Night owls vs early birds – anyone else live happily on a late schedule?”

[Dreamsofanidiotmaybenot]

I’ve finally accepted that I am 100% a night owl. I’m in a great mood late at night, I’m productive, I think clearly, and I genuinely love it.
Mornings, on the other hand… I hate them. My day doesn’t really start properly until midday.
I don’t currently need to work, so I can sleep in the mornings if I want to. It suits my body and I feel so much better like this.

But I still find that people make me feel guilty, lazy or “undisciplined” just because I don’t live on a 6am–10pm schedule.

Anyone else like this? Are you an early bird or a night owl? And do you get judged for it?

I wonder does the time you are born have any influence on whether you are an early bird , a night owl or something in between, which I am.

I was born at 7am and am a night owl.

Same, but my job unfortunately requires me to be in at 8:30.

Years ago, I had an office job with flexitime. The 'early birds' who came in at 7:30 and went home at 3:30 were very snotty about those of us who preferred 9:30 -5:30. They claimed they did sooo much more work in those early hours, thought us later birds were 'lazy' and said so. Drove me nuts.

I am, by nature, a night owl. However, my job does not accommodate this, so I have to switch when I'm on shift! On my days off, I sleep in, have a lazy morning and don't really do anything productive (like laundry or cooking or something) until the late afternoon/early evening.

When I'm on shift, I get a lot of, "WOW! How do you manage to get up so early and work at that time every day?" When I'm off, I have been called lazy and some people are suspicious because I don't tend to go out unless I have to (and usually, it's in the evenings when it's quiet out!).

People are judgemental, and anything that is "different" is treated with great suspicion. I do not recommend taking other people's judgements into account, as they usually make you feel bad! However, as I cannot yet afford to buy an uninhabited island, I am going to have to continue living alongside other people and their opinions for now...

I am a night owl and always have been. Go to sleep about 1am ,wake up regularly during the night but then have my best sleep from about 6am to 10am .
Husband now sleeps in until about 930am since retiring.
Obv very different schedule when children were younger!

Night owl, have been all my life. I generally to bed some time between midnight and 1.30am and I'm rarely asleep before 2am.

I work from home most of the week and under our flexible working policy I usually start work around 10am which my boss is fine with; she's well aware that I work better later in the day. I get up between 9 and 9.30ish during the week, although I tend to be dozing in bed half-listening to the radio from around 8am onwards. At weekends, I'd typically get out of bed between 10am and 11.30am.

I've been like this since I was a child. Whenever people say things like 'Well, of course we never get a lie-in because we've got small children' my mum's always baffled that people just assume that's standard, because as a mum of three, she was never woken up at the crack of dawn by any of us, ever, unless it was Christmas Day.

I go to bed about 4am and get up around noon.

Yes me. I love my bed.

Im a night owl I thrive off it, lucky to have a flexible work start these days with core hours in the late afternoon.
used to work fully night shift and would deal with so many comments about ooh nice for some sleeping in, lazy comments etc, I work the same hours as you just at a different time, this shouldn’t be a hard concept to grasp

Absolute, unapologetic night owl. Best part of the working day is when the larks are all finishing early and Teams green lights go off and you can actually get on with your work rather than be in calls. Usual bedtime is never before midnight. If I have to get up early for a work trip somewhere, I feel as though I have jetlag all day.

I used to be a night owl in my 20s and 30s, now very much an early bird. Its a combination of having a job which requires me sometimes to start very early and being a parent, which has reset my body clock.

I have always found it very hard to properly lie in in the morning: my brain kicks me awake.