Comments: on being a night owl

You're as bad as my husband. I finally let him work third shift, and he's much happier.

Posted by Jennifer at December 8, 2004 06:42 PM

Well, it's 2:30am here, and I've only just sat myself down to check my e-mails and regular blog reads. I guess that's me placed.

Posted by Michael at December 8, 2004 08:32 PM

Hooooot Hoooooot

I'm up and wired!

Posted by annette at December 9, 2004 02:13 AM

I'm also very much an owl, and resent it all over the place when people try to cure me of something that is my normal. I'll have to try that clock-throwing thing!

Posted by Becky at December 9, 2004 03:30 AM

YES! All that resetting body clock shit just doesn't work!

Genetically, my mom's side vacillates between early and night. Literally every other person is one or the other. Thank the gods that it worked out that Mom and I are both night owls. When I was two, she started putting me to bed late and I slept through the night from then on. Hah. I feel sorry for my cousin Kristen because she's the only non-early-bird on her end of the family and everyone rags on her for being asleep at 9.

Posted by Jennifer at December 9, 2004 10:47 AM

I'm poly. Up and down at every strange hour with no discernable pattern in site. You'd think by now I'd make up my mind. ;)

-G

Posted by Garrison Steelle at December 9, 2004 02:59 PM

I'm right there with you....I love it because, well, I'm naturally wide awake at 8pm regardless of how exhausted I am and I also enjoy the solitude and peacefullness the night time brings. With the lights on and the skies clear, it's like millions of stars and jewels are present just for me to enjoy.

No one is screaming or playing horrible loud music, no one is running their chain saws or power tools, no one is out and about, big delivery trucks do not drive down the street, no one rings the doorbell, the phone doesn't ring and the night is always cooler than the daytime.

It feels fresher and it is far more refreshing. I used to say that I was born on the wrong side of the planet for my inner clock but in reality, I'm glad I'm a night owl and awake when it's dark. Those hours are my happiest and those hours bring me the most clarity.

Screw those chipper morning people.

Posted by Serenity at December 9, 2004 05:08 PM

OMG! Just found this page while looking for info on night owls.

Yes, 1:54am and I'm still wide awake. I hate being a night owl, how do you guys deal with it? Even if I sleep say 2 or 3 hours and wake up tired, by 10/11pm I'm fully awake.

Anyway, as I'm on holidays at the moment my sleep patterns seem to have gradually worsened, starting to wake up around 1pm now.

Posted by carly at January 26, 2005 09:01 AM