Any other night owls? Or do most of you get a really early start

I'm usually in bed by 2:00 am and up around 8:00 am. If I get more sleep I feel out of it and groggy for a few days. I never could go to sleep before midnight and almost always get up early. On days I do work I don't get home until 1 am, so that fits in my schedule. The animals adapt.

I am a night owl and I stay up late. I also have to get up for work by 6:45, and I know that isn't early to some of you people, but it is earlier than I would prefer to get up. DH is an early riser. He would like to be in bed by 9:00 and up at 5:00.

I'm in bed by 8pm, asleep by 9 and up by 5am. Or before.

Hubby and I are both nightowls. Fortunately, his work schedule allows it. He usually goes in at 3 p.m. and gets home around 1 a.m. and we are up until 3-4 a.m. The animals are used to our schedule. Horses and chickens get fed around noon and the dogs are fed when hubby gets home from work. The cats have food available 24/7.

It works for us and I don't see our schedule changing much when hubby retires.

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Asleep by 10:00 PM, up about 5:30 AM.

No alarm clock.

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I am forever annoyed by how much sleep I need. I routinely get 9 to 10 hours. I hate wasting so much time sleeping! I have always been envious of those who can function on 4-5 hours.

Do you drink caffeine? I've heard so many people say that they sleep less once they give up caffeine! I also need 9-10 hours. I've tried all sorts of things. The best for me is making sure I get enough protein.

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I'm one that heads for bed about midnight on work nights, and up by 5:45 or 6 am during the week. But stay up a little later, and sleep up to 8am on weekends.

I have parents and friends ask me when I sleep cause I email sometimes after 11 pm. I try not to cause of people asking me when I sleep. I do well on about 5 or 6 hours a night, with an occasional night of about 8 hours.

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My neighbor milks 160 cows now, up from 120. I found his milking pattern is 9am & 9pm. That allows him to be around at supper time for whatever. He's usually in the barn until 11 or 12.

Me, I just can't settle down to sleep. Last nite I was up until 4:30. And I try to get up and go when my wife does, she rotates shifts a bit, but typically she gets up at 5:00 or 6:00am.

Even then, I still don'r feel tired until after 1:00am. I have a short 'own time' at 5-7pm, not that I nap, but I'm a little slower. But 9:00pm rolls around & I just snap to attention & raring to go.....

Lot of times I will take the plow, combine, or whatever I'm up to that season and start in at 8:00pm, work until 5-6 in the morning - it is just such a relaxing, peaceful time, I won't be bothered by anything, can just work.

My wife had a hard time dealing with me until she just had to accept it. She suggested I read something to relax at bedtime. Well, I'm a bookworm, love to read. So..... I'd be reading the same book when she woke up at 5:00am, wide awake & real involved in my book - she just shakes her head. She can't make it through a small newspaper article in the evening without drifting off.

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.................I work from 2pm till 10 pm , this time frame suits me better than anyother work schedule I've ever had ! I get home about 10:30 pm , read email and hit the rack about 11:30pm , then , I'm usually up by 7 am . I never enjoyed having to getup early , cause I'm slower than drying paint when I first get up . Don't care IF the world blows itself up , until I've had 2 large cups of Java . , fordy

I get up at 4:15 most mornings except weekends is usually 5:30.
I don't really have a set bed time, I just fall asleep when I get tired, anywhere from 9:00pm to 11:30 pm.

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If I am not up by 4 a.m. it usually means I am sick. So I go to bed pretty early.

We are so really bad around here. We are usually in bed by 1 a.m. (don't always make it) and we are usually up by 6 a.m. - and usually...I need a nap.

Usually fall asleep on the couch by 8:30, then up at 1am back to sleep by 3 and up again at 4-5am. I hate it but can't seem to change it and I feel good so it must be ok. So am I a night owl? Hum.........

I used to only get a couple hours of sleep and was always running around. At one time I even worked 3 jobs.


Then I hit 36.

With my health problems, I often cannot go to sleep or wake up in the wee hours and can't go back to sleep. I now take medication to help with this.

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I'm in that Other category. Since I retired, I don't recognize an alarm clock and only use my body clock. I sleep when I'm sleepy and am awake when not sleepy. I do try to keep quiet so as not to disturb DH who is on a work schedule. He goes to bed by 8 most nights and is up by 5 most mornings. If I can't sleep during that time, I come get on this computer here in the back of the house and entertain myself by reading until I get sleepy.

I used to be a night owl as I worked second shift for years. My circadian clock is just set that way cause it's been a hard habit to break. I still like to go to bed later, around 11 but by midnight, my lights are out. I'm usually up a 7 regardless.

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i'm pretty nocturnal. even as a child, i was like this. i can usually adjust to just about any work schedule but i don't think i could handle a midnight to 8 am sorta thing. i had to a shift like that once and it just felt weird to be working those hours. my dog, Moose, adjusts just fine to whatever hours i work. we get about 8-9 hours a sleep and when i get up, he's ready to go potty and do his job of protecting me and our property.