To just really, really hate mornings?

[stqueen]

Just that. Especially in winter when it's so fucking cold. I always wake up feeling tired & sluggish, regardless of how much I've slept and how many times DD woke in the night.

It takes me ages to get my shit together , if DH is around I don't speak to him or if I do it's mumbling & groaning, which usually creates tension & friction before the day has started!

Now, the other way - I can happily stay up until 2, 3 in the morning (can't and don't very often these days but still), and when I do I can be very productive & inspired! But mornings, no.

Is it just me or anyone else feel like this? I wish I was need to become an early bird.

[SirChenjin]

Hate them too - although late nights for me are 11pm on a work night! The alarm goes off at 6am and by 6.45 I'm standing on a freezing cold station platform. Loathe and detest the actual act of getting up - my first words every day without are "fuck off" to the alarm clock

[MLGs]

I also find it near unbearable. Almost physical pain and feeling sick even if had a reasonable night sleep.

That said, if I've had a proper lie in (not for years!) I feel ok, so is not the mere fact of waking that does it. It's the being woken before I'm ready.

I know my oh doesn't have the same feelings I do about - that not everyone gets these overwhelming feelings, pain, nausea etc.

I don't think my body likes to leave the state it is currently in, as I find going to bed quite tricky, and like you op can be productive and not tired of an evening. I think (mad theory warning) I suited to a planet with longer day/night cycle as if left to nature I would go to bed later and get up later each day, as though I was on a 26/27 hour cycle rather than 24.

[torthecatlady]

YA (totally) NBU.
Morning = pain!
It's been a struggle for as long as I can remember!

[MLGs]

So for me too 11pm - 6.30 (as last night) means agony in the morning.

Wanted to go to bed at 10 as I sometimes do but had work to do after DD in bed, and then I find I can't sleep unless I spend some time winding down. But even 10-7 leaves me really tired and grumpy in the morning.

[Shirkingfromhome]

YADNBU - mornings suck. They're even worse since having kids and having to endure kids tv. I'm definitely a night owl and seem to get an extra burst of energy at bed time even though I've been knackered all day. DH is an morning person and bounces out of bed no matter how much sleep he got.

I read somewhere that night owls are more creative or more intelligent so I feel validated

[Sallystyle]

It's why I love doing twilight shifts. 7pm to 1.am.

I love going to bed really late and then going back to bed when the kids are in school.

The Lumie clock really helps me though but I still hate mornings. Since going on bank I have only done two shifts where I have to get up at 5.30am because I can't stand the thought of it in winter. I have just done a nightshift and while I don't like them much as they screw me up the next day I am more productive than I am during the day.

[littlemermaid80]

I used to "arise" at 4.20am for an early start down at a wholesalers market, it was unpleasant in the summer but in the winter it was a vile experience. Copious amounts of coffee and Planet Rock were needed

[coffeetasteslikeshit]

I've found my people

I'm exactly the same. Hate, hate, hate mornings. I need a mega cup of tea in bed before I can even get up and then another one while I'm doing breakfast, and don't even think about talking to me before I've drunk my tea!
I also thought that motherhood might help, but no, I did not get used to the early mornings, as promised by my mum.
What has helped me this winter, and I can't recommend highly enough, is a sunrise alarm clock. Now I only feel as crap as I normally do in summer!

[mrsmugoo]

I used to be like that but then I had my son and am also pregnant which doesn't help but I wake at 6 most mornings and try to get back to sleep but rarely can, so I just get up and enjoy some peace and quiet before the madness.

Past 4pm 9pm I am useless though

[NecklessMumster]

I feel clinically depressed in the mornings. The only thing that gets me up is promising myself a cup of tea back to bed once I've seen the kids off to school . This means I get to work late so have to work later, but it's the only time I get to myself all day

[justjuanmorebeer]

It is torture. I have never been a morning person and never will. I am a horrible person until at least 11am

[yomellamoHelly]

It's the groundhog day nature of it too. I get up as late as I can (5:45) and need to hit the ground ready to "go!go!go!" and chivvy the kids along / keep things going until they're all out of the house whether it's for school or whatever we're doing at the weekend. Would love to wallow in my bed / doze / daydream / potter around slowly...... but that isn't going to happen for now. Feel the rage when people tell me how lucky I am to be a morning person and to be able to do it when actually I'm not it's just that I have to.

[chrome100]

I'm the opposite - a real lark. Love getting up early. Downside is I'm nodding off by 9pm and really unsociable in the evenings. I am not sure which is worse!

[stqueen]

chrome100 I envy you! Only because modern society is geared towards rising early and going to bed at a sensible hour - the 9-5 working day etc. What's your secret on those cold, rainy, winter mornings?

If I could work 11-7 instead of 9-5, I think I would as I could then stay up until 2am ironing & online shopping

[londonrach]

Im a morning person APART from winter dark mornings. I havent made the early train since it got dark. Cant wait till i leave for work in the light and arrive back in the light...

[hmcReborn]

I hate mornings too - although more specifically winter mornings. I don't mind summer mornings. I don't like to talk to anyone when I get up (too grouchy) - you would think after 16 years of marriage dh would realise this and not try to engage me in conversation ffs!

[Boredofthinkingofnewnames]

I the exact opposite. I'm in bed now and will be asleep in about ten minutes. Wide awake by half five / six. I wake up before my alarm goes off. I bloody hate it - I want to be able to sleep in at the weekend!

[hollinhurst84]

Ugh to mornings
The other week I was silently eating my tea and toast when a colleague comes in
"MORNING!!! Oh smells nice! What's that? Toast? What've you got on in? You're here early..."

It's 7.15am. STFU. Now

[MrsMogginsMinge]

Ugh. I think it might actually be the worst bit of being a parent for me. I used to love sleeping in until lunchtime on a weekend. Now my Friday evening feeling of joy is followed by the crushing realisation that I have to get up at the same godamn time every day for the next howevermany years. Even now DS (mostly) sleeps through I still feel like shit. Managed to persuade him into an 8-8 schedule but now he's starting nursery we're all going to have to get up earlier. Even on a Saturday. Fuck fuck fuck.

[sorenoggin]

You know what I hate? Those people who don't understand how awful mornings are ti some people and say 'you just lazy' , 'you missing the best bit of the day' , 'you will get used to it '

No no no...you smug gits!!!

[stqueen]

^^this!

DH, I'm looking at you! Repeat, I am not lazy - I just fucking hate mornings, getting out of bed & holding a conversation before 11am!

[DisappointedOne]

If I could work 11-7 instead of 9-5, I think I would as I could then stay up until 2am ironing & online shopping

That's exactly what I did. (Also meant I had time where stupid colleagues weren't bothering me and I could get some actual work done!

[DogStuff]

Bliss - a whole thread of fellow owls!

I am so much more productive at night time, in fact I am just beginning to wake up around now. Can't stand horribly chirpy morning people . I think it is tough because if my day gets off to a bad start it take an effort to recover.

I wonder whether one of those natural light thingys would help us all?

[Okiedokiefanokie]

I hate this time of year. Go to work in the dark, come home in the dark. It's horrible.

[hollinhurst84]

I'm just about to have my tea - perfect!