I'm a night person, According to my mom I was a day person until I became a teen then I became a night person. I find it very differcult to fall asleep before 11pm. Thats when, probably like most of ADDers, my "battery" has died. ;)

How many of you are Night people or Day people? How does it affect your sleep? For me, because I have to get up early in the morning to get my teens going, I only get 6-7 hours of sleep a day and some days I feel drowsy all day. Weekends I can sleep till noon! Anyone else?

NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT...

Always, my entire life.

As a kid I could never get to sleep before 2 or 3. I would lay in bed listening to the radio.

As a teenager, I regularly stayed up til 5 or 6 and forced myself to go to bed then, and sleep until 11 or 12 or 1.

Nowadays I force myself to go to bed earlier, but my security job suits me just fine -- work until 2, stay up an hour or two or three later...

<Sings> " I like the nightlife, I love to boogie...."

Always was a night person.

It sooo varies but generally a night person......:)

I'm most definitely a night owl. With 2 young kids, often the only time I get to myself comes betweenr 9:30 and midnight during "school nights" and until 2 am weekends. That's been pretty true my whole life. My parents almost never let me sleep past 10 am on weekends so I couldn't have functioned keeping your teenage hours, Paul! :D

My mom is ADD (in denial) and has been a late nighter at times and a crack of dawner at other times. I haven't quite figured that one out.

Wow. Unanimous so far. I wonder, is the hunter supposed to hunt at night?

Incidentally, it was BEAUTIFUL outside tonight up here, clear sky, full moon, stars everywhere, nice cool breeze... I could have walked outside for an hour or two... but only got the five minutes my security rounds required...

Yes perhaps the hunter is supposed to hunt at night....I'll bet that is true....

actually I just HATE going to bed until the LAST possible minute....when I absolutely cannot keep my eyes opened one more minute:(

I wonder if its our ADD that makes us night people?

I think the fact that I have ADD has much to do with my being a night person....:)

Maybe its because going to bed (at least by oneself) is never that stimulating... :D

True: Going to bed is not stimulating, and going to bed by oneself is CERTAINLY not stimulating....:(

Dear God, if you're listening, please get me a husband.......:(

I have always been a night person, but shift work means I get my night at three different times a month. Staying up all night and going to bed at 8 AM is pretty weird as you get to watch the sunrise and then go to bed.

My record sleep for this year is a 13 hour stretch, and was doing 9-10 until this last week where I am down to 6.

Sleepz (a lot less this week).

I used to be a night person more that I am now. My wife is definately a night owl. I need more sleep than I am getting. I like to be a night owl but I have to get up between 5 and 5:30 or so everyday. My wife and some friends say I am a morning person. I am very cheerful and "too peppy" in the morning. Once I get out of bed I am ready to go. When it is a social situation I am often a night owl because I am an extrovert......but I pay for it the next day. I guess I would have to say day person.....I guess it seems "cooler" to be a night person, but facts are facts and I am not one anymore :)

I'm most definitely a night person. I used to blame this on my mom, she worked the grave yard shift while she was pregnant with me. And after I was born I had colic from 11:00 p.m until 2:00 a.m.

I love the night time, it's quiet, and being a loner like I am, I don't have to deal with as many people.

I also have to get up early every morning and at first I'm peppy too, but then after a few hours up, I'm yawning and definitely by lunch I want to fall back to sleep. Ok maybe I'm not peppy but I am running around like a demon getting everyone out the door. I'm alert like a fireman if you know what I mean.

So if so many of you are night owls, why are none of you around when I am here in the middle of the night? Hey? Hey?

Paul,

I think someone keeps moving night time. I have the same problem. When at night, no one here either :(

sleepz

Hmmmmm.....Paul and Sleepz....two LONELY men in the middle of the night.....Hey women Forum'ers -- what ARE we going to do about that??:D :D :D

Hee hee hee..
Well I'm on the net, just not always here..lmbo

I'm usually playing online games instead. Gotta love Runescape and Tibia. :D And a few others that I play sometimes when I get bored with the latter.

Hey... I was all several times last night. the problem is what's night time for you, is morning time for us... welll for some of us. ;)

OKAY GET THIS....IT IS NOW 4:00 a.m. and there are four other people on besides myself.....and they all happen to be guys (GREAT!!!) but that's beside the point.....:)

So there IS activity here in the wee hours of the a.m.:D :D

I think of myself as a morning person, now. I'm kinda the annoying, cheery, morning type person...lol..

At about 8:00pm I start getting tired and grouchy !!! I know this is due to the job I've had for the past 11 years that as me awake very early......

In my younger years I was the one who worked swing shift (3pm-11pm) and then went out after that ! I never imagined I would have kids or a job were I worked during the day...... Now I can't imagine staying out past 9:00 pm ....lol...

NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT!!!!!

I love the dark and the stars and the fresh air and the sounds of the night.

Being outside at night is really cool because almost nobody else is out. The world is MINE!!!!!! hahaha

I'm a night person.

I work best after 6pm until early hours. In hte afternoon i get really bored and sleepy and in the morning.. hmmi don't concentrate as much. :D

I'm a night person by nature, but have tried to force myself into a day person's schedule. At first I did this because of working a daytime job. Now that I'm staying home for awhile, I still have to keep a day person's schedule b/c I married a morning person and produced a morning child who wakes me by 6:00 AM. My other son (the one I think may be ADD) would be happiest staying up late and sleeping all morning. Genetics is a fascinating thing, isn't it? ;)

I am a walking Zombie. I worked all hrs of the day and night. I usually only sleep in 3 hr increments. And when I have had the time to sleep longer, it doesn't matter. Because my body will not let me sleep longer than 3 hrs. If, I try I wake up in all kinds of pain xspecially in my hips and shoulders. So, I take what I can get, when I can get it.

I'm a walking paradox - I'm a night person and perk right up around 10 PM unless I am tired from lack of sleep the night before, however if I don't get up early and don't have to go anywhere (work etc.) early on in the day then I am useless and never get going all day.

Another night person. Living in a day city.

It doesn't matter how much or how well I sleep, I don't feel awake until 5 PM, and usually get going by 10 PM as well.

Melatonin did little to make me a day person. I've stopped fighting it. I just wish classes were offered 24 hours a day.

I am a night computer geek and It depends on medication cause if i am working meds into my system I am awake for days!

I have always functioned much better after sunset. I am most productive at night, but I can do either. I just get a catnap when I can. I have not ever required much sleep (except b/w the ages of 13-17) and I find now that I am on meds, I need even less sleep, because I am getting a better quality of sleep. Also, fewer headaches.:)

Night person! I love it when on occasion I get up very early. Then I can really enjoy the day.

This is very related to Narcolepsy. I think more people should consider the overlap between symptoms of ADD and narcolepsy. I'm becoming more and more interested in the connection. My MD, a sleep medicine specialist, says narcolepsy causes a part of the brain to go off-line during the day, several times a day, so that while we are awake and trying to be productive half the brain is trying to participate in getting REM sleep...so we are really only half there, though awake.

Sure rings a bell for me, so I am pursuing his theory. He says my sleep patterns - or lack of a real pattern - indicate REM sleep disorder. He says the symptoms would normally be diagnosed as ADD, because very few doctors would know how to diagnose REM sleep disorder, but he says it is occurring in many more people than previously believed.

I am such a night owl...always have been and always will be! I can only stay up until 1am anymore because of the kids without being shot for the day and once school starts, it will probably be much earlier. It kills me to go to bed early because I feel like I'm missing out on something...

Julie

I am such a night owl...It kills me to go to bed early because I feel like I'm missing out on something...

Wow....This is so....me! Especially while watching television, or working on the computer.

Day person by FORCE, mainly. BUT I really love to work out in the garden during the day. Have to force myself to be in bed by 11......

Currently a day person...My doctor has forced me to be with meds...but when I was younger, if I slept, it was during the day. What else was class for?

lmao...at least you WENT to class!!!!

hey, they had the most comfortable desks...I think I left permanent drool stains...

I'm telling you...I'm lucky I graduated

I don't really know what I am I know I can stay up all day and then all night and all the next day if I need to but on normal day if there are any LOL I have a real hard time staying up at night and when I go to bed I wake up a hundred times a night and I have weird dreams and different ones at that. Last night I dreamed I am driving down the road and its like I am on cruise control and I cant find the steering wheel or breaks or gas peddle and I start to freak out and then I seem to realize it is only a dream but I can get rid of the dream and I keep having it over and over to where I almost go insane and when it is time to get up I almost cant make it. The rest of the day I am real tired but couldn't go to sleep if I wanted to. Does anyone else have problems like this or does anyone know how I can get a good nights sleep this is really starting to take a toll on me maybe I am just going nuts

I'm a night person by nature but am seriously considering changing my nature. It seems everyone around me lately finds offense with me sleeping. My kids fight, the baby cries, my husband bangs around the house yelling at the kids and then asking me if I'm going to sleep all day...well, I get off work at 7am drive home for an hour, pick up the kids and clean house until he gets home at 4pm then I go to bed to be woken up at 7pm for work. And if I'm even slightly lucky and my stars are all alined right and I get to take a nap my sister will call and say since your home during the day you need to go sit at mom's and wait for the stinking Orkin man. Even stupider that's what I'm doing right now.

Andrew- I remembering taking no college classes before noon! :D

As for you NF, Being a mom and the single parent working... its has change my night time behaviors. There are days I crawl into bed at 8pm.. if allowed. The one bad thing is that now that my children are teens I am passing my bad habbits of staying up to them. Nowadays, during the summer, you will find the teens and I up till way past midnight... thus giving me 6 hours to sleep for work! Yawn!

This thread is great :)
I am also a night person. I have worked 2nd and 3rd shifts for the past 3-4years. When I was working day shift, I would only get like 3-4 hrs. of sleep a night before going to work...I just can't make myself go to bed before 2-3am...LOL. Now I typically stay up till 4 or 5 am. Coincidence that most of us identify as night people?

I dont think it is a coincidence we are mostly night owls.Maybe brain chemistry has something to do with it............

I'm a night owl, honey, sleep all day long....-Carly Simon
or, I would be, if I didn't have to be at work by 6:00am when the season is in full gear. Even when I am tired, I will take a quick nap and then stay up until 2am...

I vary depending on what I have to do. I'm up at 5am, but have enormous difficulty in getting ready, but once I do, I can stay up until 11pm. On the weekends, I'm up at around 9am and can keep going until around 1am. My physical battery never runs out, but my emotional battery runs low frequently.

Night owl here, In fact my entire faimly is, I can call my mom after midnight and I best not before noon, dad was the same way, my sister and brother and all our kids. I read something earlier that might be interesting here, I'll have to go back and see if I can find it...

Sleep?!

What's that!??

Hi all,
I am definitely a night owl. Usually go to sleep no earlier than 4 a.m, up no earlier than 1 p.m.
I was of course forced to go to school in the morning as child and teen. It was always torture. It got even more difficult to get up in a.m. when I reached puberty which is normal in most people. Most people shift to a later sleep phase after puberty and stay late into their twenties, then shift back to their original sleep phase.
I was diagnosed bipolar when about 42 years old. I was ready to die (suicidal), I was so depressed. Then when I was about 47 I heard the term "circadian rhythm" (natural sleep schedule) and that being a night owl is normal for many people. So then I started going with the flow of my night owl-ness instead of fighting it. I am in extremely better health now. Much less depression.
I'm now able to sleep naturally with less & less sleep medication. I had previously been addicted to sleep meds, trying to force myself asleep early. This stupidity was inflicted upon me by a doctor who was ignorant about circadian rhythm. Most doctors are ignorant about circadian rhythm. I read an article about a poll of universities, checking how much time the spent teaching medical students about circadian rhythm. Most universities don't teach about it at all. Many only devoted an hour to it. Very few give it adequate treatment. Meanwhile, we night owls are being discriminated against by society, with devastating, often fatal, consequences to our health.

Fellow night owls, Don't let em' mutilate you or your children's brains by forcing you up too early.

The only healthy way I have heard of to alter your sleep phase is with use of bright light therapy. It's the same device used for seasonal affective disorder but used differently for altering sleep phase. To make yourself sleep and wake earlier, you set the light to shine near you earlier than sunrise to fool your brain that dawn has come earlier. Extreme early birds can make themselves sleep and wake later by shining the light later than sunset. Off the top of my head, I recall reading Dr. Dement of Stanford write about this process, but he is not the most knowlegable about it that I have read. I forget who was the most knowlegable. I just got on internet again recently. I need to refresh & update my information about this.

Please email me if you have any comments.
Best wishes, erin

Hi twiggin
Maybe you mom has ESPS (Elongated Sleep Phase Syndrome)
ESPS means you have a much longer than 24-hour circadian rhythm (sleep cycle). You go to sleep & wake later & later until later is early.
I have ESPS in addition 2 being a night owl.
I stay at night owl hours for awhile (asleep 4 a.m, awake 1 p.m), then shift later (asleep 6 a.m, 9 a.m.). When it gets that late I usually just stay up all that night & all the next day, then start out "earlier" again ("early" for me is 1 or 2 a.m). Then it quickly settles back in to about 4 a.m asleep to 1 p.m. awake again.

I used to try to force myself to sleep earlier & wake earlier. It was torture & made me ill. Im vastly better now that I "go with the flow" of my natural sleep rhythm.

Best 2 u and kids, & your mom
night owl

You guys sound like some second (evening shift) and third shift (nights) canadates. I used to work almost all 3p-11p shifts when I was in my 20's. That worked to my advanage because it is usually the hardest shift to get people to work. I kept mu oldest daughter on my second shift schedule until she started school. When she began school I shifted to a night 11p-7a schedule until I had the twins. The only way we could afford all those kids was to eliminate the need for sitters. My husband and I did this by working opposing shifts. After the last two went into the first grade I began a job where I worked "regular hours" 8a-5p. It was hard at first but I adjusted. I have a late morning to early morning cycle now. I get up about 9a- to bed around 12a-1a. Now that my children are grown I seem to need less sleep??? Wonder why???