# Sunrise/Sunset?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340 "2006-01-04T03:51:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/1 "2006-01-04T03:51:14Z")
A simple poll.
Which do you prefere to observe? Why?
Me? I’ve seen sunrises any number of times and they are often serene and give the feeling of having one up on the rest of the world that is just stirring to rise.
But I’ll take a sunset if I must choose one. They are almost always more spectacular in dramatic colours.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/2 "2006-01-04T03:53:13Z")
I would love to never see another sunrise again as long as I live unless it is right before I go to bed.
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/3 "2006-01-04T04:12:33Z")
Sunrises are nice, but only because they’re a novelty for me (check back in a year). But nothing beats the desert sunset.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/4 "2006-01-04T04:16:30Z")
Sunset, because foir a sunrise I have to either get up early (Ugh) or stay up late. Which in and of itself isn’t bad, but it means that my sleep schedule will be out of whack, and seeing as I’m not in college anymore, I need a fairly consistant sleep schedule.
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### Author:  [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/5 "2006-01-04T04:17:53Z")
I’ve seen very few sunrises, maybe a few when camping pr after an all-nighter. But I’ve seen a lot of sunsets, some of which were quite spectacular to say the least. So it’s sunsets. I’d bet most people will say sunsets.
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### Author:  [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/6 "2006-01-04T04:25:27Z")
I usually like the sunrise. My bedroom window is big and faces it so I catch it a lot. It’s been so gloomy out lately I would kill for one tomorrow.
Usually when I see the sunset I’m driving into it and it hurts my eyes. I have a grudge. It’s been pretty rare for me to catch a beautiful sunset when I wasn’t driving.
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/7 "2006-01-04T04:27:39Z")
No doubt - **SUNSETS**
I _might_ be making a hasty judgment, especially since I’ve probably seen 2 sunrises in my entire life. However, as others have said, sunrises take place at a very inconvenient time and I am _definitely_ a night person.
Heck sunsets are relaxing and they usually take place when your day is winding _down_. You see a sunrise and you think “geez this is just the _beginning_ of the day !!!”
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### Author:  [@PsychoWench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PsychoWench)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/8 "2006-01-04T04:30:18Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> A simple poll.
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> Which do you prefere to observe? Why?
> Me? I’ve seen sunrises any number of times and they are often serene and give the feeling of having one up on the rest of the world that is just stirring to rise.
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> But I’ll take a sunset if I must choose one. They are almost always more spectacular in dramatic colours.
Sunset. I don’t like light, the time when daylight invades my peaceful life every morning is one of the worst of the day. Sure, sunrises are pretty, but I like light into dark much better than dark into harsh light of day.
Oh, thanks for getting Fiddler On The Roof stuck in my head. 😉
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/9 "2006-01-04T04:39:12Z")
> [@PsychoWench](#):
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> Oh, thanks for getting Fiddler On The Roof stuck in my head. 😉
It was a tangential objective. ;j
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### Author:  [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/10 "2006-01-04T11:46:04Z")
Sunsets are beautiful, but sunrises are rarer for me, and when I’ve seen them, it’s because I’m camping and woken early, or am heading out for something special and big. Sunrises hold promise.
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### Author:  [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/11 "2006-01-04T13:21:29Z")
Sunrises are the most spectacular to me. Yes, sunsets have prettier color, but for me the feeling of seeing the whole world rise to life is in its own league entirely. Not to mention that special golden shimmer that sunrises bring.
Sunrises come up about the same time I wake up so I don’t have the sun in my eyes when I need to go to work. However, the sunsetting light, which has the same effect is painful in the winter light.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/12 "2006-01-04T15:16:31Z")
I’d appreciate sunrises more if they didn’t happen so early. 😉
Like many others, I’m a night person – I’m also a sky person (known to stop and stare at a pretty sky, night or day), so I do love sunsets. I don’t like the idea of being awake early enough for a sunrise, but when I’ve had to be I’ve always appreciated the sight.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/13 "2006-01-04T15:27:47Z")
I’m a sunrise person. I’m an early riser and a sunrise can set the tone for the day for me. I see both every day lately, since I’m up hours before the sun and still awake when it’s descending. However, it’s been so freeking gloomy lately, that I haven’t actually seen the sun globe in the sky for weeks. I hate that.
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### Author:  [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/14 "2006-01-04T15:38:38Z")
I like sunrises. I’m kind of a morning person anyway and I prefer the feeling of peace that’s centered around the sunrise. After all, a whole lot of people aren’t awake yet.
One of my favorite things to do is to get to my hunting spot before dawn and sit and watch the sun come up. You get to hear the world wake up and it starts a day off nicely.
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### Author:  [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunrise-sunset/338340/15 "2006-01-04T15:39:14Z")
Sunrise for me, when the weather is nice I like to have my first (and second) cup of coffee in the back yard while the first rays of the sun touch the tips of the trees and the birds start coming to the feeder.