place. When I’m someplace where I can’t do that (which is very rare), the day just never feels right. If I have to wait a while to shower, it’s kinda like being in limbo. I don’t want to do anything but sit there and lapse back into a coma until I can shower.
I was a morning showerer for years – decades – but switched to evenings a couple of years ago for a couple of reasons.
I keep the heat down in the house most of the time, but do run the furnace for a couple of hours when I get home from work. It’s much, much nicer getting out of the shower into a warm bathroom.
Showers don’t wake me up all that much, and they take time that can be better spent screwing around (playing with the cats, reading the Dope, etc.), which is the way I prefer to ease into the day.
I exercise after work, and I shower after I exercise, so that’s why I shower at night.
Also, I like to get out of the house quickly in the morning. If my hair is insane from sleeping, I’ll stick just my head under the shower head to make the hair manageable.
But, if I’ve had sex overnight, or didn’t exercise, I’ll shower in the morning. It just means getting up one snooze sooner.
I’ve switched back and forth between showering at night and showering in the morning. I prefer night. I love the feeling of getting into bed while clean.
Everybody sweats while sleeping, whether or not you want to believe it. But I prefer clean sweat from sleeping to dirty sweat from walking around in a dirty world all day.
I have no trouble getting up in the morning and don’t need a shower to wake me up at all. I also have hair-care issues, in that my hair takes forever to dry and I don’t like to use a blowdrier.
And I’m not from a big family and I have the house all to myself, so I can shower exactly whenever I want.
I was always a morning showerer until I returned to work after a year on maternity leave (during which time I pretty much showered whenever I was able) Now, my daughter gets up anywhere from 5 - 6:30 am, and I leave the house at 7:30. I don’t want to get up any earlier than I have to, and once she’s up, I want to spend whatever precious time I can with her, and not leave her to play alone in a playpen while I shower.
So I now shower at night after she’s in bed (or while my husband gives her her bath) and spend my whole pre-work morning doing the breakfast, playtime, cuddle thing with her. My hair might not be quite as pretty as it might be if I washed and styled it right before walking out the door, but I’m ok with that.
I’m a morning showerer by conditioning. And I’m definitely conditioned for morning showers, because when I take one at night, it feels so wrong, like “hey, I feel like going to bed; I’m not supposed to be waking up!”.
I’m an office worker and generally am not sweaty or grungy by bedtime, but if I do any exertion, I’ll shower before bed.
I shower at night. Everyone in my family showers at night, so I grew up showering at night.
Mom showers at night, she works in an office. Dad showers at night, he worked in a factory. Me and Bro shower at night because that’s what we do.
For me, I can’t go to bed dirty. Some days I don’t shower, if I feel “clean” enough, but I always always wash my face and hands.
My hair is thick and curly, and I only let it air dry. Sometimes I take a shower at night then hang out for a few hours sitting up, and it looks kickass in the morning. If I go to bed with wet hair I just get up in the morning and “tussle” it a bit and it’s all good.
So far it’s worked out well for me…
When I was a kid, I played softball at night. Shower after that.
When I was in HS, I had band Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Shower after that.
When I was in college I worked in the kitchen of a restaurant at night. Shower after that.
When I graduated, I worked out after work. Shower after that.
Now I work at home and there’s no reason for me to shower before work. My “public day” starts AFTER work, so sometimes I take a shower right after work if I have a date or something…or after I work out…or just before I go to bed.
As for “waking up” in the morning - no amount of showering is going to do that for me. I am just not a morning person.
We shower both in the morning and at night. It’s HOT here, and Bangkok is grime city. You can’t walk five minutes without being soaked in sweat like you just got out of the shower, so you really need to. And many Thais will shower three or more times a day.
And I see now the OP is even closer to the equator than I am. Almost on top of it. You shower only once a day?
Keeps the bedclothes clean longer. (I’m naturally something of a greaseball.)
I work from home, so it gives me a quicker start in the morning.
Like to walk/exercise in the late afternoon.
I often gig out at night and need to be sprucey then.
No, I usually take a shower when I get home from work and in the morning, but this is Indonesia. When back in the states, I shower in the morning and sometimes evening. Indonesia, is a special case for many things, including showers.
I used to shower at night, because I hate going through my day with damp hair, and it takes forever to properly dry mine with a blow-dryer–I’ve never had great patience. So I would dry it until it was just damp and then go to bed.
Nowadays I shower in the morning (after I’ve properly woken up) and do my best to actually dry my hair. I usually do it on days when I’m not planning on going out though, because loose I will wind up with water soaking the back of my shirt, and pulled back it dries with a weird shape to it. I’m also married now, so bedroom activities can sometimes quickly undo most of the point of taking the shower in the first place
Other than that, all I can find is a million hits about *excessive * night sweating, indicating that sweating at all at night is normal and sweating excessively is abnormal.
I know there are doctors and at least one sleep researcher on this board; if we’re lucky they’ll come in and tell us what’s what.
