Who All Are Night Owls

[hollydolly]

I don't think we can easily change our body clocks, and we probably don't know why many of us are geared to be morning or night people. Fortunately, my wife and I were the same. If I could really choose which to be, I would stick with being a morning person. The man was here at 8 AM to mow today. Later this month I have early morning (fasting) blood work and an early doctor visit 3 days later.

My best friend and emergency contact is a night person. I have a check-in service I call every morning to let them know I made it through the night. I have to be very careful and not forget or by 9 AM they will call him. He's a nice person, but a bear if he gets a call before 10:30 AM.

I understand him...

 

[Ruthanne]

I have been a night owl a lot but not really by choice. My hours get out of whack quite a bit. So sometimes I'm a night owl and sometimes not. It also has to do with sleep problems for me.

 

[QuietByNature]

Prior to Covid, I woke at 6AM with an alarm for 20 years, or up 5 to 10 minutes prior. My internal clock knew when it was time to get out of bed.
I'm usually in bed by 10:30PM the latest.
Once Covid hit, I did not need an alarm clock as I worked remotely from home and now I'm up any time after 4AM
I start to toss and turn and just have to get out of bed. Maybe once a month I might sleep past 5:30AM.

 

[That Lady in PA]

Used to be a night owl, and LOVED working second shift.

Now I am in bed ~10:30 - 11:00 and get up ~7:00 - 7:30.

 

[horseless carriage]

Wide awake at four am, at five am I gave up and got up, I have heard it called nyctophilia, sounds disgusting I much prefer night owl.

 

[TeePee]

Used to be a night owl, and LOVED working second shift.

Now I am in bed ~10:30 - 11:00 and get up ~7:00 - 7:30.

That would be wonderful! It's been a long time since I've had a good nights sleep.

 

[TeePee]

I spent over 34 years working 12 hour shifts that rotated every few days... Retired 3 years and still rare to sleep a full night.

I can appreciate that.

 

[Veronica]

Well its 3:17am so guess whos a night owl.
I am heading for bed though.

Now that Im old and retired and can sleep as much as I want my body has decided it only needs around 6hrs.
I dont wake up to P like some but I do need to make a quick trip as soon as I get up.

 

[TeePee]

Well its 3:17am so guess whos a night owl.
I am heading for bed though.

Now that Im old and retired and can sleep as much as I want my body has decided it only needs around 6hrs.
I dont wake up to P like some but I do need to make a quick trip as soon as I get up.

Pleasant dreams. I'm in bed but as you can tell I'm still awake.

 

[horseless carriage]

It's 4:45, I've been awake since 3:45, at 4:30 I gave up and got up. Senior Forums is much more preferable than insomnia.

 

[horseless carriage]

This old age malarky can be a right pain in the proverbial, 5:00am and wide awake. How strange it is that come the daytime and the daylight streams through, I can nod off in the blink of an eye. Does anyone else have an amazing urine capacity? You make sure that you are all comfortable before getting into bed, a safety pee my wife calls it, four hours later and it's not just a dribble. Beats me.

 

[Teacher Terry]

It’s a cruel irony of old age that once you have all the time in the world to sleep, you have trouble sleeping. I don’t know anyone older that doesn’t have this problem. When I was young, I always went to bed early because I was tired and was up early. Now it really varies. I have went to bed as early as eight or as late as 1 AM. I try to stay up at least until 10 PM Otherwise I’m up at four in the morning. I rarely get eight hours sleep.