Are you a morning-person? - Empty Closets - A safe online community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people coming out

GoBabyGoGo · 27th Nov 2009, 09:15 PM

To clarify:-

Morning people have no trouble waking up in the morning. They rarely sleep in, find it hard to go back to sleep once woken, and are most productive and energetic in the morning. They often go to bed reasonably early.

Non morning people find it difficult to wake up in the morning. They feel very sleepy after waking for a period of time, sleep in wherever they can, and find it more difficult to function in the early hours. They often go to bed later.

Personally, i am a morning person. I wake up (7-8am) a long time before my friends (10-12am). I get really restless lying in bed waiting for others to wake. Ive got to get up, and do something!

fulofbul · 27th Nov 2009, 10:05 PM

i am a morning and night person.

this means i wake up really early everyday about 6.30-7 without the help of any alarms

i also sleep late about 11-12. because of that i get very tired during the day about 2-6.

i try to sleep early but i wake up even earlier. i try to wake up late but sleep later if i do.

so far i am not having any health problems though, except my concentration level can get really low when i am tired during the day.

any suggestions how to fix this?

Dewey · 27th Nov 2009, 10:10 PM

I wish I was a morning person...but unfortunately I am not. Unless you count staying up all night until the morning xP

RaeofLite · 27th Nov 2009, 10:16 PM

I would say that I'm not a morning person when I'm a student.. but if I visit the parents for holidays (Christmas etc) I adopt their habit of going to bed at 9-10pm and waking up early because there's no one else to talk to or do things with.

27th Nov 2009, 10:17 PM

i better be. the surf is best right around sunrise. like seriously 10x better than the afternoon.

although i don't always get to bed early... i'm also an insomniac of sorts.

**Maddy** · 27th Nov 2009, 10:26 PM

I'm neither a morning person nor a night person. I'm at my best from about 11am-3pm, I take a while to wake up properly, and then I fade pretty quickly when it gets closer to evening.

Nodnarb · 27th Nov 2009, 11:28 PM

No, no, most definitely NO. I set my alarm for at least and hour before I actually want to wake up because I know that it takes forever to get me out of bed. And I don't truly wake up until after I take a shower.

Swamp56 · 27th Nov 2009, 11:35 PM

Nope xD. I've woken up at 5pm and later.

**Maddy** · 27th Nov 2009, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Nodnarb

No, no, most definitely NO. I set my alarm for at least and hour before I actually want to wake up because I know that it takes forever to get me out of bed. And I don't truly wake up until after I take a shower.

Back when I had a different phone with a different kind of alarm, I'd set several alarms to go off ten minutes apart so that I'd have half an hour to drag myself out of bed. Now I can only set one alarm so I set it half an hour early and become familiar with the snooze button - although there's one button you can hit that will turn off the alarm entirely (where every other button activates snooze) and I can now hit that one button and turn the alarm off in my sleep.

Nodnarb · 27th Nov 2009, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Maddy

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Originally Posted by Nodnarb

No, no, most definitely NO. I set my alarm for at least and hour before I actually want to wake up because I know that it takes forever to get me out of bed. And I don't truly wake up until after I take a shower.

Back when I had a different phone with a different kind of alarm, I'd set several alarms to go off ten minutes apart so that I'd have half an hour to drag myself out of bed. Now I can only set one alarm so I set it half an hour early and become familiar with the snooze button - although there's one button you can hit that will turn off the alarm entirely (where every other button activates snooze) and I can now hit that one button and turn the alarm off in my sleep.

With my phone, you just open and close it and it will go to snooze, and I've gotten to the point where I can do that in my sleep. I'm getting worse about it though...since I haven't had to get up for class during break, I keep using snooze for over an hour

. And at some point (an hour or and hour and a half) it just gives up and stops going off

shorty · 28th Nov 2009, 01:52 AM

Oh god no! Never have been. If I don't have to work, my sleeping pattern gradually slips back to going to bed in the wee hours and getting up around midday. And my brain is FAIL for the first hour after getting up. They say you usually sleep less as you get older, but I still sleep like a teenager. 8-10 hours everyday and sometimes more.

**Owen** · 28th Nov 2009, 04:10 AM

I am a morning person, without a doubt. I never stay up later than midnight, since my brain becomes functionally useless around 11:30 PM. I usually go to bed between 10:00 and 11:00, although I've been going to bed as early as 9:00-9:30 recently (just because I'm under the weather and need the extra rest). I usually wake up between 6:00 and 7:00 depending on when I went to bed, and I have no issue getting out of bed when I do wake up. That said, if my brain knows I have no reason to get up early, I may sleep in. For me, sleeping in is sleeping until 8:00. I can try to sleep in if no one else is awake, but it just makes me feel more groggy when I do get out of bed.

Why do I do this? When I'm at school, it's because the dining hall opens for breakfast at 7:00, and I like to get there early before the lines start forming and before it gets loud. I also do it because it feels natural; we, as homo sapians, are built to function best during the daylight hours, to rise with the rising sun and go to bed with the setting sun. Now, obviously, if I did that, there wouldn't be enough hours in my day, but I am most productive when the sun is out. Though I don't often do work in the morning, when I know I need to, I can get it done easily.

I suppose I am also a morning person out of habit, since, during high school, my bus came to pick me up around 7:30, and I liked to have a lot of time for myself in the morning, so I would usually get up around 6:00 or before. That habit stuck with me. To be honest, I suppose I also do it because of the smug sense of superiority it gives me to know that other people are still sleeping and I am already getting a start on my day.

Apocalypte · 28th Nov 2009, 04:11 AM

I'm not a morning person at all. My best hours of the day tend to be in the late afternoon and evening. I really struggle with getting up in the morning, and I really can't sleep before midnight.

SolitaryKnight · 28th Nov 2009, 04:28 AM

I am a morning person, but I hate when I get off work at like 9:30pm and have be back the next day at 7am. If I can go to bed when I want, I have no problem waking up early. When I was in university, I would usually go to bed at 9pm so I could wake up at 5am and do my work before class.

**Martin** · 28th Nov 2009, 04:35 AM

I'm horrendous in the mornings.

That feeling that you get when you've just woken up is one of the worst feelings in the world. >.<

It usually takes me about 2/3 hours to wake up properly, and I tend to find that I am in an awful mood during that time. I also have a habit of falling back asleep no matter where it is.

Sesshomaru · 28th Nov 2009, 05:02 AM

I would say I'm sort of a morning and night person. During any period in time, I can't even force myself to sleep in past 8 a.m. unless I don't go to bed from the day before until 7.a.m. that same morning and even then I can only sleep until 10-11 before my body wakes itself up. On normal days though I'm up anywhere from 4-5 even though I normally don't go to bed until around 11 or midnight and I have no problems with waking up.

Katherine · 28th Nov 2009, 06:09 AM

I'm definitely a morning person. I usually don't sleep later than 7-8 on weekends, and I rarely go to bed later than 10 at night. It just works for me.

Just Adam · 28th Nov 2009, 06:17 AM

unless its a snowy mornign with a beautiful red golden sunrise that reflects and glistens....then no mornings are nothign but annoying depressing things that means another day.

28th Nov 2009, 07:18 AM

7 years of waking up at 430am 3 days a week for rowing has destroyed my ability to sleep in.

NickT · 28th Nov 2009, 07:31 AM

Me, in the morning: RAAAARRAGAGAAARRARAWRRAAGHAAARRRA! *Mauls off nearest person's head*

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27th Nov 2009, 09:15 PM	#1
GoBabyGoGo Music Nerd. Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: 99% Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 433 Join Date: May 2007	Are you a morning-person? To clarify:- Morning people have no trouble waking up in the morning. They rarely sleep in, find it hard to go back to sleep once woken, and are most productive and energetic in the morning. They often go to bed reasonably early. Non morning people find it difficult to wake up in the morning. They feel very sleepy after waking for a period of time, sleep in wherever they can, and find it more difficult to function in the early hours. They often go to bed later. Personally, i am a morning person. I wake up (7-8am) a long time before my friends (10-12am). I get really restless lying in bed waiting for others to wake. Ive got to get up, and do something! __________________ "If I were you, I'd have sex with me!"

27th Nov 2009, 10:05 PM	#2
fulofbul Member Regular Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Anyone who asks, except extended family Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 30 Posts: 66 Join Date: Mar 2009	Re: Are you a morning-person? i am a morning and night person. this means i wake up really early everyday about 6.30-7 without the help of any alarms i also sleep late about 11-12. because of that i get very tired during the day about 2-6. i try to sleep early but i wake up even earlier. i try to wake up late but sleep later if i do. so far i am not having any health problems though, except my concentration level can get really low when i am tired during the day. any suggestions how to fix this?

27th Nov 2009, 10:10 PM	#3
Dewey Malcolm's Brother Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: 3 friends, my parents, & my school councilor >_< Location: Canada Age: 19 Posts: 104 Join Date: Jan 2009	Re: Are you a morning-person? I wish I was a morning person...but unfortunately I am not. Unless you count staying up all night until the morning xP __________________ "As long as you love, you will still have hope." - Love of Siam "I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short." - Armistead Maupin

27th Nov 2009, 10:16 PM	#4
RaeofLite I've got the moves like Jagger Full Member Gender: ♀ Orientation: Sapphicly inclined Out Status: My closet is for clothes! Location: BC, Canada Age: 23 Posts: 3,111 Join Date: Apr 2009	Re: Are you a morning-person? I would say that I'm not a morning person when I'm a student.. but if I visit the parents for holidays (Christmas etc) I adopt their habit of going to bed at 9-10pm and waking up early because there's no one else to talk to or do things with. __________________ People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Bonnie Jean Wasmund (and the lesbians)

27th Nov 2009, 10:17 PM	#5
paco Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Are you a morning-person? i better be. the surf is best right around sunrise. like seriously 10x better than the afternoon. although i don't always get to bed early... i'm also an insomniac of sorts.

27th Nov 2009, 10:26 PM	#6
Maddy Free Hugs EC Admin Gender: - Orientation: Into girls Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 7,704 Join Date: Mar 2008	Re: Are you a morning-person? I'm neither a morning person nor a night person. I'm at my best from about 11am-3pm, I take a while to wake up properly, and then I fade pretty quickly when it gets closer to evening. __________________ how strange it is to be anything at all [Victor] 2:09 pm: and then halloween happened and I was outside in a skirt.

27th Nov 2009, 11:28 PM	#7
Nodnarb Notoriously Homosexual Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Most people Location: Ames, Iowa Age: 20 Posts: 3,875 Join Date: Oct 2007	Re: Are you a morning-person? No, no, most definitely NO. I set my alarm for at least and hour before I actually want to wake up because I know that it takes forever to get me out of bed. And I don't truly wake up until after I take a shower. __________________ Better to be hated for who you are, than be loved for who you're not.

27th Nov 2009, 11:35 PM	#8
Swamp56 EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Boston, MA Age: 21 Posts: 2,166 Join Date: Aug 2008	Re: Are you a morning-person? Nope xD. I've woken up at 5pm and later. __________________

28th Nov 2009, 01:52 AM	#11
shorty vertically challenged Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Sister and a couple of friends. Location: Land of Oz Posts: 320 Join Date: Jul 2009	Re: Are you a morning-person? Oh god no! Never have been. If I don't have to work, my sleeping pattern gradually slips back to going to bed in the wee hours and getting up around midday. And my brain is FAIL for the first hour after getting up. They say you usually sleep less as you get older, but I still sleep like a teenager. 8-10 hours everyday and sometimes more.

28th Nov 2009, 04:10 AM	#12
Owen Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult EC Admin Gender: Agendered dude Orientation: Panromantic androsexual Out Status: Everyone and their mother Location: Massachusetts, USA Age: 21 Posts: 2,871 Join Date: Jul 2007	Re: Are you a morning-person? I am a morning person, without a doubt. I never stay up later than midnight, since my brain becomes functionally useless around 11:30 PM. I usually go to bed between 10:00 and 11:00, although I've been going to bed as early as 9:00-9:30 recently (just because I'm under the weather and need the extra rest). I usually wake up between 6:00 and 7:00 depending on when I went to bed, and I have no issue getting out of bed when I do wake up. That said, if my brain knows I have no reason to get up early, I may sleep in. For me, sleeping in is sleeping until 8:00. I can try to sleep in if no one else is awake, but it just makes me feel more groggy when I do get out of bed. Why do I do this? When I'm at school, it's because the dining hall opens for breakfast at 7:00, and I like to get there early before the lines start forming and before it gets loud. I also do it because it feels natural; we, as homo sapians, are built to function best during the daylight hours, to rise with the rising sun and go to bed with the setting sun. Now, obviously, if I did that, there wouldn't be enough hours in my day, but I am most productive when the sun is out. Though I don't often do work in the morning, when I know I need to, I can get it done easily. I suppose I am also a morning person out of habit, since, during high school, my bus came to pick me up around 7:30, and I liked to have a lot of time for myself in the morning, so I would usually get up around 6:00 or before. That habit stuck with me. To be honest, I suppose I also do it because of the smug sense of superiority it gives me to know that other people are still sleeping and I am already getting a start on my day. __________________ "Stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless logic and experience prove you wrong. Remember, when the emperor looks naked, the emperor is naked. The truth and a lie are not sort of the same thing. And there is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza." -Daria Morgendorffer

28th Nov 2009, 04:11 AM	#13
Apocalypte Ytse Jamming. Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Lesbian Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 27 Posts: 2,217 Join Date: Oct 2008	Re: Are you a morning-person? I'm not a morning person at all. My best hours of the day tend to be in the late afternoon and evening. I really struggle with getting up in the morning, and I really can't sleep before midnight. __________________ "I like my beer cold...my TV loud...and my homosexuals flaming." - Homer Simpson

28th Nov 2009, 04:28 AM	#14
SolitaryKnight EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: the family knows and some other people Location: Atlantic Canada Age: 27 Posts: 360 Join Date: Oct 2009	Re: Are you a morning-person? I am a morning person, but I hate when I get off work at like 9:30pm and have be back the next day at 7am. If I can go to bed when I want, I have no problem waking up early. When I was in university, I would usually go to bed at 9pm so I could wake up at 5am and do my work before class. __________________ To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. ~ Plato

28th Nov 2009, 04:35 AM	#15
Martin EC's Red Queen EC Admin Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Some people Location: Merseyside, UK Age: 21 Posts: 8,047 Join Date: Nov 2007	Re: Are you a morning-person? I'm horrendous in the mornings. That feeling that you get when you've just woken up is one of the worst feelings in the world. >.< It usually takes me about 2/3 hours to wake up properly, and I tend to find that I am in an awful mood during that time. I also have a habit of falling back asleep no matter where it is. __________________ The blue whale ejaculates up to 40 gallons during sexual intercourse, but only 10 gallons enters the female. Do you still wonder why the sea tastes salty?

28th Nov 2009, 05:02 AM	#16
Sesshomaru is finally done with his closet! Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Pretty much anyone who asks Location: California Age: 19 Posts: 193 Join Date: Sep 2009	Re: Are you a morning-person? I would say I'm sort of a morning and night person. During any period in time, I can't even force myself to sleep in past 8 a.m. unless I don't go to bed from the day before until 7.a.m. that same morning and even then I can only sleep until 10-11 before my body wakes itself up. On normal days though I'm up anywhere from 4-5 even though I normally don't go to bed until around 11 or midnight and I have no problems with waking up.

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