Getting up early is actually good isn’t it?

I go to bed at 1 every night. I can get up early if needed but generally get up around 8:30.
I sleep well and don’t see any issue with going to bed late. I do things the same as my early riser friends just a couple of hours later. I’ll do supermarket shop at 6 then go for a swim afterwards and have supper at 9.

I love going for long walks in the evening especially in summer. I don’t see my hours are more or less lazy than an early risers.

The poor health outcomes for late risers is going to be more to do with the type of people who commonly slob around in bed rather than the actual fact that they sleep in later.
I used to live in a hot country where I would wake at 5:30 in the morning - the numbers of hours I was awake and active were the same as they are for me now. Just shunted earlier in the day.
I do love early mornings though so enjoy it when I do wake early.

Been up since 4am, which is my normal wake up time (although yesterday was 2:30am!) The last maybe 6 years I've woken around this time daily. I actually prefer it, it means I have time to watch the news, read MN, shower, coffee etc all in peace before going to work, which I'd any time between 6-9 depending on where I'm working.

Didn't always used to be like this mind you! In my twenties and thirties I'd easily stay in bed until midday!

Always been an early bird, I like the quiet and the first cup of tea and a read or potter in the garden. Since I hit my 50s I just don’t seem to be able to lie in even if I’ve had a late night or really need it. More likely to just have a nap later.

but some days it can feel like I’ve had a full day before I’ve even got to work…

I am always up at 6 am when I am not working. It varies according to what shift I am working that day

I can't remember the last time I slept beyond 6.00. I was in the shower at 5.00 this morning, did an hour and half walk with the dogs before it started to really warm up.

Oh look. Another thing my body decided to fuck me up with😂
I am post midnight sleeper....
(no idea why I woke up today hour earlier than usual)

I can’t remember the last time I woke up past 6.30 so this is just usual for me. On days where I’m in teaching a 9am lecture I’m up at 5. I don’t really think about it since it’s so engrained. I guess it’s good? I’m in bed by 10.30.

Exercise, plan, read, study, while those on a different body clock slumber. Bliss.

I agree with you. Anecdotally, everyone I know that gets up later has poorer mental health.

I'm generally up at 5.30 for work.
In Spain at the moment. Me and dogboy were up at 5. We've been out for a walk before it gets too hot, hung a load of washing out and have another on the go. I would love to lay in, but I can't remember the last time I was in bed beyond 7

I am up at 6.00am everyday, weekends included. I always feel that I have wasted the day if I stay in bed any longer

Joining the outside cup of tea gang. And I got Wordle in two.

Pretty much always up at 5 lovely and cool and breezy this morning will be too hot later.

I’m the same. By about 3pm my brain is on a lagging go slow.

So lovely to be up now with a cup of tea, listening to the birds.

My brain just works better in the morning and in the evening I am literally no good for nothing.

It doesn’t matter if it’s work, a long drive, housework etc the earlier I get up the more efficient I am.

I actually hate waking up early but I’m completing an open university degree and will regularly get up at 4am and smash it out.
If I woke up later it would take me twice the time to do half the amount.

I usually have 1 day of the weekend where I get up really early and get loads of the chores done, especially sorting my things out for the following week and life admin etc and then the next day have a lie in and not do any admin or chores etc.

As much as the thought of a lie in is appealing I agree those missed couple of hours really do set me back with what I need to get done - which is crazy really when you've got all day ahead.

I love getting up early 6.30 make a cup of tea and take it back to bed or sit in the lounge looking at the garden.

I really appreciate the peace and quiet and the stillness of that time of day. Then everyone wakes up and the peace is shattered. Hey ho it was good while it lasted.
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I seriously wish I was a morning person but most nights I am still awake after 01:30am. I have child and a baby so it’s painful. My body seems programmed to want to sleep between 2am and 10am…I have tried everything and I’m usually up for work by 6am anyway. I just don’t sleep well at night even if I’m in a routine of getting up early, so I would always take the lie in to catch up on my chronic sleep deprivation. Alas, the world was not built for my natural body clock.

I used to be an early riser (5/5.30), now I sleep so little I stay in bed as much as possible. I miss the old days but I’m exhausted (work, life and perimenopause) and up later now I have teenagers plus I work retail so up 7 days a week most weeks (school run plus work 3 days during the week, 2at weekends)

I prefer night as I can be much more productive without trying to also simultaneously track the time because something else needs to happen at a particular hour. In the morning I’d just have got into my productive flow state and frustratingly everyone else would arrive and start wanting things and making a noise.

Much prefer and early night or an afternoon quick nap to a lie in. I LOVE sleep but extra in morning doesn't feel very nice for me as morning is when my energy is highest so I kinda miss the best bit of the day if I lie in.

Totally agree

Then I get my money's worth out of the weekend

Well your attitude of ‘getting things done’ doesn’t mesh with my idea of a relaxing Sunday but I don’t have toddlers and at 64 have the luxury of lying in any day. But occasionally I do think back (only three years ago) when I’d be dropping my DD at the train to get to sixth form at 7.30 and taking the dogs to the park and coming home and thinking I had got up showered and dressed, dogs walked and ready for the day by 8.15am. Now dogs have both died and DD at uni…kinda miss the routine.

Nope, it's not only about night shift. Studies have also shown that people with a strong "evening chronotype" (natural night owls) tend to have worse health outcomes on average than morning types.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.125.044189?

https://www.health.com/condition/sleep/health-risks-night-owl?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12433348/?

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/being-a-night-owl-may-increase-your-heart-risk?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/2031/?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/3004/

When I was younger I hated it, but now I like it. We are retired and I get up at 9 latest, often earlier than that. Sleeping in past that makes me feel rubbish all day.

We had a years worth of building work done on our house recently, up at 7 and the guys arrived at 8. It was so nice, by 9 I had finished fannying around reading the news papers and was ready to start the day. I vowed I would keep it up after it was all done, but needless to say I didn't. I am getting up earlier in these hot, light mornings though.