Are you a morning person?

[Murasaki]

1 hour ago, dundee said:

tbh, I'm definitely not. I will wake up at the latest time possible before I am late for my things

Me. 8:05 out of bed (yes it takes 5 minutes to get out of bed) and by 8:15 im out the door.

[WkdPaul]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Hot take: many people who claim they are "not morning people" just stay up until 3am on their phones instead of going to sleep at a normal time.

Personally, unless I'm extremely tired, I can't go to sleep before 10:30 - 11:00 (was always like this, all the way back to my teenage years in the 90's). If I don't have an alarm and let myself wake up naturally, I don't get up before 8:00 - 8:30 ... not sure if 10h of sleep is healthy or not, but that was always the amount of sleep I would get if I don't have to get up with an alarm (now I sleep around 8h, but with an alarm, or my daughter, whatever yells first).

[TomvanWijnen]

19 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I am. I hate sleeping in. Even if I could do it, it just feels like such a waste of time.

 

Hot take: many people who claim they are "not morning people" just stay up until 3am on their phones instead of going to sleep at a normal time.

Well yeah of course we stay up until past 12. I often still have lots of necessary and/or fun stuff to do, so I automatically don't go to bed early. Waking up early would then mean I didn't sleep long enough, so I wake up later. If I go to bed early (before 00:00) I generally cannot fall asleep (quick enough), so it's a bit of a waste of time to try to start sleeping by then.

 

If there's something important early on in the day, yes, I will wake up for it. I'll just pretty much automatically also not get enough sleep, because I have too much to do to allow me to go to bed so early, and if I did try I wouldn't be able to sleep. Apart from not having slept enough, and having less time the night before, I don't have too many issues with waking up early.

[Velcade]

I'm up by 5am everyday.  I can't say everyday I'm a ball of sunshine but I'm not a crabass either...

[The King of the Undead]

NO.

[Guest]

I'm not. I get up early anyway but I usually don't do much right away. I also hate that I have no appetite whatsoever in the morning.

[TetraSky]

I can barely even stay awake past midnight anymore and I wake up around 6 to 7am. And even there, I often wake up around 4am, only to lay in bed until 6. So I'd say yes.

 

Once you start a routine of getting up at the same time and going to bed at the same time... It's relatively easy to do.
If your sleep schedule is all manner of messed up, don't expect to be able to wake up early. I go to bed around 10~11pm
If you have trouble sleeping at night or to adjust your sleep schedule... Just use high dose(5~10mg) of Melatonin to forcefully reset your internal clock. Within a few days you'll be back to a "normal" sleep schedule.

[NinJake]

No, but I have to be.

[TheCoder2019]

Absolutely not. I stay up on weekends playing games until about 1 maybe 2 in the morning, and on weekdays I have to get up for school, which isn’t fun either. If I didn’t have these things to worry about I’d almost be an insomniac. If none of these things apply I will sit and lay in my bed until 1 in the afternoon.

[WaggishOhio383]

I'm definitely more of a morning person. I absolutely hate sleeping in, and I hate staying up late because it means I either have to sleep in, or be tired the next day. I'm always up by 8am and usually get in bed by 11pm, which means I've fallen asleep by around 11:30-12. I used to get up between 7 and 7:30 every morning, but over the past year or so my waking time has slipped to around 7:45-8.

[Radium_Angel]

I am fortunate I can go to sleep instantly, and wake up instantly, alert and ready for whatever.

Been that way all my life, regardless of the amount of sleep I get.

[Computernaut]

It seems most people are not.

As such, it seems I am in good company. I have never been a morning person, though I've found in the last few years that it's better if I try to be; getting up late, while amazing in it's own way, sets off my whole day wrong, I'm lethargic and have no motivation and sometimes feel almost sick, especially when it comes to having no appetite. I'm quite lively at night though, I can be wide awake at 1:00 am with heaps of energy, intense motivation, and a burning desire to DO THINGS! In general though, I try to get up at a reasonable time and go to bed at a similarly temperate hour. I try hard to get at least 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep every night (it rarely works, unfortunately).

[TopKitty]

Truly feels disgusting to read these replies, grow up.

[atxcyclist]

I’ve been through jobs and school where I had to get up really early, but it’s not my preference. I do somewhat envy those that can be really motivated early in the morning.

[Guest]

On 3/9/2021 at 9:08 PM, Arika S said:

I'm convinced morning people don't exist. they just get up super early, so by the time "normal" people wake up, they have already gotten over that bump

Sorry, I am the morning person. I wake up 5-5:30, shower and go to the gym. There is no bump. But I do go to sleep super-early too, at around 10:00. 

 

I have met a few people though who go to sleep at like 1, and wake up at 5-6 as well - that is crazy!

[BuckGup]

A morning person is just someone getting adequate sleep and living a healthy lifestyle. You aren't suppose to feel like shit for an hour after waking up

[Rhyn]

Slowly becoming one lol

If I go to bed late not a chance I'm getting up early unless I have to, but sometimes you have to.  Recently I was up late playing monster hunter with a buddy and drinking a bit and I told my cousin I would be at his place at 8 am for a hike and he lives about an hour away.  I was there hungover and tired but I was there haha

Most nights I just try to sleep early so I don't mind waking up early

[PianoPlayer88Key]

My sleep schedule shifts around a lot, usually shifting a few hours later every few days.  So sometimes I might be a morning person, sometimes I might not.

 

 

I'm trying (with difficulty - can never seem to get everything done I want to in each day - maybe it's approaching time to upgrade from my i7-4790K + 32GB RAM desktop / i7-6700K + 64GB RAM laptop? Waiting for DDR5 & past early adopter tax though...) to get my sleep schedule more stable / consistent, so that I WOULD be a morning person.

 

For example, I'd like to be able to get up between 1-4 am or so, so that when I can find a job, I can go to work early enough to completely miss the rush-hour traffic.  The freeway ramp signals here come on at 6am so I'd want to be at work before then; also normal traffic flow outside normal commute time is about 80 mph / 128 kph or so, which is a comfortable driving speed for me.

(I've seen it as slow as 55-65 / 88-104 as early as like 5:30 or so sometimes, on some freeways here in San Diego.  I wonder if there's any IT jobs that don't need a degree, I can work with my hands with the hardware (with as little time as possible in front of a screen or with a / , I do that plenty at home), and be at work before then?)

 

 

Often, in the past several years, my sleep schedule has been such that the following statement would be true:

 

Yes, I'm a morning person, it's just that my morning is at the OTHER end of the day.

 

 

(Don't open the spoiler if you don't want to see a Biblical reference about evening, morning, day, etc.)

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After all, there's a few verses in the beginning of the Bible that say, in part, "the evening and the morning were the (first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth) day," it doesn't say "morning then evening were ... day".

 

So for those like me who believe that book, the morning is at the END of the day and the evening at the beginning.

 

And for those who don't, that's why I put this in a spoiler. (The Bible also basically says be ready to explain your personal faith reasons in 1 Peter 3:15, it does not say shove religion down people's throats.)

 

 

 

 

[wONKEyeYEs]

14 hours ago, TopKitty said:

Truly feels disgusting to read these replies, grow up.

"These replies" are varied.

They all make you disgusted?

You're lack of specificity makes me think you just want to bitch.

Do you have a thorn in your paw?

[dizmo]

There are other issues if you're waking up like that. I'd take a look at a few things, including your sugar consumption. Try cutting it down, or cutting it out completely. It can have dramatic effects on how you feel when you wake up.

 

Another thing to do is get the proper amount of exercise during the day. Helps your body fully shut down at night, deeper sleep, etc.

 

14 hours ago, The_russian said:

Considering I can't remember the last time I went to sleep before 1am, hell no. I have tried multiple times to start going to sleep/waking up earlier, it always lasted a few days at most since I would just be tired the whole day no matter how much sleep I got.

That's your problem right there. If you can't fight through that, then you're not going to accomplish anything.

12 hours ago, Murasaki said:

Heard about phones in bed contributing to that but I don't really use my phone much at home since computer and all that. Though monitors are screens too so maybe I'm just doomed in that regard. I have tried leaving my phone away from bed before, oh it's painful and it makes me cranky :x

Even things like having too much light in the room you're in (from LEDs, etc) or having a running electronic can affect you.

I know I should probably not have my PC in the same room, but for now that's the setup.

The fact you get cranky when your phone is away from your bed is a pretty telling sign of a serious issue.

7 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I am. I hate sleeping in. Even if I could do it, it just feels like such a waste of time.

 

Hot take: many people who claim they are "not morning people" just stay up until 3am on their phones instead of going to sleep at a normal time.

Agreed. While I love the actual act of sleeping, when I wake up and realize how much of the day is gone it really feels like I've wasted it.

[Guest]

It took forever to find the exact time that I can wake up and be a "morning person." It is exactly 5:13 AM. Waking up a minute before or after results in grumpy tyrant Den (instead of regular tyrant Den). DST beginning or ending messes with this for about a week or so.

[Murasaki]

5 minutes ago, dizmo said:

The fact you get cranky when your phone is away from your bed is a pretty telling sign of a serious issue.

No I mean putting the phone away to make me get up from bed to turn the alarm off LOL.

[Andreas Lilja]

Does going to sleep between 4 and 6 am count as a morning person?

[akio123008]

The whole problem I think most people have with waking up, isn't the waking up part but being woken up by some external factor (like an alarm).

 

Although I don't tend to get up very early, it does happen every once in a while that I just happen to wake up at 6:30 for no apparent reason, and when that happens I feel just as good as waking up at 9:30. When I get woken up by an alarm however, even if it's at 9:30, that always sucks.

 

It kind of makes sense actually; the fact that you haven't naturally woken up sort of means you aren't done sleeping I guess.

[dizmo]

Just now, Murasaki said:

No I mean putting the phone away to make me get up from bed to turn the alarm off LOL.

Haha, nothing's easy when you first start it, but it can turn into an excellent choice later on