Night owl or lark?

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Just saw a thread about being a night owl of which I am not- I’m a lark. I like early nights and early mornings. I love being up while everyone else is still asleep. Sometimes I’m up 3-4 hours before everyone. I can get all my house work and laundry done, prep dinner, lay out breakfast ready for everyone, meal plan- do my online food shop before my husbands alarm has gone off. It massively takes the pressure off me during the day. If there’s not much housework to do I can watch a movie or read in peace and quiet.

So are you a night owl or a lark?

I'm a night owl. All our family is.

By nature I'm an extreme night owl. It takes enormous effort to just be a night owl.

Lark but I don't get all that done! I cuddle the puppy and drink tea, usually get the washing machine on but mostly catch up on TV I haven't watched due to my early night

Night owl through and through. And proud!

During Lockdown 1 could easily have become fully nocturnal.

I get my quiet time at the end of the day / night - that's why I'm on here at 2am!

Lark
But I'm lazy AF
I'll lay in bed on my phone or reading my book until 10-11am on weekends if I haven't got to go anywhere, despite waking at 5.30-6a.m.

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Just saw a thread about being a night owl of which I am not- I’m a lark. I like early nights and early mornings. I love being up while everyone else is still asleep. Sometimes I’m up 3-4 hours before everyone. I can get all my house work and laundry done, prep dinner, lay out breakfast ready for everyone, meal plan- do my online food shop before my husbands alarm has gone off. It massively takes the pressure off me during the day. If there’s not much housework to do I can watch a movie or read in peace and quiet.

So are you a night owl or a lark?

So what time would you go to bed at?

I'm a night owl when I'm happiest and most productive, a lark when I'm anxious but only for a a few days before crashing.

I go up to bed about 9pm-10am (In bed now and will be calling it a night anytime now)
I can naturally wake anytime between 3am-4:30am.

Years ago I would toss and turn trying to get back to sleep but I’ve just excepted that’s the time my body wants to wake up. So now as soon as I wake I’m up!

Lark. Husband is a night owl. He comes alive just as I am going to bed.

Owl here, absolutely hate getting up in the morning! DD is the same.

DH & DS are the larks, early to bed and early to rise.

I love the same thing as you though OP, the peace and quiet and getting things done, just at the other end of the day!

Night owl.

I have to get up at 6.15am for work, so I do it. But I loathe it. I was born abroad and I'm convinced that my natural body clock is set to 'normal' time there...

In the UK I'd really like to rise about 11.00am and go to bed at 3.00am. Those hours don't work, but that's my natural clock.

Disclaimer: I have been in the UK for over 50 years now - I am aware this is a ridiculous excuse.

I'm neither! I think it's called lazy

Permanently exhausted pigeon here...

In the words of a quote by I have no idea

"I'm neither a night owl nor an early bird, I'm some sort of permanently exhausted pigeon"

🤣

I don't really have a sleep pattern, I work a mix of days and nights so I'm constantly flipping myself from day to night, I don't have young children or anything like that, so I basically sleep when I'm tired and get up when I'm not, sometimes I'm awake all night and sleep all day, sometimes I'm awake from 4am onwards, sometimes I sleep in until 10am, but I tend to sleep in blocks of 4 hours at a time, it works for me.
When I worked days I definitely, definitely wasn't a morning person though!

I am whatever bird is in the middle. Seagull?

Night owl here.

I’m a night owl but for some reason I feel guilty. Larks are portrayed as being worthy and wholesome. Not sure why. The early bird catches the worm - and all that. I’d rather let the worm be.

6.30am here and I can get a tonne done before anyone else wakes. It’s heaven.

I think 4am is quite extreme but whatever works!

I go to bed around 11pm

Lark .. I love getting up early and getting on with my day .. sadly my DH is a really poor sleeper and although we have separate rooms I hate to wake him in the mornings so I try and stay in bed just to be quiet . Disclaimer ... he works long hours in a stressful job whilst I work part time in a fairly cushy job so I genuinely want to be considerate.

Actually my lark phases are frequently triggered by an actual night owl in the back garden who will not shut up round about 4am

LARK and I love it! Up between 5:45 and say 6:30 thanks to the kids, and go to bed around 10:30. Went to bed at 12:30 last night and whew my mood was off today and felt I needed a nap by about noon.

Last week I woke up around 4 ish naturally (light, birds, hormones I think) and loved it. Not so much in dark winters though and not keen on waking up unnaturally .

Owl, but I have always woken up at 7am irrespective of what time I go to bed. So i might get 6hrs or 4hrs sleep and either way I can function. I can't force myself up before 7am. I've tried and become ill because of it. DH is in bed at 9pm and bouncing about at 5am, its annoying because he believes his way is the best. Its particularly aggravating at the weekend when he is in a rush to finish chores by 12 noon whilst I'm still drinking coffee and mooching.

I agree that there seems to be some sort of value attached to being a lark. I think it goes back to the protestant work ethic and agricultural economy.

I’m a life-long owl, and I always will be. My days contain one seven o’clock, and two one o’clocks. DP is the exact opposite. He goes to bed by 9-30, which is early evening to me, and gets up at 5am, which is the middle of the night. Silly bugger.

Zombie... i don't sleep

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Zombie... i don't sleep

A bit like this. Bed at midnight, awake 3-5am but stay in bed as I’ll wake everyone up otherwise, up at 6am. Exhausted