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- fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45I'm a night owl and I attribute it to the huge amount of "peace and quiet" that exists when everyone you live with or near is asleep. It's much easier to build and maintain concentration when nobody's awake, visiting or phoning to disturb you.
- Kickersny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25"I need to live on a planet with a 30 hour rotation"
I've always thought that a 36-hour cycle (24 awake, 12 sleep) would be perfect. Too bad the earth doesn't work that way. - CerebralVisions, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24I need to live on a planet with a 30 hour rotation
- gonpost, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26There are idiots on both sides...you being one of them.
- Seph7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I personally think its to do with being addicted to reading random stuff on digg all night, nothing to do with genes
- avisotin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26errr, there IS no normal reason for this. You are damaging your body. Badly.
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21i'm pretty sure meth isn't considered a "normal" reason. :P
- therealrico, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Thats cool, explains why I have such a hard time waking up in the morning and never want to go to bed before 12, I thought I just needed to get used to waking up early, and going to bed early.
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17people digging down things they don't understand... how sad and incredibly ignorant.
- benjpw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The Earth doesn't need to work that way for modern society. How often do you NEED sunlight?
We could totally restructure socieyt on the 6 day system - it would be impossible to convince a lot of people to do it though :(
Us night owls will continue to suffer I guess. - PoodleMomma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I found this interesting. I too am one of those w/ weird sleep habits. Dew and coffee have an influence for me (moocow1452); but I doubt that is all of it. I cannot attribute it to them all of the time though. My thoughts are that someone has to cover the night shift in the healthcare field, so I will probably be a night nurse indefinitely. I just work with what I've got. I used to be more of an adrenaline junkie and travel the country being a organ transplant nurse, travelling with transplant teams. My shifts were long (18-38 hours straight). Though I am well aware this has long-term health implications the adrenaline helps, and I learned to powernap on my short flights, and so forth. Physicians do this all the time, and if you ask them typically they will tell you there are powernaps involved.
Sad part of this is I wish I could function like the rest of the world at 8am. If you woke up a morning 8-5 person at 1am and made them go to work this is how I feel when I need to do something during the day. I would love to know how to work with this more so that life could feel more normal for me on the off days when I do not work. It would be nice to go to sleep by 11pm and get up before 7am and feel refreshed. - DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I think I may have the 'drunk owl' gene....
- ViktorVaughn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wrong, I avoid caffeine completely and still have a hard time falling asleep before 4-5 am, I get anywhere from 3-12 hours of sleep on any given day, depending on what has to happen when, what day of the week it is, ect. 3-6 hours of sleep is usually workable, but there's usually a nap somewhere in the afternoon. I've been doing this since just before I hit puberty.
I think my dad has the same problem as we used to always run into each other in the kitchen at 3 in the morning.
The thing is, once I get to sleep, I can sleep through pretty much anything, but if I have to get up, I sometimes wake up right before my alarm. If I don't NEED to be awake, well, I have t-shirt sheets and a bomb-ass comforter.
And I just started living next to a train track a year ago, so that hasn't been helping. - phmfthacim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9avisotin,
and what happens if WarezAppz lives longer than you? I think you are assuming things that you cannot necessarily prove here... - phmfthacim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8people are saying some stupid ***** in these comments
(I'm not talking about the people who are dugg down, I'm talking about the ***** who are criticizing people who are sharing their personal experiences with sleep habits) - j128, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So now I have an exeuse for reading this at 11:40 PM. (-;
Does that gene also influence the probability of the person being a geek? Just wondering. - markp93, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7...while others are Ozymandias or Rorschachs.
- WarezAppz, on 10/12/2007, -11/+15I've been this way my whole life. I require 3 to 4 hours of sleep nightly. actually just last week I was up over 36 hours straight, fell asleep for 1 hour and was back up for 24 more hours before I even felt like sleeping again - and I am in my thirties! I am just glad that there is a 'normal' reason for this instead of some sleep disorder or something.
- BigDanee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm a night owl -- Since I'm 14 I've been a night owl. I notice if I try and stay on a "normal" schedule, I'm not as happy of a person overall. It has to be something physiological. A couple of my friends are night owls they're the same way -- They all pissy during the day -- at night they're normal everyday (or everynight ;) ) people.
Although, I do like the sun and the beach -- What gives? :-D - Kerakera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I always found I had a certain burst of energy around 9pm that doesn't really trail off until 12 - 2am. It doesn't matter when I wake up in the morning; I always seem to stay up late no matter what I'm doing (whether it be interesting or not). I'd really like to look over the abstract of this study.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@Poodle: I hear ya. I'm the nightshift ER doc specifically because of my sleeping habits. I can't sleep before 300pm and can't wake up until after 1000am. I hate morning shifts and can't function without caffeine in my system. I guess we night owls fill a niche.
- Nerdculture, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I had a friend that used to do that... the doctors found out that she had a vitamin A deficiency.
- AeonTorpor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm 100% sure i have this ***** gene... i'm typing this at 6:00am mst w/ 2hrs. sleep in the last 36 and 3 in the 24 before that....
- bandhftw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why are people so attached to this 9 to 5 routine half of them don't need to work these hours yet they do and force every one else who doesn't want to, to work so called "unsociable hours" which there not. Unless you work on a farm you don't have to get up so early we live in a 24 hour world now.
- bobcrotch, on 10/12/2007, -11/+13His mustache is where his power comes from.
- HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2and they never mentioned anything about the Moon giving us super powers? :P
- anthonyk28, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That 27-hour day thing would explain why my sleeping pattern shifts forward over the course of every couple of weeks. I'll go from getting up at dawn to gradually getting up again at four in the afternoon, then back, sleeping the same amount regardless.
- brada33928, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I stay up till 3-4am and sleep till 12 on the weekends. It really screws with my schedule during the week... sleep is overrated.
- tanto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1After decades of studying sleep, doctors can point to at least ten things that will sabotage sweet dreams—from the simple (a hot room, a snoring boyfriend, a cup of coffee before bed) to the serious (depression). What follows: a rap sheet identifying these sleep thieves, and tips on how to recover your precious rest.
1.Noise,2.Light,3.Temperature,4.Stimulation,5.Strange surroundings,6.Stress,7.Hormones ,8.Disordered sleep/wake schedule,9.Fear of not falling asleep ,10.Depression
http://orangtuamurid.info/blog/?p=230 - wargod18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am a night owl but not the the extreme poodlemomma or imperium2000 are. I'm 16 so the nights that i don't have school i find it hard to sleep before 12, sometimes I'm up till 2 or 3 in the morning. I can go to sleep at 10 and wake up at 6(for school). The weird thing is caffeine and sugar don't keep me awake if i want to sleep i go right asleep. It's weird.
- Subby001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i reckon i have this 'gene'
i may only have say 5-6 hrs sleep one night, go to work all day, then to soccer training till 9pm.
and i cant fall asleep...i have a sudden burst of energy and im wide awake...and i know i could stay away till the weee hours of the morning
but i force myself to try and sleep.
strange i say - chaos7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1GREAT article. i believe i have a similar issue. for pretty much as long as i can remember, i seem to easily be able to stay up an additional 2-3 hours each day. so if tonight i get sleepy at 1 am, tomorrow i may not get sleepy til 3-4 am. i don't mind being an oddball, but sometimes it's tough when my sleep cycle has me sleeping all day and i have places i'm supposed to be.
- shawnanigans, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Please. Everyone knows Adderall fuelled study is better.
- DorqueRench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I always knew this. I lost so many jobs because I was a night owl. Once I hit my early 30's, I became able to actually stay on a "normal" schedule, but until then I struggled my whole life to get to bed on time and make it to work on time without much success.
- j128, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@Kickersny
My thoughts exactly. - hfactor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I always sleep from about 2 or 3 am till 9, 10, or 11 am. I absolutely can´t get tired around or even before midnight and adjust to what people believe to be the "right" sleeping habits. Luckily, I´m still a student (and quite afraid of life afterwards :) ).
I can also concentrate much, much better at night because it´s dark, quiet and nobody distracts me.
I hope there´ll be more research into this direction and people will finally realize that making us work 9-5, they just make us night owls unproductive. - Jonmad17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Every night I end up sleeping an hour or two later than the night before.Which pretty much sucks since i'm a school student.
- TheKingOfHell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Markp93, dugg up for the big LOL
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I get this too, ever since i stopped going to school it started. I just hope it stops before i get my job in June..
- bob3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Im a night-owl, my father is a night owl, my mother, my sister, my uncle, and my children are all night owls. Now I can feel a little less guilty about it.
- Silentshadow900, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Oh man. I can hear Michael Crichton screaming...
- kensterdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea, I seem to be a night owl. I sleep after 2 am and wake up usually after 12 pm.
- injury0314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I only sleep at work.
So does this count? - hirak99, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@ayeroxor (#6387182)
No this is not about Gene Shallot... this is 'gene' as in genetics. The deoxi-rhibonucleic acid sequences, of Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine. - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -17/+16Gene Shallot? He's into sleep research?
- moocow1452, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4In three words, Coffee and Dew. That's why people are nightowls.
- kenvsryu, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Bars are usually open at night. Study fueled by beer.
- injury0314, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1@phmfthacim: For a minute I thought WarezAppz was some warez site.
And you were implying that the site would last longer than the guy.
I guess i chose the wrong day to start cutting down on my caffeine intake. - kpsk, on 10/12/2007, -29/+5SEE?! Science marches ahead while the Christians bury their head in the sand!!! DUGG!
- kpsk, on 10/12/2007, -25/+1And you...are one of them too.
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