What is it mean if I only get 30 hours of sleep during an entire week ? Is that a neurological thing or a psychological thing? Also how am I functioning almost properly? And should I go get help lol (Obviously both fields being connected but the difference being one has physical implications and the other is mental )
Hey Sir i just wanted an advice that for a student who is a night owl like me .... should i not wake up early and study? I am pursuing mbbs in india ....as you said in your clip the problems i face is generally of my tuitions and school times .... how should i cope up with this ?
Ive heard a fun fact that the carcadian rhythm of someone with QDHD is usually shifted later where they stay up late and sleep in, just wondering if its true because I personally experienced it lol
"Sorry the emergency room is closed because the doctors have to go to bed a 9am to maintain a healthy sleep schedule, good luck with your burst appendix." Alternative version for Canadians: "Sorry the emergency room is closed because the doctors have to go to bed a 9am to maintain a healthy sleep schedule, good luck with your burst appendix. Would you like to fill out a forum for euthanasia?"
I work from 10 pm to 6 am and go to sleep at noon and my family cannot comprehend why I don’t stay up during the day like who do you think prepared the morning people for a successful day?!? Overnighters 😂
they thought that you woke up at 1pm and sleep like a normie at 10pm. when in reality a lot of night owl for example wake up at 1pm and sleep at 5am their waking hours is the same, only inverted, in fact they're more productive because there are no disturbance or noise
Me too! I would get off at 6 AM drive home do my regular work like laundry and cleaning house and cooking for the next day and eating dinner before going to bed at nine or 10 AM so I could wake up at 4:30 in the afternoon so I could be at work by 6 PM… And yes they called me lazy even though I was usually getting only 5 to 6 hours sleep
@@maeannengo4908 yes I think they do. When I was bartending I would close the bar clean it up a little bit so I could leave at 4:30 and be home at five, I would eat something if they left me anything… Clean the house because they certainly left it dirty for me and then I would get to bed about eight and my husband wanted me up at 9:30 because I was sleeping all day
I'm stuck here wondering... What if you go to sleep around 10 usually but then want to also wake up at 9 or 10? I feel awful because this is how it's been for me lately. I think it has to do with depression a little, though.. because before I was more of a "night owl", going to sleep like he said around 12 or 1, getting up around 5 or 6.. then it changed to going to bed earlier, like 10 or even 9 and getting up at 5 or 6... But now.. now I just wanna sleep, even last the time I probably should be.
@@mupetmower7807figure out which of those you like more (staying up/sleeping in or early sleep/early rise) or which of them may be necessary for your schedule. Then make yourself stick to that plan as best you can! You’re right: over sleeping is linked with depression. It’s kind of a chicken or egg question; we still don’t know if it causes depression or is a symptom or both. Either way tho, it’s good that you’ve recognized this as a potential issue. Your health is important and life isn’t as fulfilling when you’re suffering from depression/anxiety. Idk what your experience is exactly but along with attempting to fix your sleep schedule, try to exercise every day, even if it’s only a 10 minute walk around the block. Try to take some deep breaths and count to 10 when you’re feeling overwhelmed. Eat the best foods available to you, after all you are what you eat! All of these are the foundations of a healthy life and most often are the keys to healing. Doctor talk aside, I’ve been down that road and it sucks. I wouldn’t want anyone else in the world to experience depression if I could control it. I believe you can and will get past this. Good luck random internet stranger (:
I believe early risers think that us night owls stop being productive when they do but fail to realize that I have no issues washing dishes and lau dry at midnight.
Yes, and there’s even a little more than that: different age groups get sleepy at different times, with the very youngest and oldest going to sleep and waking up early, while young adults go to sleep and wake up later. For our stone age ancestors there would always be somebody awake at any time of night who could keep watch.
@@lb10003never thought about that, when I was younger I used to be very active in the morning. Now I feel I'm more focused and productive at night, and have trouble sleeping before 1am
@@jacksonsilva4409same. When I was a child I was the first to wake up. When the sun went done I was sleepy, when the first sunshine hit I was wide awake. Now I'm 20ish and it's completely reversed. I'm productive and active until 1-2am, nowhere am I tired, and I sleep until 9-10
I can say the exact same thing about the mornings. I've been waking up between 4-5 every morning for almost a year now. Comparative to how I use to wake up later in the day, I now go to sleep much earlier around 8-9. I can say from experience the mornings are much more quieter and peaceful in the mornings. I get way more things done, I'm not sitting at my PC for hours on end anymore. I've never been happier
I agree with you. Once I get everyone else in bed, the kitchen cleaned, the house put back together and everyone's clothes laid out for school and work and any other thing that has to be done, it's already 11 pm or later. It takes me a while to wind down before I can even think about going to sleep. As an artist, I get more done during midnight and 3 am, than I ever did in the mornings. I also pray during this time, which is about the only time that I can get uninterrupted time for prayer, meditating of the Word and destressing.
Imagine if all those companies who complain about staffing shortages offered more flexible scheduling so that us late night owls had more work options...
For REAL!! My body likes going to bed at dawn, wake up at 12-2, and kicking ass between 4pm-11pm. Why can't I find a job that lets me do that?? (Unions. The answer is Unions, who brag about "creating the 8-hour/5day work week". The other half is oppression)
So true. There really needs to be more night shift jobs for people as such, but also things that stay open later. In my country most stores, especially things like banks, close at 5pm.
Everything's as it should be. It's a shame our brightest minds still have to go through manual labor, but that is occasional and simply inconvenient, not world-ending. All the more reason to keep up the progress.
Or people like me who only sleeps 3 hours per night, and can still function in society. When I'm using my vacation days, however I'm the laziest person alive. But since I don't really need much sleep to work, I'm not like the regular night owls, and I only naturally get tired after 48 hours of wakefulness or more.
@@bluebird1914which is honestly just as annoying for people working a 9-5 too, bc if you’re at work during their only open hours, when are you supposed to get stuff done?? Had to apply for a passport in college, and I’m lucky that I had 3 hours to spare in the middle of a weekday afternoon to stand in line for it. Somebody who works full time would never be able to do that
Pisses me off so bad. I want to fix my sleep schedule so bad but no matter how shitty I feel due to forcing myself to get up after barely any sleep, I can’t fall asleep at night. I could’ve fallen asleep at 4 pm, but 8? Hell no. Gotta be 5 am again instead
Dude 100%, like as soon as it's 10pm, if I try and go bed I get that half sleep bullshit where you wake up at 12:30am and you're mind is awake and buzzing
My husband is a night owl and he even successfully runs his own business according to his most productive time period, which is late afternoon onwards. His breakfast time is usually my lunch time and we love being able to share this meal together every day. Some people do ridicule him for perceived laziness (namely my own family), i just shut that crap down.
I have always loved night time because it's the one time when everything in the world shuts up. There's no traffic, no calls, no meetings, no one knocking on your door, nothing. Finally a peaceful time I can just simply exist without any overstimulation or social expectations weighing me down.
There's something special about nighttime too. It has a soft gentle feel to it that even a quiet morning doesn't have. Hard to describe but feels almost magical. Being alone, especially at night and I can feel my stress melting off.
Me going to sleep at 11 to wake up at 6 or 7 feeling like hammered shit. Me going to sleep at 3am to wake up at 10 feeling like a crisp morning in the spring.
too accurate bro for work i go to sleep at 11-12 and wake up at 8 and feel like i haven’t slept in days and on my days off 2-10 and i feel ready to seize the day
No, night shift doesn't get a bonus, lol, you'll be left alone with twice the responsibility and 10x the risk and we intend to blame you for everything we screwed up yesterday.
Yeahh... My mom called me a freak "when people's asleep, you're awake.. when others awake , you're asleep.. " i tried to be a morning person then she says"what drugs are you on waking up this time of time? "Btw , it's 8.30 .. smh
I’m personally a night owl because I feel like those moments in the night when everyone is asleep are my moments. It’s my time completely alone and I can just unwind and not worry about talking to anyone. During the day I’m moving around and talking to people constantly. But during night, there’s nothing to do but let my mind relax, all the stresses of the day are gone for those few hours.
Yes! It's so heavenly quiet when all of your neighbourhood has gone to bed! Sadly where I live I can still hear some traffic from a highway and there are planes flying above...
"the night is the best time cuz you got no responsibilities for anything and dont have to talk to anyone, i can just stare at a wall for hours with no consequences"
@@Killbayne Facts dude! And you just zone out with some music and no one to bother you. Not that people are bothersome, but it feels good to just not have to worry about anyone interrupting your time.
I have felt like a vampire more than once for going to bed as the sun rises and not really being active until the sun goes down. I worked lost of late shifts....i have seen some awesome sun rises so there is that.....being out and about when most people are sleeping is freeing....would be no traffic, the city like a ghost town...
There’s places that are actually open but not exactly the safest or most elite places to be, night life is a whole different world than what’s happening in the daytime, especially if you have habits to support
As a night owl I can say we’ve been discriminated against for centuries. It’s time for us to rise as a marginalized group and demand justice for our kind.
I think if night owls behaved like daywalkers do during the night, their attitude might turn around real fast. Play the tv at max volume, run the lawnmower, talk loudly on the phone. Then wake them up at 1 am and tell them they're being lazy
@@Romanticoutlaw I do the last one to my family members all the time. I had to deal with being called lazy for years, when I do MORE housework. So. Whenever I see anyone sitting around or getting ready for bed at 10pm, I just call them lazy for sleeping so early when there's things to be done. Flip the script.
Thank you SO MUCH for this. I'm 47 years old and a lifelong night owl, and I've always had people treat me like I'm less of a human being because of it! Knowing that it is literally encoded in my genetics makes me feel so much better! Plus, now I finally have a response to all the people who want to talk down to me about it. "I recently learned that the inclination to sleep during the day rather than at night is a genetic trait, so I can honestly blame my DNA for my unusual sleep schedule. Sadly, being a jerk isn't genetic, so you'll have to find a different excuse."
@@Eleidig007you can learn it. I'm also a night owl, and when I have responsibilities early in the morning regularly I get in a routine of waking up for them, but it feels incredibly unnatural. If I get 2 days off, I'm already back to the night owl sleep schedule, and get way better sleeps.
@Lizzykat007 you can force your body to have that sleep schedule, yes, but your overall quality of sleep decreases and actually makes you less productive in the long run as you are not properly rested than if you were to follow your body's natural clock. It's best to listen to your body when it's telling you what it needs, it tells you you're thirty you will get a drink, if it tells you its hungry you get a snack, sleeping and resting should be the same as well. I'm a natural night owl and so are my parents, I've forced myself to have a early sleep schedule and overall it lowered my attention span, lowered my patience and it lowered my mood, I was constantly tired and moody despite getting the recommended 8 hours of sleep.
I’ve always naturally been a 5am-2pm sleeper. Whenever I have to reset my sleeping to a “normal” sleep/wake time I struggle with it so much and no matter how hard I try I always slide back into that schedule. It made school growing up a nightmare.
@@gwynrose2427 It's both. Yes society is largely structured around early birds at the expense of those who aren't, but there are genuine sleep disorders that can fuck with someone's circadian rhythm, like delayed sleep phase disorder. Generally, our circadian rhythms are designed to align with the day-night cycle, so when someone sleeps extremely late regularly, it's more likely to be a disorder. Ofc it's not always that simple, some people genuinely can just be night owls and it not be an issue, and I remember reading about how in the past, lots of people did polyphasic sleep where they would sleep twice in the day instead of once.
Same, in school i was like a zombie and when it was finally my active time i needed to go to sleep (to wake up early for school) but i couldn't, so i didn't have enough sleep and things done. Now i have insomnia and i sleep only thanks to meds
Fun fact: Teenagers are literally hardwired to be night owls. That’s why a lot of teachers, schools, parents, and students are pushing for school start times to be pushed later on in the morning.
@@eleruces7722Almost all teens experience a sleep phase delay from 13 - 20 where their circadian rhythm is puched back by 2 hours going into puberty and then reverts later on.
I feel this in my soul. I never feel more exhausted than when I'm forced to go to bed and wake up early. I might lay down at 9/10pm but my brain will absolutely be too busy to sleep until at least 1am.
The times I've managed to fall asleep earlier, I'll awaken 2-3 hours later and then be unable to go back to sleep. Better for me to wait till later as I end up with more hours sleep that way.
Try getting to bed at 8pm,log out of your phone and eletronical devices and read a book insted. That usually happens because your body need from 2 to 4 hours before sleeping to normalize your sleep patern
Oh my gosh, this makes me feel better. All my life, people got up on me being a night owl. I've always love night time. It's quiet, relaxing, and nobody bothering you.
im literally wired wrong i go to bed at 5 pm to 9 pm and i will wake up around 1 to 4 am i don't stay asleep im not wired for it and even when my doctor said that's how it is some people i know still annoyed me about it. even when i listed the points you said quiet peaceful and no one annoys you so why do i need to change my sleep to fit someone else's normal
@paulbunyan6024you didnt even watch the video yet you went into the comments to complain about night owls. This says more about you than it does about the commentor
@@dejanbeep6293Bro what You can still change your sleeping pattern even if you naturally feel more tired at night If you consistently go to sleep at earlier hours you will eventually be more natural at sleeping at those hours stop lying to get away with bad habits
I feel best when I fall asleep sometime between 2 and 3 am and wake naturally around 11. But it’s not just the sleeping part that’s different - my most productive hours are between roughly 8pm and midnight. That’s when I have the most energy and focus.
Thank you for explaining this. My wife is the most industrious person I know and she literally cannot fall asleep before 1 AM most nights. She also had a traumatic brain injury that requires LOTS of sleep. To call her lazy would be an injustice.
I'm a person with 2 full-time jobs. Even when I've been working from 11 am (but in fact I get up and start work at 8, I have a lot of preparing to do as a teacher and I can't leave it all to the weekend) and until 10 pm with barely any breaks, most of which are spent organising stuff for the following classes, and come back home at 11 pm absolutely shredded to pieces, with 8-10k steps done, I still can't fall asleep before 1-2 am...even knowing that the next day I have to get up at 6 am Society really needs to stop calling night owls lazy
Finally someone spoke for people like me who can concentrate while studying or working at night. Also it is very quiet at night and the cool breeze makes it even more comfortable to work at night
As a night owl with ADHD, I hear that I'm lazy terribly often. I CAN be lazy, but my body clock and my level of motivation/reward often work against me in terms of "normal living". It feels nice to be validated.
It's usually cooler, quieter, and less stressful at night too. My body hurts less. I have fewer headaches. My eyes are real sensitive to the sun and I just "do" better at night.
I'm 34. My sleeping pattern hasn't changed since I was 14. I work 9-5, but when the weekend hits, I'm straight into my 3am-1pm sleep regime that just feels like my natural order
I'm 35 years old with two children and also attend college in the Fall and Spring. I get up between 5 and 6 am Monday thru Friday, but on the weekends I will happily stay up until 3 am and sleep past noon! My kids are old enough and my husband is home on the weekends, so they are safe. My husband used to get really upset with me for showing in so late until i pointed out that while he gets up very early, he takes 2-3 hour naps in the middle of the day. I just add those hours to sleep lol. I've been sleeping in on the weekends (when i can) since I was a child...so yea, we are just biologically regulated :) . It's frustrating when others don't understand and judge us, though.
I'm the same as you! Same age and same optimal sleeping pattern being ~3am to ~1pm. The thing is I *wish* I could adjust better to a more early bird sleeping pattern and stay in it, so that I could avoid the clash and being exhausted on the days I do have to get up early. I'd like to be able to spend time with people easier and to go to places and get things done... On a day off, by the time I get ready and go somewhere, a lot of things close by the time I get there and it gets dark. I wanna see places in the daylight. I wanna do my art at the weekend in the daylight... ...But my body's biology seems to dictate otherwise! 😔 I'd also like to have pets and kids soon and again, will have to always push against my own biology and deal with exhaustion for years to look after them adequately... 😩
This makes me feel a lot better because everyone always tells me “you can set u sleep schedule to a proper sleep schedule, u choose not to” and in my head I always found it frustrating because no matter how early I went to bed I would either toss and turn until 3 am or I would just sleep in till 12pm. I’ve never been able to comfortable be up the same time the sun is getting up.
Early mornings work too. I jog early mornings, sometimes at dawn and it is peaceful too. You also get early morning sun which is very important. Also, people who are night owls suffer from more depression than those who naturally get up early in the morning. So, make sure you’re careful with regards to your mental health.
I just had this "conversation" with a neighbor yesterday. My neighborhood is having a BBQ on Sunday. It's going to be at this one neighbor's house. I asked her what time it would start, and she said "late". I asked her what she considers "late". She said 2pm. I said I was glad I asked because I don't consider 2pm as late....to me, late is more like 7-8pm. She said "most people are in bed by that time". When I said I'm a Night Owl and I don't go to bed until midnight-2am, she said I was just lazy and made a few other insulting remarks. I don't fault her for being an Early Bird, but ya know....if she's not going to reciprocate respect for individual differences....she can just take a hike on that trail of negativity all by herself.
She might not really realize the actual reasons for night owls. Did you try to explain the science behind it to her? I know id personally forget important details regarding the science tbh, so perhaps you could send this to her? Idk. Still, she should have acted respectfully even if her thoughts weren't respectful...
How on Earth dies she think most people are in bed by 8 pm? 😂😂 9-11 is the typical window for adults I think. My 6 year old's bedtime isn't until 8:30.
When I fall asleep before midnight. I will wake up a few hours later fully energized, my body just considers it a nap. Every single time. The only exception is when I am sick.
Our crew did gab a bit. But we were our own creatures and it was hard, Jarring readjusting to talking with "daywalkers." Apparently the humor was too crass and offending 😂
My dad and I are both night owls. We are most productive between ~ 9pm to 5am. But then we sleep until noon-ish. We are not lazy. My house is always spotless, my dog gets long walks every day and I always have some project I'm working on. My dad is the hardest working person I know and works well over 40 hours a week. When I try to force myself to go to bed earlier and get up early (which I am constantly trying to do because of societal pressure) I am exhausted all the time and can't get nearly as much stuff done. I wish there wasn't so much stigma around different sleeping patterns.
On my shifts when I need to work from 10 to 5 I always feel like shit after work, first thing I do when I get home is fall on the couch and have an hour and a half nap, after that it's 6:30 to 7 and I feel ready to take the day on, but it's already pretty much over!
I've been a night owl since I was very young. I went through my entire grade middle and high school going to sleep around 3am and waking up at 7am. Thankfully had more autonomy to choose times in college and for a wonder, turns out I'm a genius when rested. 😂 I'm being emphatic but now I work from home and it's not at all unusual for me to log on at 1am the night before and do most of my work for the next day in a 3 hours, which would have taken me 6 or 7 if I woke up and tried to do it 9 to 5.
The chill of the night and lack of light is amazing for me. It's cold but not freezing, and I feel safe when it's dark, it feels like I'm getting a hug
My man, you just explained why i love the night As a night owl myself...i go to sleep at 2 am. But my parents are scumbags and they want me asleep at 1, even though i cant The pohne keeps me awake
societal pressure, in my opinion, also comes with these weird standards for nightshift workers. "tidy everything up for a fresh start in the morning", "you woke up later, you can do more" and my favourite "oh you go to work so late, you can do so much before you go to work then!". it's always expected of everybody to wake up early despite working a graveyard shift, and there's so many exhausting tasks that pile up during the day that you have to take care of later as well. I love being a night owl, it feels good and right, but it's just way too exhausting to ablige to these extra standards. so the only option left is to force yourself to wake up early, which just leaves you tired and washy all day: hence the lazy no-good stereotype
ah yes the "tidy everything up for the morning shift" while having to also clean up after them before you get work as if it was your job to do so as a night shifter. the arrogance of the day people knows no limit.
I'm a night owl in a family of early risers. Even working 2 jobs, I'm seen as lazy for sleeping until noon. But God forbid they don't get their full 8 hours of sleep or they get woken up early. And they can NEVER understand why I'm not on 1st shift hours on my days off- like I'm honestly going to nuke my sleep schedule to go to whatever event you scheduled at 9 AM. The disconnect never ceases to amaze me.
It doesn't occur to your family that someone working 2 jobs is anything BUT lazy!? Feel really bad for you that they lack any empathy or understanding.
Majority of people are not night owls though. Also, it is hard to tell whether a person is actually a night owl or is actually using it as an excuse when they have a bad sleeping schedule and are engaging in stimulating activities such as addiction with phones/laptops.
Even if Im tired... once it is 11pm everyone is asleep, everything is quiet I am at peace I feel like enjoying my peace and sleepiness goes away for a while
"I'll schedule the meeting for 8am." "Okay, Karen, since we're competing to see how abusive we can be to other chronotypes, I'll schedule my meeting for 6pm."
I love the night owls because they keep an eye on things while early birds sleep, and early birds can watch over night owls while they get their zzz’s. Working together ❤
Ya know, this has always been the main rational that I give when people complain about me being up all night. But NOBODY seems to be able to understand the value of having someone up and aware of things at night. They'd much rather criticize me for being up all night and then get robbed and complain about it.
@@audiophile75Yeahh I get you man I managed to stop two pretty much catastrophic disasters, and only would’ve done so if my sleep was as messed up as it was.. It sounds like well timed conveniences but then again, having one person awake at all times does mean that there’s someone to handle issues too, yk?
Same. If I try to go to sleep early in waking up at like 4am and then I'm wide awake until like 9am and then I'm really really tired and I sleep all day. So just let me have my late night routine 😂😂
Yeah I just got a job as a nightguard at this off-brand chuck e cheese place that has this bear as a mascot, all because I'm a night owl. I can't wait for my first night shift!
My brother is very smart and is a night owl. I love waking up early in the morning but I don't redeem information as well as he is. Drives me insane as I have the society look that I should 'be better' (how I was raised) even though I know it's wrong and everyone is different
was literally never happier or more productive than when i worked 6pm to 2am, would stay up until 4 or 5am, and then sleep until noon. i felt great pretty much all the time
I work night shift. My family doesnt understand then why im tired during the day on the weekends. Cause apparently im supposed to just flip a damn switch on my body when saturday hits.
My brother works night shift at the same factory where my husband works day shift. Organizing family get togethers is difficult, but we certainly understand why.
I guess they're assuming that you're going to grab of the biggest cup you have a handful 5-hour energy a couple Red bulls probably a few Rockstar energy drinks mix those all together and chug that down
As a night owl person, this makes me feel better. But, yes, in my younger years, I often got in trouble at my job because of sleeping thru my alarm and being late to work. That sucked.
i got in trouble with my parents a lot about me being a night owl. they would put me to bed at 8. i would still be awake around 10/11 when my parents go to bed
@@wilhu5903This was me. I'd go to bed with my sister at eight, then I lay there until after my parents went to bed. While staying with my Aunt, they had lights on the beds, and I learned to read at bedtime. I do this now, read in bed. One evening I started rearranging the bookcase, my sister was shocked because she wouldn't ever do that. When we traveled together on vacation, we had to compromise.
Kinda but tbh most people are babies and can’t stay up so i mostly just have friends who tolerate me being late to stuff and stay up later than they should at night with me
It’s also has a negative impact on your mental and psychical health. Something he completely omitted in this short. I hope he covers it in the full video.
Right! Everybody stops at "it's natural", but still no one has addressed how devastating it is to live in society that is designed by and for early birds, it's not just impractical but there's also this big stigma that you interiorize: "you are lazy".
Negative impacts that are down to, as he states in the short, the impact of society focussed around those who do not share the same sleeping pattern. No shit night owls wont be healthy if they are forced to not get as much sleep as they need to.
I am a night owl And a workaholic My parents, since they never enter my room, at one point told me that sleeping late is not productive. At one point I got tired and told them “me working from 1 pm to 2 am is not productive? What matters is the time I invest in work, not the schedule” And they stopped complaining about that to me. I literally have tried waking up earlier. All that happens is that I feel WAY more tired than if I sleep at 3 am and wake up at 10
I go to bed at 6am, wake up 2pm and if I especially feel like crap 4pm. I've just decided that I derive from the caveman that kept everyone alive at night.
My daughter has been a night owl since she was born. I remember waking her up on Christmas morning about 11am to open the presents so we could go to my parents for dinner. I always joked with her that she better get a job on the night shift, because that would be so much easier for her. When I worked overnights before she was born, my entire family was so supported of my schedule. I guess I was super lucky.
THIS! I’ve never had a healthier body clock than when I worked overnights. Everyone said I might like it at first but I would crash eventually - NEVER HAPPENED! I’d work 10pm to 6am everyday, go home and sleep and be up for 3pm and feel SO much better than any 9-5 shift I’d had.
I was emotionally and mentally abused by my family for being a night owl. Growing up I was called lazy and a lot of horrible things because of how my sleep schedule was naturally. Now as an adult I let myself sleep and wake more naturally, though my Diurnal SO gets annoyed, he's still supportive of me sleeping when I need to.
It's genuinely why I prefer night shifts. By mid afternoon I'm crying on the inside but at 1am at work I'm skipping down the corridors. And then going to sleep while the rest of the world is busy is such a lovely, melatonin inducing feeling.
its mid afternoon right now and im dead tired but 2 days ago i was doing full body workout for like an hour at 2am and felt the best i had the whole week
Oh yeah. I have never been more awake or productive at work as I was when I got back from lunch at 2am. I still work my ass off but I can’t move at the speed of Night Shift me lmao.
People on the other shifts used to call me lazy because they always came in in the morning, and my shift was usually moving slowly and grumbling about pain. Then, when they had to help cover a few shifts, they quickly realized everyone is tired cause we're working ourselves to the point of exhaustion since there's no customers to trip over.
I don’t even get that. Same problem because I work the night shift. Why would you not realize I’m doing the same work as you how are we lazy? Plus, who do you think makes the world go round at night when nobody wants to work those shifts but the night owls everyone makes fun of 😅
@@Ciera_Banks Also Don’t night owls at restaurants working the Night Shift make sure everything if prepared for the day shifts? Like ingredient preparation and wot not?
I feel sleepy at around 4am and, without an alarm, I wake up at 11am whether I go to sleep at 4am or 11pm. Getting up at 7am sucks no matter how long I've been sleeping.
No, that just leads to the same problems. People barely even get to choose where they live anyway. It is just impractical for everyone to be doing everything at the same times. Even diurnals experience the problems of a strictly diurnal society, such as crowded commuting and rush hours. If everyone is sharing something, then it is obvious that people need to take turns. Schedules should be spaced out so as to not perfectly syncronize with every other business.
I’ve been a nurse for more than 25 years and I’ve always preferred 7 PM to 7 AM shift. I have tried to work a regular 8 AM to 5 PM shift, mainly because people would insist that so many of my issues with Insomnia or other health conditions were related to my work schedule. It’s just never felt control for my body. I’m going to be starting a new position in a few weeks and it will be back on my 12 hour overnights and I’m excited. I realize now that all of those issues were not related to the shift. I chose to work the more where I was working. I fully realize working the graveyard shift or overnights is not possible physically for everyone. Perhaps that’s why I’ve found the flexibility of nursing to be such an attraction. After all, people are sick at 3 AM and on weekends and holidays. 🤷🏻♀️
So interesting. I’m definitely a night owl, I’ve always been told that “if you just start going to bed at a better time your body will get used that schedule” … but that is simply not the case. I’ve always tried so hard to realign or “fix” my sleep schedule. Sometimes I’ll manage to go to bed early and get up early for a few days, but I always end up drifting back into my night owl schedule. Also my brother and father have always been the same way, so that also makes sense if it’s genetic.
On the genetics part, my father and me (maybe my youngest sister but she's not old enough yet imo to clearly determine that) are all night owls while my mother and middle sister both like to go to sleep and wake up earlier
Same with myself, my dad, his dad, and I believe my great-grandfather too. In fact, it seems to be a pattern with the men in my family. I'm glad to be vindicated here and have it explained that it's simple genetics, not weird abnormalities. Luckily I've stayed at my job long enough to know my patterns well enough to work within those bounds and get my whole-day shifts done but you better bet that when my weekends roll around I'm likely not going to bed until 4AM or sometimes later. I just get more done that way, it's quieter, allowing me to focus on what I want to do.
@@HondaBetterwhat part of "it's biology" did you miss? Yes, we can force ourselves to wake up out of our natural circadian rhythm with alarm clocks and medications, but A. The quality of sleep isn't very good. And B. You're putting yourself into a sleep debt, which you can't actually recover from very well.
@@transsnackmaybe he missed the part where your "iTs BiOloGy" assertion is a matter of fact forgone conclusion. And I'm up at 3 writing this and have to go to work at 6:20.
This is exactly how I am. Ever since I was a little kid, I have always felt dead tired before 10 or 11 am (even if I got a full night's sleep before). If I wake up after 10 or 11, I feel very refreshed and energized (even if I got less sleep). Thank u for letting people know that it's normal, because nite owls go through a lot of shame (especially from their employers that force them to get up at dawn lol)
THANK YOU!!!! Jesus god I wish everyone had this knowledge 😭I get so much sh*t from so many people about my sleeping schedule… it’s like, dude I’m up at 4am doing dishes and folding laundry, just because you’re sleeping then doesn’t mean I have to change for you….. some people like to come home from work and do chores! I do too, but I get off work around 11 o’clock at night! So… gaahhh it was even worse when I had thyroid cancer and didn’t know yet; I would sleep like 18 hours and still be tired, all my friends and family were pissed at me because I was just sleeping all the time. I literally had my 2 best friends fighting with me, one had screamed at me a couple times before:/ once I found out it was because I basically had no functioning thyroid anymore everything made sense, I even got a couple apologies! Well crap, I didn’t intend for this to be so long, sorry for the ramble 😅
This has just proved my point that there need to be jobs you can go to at night, not like night shifts but like actual stores and stuff that are only open at night
There's a small town I work in sometimes that's kind of like this. It's basically a factory town and there are cafes and a few other places that open after midnight for the people coming off night shift.
And schools, watching this makes me think about how parents battle with their children to get them on a morning schedule, possibly denying their natural systems and ruining their sleep patterns for the rest of their lives, because they have to so they can go to school.
@@InuInugami yuuuuppp we need night schools too i might write a book about a society where theres normal day people and then also a second night society thats onlt awake at night and they have their own stores and politics and everythin
Thank you. Ive tried my best to get on the normal cycle but all i did was just wear myself down because while i did force myself to wake up early i was still going to sleep well after midnight. I really wish I could stop but at 63 yo it seems impossible. Im now retired and at 10:30 pm I'm wide awake but I know i will sleep soundly until at least 9:00 am and feel refreshed despite falling asleep after 2:00am.
I'm an artist. My awake hours are 3pm-4am. Making that change from the diurnal schedule school forced me into was such a relief. It even made my depression easier to manage and my T1D.
Night time is the most peaceful time of the day, after 10pm onwards I feel more creative, I can write better, think more clearly and just feel really good between around 10pm - 3pm.
Yeah, I was painting my walls at 1 AM once a couple years ago and I suddenly stopped dead and thought "wow its a really good thing I don't live with anyone." Bc I'll also decide to vacuum in the middle of the night, as well.
The reason for that is that when we were cavemen, we needed watchmen at night to guard the settlement or group of people. Thus naturally there are some people who are geared towards working in night
I’m getting a feeling that the majority of people calling themselves night owls are actually people who have an irregular sleep schedule and are staying on their phone too much
THANK YOU! My husband told me I was lazy, but never had a problem with the shift differential I brought home for working the night shift. I was born for night shift. duh.
@@jadecoolness101 true. I believe I read that it is theorized that during early cavemen days, the adults in the tribe/village would go to sleep earlier compared to teenagers, so that teens had some opportunity to be independent and hang out with other teens, make friends, bonding, etc. And of course, evolutionarily you don't want your entire tribe/village to be vulnerable, so some population of the tribe would protect and watch over them while they slept, including teens. But yeah, I guess in the modern world we now have artificial lights and don't have to worry about animals attacking us in the wild. Really is a shame how the night owls were protecting the tribe back in the day, but in the modern world they are treated very poorly and ridiculed
As soon as 10pm hits it's like I just had a coffee, I suddenly have so much energy and want to do everything. Trouble is I have work in the morning so I need to start winding down. Bummer 😔
Yes!! In the mornings I feel so terrible, as if like I did the hardest labor and have no motivation to do anything. Energy comes to me around 11am and it helps me be productive, like finishing my art and other projects!
I feel vindicated. Mom always was trying to get me to change my schedule when I was younger, telling me that if I just went to sleep earlier I'd get used to it. A decade later, I'm doing the same thing as I was when I lived with her. It's also nice to have someone watching the house when everyone else is asleep and it's dark enough for bad things to sneak around. I react to any noise I hear, and then the other folks in the house are up and about when I'm asleep. When I was living with my parents, we fostered kittens who require lots of care throughout the night that I was able to provide. It turned out to be a win-win situation and still is for myself and my roommate, though we're both more toward that night owl type. It makes sense that I'm a night owl. My dad and my grandfather before me and my grandfather on my Mom's side are night owls as well. If I remember hearing correctly, so was my great-grandfather on my dad's side. I'm pretty sure it's a thing with the men in my family. We also live in a desert, meaning we're most active when it's cool outside, aka at night. I love having my window open to let in fresh air, but if it's 100+ degrees outside that doesn't work. It's generally quieter at night, so I get more done without distractions. It just works out, and I don't think I'm ever going to change. I don't have sleeping problems, I just have a different pattern!
THANK YOU. So many people in my family are night owls and it's very frustrating when other people act like it's a choice. I literally DON'T FEEL TIRED until like 1:30 or 2am. I'd love it if I could shift my bio clock but at this point in my life I'm just going with it. It works for me and I have a job that makes it doable so I'm over trying to conform. When I've done that I've been tired and miserable. Now? I feel normal.
What's worse is intentionally ignorant neighbors who KNOW you work nights. Then complain how you should be up with them at the crash of 4am. "Lady, if come in from WORK at 3am and eat dinner. I have to sleep sometime."
What's wild is that people who think night owls are lazy will do so regardless of the reason they go to sleep later. I work night shifts and I still have people who think I'm lazy for sleeping during the day. Imagine if I started calling them lazy bc they can't stay awake for 24h (which I've done many times before)
@@bustergundo516 I think at this point I'm just gonna start calling these people lazy bc they go to sleep at night. Wdym you have to sleep at night lol. Ridiculous
Go watch the full episode here:
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So then why is there an entire generation of night owls?
What is it mean if I only get 30 hours of sleep during an entire week ?
Is that a neurological thing or a psychological thing? Also how am I functioning almost properly? And should I go get help lol (Obviously both fields being connected but the difference being one has physical implications and the other is mental )
Hey Sir i just wanted an advice that for a student who is a night owl like me .... should i not wake up early and study? I am pursuing mbbs in india ....as you said in your clip the problems i face is generally of my tuitions and school times .... how should i cope up with this ?
Ive heard a fun fact that the carcadian rhythm of someone with QDHD is usually shifted later where they stay up late and sleep in, just wondering if its true because I personally experienced it lol
"Sorry the emergency room is closed because the doctors have to go to bed a 9am to maintain a healthy sleep schedule, good luck with your burst appendix."
Alternative version for Canadians:
"Sorry the emergency room is closed because the doctors have to go to bed a 9am to maintain a healthy sleep schedule, good luck with your burst appendix. Would you like to fill out a forum for euthanasia?"
I literally used to work long night shifts and people would call me lazy for waking up in the afternoon. You just can’t win 😂
I work from 10 pm to 6 am and go to sleep at noon and my family cannot comprehend why I don’t stay up during the day like who do you think prepared the morning people for a successful day?!? Overnighters 😂
@@phoebethesapphic7289Does your family just expect you to be awake 24 hours? lol
they thought that you woke up at 1pm and sleep like a normie at 10pm.
when in reality a lot of night owl for example
wake up at 1pm and sleep at 5am
their waking hours is the same, only inverted, in fact they're more productive because there are no disturbance or noise
Me too! I would get off at 6 AM drive home do my regular work like laundry and cleaning house and cooking for the next day and eating dinner before going to bed at nine or 10 AM so I could wake up at 4:30 in the afternoon so I could be at work by 6 PM… And yes they called me lazy even though I was usually getting only 5 to 6 hours sleep
@@maeannengo4908 yes I think they do. When I was bartending I would close the bar clean it up a little bit so I could leave at 4:30 and be home at five, I would eat something if they left me anything… Clean the house because they certainly left it dirty for me and then I would get to bed about eight and my husband wanted me up at 9:30 because I was sleeping all day
At night you don't have to deal with other humans. Its truly wonderful
What a sad existence you have.
I'm stuck here wondering... What if you go to sleep around 10 usually but then want to also wake up at 9 or 10? I feel awful because this is how it's been for me lately. I think it has to do with depression a little, though.. because before I was more of a "night owl", going to sleep like he said around 12 or 1, getting up around 5 or 6.. then it changed to going to bed earlier, like 10 or even 9 and getting up at 5 or 6... But now.. now I just wanna sleep, even last the time I probably should be.
Exactly
@@mupetmower7807figure out which of those you like more (staying up/sleeping in or early sleep/early rise) or which of them may be necessary for your schedule. Then make yourself stick to that plan as best you can!
You’re right: over sleeping is linked with depression. It’s kind of a chicken or egg question; we still don’t know if it causes depression or is a symptom or both. Either way tho, it’s good that you’ve recognized this as a potential issue. Your health is important and life isn’t as fulfilling when you’re suffering from depression/anxiety.
Idk what your experience is exactly but along with attempting to fix your sleep schedule, try to exercise every day, even if it’s only a 10 minute walk around the block. Try to take some deep breaths and count to 10 when you’re feeling overwhelmed. Eat the best foods available to you, after all you are what you eat! All of these are the foundations of a healthy life and most often are the keys to healing.
Doctor talk aside, I’ve been down that road and it sucks. I wouldn’t want anyone else in the world to experience depression if I could control it. I believe you can and will get past this. Good luck random internet stranger (:
This is why I hate that there aren't many 24 hour stores anymore. It changed around here during covid. They haven't changed back 😭
I believe early risers think that us night owls stop being productive when they do but fail to realize that I have no issues washing dishes and lau dry at midnight.
@ff2154 🤨 How loud are _your_ faucets? 🚱
@ff2154How thin are your wash for dishwashing and laundry to be an issue 😭
@@antiromantic986lau dry*
Edit: oops
It's 11:30 PM right now and I'm about to do dishes and clean.
@ff2154 why give a fuck about people who don't give a fuck about you?
night owls really did evolve to be useful to the tribe by being able to naturally guard us at night and now we do them dirty with the 9-5
Yes, and there’s even a little more than that: different age groups get sleepy at different times, with the very youngest and oldest going to sleep and waking up early, while young adults go to sleep and wake up later. For our stone age ancestors there would always be somebody awake at any time of night who could keep watch.
@@lb10003never thought about that, when I was younger I used to be very active in the morning. Now I feel I'm more focused and productive at night, and have trouble sleeping before 1am
Until they find graveyard shift, and suddenly work feels very normal.
@@jacksonsilva4409same. When I was a child I was the first to wake up. When the sun went done I was sleepy, when the first sunshine hit I was wide awake. Now I'm 20ish and it's completely reversed. I'm productive and active until 1-2am, nowhere am I tired, and I sleep until 9-10
Night is also quiet, people aren't annoying you, it's a great time to be creative and get things done.
Exacty!!!
True, perfect opportunity for me to compose, so I do that fufjvvb
Not on my estate or up the west end for example, it is VERY noisy. Early mornings however, very quiet. I wake up at around 5am and it’s so quiet.
I can say the exact same thing about the mornings. I've been waking up between 4-5 every morning for almost a year now. Comparative to how I use to wake up later in the day, I now go to sleep much earlier around 8-9. I can say from experience the mornings are much more quieter and peaceful in the mornings. I get way more things done, I'm not sitting at my PC for hours on end anymore. I've never been happier
I agree with you. Once I get everyone else in bed, the kitchen cleaned, the house put back together and everyone's clothes laid out for school and work and any other thing that has to be done, it's already 11 pm or later. It takes me a while to wind down before I can even think about going to sleep. As an artist, I get more done during midnight and 3 am, than I ever did in the mornings. I also pray during this time, which is about the only time that I can get uninterrupted time for prayer, meditating of the Word and destressing.
Imagine if all those companies who complain about staffing shortages offered more flexible scheduling so that us late night owls had more work options...
more benefits and better working conditions are the real reason
For REAL!! My body likes going to bed at dawn, wake up at 12-2, and kicking ass between 4pm-11pm. Why can't I find a job that lets me do that?? (Unions. The answer is Unions, who brag about "creating the 8-hour/5day work week". The other half is oppression)
@@thatslegit Accommodating different circadian rhythms and sleep/wake cycles counts as imoroving working conditions too
@@DLlamaunions are basically dead in a lot of professions in America, you cannot blame this on unions
@@DLlamanice try, corpo shill.
Imagine how much more efficient we would be if we could properly employ night owls
So true. There really needs to be more night shift jobs for people as such, but also things that stay open later.
In my country most stores, especially things like banks, close at 5pm.
Everything's as it should be. It's a shame our brightest minds still have to go through manual labor, but that is occasional and simply inconvenient, not world-ending. All the more reason to keep up the progress.
I was even worse when I was working night shifts; not getting tired until 2 or 3am, up around noon, no motivation until 4 and have to be at work at 6.
Or people like me who only sleeps 3 hours per night, and can still function in society.
When I'm using my vacation days, however I'm the laziest person alive. But since I don't really need much sleep to work, I'm not like the regular night owls, and I only naturally get tired after 48 hours of wakefulness or more.
@@bluebird1914which is honestly just as annoying for people working a 9-5 too, bc if you’re at work during their only open hours, when are you supposed to get stuff done??
Had to apply for a passport in college, and I’m lucky that I had 3 hours to spare in the middle of a weekday afternoon to stand in line for it. Somebody who works full time would never be able to do that
It’s so weird cause I could be tired all day on 3 hrs of sleep, but as soon as it hits 10:00pm I immediately get like a boost of energy.
Pisses me off so bad. I want to fix my sleep schedule so bad but no matter how shitty I feel due to forcing myself to get up after barely any sleep, I can’t fall asleep at night. I could’ve fallen asleep at 4 pm, but 8? Hell no. Gotta be 5 am again instead
Same! I even did two days of work with no sleep. Tired at 5pm on the second day but when the clock ticks past 9, i am a new man..
Yup
Dude 100%, like as soon as it's 10pm, if I try and go bed I get that half sleep bullshit where you wake up at 12:30am and you're mind is awake and buzzing
Same
My husband is a night owl and he even successfully runs his own business according to his most productive time period, which is late afternoon onwards. His breakfast time is usually my lunch time and we love being able to share this meal together every day. Some people do ridicule him for perceived laziness (namely my own family), i just shut that crap down.
I wish more businesses had late hours because it's annoying when they close before I get back from work that I start at 7-8 in the morning
So what does he go to bed if he’s a night owl
What a sweet understanding person you are! I wish more day owls thought like you. ❤
The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese. I like cheese.
Me too!😂
Unfortunately second mouse and people who go to sleep late are less successful
@@SigmaBateman-cx1ojI'm not sure you fully sat with the analogy lol
@@SigmaBateman-cx1ojsource: i have no source, i made that shit up
@@SigmaBateman-cx1oj
"Source?"
"my SOURCE is I MADE IT THE FUCK UP!"
I have always loved night time because it's the one time when everything in the world shuts up. There's no traffic, no calls, no meetings, no one knocking on your door, nothing.
Finally a peaceful time I can just simply exist without any overstimulation or social expectations weighing me down.
There's something special about nighttime too. It has a soft gentle feel to it that even a quiet morning doesn't have. Hard to describe but feels almost magical. Being alone, especially at night and I can feel my stress melting off.
AMEN TO THAT. I FEEL YOU!! PEOPLE DRAIN MY ENERGY AFTER A COUPLE OF HOURS.
Totally agree 💯 because we’re awake late naturally we sleep later than most duh! We’re not lazy we’re tryna keep up with the 9-5 demands of society
Are you introverted as well? Or do you just live in a loud area.
Do these people not understand just how many people would die in horrific ways if some doctors weren't night owls?
Exactly I’m so fucking tired of being judged, life is short, let me live how I wanna live
Me going to sleep at 11 to wake up at 6 or 7 feeling like hammered shit.
Me going to sleep at 3am to wake up at 10 feeling like a crisp morning in the spring.
True
Facts
too accurate bro for work i go to sleep at 11-12 and wake up at 8 and feel like i haven’t slept in days and on my days off 2-10 and i feel ready to seize the day
So weird, sometimes getting only like 4 hours of sleep makes me wake up super refreshed while 8 hours makes me dead.
So fuking true
I'll be tired ALL day, but the moment the sun goes down, I'm WIDE awake and have to really force myself into sleep
Yesssssss! My God, isn’t this the damn truth 🙌🏽
wonder what you do for money, or you do graveyard shift?
@@tyroneloki5131 I work with Hospice, but not a graveyard shift.. I'll be tired all day until I get my second wind around 6pm lol
Same ill be struggling all day but once the sun starts to dim its like my brain finaly turns on
I'm sleepy all day and all night 😭
"Night owls are lazy... with that said, we want someone for the night shift."
"pay me more for my services"
@@bustergundo516Sorry, you're not working hard enough to qualify, but we can't put you anywhere else because we don't have anyone to replace you.
@@MrJJandJim I see. If we can't come to an agreement then I'll only do the bare minimum to do my job.
@@bustergundo516 but we need you to do X Y and Z!
No, night shift doesn't get a bonus, lol, you'll be left alone with twice the responsibility and 10x the risk and we intend to blame you for everything we screwed up yesterday.
There's something great about being up when no one else is. This goes for both mornings and nights.
No matter what my job does to me, I always come alive at night. I am activated by dusk.
“I am activated by dusk” Damn that’s a good line
Yeah I find the same thing in exhausted during the day but as soon as it gets dark I get tons of energy for a couple hours
I love winter because it's dark all the time and it makes me feel refreshed
Yeahh... My mom called me a freak "when people's asleep, you're awake.. when others awake , you're asleep.. " i tried to be a morning person then she says"what drugs are you on waking up this time of time? "Btw , it's 8.30 .. smh
Gyat dam vampire
I’m personally a night owl because I feel like those moments in the night when everyone is asleep are my moments. It’s my time completely alone and I can just unwind and not worry about talking to anyone. During the day I’m moving around and talking to people constantly. But during night, there’s nothing to do but let my mind relax, all the stresses of the day are gone for those few hours.
Yes! It's so heavenly quiet when all of your neighbourhood has gone to bed!
Sadly where I live I can still hear some traffic from a highway and there are planes flying above...
"the night is the best time cuz you got no responsibilities for anything and dont have to talk to anyone, i can just stare at a wall for hours with no consequences"
@@Killbayne Facts dude! And you just zone out with some music and no one to bother you. Not that people are bothersome, but it feels good to just not have to worry about anyone interrupting your time.
I have felt like a vampire more than once for going to bed as the sun rises and not really being active until the sun goes down. I worked lost of late shifts....i have seen some awesome sun rises so there is that.....being out and about when most people are sleeping is freeing....would be no traffic, the city like a ghost town...
Bro I’m almost completely nocturnal and I am incredibly productive. The problem is that nothing is open at 1:00am.
There’s places that are actually open but not exactly the safest or most elite places to be, night life is a whole different world than what’s happening in the daytime, especially if you have habits to support
ngl I wish i could do that but i have to do school
I have to wake up (about 6pm or so) and immediately leave the house to do my shopping...skip breakfast and everything
Thats why you gotta qake up at like 4, 5, or 6
Taco Bell is open lol
THANK YOU! People always think I sleep long but I simply sleep late!! It's not the same!
As a night owl I can say we’ve been discriminated against for centuries. It’s time for us to rise as a marginalized group and demand justice for our kind.
I think if night owls behaved like daywalkers do during the night, their attitude might turn around real fast. Play the tv at max volume, run the lawnmower, talk loudly on the phone. Then wake them up at 1 am and tell them they're being lazy
@@Romanticoutlaw I do the last one to my family members all the time. I had to deal with being called lazy for years, when I do MORE housework. So. Whenever I see anyone sitting around or getting ready for bed at 10pm, I just call them lazy for sleeping so early when there's things to be done.
Flip the script.
@@jadecoolness101not cool
@@themysteryoftheoldtown2063 boohoo, stop being lazy and sleeping so early lmao.
@@jadecoolness101 i actually am a night owl, i preffer sleeping later, i just think it's not funny and childish to do that.
Thank you SO MUCH for this. I'm 47 years old and a lifelong night owl, and I've always had people treat me like I'm less of a human being because of it! Knowing that it is literally encoded in my genetics makes me feel so much better! Plus, now I finally have a response to all the people who want to talk down to me about it. "I recently learned that the inclination to sleep during the day rather than at night is a genetic trait, so I can honestly blame my DNA for my unusual sleep schedule. Sadly, being a jerk isn't genetic, so you'll have to find a different excuse."
👏👏👏🤣🤣
I mean, you can program yourself to go to sleep earlier. And wake up earlier, it's all about what you want to do.😂
@@Eleidig007you can learn it. I'm also a night owl, and when I have responsibilities early in the morning regularly I get in a routine of waking up for them, but it feels incredibly unnatural.
If I get 2 days off, I'm already back to the night owl sleep schedule, and get way better sleeps.
@Lizzykat007 you can force your body to have that sleep schedule, yes, but your overall quality of sleep decreases and actually makes you less productive in the long run as you are not properly rested than if you were to follow your body's natural clock. It's best to listen to your body when it's telling you what it needs, it tells you you're thirty you will get a drink, if it tells you its hungry you get a snack, sleeping and resting should be the same as well. I'm a natural night owl and so are my parents, I've forced myself to have a early sleep schedule and overall it lowered my attention span, lowered my patience and it lowered my mood, I was constantly tired and moody despite getting the recommended 8 hours of sleep.
I'm a night owl too, and have faced immense criticism for it, but that last part is so corny and straight out of disney channel.. I'm sorry.
I’ve always naturally been a 5am-2pm sleeper. Whenever I have to reset my sleeping to a “normal” sleep/wake time I struggle with it so much and no matter how hard I try I always slide back into that schedule. It made school growing up a nightmare.
*facts that's why I own my own businesses I don't have to answer to nobody ever*
Same! Ive been told its a "circadian rhythm disorder" but like am i the disordered one or is it society??
@@gwynrose2427 It's both. Yes society is largely structured around early birds at the expense of those who aren't, but there are genuine sleep disorders that can fuck with someone's circadian rhythm, like delayed sleep phase disorder.
Generally, our circadian rhythms are designed to align with the day-night cycle, so when someone sleeps extremely late regularly, it's more likely to be a disorder.
Ofc it's not always that simple, some people genuinely can just be night owls and it not be an issue, and I remember reading about how in the past, lots of people did polyphasic sleep where they would sleep twice in the day instead of once.
Same here!
Same, in school i was like a zombie and when it was finally my active time i needed to go to sleep (to wake up early for school) but i couldn't, so i didn't have enough sleep and things done. Now i have insomnia and i sleep only thanks to meds
Fun fact: Teenagers are literally hardwired to be night owls. That’s why a lot of teachers, schools, parents, and students are pushing for school start times to be pushed later on in the morning.
Not all of them lol
@@eleruces7722Almost all teens experience a sleep phase delay from 13 - 20 where their circadian rhythm is puched back by 2 hours going into puberty and then reverts later on.
We're just night folk living in a morning folks world
Yes so true!!
I feel this in my soul. I never feel more exhausted than when I'm forced to go to bed and wake up early. I might lay down at 9/10pm but my brain will absolutely be too busy to sleep until at least 1am.
You and I are in the same boat @Catherine-ui5jy.
You wouldn't be exhausted if you actually slept at 10. To achieve that you need a very tricky combination of a very tired body and a mind at peace 🤣
The times I've managed to fall asleep earlier, I'll awaken 2-3 hours later and then be unable to go back to sleep. Better for me to wait till later as I end up with more hours sleep that way.
Its about be 1am and i have to wake up at 6:30am. My mind is restless and these YT shorts arent making it easy
Try getting to bed at 8pm,log out of your phone and eletronical devices and read a book insted. That usually happens because your body need from 2 to 4 hours before sleeping to normalize your sleep patern
Oh my gosh, this makes me feel better. All my life, people got up on me being a night owl. I've always love night time. It's quiet, relaxing, and nobody bothering you.
It's a good time isn't it, I feel more at peace at night, the "it's just me" feeling😊
Yea thats the best part
im literally wired wrong i go to bed at 5 pm to 9 pm and i will wake up around 1 to 4 am i don't stay asleep im not wired for it and even when my doctor said that's how it is some people i know still annoyed me about it. even when i listed the points you said quiet peaceful and no one annoys you so why do i need to change my sleep to fit someone else's normal
@paulbunyan6024you didnt even watch the video yet you went into the comments to complain about night owls. This says more about you than it does about the commentor
@@dejanbeep6293Bro what
You can still change your sleeping pattern even if you naturally feel more tired at night
If you consistently go to sleep at earlier hours you will eventually be more natural at sleeping at those hours
stop lying to get away with bad habits
I feel best when I fall asleep sometime between 2 and 3 am and wake naturally around 11. But it’s not just the sleeping part that’s different - my most productive hours are between roughly 8pm and midnight. That’s when I have the most energy and focus.
That’s also when I have the most energy, but I am forced to wake up at 7 AM for school
same here, that almost my exact peak hours lol. It sucks to feel exhausted everyday cause i have to get up so early
Thank you for explaining this. My wife is the most industrious person I know and she literally cannot fall asleep before 1 AM most nights. She also had a traumatic brain injury that requires LOTS of sleep. To call her lazy would be an injustice.
I'm a person with 2 full-time jobs. Even when I've been working from 11 am (but in fact I get up and start work at 8, I have a lot of preparing to do as a teacher and I can't leave it all to the weekend) and until 10 pm with barely any breaks, most of which are spent organising stuff for the following classes, and come back home at 11 pm absolutely shredded to pieces, with 8-10k steps done, I still can't fall asleep before 1-2 am...even knowing that the next day I have to get up at 6 am
Society really needs to stop calling night owls lazy
You are a wonderful spouse. My husband has also accepted my crazy lifestyle... no brain injury, but a broken circadian rhythm.
@@atriyakoller136you need to slow down for your sake
Finally someone spoke for people like me who can concentrate while studying or working at night. Also it is very quiet at night and the cool breeze makes it even more comfortable to work at night
Yess I love to work and study in the night. Less distractions also, no text messages or calls at 2 am
or you can shoot he night owls and you are forced to sleep no electricity no less
@@handlesrtwitterdontbelivethemaight buddy
As a night owl with ADHD, I hear that I'm lazy terribly often. I CAN be lazy, but my body clock and my level of motivation/reward often work against me in terms of "normal living". It feels nice to be validated.
EXACTLY, thank god I’m not the only one
@@gemjoltik3426 same here, i hate when people assume you're lazy for not being exactly like them 🙄
@@liv.s. it’s infuriating, I can do work twice as well as someone else, I just do it slower, and typically later in the day anyway.
That might not mean your a night owl but instead a procrastinator or someone who stays up late due to external stimulants such as technology addiction
@ecnalms851 even on occasion where I sleep at 8pm, I still can't wake up before 3pm the following day without help
It's usually cooler, quieter, and less stressful at night too. My body hurts less. I have fewer headaches. My eyes are real sensitive to the sun and I just "do" better at night.
I'm 34. My sleeping pattern hasn't changed since I was 14. I work 9-5, but when the weekend hits, I'm straight into my 3am-1pm sleep regime that just feels like my natural order
Same. Working 12hr shifts messed up my sleep schedule.
I'm 35 years old with two children and also attend college in the Fall and Spring. I get up between 5 and 6 am Monday thru Friday, but on the weekends I will happily stay up until 3 am and sleep past noon! My kids are old enough and my husband is home on the weekends, so they are safe. My husband used to get really upset with me for showing in so late until i pointed out that while he gets up very early, he takes 2-3 hour naps in the middle of the day. I just add those hours to sleep lol. I've been sleeping in on the weekends (when i can) since I was a child...so yea, we are just biologically regulated :) . It's frustrating when others don't understand and judge us, though.
I'm the same as you! Same age and same optimal sleeping pattern being ~3am to ~1pm.
The thing is I *wish* I could adjust better to a more early bird sleeping pattern and stay in it, so that I could avoid the clash and being exhausted on the days I do have to get up early. I'd like to be able to spend time with people easier and to go to places and get things done... On a day off, by the time I get ready and go somewhere, a lot of things close by the time I get there and it gets dark. I wanna see places in the daylight. I wanna do my art at the weekend in the daylight...
...But my body's biology seems to dictate otherwise! 😔
I'd also like to have pets and kids soon and again, will have to always push against my own biology and deal with exhaustion for years to look after them adequately... 😩
This makes me feel a lot better because everyone always tells me “you can set u sleep schedule to a proper sleep schedule, u choose not to” and in my head I always found it frustrating because no matter how early I went to bed I would either toss and turn until 3 am or I would just sleep in till 12pm. I’ve never been able to comfortable be up the same time the sun is getting up.
That's oversleeping.
I'm a night owl because everyone else is asleep and I can finally get some peace.
Real
YES. Omg, finally someone understands.
Early mornings work too. I jog early mornings, sometimes at dawn and it is peaceful too. You also get early morning sun which is very important. Also, people who are night owls suffer from more depression than those who naturally get up early in the morning. So, make sure you’re careful with regards to your mental health.
I just had this "conversation" with a neighbor yesterday. My neighborhood is having a BBQ on Sunday. It's going to be at this one neighbor's house. I asked her what time it would start, and she said "late". I asked her what she considers "late". She said 2pm. I said I was glad I asked because I don't consider 2pm as late....to me, late is more like 7-8pm. She said "most people are in bed by that time". When I said I'm a Night Owl and I don't go to bed until midnight-2am, she said I was just lazy and made a few other insulting remarks. I don't fault her for being an Early Bird, but ya know....if she's not going to reciprocate respect for individual differences....she can just take a hike on that trail of negativity all by herself.
She might not really realize the actual reasons for night owls. Did you try to explain the science behind it to her? I know id personally forget important details regarding the science tbh, so perhaps you could send this to her? Idk.
Still, she should have acted respectfully even if her thoughts weren't respectful...
Lmao if 2pm is late what the hell time would a bbq start for her normally?
You should call her lazy for going to sleep so early instead of doing something productive in the evening 🤷♀️
How on Earth dies she think most people are in bed by 8 pm? 😂😂 9-11 is the typical window for adults I think. My 6 year old's bedtime isn't until 8:30.
I'm sorry, "most people"? 😂 I feel like 10pm is the most common bedtime for adults
When I fall asleep before midnight. I will wake up a few hours later fully energized, my body just considers it a nap. Every single time. The only exception is when I am sick.
Night crew is 100% more laid back and they won't try to talk to bug you. Love night shift
Our crew did gab a bit. But we were our own creatures and it was hard, Jarring readjusting to talking with "daywalkers." Apparently the humor was too crass and offending 😂
Same
And you get paid more.
My dad and I are both night owls. We are most productive between ~ 9pm to 5am. But then we sleep until noon-ish. We are not lazy. My house is always spotless, my dog gets long walks every day and I always have some project I'm working on. My dad is the hardest working person I know and works well over 40 hours a week.
When I try to force myself to go to bed earlier and get up early (which I am constantly trying to do because of societal pressure) I am exhausted all the time and can't get nearly as much stuff done. I wish there wasn't so much stigma around different sleeping patterns.
I feel you man
On my shifts when I need to work from 10 to 5 I always feel like shit after work, first thing I do when I get home is fall on the couch and have an hour and a half nap, after that it's 6:30 to 7 and I feel ready to take the day on, but it's already pretty much over!
I've been a night owl since I was very young. I went through my entire grade middle and high school going to sleep around 3am and waking up at 7am. Thankfully had more autonomy to choose times in college and for a wonder, turns out I'm a genius when rested. 😂 I'm being emphatic but now I work from home and it's not at all unusual for me to log on at 1am the night before and do most of my work for the next day in a 3 hours, which would have taken me 6 or 7 if I woke up and tried to do it 9 to 5.
Yes, things really need to be changed.
School is frustrating, im always tired af in the morning
The chill of the night and lack of light is amazing for me. It's cold but not freezing, and I feel safe when it's dark, it feels like I'm getting a hug
I love you so nuch because you just explained the main reasons why I Love the Night so much.
My man, you just explained why i love the night
As a night owl myself...i go to sleep at 2 am. But my parents are scumbags and they want me asleep at 1, even though i cant
The pohne keeps me awake
It is the most peaceful time in the world, if I could I would get a job that went 4-12.
Hey... if you are getting a hug in the dark.... that doesnt seem good... at all.
@@nick33ee 😂😂😂 I'll take what I can get
Night is so peaceful, whether I’m sleeping or not. No one can bother me, everyone else around me is unconscious for 10 hours.
societal pressure, in my opinion, also comes with these weird standards for nightshift workers. "tidy everything up for a fresh start in the morning", "you woke up later, you can do more" and my favourite "oh you go to work so late, you can do so much before you go to work then!". it's always expected of everybody to wake up early despite working a graveyard shift, and there's so many exhausting tasks that pile up during the day that you have to take care of later as well. I love being a night owl, it feels good and right, but it's just way too exhausting to ablige to these extra standards. so the only option left is to force yourself to wake up early, which just leaves you tired and washy all day: hence the lazy no-good stereotype
ah yes the "tidy everything up for the morning shift" while having to also clean up after them before you get work as if it was your job to do so as a night shifter.
the arrogance of the day people knows no limit.
I'm a night owl in a family of early risers. Even working 2 jobs, I'm seen as lazy for sleeping until noon. But God forbid they don't get their full 8 hours of sleep or they get woken up early. And they can NEVER understand why I'm not on 1st shift hours on my days off- like I'm honestly going to nuke my sleep schedule to go to whatever event you scheduled at 9 AM.
The disconnect never ceases to amaze me.
It doesn't occur to your family that someone working 2 jobs is anything BUT lazy!? Feel really bad for you that they lack any empathy or understanding.
Imagine busting in there at 1AM and screaming "THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF 7AM FOR ME" or however the math works
@@madeliner1682people normally wake up at 7am? I thought it's normal to wake like 11am or latrt
@@hiddenguy67 only some people are wired to do that but they're the ones who decided what society runs by, apparently
@@madeliner1682 I hate that honestly I would go to school at like 12am that's way beyter
Society set the schedules for everything while we were sleeping, and it's not fair.
Still statement deserves more love!
We should coordinate and change everything back one night after they all go to bed
Majority of people are not night owls though. Also, it is hard to tell whether a person is actually a night owl or is actually using it as an excuse when they have a bad sleeping schedule and are engaging in stimulating activities such as addiction with phones/laptops.
Even if Im tired...
once it is 11pm
everyone is asleep, everything is quiet
I am at peace
I feel like enjoying my peace and sleepiness goes away for a while
Night owls are the people who prevent predators from sneaking up and EATING YOU IN YOUR SLEEP. Be glad to have them around.
Night is one of the chillest moments in the day
"I'll schedule the meeting for 8am."
"Okay, Karen, since we're competing to see how abusive we can be to other chronotypes, I'll schedule my meeting for 6pm."
9pm, take it or leave it.
Im glad a doctor once more explains how Im not crazy
I love the night owls because they keep an eye on things while early birds sleep, and early birds can watch over night owls while they get their zzz’s.
Working together ❤
Ya know, this has always been the main rational that I give when people complain about me being up all night. But NOBODY seems to be able to understand the value of having someone up and aware of things at night. They'd much rather criticize me for being up all night and then get robbed and complain about it.
@@audiophile75Yeahh I get you man
I managed to stop two pretty much catastrophic disasters, and only would’ve done so if my sleep was as messed up as it was.. It sounds like well timed conveniences but then again, having one person awake at all times does mean that there’s someone to handle issues too, yk?
This is the actual evolutionary reason gir this biological discrepancy - packs of humans run better when you have some people up to run shit at night
Ye
This is actually the evolutionary reason for night owls and early birds
Sad to see how it went down the drain :/
Ah yes... someone who understands my 4am to 1pm sleep schedule.
I can stay up till 4:00 AM and wake up a noon and be REALLY good
Same. If I try to go to sleep early in waking up at like 4am and then I'm wide awake until like 9am and then I'm really really tired and I sleep all day. So just let me have my late night routine 😂😂
Lmao I’m pacing rn at 4am and have my alarm set for 1, it’s nice to see someone of the similar situation
I wish I went to bed that early.
Exactly my sleep schedule. People think I'm weird
We gave the morning people too much power.
We need to rise up while they sleep
They set up the system before any of us were awake.
We were asleep when they seized power ofc they have too much of it
When i watch them sleep i often think how easy it would he to take back control.
This
Night owls are the descendants of the people that stood guard while the rest of the tribe slept.
Best part about being a night owl is that you’re a good night guard
Yeah I just got a job as a nightguard at this off-brand chuck e cheese place that has this bear as a mascot, all because I'm a night owl. I can't wait for my first night shift!
@@myguymonolo101Good luck man! Keep an eye on those animatronics; I hear they get pretty quirky at night.
@@myguymonolo101you might wanna check, if the building runs on two AAs.
That might actually be the reason some people are night owls. Our ancestors would be easy prey if we all had to sleep all night.
@@myguymonolo101i hope the power doesn’t drain
As a Night Owl. I can confirm I'm Not tired at all at night. I just can't sleep at night and My energy went 100% at night
My brother is very smart and is a night owl. I love waking up early in the morning but I don't redeem information as well as he is. Drives me insane as I have the society look that I should 'be better' (how I was raised) even though I know it's wrong and everyone is different
man watching this at 1:17 am really hits different
1:34 here
00:26 for me
0154 here
00:30 for me
1:37 here
was literally never happier or more productive than when i worked 6pm to 2am, would stay up until 4 or 5am, and then sleep until noon. i felt great pretty much all the time
I work night shift. My family doesnt understand then why im tired during the day on the weekends. Cause apparently im supposed to just flip a damn switch on my body when saturday hits.
My brother works night shift at the same factory where my husband works day shift. Organizing family get togethers is difficult, but we certainly understand why.
I guess they're assuming that you're going to grab of the biggest cup you have a handful 5-hour energy a couple Red bulls probably a few Rockstar energy drinks mix those all together and chug that down
As a night owl person, this makes me feel better. But, yes, in my younger years, I often got in trouble at my job because of sleeping thru my alarm and being late to work. That sucked.
i got in trouble with my parents a lot about me being a night owl. they would put me to bed at 8. i would still be awake around 10/11 when my parents go to bed
@@wilhu5903This was me. I'd go to bed with my sister at eight, then I lay there until after my parents went to bed. While staying with my Aunt, they had lights on the beds, and I learned to read at bedtime. I do this now, read in bed. One evening I started rearranging the bookcase, my sister was shocked because she wouldn't ever do that. When we traveled together on vacation, we had to compromise.
Indeed, also changes your social circles since people are expected to sleep when you could use time with them.
Kinda but tbh most people are babies and can’t stay up so i mostly just have friends who tolerate me being late to stuff and stay up later than they should at night with me
It’s also has a negative impact on your mental and psychical health. Something he completely omitted in this short. I hope he covers it in the full video.
what does
Right! Everybody stops at "it's natural", but still no one has addressed how devastating it is to live in society that is designed by and for early birds, it's not just impractical but there's also this big stigma that you interiorize: "you are lazy".
Negative impacts that are down to, as he states in the short, the impact of society focussed around those who do not share the same sleeping pattern. No shit night owls wont be healthy if they are forced to not get as much sleep as they need to.
I've always been more comfortable being up at night than during the day. It just feels better for me, and I'm more clear-headed, calmer, etc.
I am a night owl
And a workaholic
My parents, since they never enter my room, at one point told me that sleeping late is not productive.
At one point I got tired and told them “me working from 1 pm to 2 am is not productive? What matters is the time I invest in work, not the schedule”
And they stopped complaining about that to me.
I literally have tried waking up earlier. All that happens is that I feel WAY more tired than if I sleep at 3 am and wake up at 10
I go to bed at 6am, wake up 2pm and if I especially feel like crap 4pm.
I've just decided that I derive from the caveman that kept everyone alive at night.
Right? I always thought that would have been a job i could have done....staying awake watching for predators/invaders
My daughter has been a night owl since she was born. I remember waking her up on Christmas morning about 11am to open the presents so we could go to my parents for dinner. I always joked with her that she better get a job on the night shift, because that would be so much easier for her. When I worked overnights before she was born, my entire family was so supported of my schedule. I guess I was super lucky.
THIS! I’ve never had a healthier body clock than when I worked overnights. Everyone said I might like it at first but I would crash eventually - NEVER HAPPENED! I’d work 10pm to 6am everyday, go home and sleep and be up for 3pm and feel SO much better than any 9-5 shift I’d had.
I was emotionally and mentally abused by my family for being a night owl. Growing up I was called lazy and a lot of horrible things because of how my sleep schedule was naturally. Now as an adult I let myself sleep and wake more naturally, though my Diurnal SO gets annoyed, he's still supportive of me sleeping when I need to.
Sorry to hear you weren't treated well over this, I can relate
I'm sure your family cared about you.
@@ruinhem I know they did, but they were misinformed. As an adult I'm no contact with my dad, and on good terms with my mom.
It's genuinely why I prefer night shifts. By mid afternoon I'm crying on the inside but at 1am at work I'm skipping down the corridors.
And then going to sleep while the rest of the world is busy is such a lovely, melatonin inducing feeling.
its mid afternoon right now and im dead tired but 2 days ago i was doing full body workout for like an hour at 2am and felt the best i had the whole week
Oh yeah. I have never been more awake or productive at work as I was when I got back from lunch at 2am.
I still work my ass off but I can’t move at the speed of Night Shift me lmao.
I've been a night owl since being a very small child. It's peaceful and quiet and no one expects anything from you bc most people are asleep.
People on the other shifts used to call me lazy because they always came in in the morning, and my shift was usually moving slowly and grumbling about pain. Then, when they had to help cover a few shifts, they quickly realized everyone is tired cause we're working ourselves to the point of exhaustion since there's no customers to trip over.
I don’t even get that. Same problem because I work the night shift. Why would you not realize I’m doing the same work as you how are we lazy? Plus, who do you think makes the world go round at night when nobody wants to work those shifts but the night owls everyone makes fun of 😅
@@Ciera_Banks
Also
Don’t night owls at restaurants working the Night Shift make sure everything if prepared for the day shifts?
Like ingredient preparation and wot not?
Night is peaceful and the sun isn't trying to scorch me at night. Sleep schedule is wake up at 4pm and then go to sleep at 8am. That's dusk to dawn.
What do you do for a living? I've thought about trying to live a way that I could have that sleep schedule
I feel sleepy at around 4am and, without an alarm, I wake up at 11am whether I go to sleep at 4am or 11pm. Getting up at 7am sucks no matter how long I've been sleeping.
You arent a night owl at this point, youre nocturnal
My sleep is 8am to 4pm I work overnights though
You and me buddy. My sleep schedule is 2 pm-6 or 7 am
It’s clear that we need to band together and create The Night Owl Society
No, that just leads to the same problems. People barely even get to choose where they live anyway. It is just impractical for everyone to be doing everything at the same times. Even diurnals experience the problems of a strictly diurnal society, such as crowded commuting and rush hours. If everyone is sharing something, then it is obvious that people need to take turns. Schedules should be spaced out so as to not perfectly syncronize with every other business.
Who will take over the day shift?
I’m in. That’s a damn good name already
Nah, we like night because it's less people-y
I'm down but as long as I don't need to talk to stupid people
I’ve been a nurse for more than 25 years and I’ve always preferred 7 PM to 7 AM shift. I have tried to work a regular 8 AM to 5 PM shift, mainly because people would insist that so many of my issues with Insomnia or other health conditions were related to my work schedule. It’s just never felt control for my body. I’m going to be starting a new position in a few weeks and it will be back on my 12 hour overnights and I’m excited. I realize now that all of those issues were not related to the shift. I chose to work the more where I was working. I fully realize working the graveyard shift or overnights is not possible physically for everyone. Perhaps that’s why I’ve found the flexibility of nursing to be such an attraction. After all, people are sick at 3 AM and on weekends and holidays. 🤷🏻♀️
We as a society gave early birds way too much power. Why am I pushed to get up and work an hour and a half before I want to be productive?
Because they changed it while we were asleep
@@SerialElfYTGod damnit you're right!
Because these rules were invented before electricity
The early birds are a minority, but rule the world.
@@oOIIIMIIIOo Most people are diurnals.
So interesting. I’m definitely a night owl, I’ve always been told that “if you just start going to bed at a better time your body will get used that schedule” … but that is simply not the case. I’ve always tried so hard to realign or “fix” my sleep schedule. Sometimes I’ll manage to go to bed early and get up early for a few days, but I always end up drifting back into my night owl schedule.
Also my brother and father have always been the same way, so that also makes sense if it’s genetic.
On the genetics part, my father and me (maybe my youngest sister but she's not old enough yet imo to clearly determine that) are all night owls while my mother and middle sister both like to go to sleep and wake up earlier
Same with myself, my dad, his dad, and I believe my great-grandfather too. In fact, it seems to be a pattern with the men in my family. I'm glad to be vindicated here and have it explained that it's simple genetics, not weird abnormalities. Luckily I've stayed at my job long enough to know my patterns well enough to work within those bounds and get my whole-day shifts done but you better bet that when my weekends roll around I'm likely not going to bed until 4AM or sometimes later. I just get more done that way, it's quieter, allowing me to focus on what I want to do.
Your body will get used to that cycle.
@@HondaBetterwhat part of "it's biology" did you miss? Yes, we can force ourselves to wake up out of our natural circadian rhythm with alarm clocks and medications, but A. The quality of sleep isn't very good. And B. You're putting yourself into a sleep debt, which you can't actually recover from very well.
@@transsnackmaybe he missed the part where your "iTs BiOloGy" assertion is a matter of fact forgone conclusion. And I'm up at 3 writing this and have to go to work at 6:20.
This is exactly how I am. Ever since I was a little kid, I have always felt dead tired before 10 or 11 am (even if I got a full night's sleep before). If I wake up after 10 or 11, I feel very refreshed and energized (even if I got less sleep). Thank u for letting people know that it's normal, because nite owls go through a lot of shame (especially from their employers that force them to get up at dawn lol)
THANK YOU!!!! Jesus god I wish everyone had this knowledge 😭I get so much sh*t from so many people about my sleeping schedule… it’s like, dude I’m up at 4am doing dishes and folding laundry, just because you’re sleeping then doesn’t mean I have to change for you….. some people like to come home from work and do chores! I do too, but I get off work around 11 o’clock at night! So… gaahhh it was even worse when I had thyroid cancer and didn’t know yet; I would sleep like 18 hours and still be tired, all my friends and family were pissed at me because I was just sleeping all the time. I literally had my 2 best friends fighting with me, one had screamed at me a couple times before:/ once I found out it was because I basically had no functioning thyroid anymore everything made sense, I even got a couple apologies!
Well crap, I didn’t intend for this to be so long, sorry for the ramble 😅
This all happened because, while night owls were asleep, early birds got to decide everyone's schedule and no one could stop them 🐦🦉
The night is so beautiful when society is asleep. Me and the rain, the only true friend I'll ever trust.
This has just proved my point that there need to be jobs you can go to at night, not like night shifts but like actual stores and stuff that are only open at night
There's a small town I work in sometimes that's kind of like this. It's basically a factory town and there are cafes and a few other places that open after midnight for the people coming off night shift.
@@tomweather8887 yes! Can we normalize this please!? Like fr im more motivated than ever at night can we just normalize a nightlife like that!?
@@golden_opal6050No.
And schools, watching this makes me think about how parents battle with their children to get them on a morning schedule, possibly denying their natural systems and ruining their sleep patterns for the rest of their lives, because they have to so they can go to school.
@@InuInugami yuuuuppp we need night schools too i might write a book about a society where theres normal day people and then also a second night society thats onlt awake at night and they have their own stores and politics and everythin
Thank you. Ive tried my best to get on the normal cycle but all i did was just wear myself down because while i did force myself to wake up early i was still going to sleep well after midnight. I really wish I could stop but at 63 yo it seems impossible. Im now retired and at 10:30 pm I'm wide awake but I know i will sleep soundly until at least 9:00 am and feel refreshed despite falling asleep after 2:00am.
I'm an artist. My awake hours are 3pm-4am. Making that change from the diurnal schedule school forced me into was such a relief. It even made my depression easier to manage and my T1D.
So many props for using diurnal. I still remember the day I looked up "what's the opposite of nocturnal?" Also, I have almost the same natural hours.
You sleep 11 hours everyday?
Night time is the most peaceful time of the day, after 10pm onwards I feel more creative, I can write better, think more clearly and just feel really good between around 10pm - 3pm.
Right, 2 am for me fr and I feel like writing a research paper about the rotary axis of the sun
My life at night is enriched with "Peace" & no one is taking that from me!
yes so true
Night Owl + ADHD combo here. Times I was called lazy could be in dozens of thousands rn tbh
THANK YOU. YOU SPEAK FOR THE PEOPLE. RESPECT!
I'm always more full of energy at 8pm vs 8am. Like I'll literally start chores/projects in the evening and end then at like 1-2am
Yeah, I was painting my walls at 1 AM once a couple years ago and I suddenly stopped dead and thought "wow its a really good thing I don't live with anyone." Bc I'll also decide to vacuum in the middle of the night, as well.
The reason for that is that when we were cavemen, we needed watchmen at night to guard the settlement or group of people. Thus naturally there are some people who are geared towards working in night
This is absolutely the truth
It makes sense too some portion of the population had to defend against nocturnal predators
I was a cave guard
@@tazylab6233 hell yeah brother me n u chilling late at night watching over our friends
Ahhhhh in another life
I'm putting that on a Tshirt!
@@deborahhanna9126 I want royalties. 6.9%
My job currently needs me to be an early bird, but it feels really validating to hear that it's okay to be a night owl.
I’m watching this at 4:25am. Thank you for putting in a good word for us night owls!
I’m getting a feeling that the majority of people calling themselves night owls are actually people who have an irregular sleep schedule and are staying on their phone too much
THANK YOU! My husband told me I was lazy, but never had a problem with the shift differential I brought home for working the night shift. I was born for night shift. duh.
Sending this to my parents right now to explain them that I'm normal!
Teens naturally have a later sleep time anyways.
@@jadecoolness101 true. I believe I read that it is theorized that during early cavemen days, the adults in the tribe/village would go to sleep earlier compared to teenagers, so that teens had some opportunity to be independent and hang out with other teens, make friends, bonding, etc.
And of course, evolutionarily you don't want your entire tribe/village to be vulnerable, so some population of the tribe would protect and watch over them while they slept, including teens.
But yeah, I guess in the modern world we now have artificial lights and don't have to worry about animals attacking us in the wild. Really is a shame how the night owls were protecting the tribe back in the day, but in the modern world they are treated very poorly and ridiculed
they'll ask you where you got the genes from
As soon as 10pm hits it's like I just had a coffee, I suddenly have so much energy and want to do everything. Trouble is I have work in the morning so I need to start winding down. Bummer 😔
Hahaha. I just left a comment about 10pm also then saw this. You are not crazy!
Yes!! In the mornings I feel so terrible, as if like I did the hardest labor and have no motivation to do anything. Energy comes to me around 11am and it helps me be productive, like finishing my art and other projects!
I feel vindicated. Mom always was trying to get me to change my schedule when I was younger, telling me that if I just went to sleep earlier I'd get used to it. A decade later, I'm doing the same thing as I was when I lived with her. It's also nice to have someone watching the house when everyone else is asleep and it's dark enough for bad things to sneak around. I react to any noise I hear, and then the other folks in the house are up and about when I'm asleep. When I was living with my parents, we fostered kittens who require lots of care throughout the night that I was able to provide. It turned out to be a win-win situation and still is for myself and my roommate, though we're both more toward that night owl type.
It makes sense that I'm a night owl. My dad and my grandfather before me and my grandfather on my Mom's side are night owls as well. If I remember hearing correctly, so was my great-grandfather on my dad's side. I'm pretty sure it's a thing with the men in my family. We also live in a desert, meaning we're most active when it's cool outside, aka at night. I love having my window open to let in fresh air, but if it's 100+ degrees outside that doesn't work. It's generally quieter at night, so I get more done without distractions. It just works out, and I don't think I'm ever going to change. I don't have sleeping problems, I just have a different pattern!
Do you not have a job?
THANK YOU. So many people in my family are night owls and it's very frustrating when other people act like it's a choice. I literally DON'T FEEL TIRED until like 1:30 or 2am. I'd love it if I could shift my bio clock but at this point in my life I'm just going with it. It works for me and I have a job that makes it doable so I'm over trying to conform. When I've done that I've been tired and miserable. Now? I feel normal.
Yeah I was nocturnal *before* I had a sleep disorder too. Yes grandma I tried waking up early. No it didn't cure me. Do kindly piss off
Wish more people understood this, also night time is quiet and peaceful and no one harassed you
"daytime people are terrible"
yesssss i know right
And traffic is a breeze! Rush hour traffic? Not me!
What's worse is intentionally ignorant neighbors who KNOW you work nights. Then complain how you should be up with them at the crash of 4am. "Lady, if come in from WORK at 3am and eat dinner. I have to sleep sometime."
@@dragonsword7370 I live across the street from those exact neighboours. 8 am or 8pm and anytime in between, they are outside, yelling at their kids.
Everyone has a unique circadian rhythm
including non 24 hours
@@bugglemagnum6213 Tell me more. All I know is the industry-sponsored PSA with the blind 🦯 guy.
@@bugglemagnum6213that’s interesting, please do tell us more.
@@41052i have an early-morning-riser over here😅
@@bugglemagnum6213 Non-24 hours? what's that?
What's wild is that people who think night owls are lazy will do so regardless of the reason they go to sleep later. I work night shifts and I still have people who think I'm lazy for sleeping during the day. Imagine if I started calling them lazy bc they can't stay awake for 24h (which I've done many times before)
I think I may start doing that last part.
@@bustergundo516 I think at this point I'm just gonna start calling these people lazy bc they go to sleep at night. Wdym you have to sleep at night lol. Ridiculous
I always drift to being a night owl, and when I do 'fix' it, it's only for a few days.
Most of us in my family are night owls. In fact, my grandmother used to call herself and us the midnight mice.
Omg "the midnight mice" that is so precious!
How adorable!
I've always been a night owl. Society is the main difficulty with it, hes spot on.