Hi, friends!
Are you a morning person? A night owl? A chameleon who can do whatever they want?
I am a strong morning person. Usually when I wake up, I’m immediately awake. The people who need 30 minutes to ease into consciousness? Fascinating. For me it’s like “blink blink blink, my eyes are open, welp time to do thinking and moving and stuff.
I’ve shifted slowly toward not being an anti-morning person. I’m OK with just jamming myself awake at 6AM if I have to and rushing through a shower and a bite to eat when needed, although I don’t like it.
I’m exactly the same as you, brighter. It’s a binary situation — I’m either awake or asleep, and the transition happens pretty much instantly. My wife is astounded by how I can get into bed, say “I’m going to sleep now,” take two deep breaths and I’m out. She tosses and turns. I rarely stay asleep the whole night, but again, it’s off/on, no “I’m getting sleepy …” I wake up, I read, I put the tablet down, and *blink* I’m out.
Same is true on waking up. I’m awake, conscious, and able to talk coherently the second my eyes open. There’s no grogginess or anything like that. Again, my wife takes a good 20 minutes to “wake up.” I find that utterly bizarre. But we’ve adapted to each other. You wake me up at 2 am for an emergency and I’m ready to go. “What’s the situation and what do you need? Okay, here’s the plan.”
I like coffee but I don’t require coffee to function. I’ll get a headache eventually, but I don’t have issues focusing without caffeine. My wife, again, needs at least a cup before she can effectively discuss anything.
If I have to be awake early to make a plane or be on a phone call, I just do it. I don’t like it, but I don’t like people who do the whole passive agressive deal If you truly can’t be functional at 7:30, let everyone know ahead of time.
i wake up in panic between 3 and 3:30am and i am a night owl for the same reason i wake up in panic right away…between 3 and 3:30am…
sorry…
what was the question?
If you sleep on rubber sheets or wear adult diapers you won’t wake up like that. Don’t ask how I know.
If I wake up after 630am, I am up.
Before 630am, I am a groggy whiney crybaby.
I thought I was a morning person but I am not a really early morning person
Working east coast hours in the mountain time zone means I am a “forced” morning person. I can be up and functional, but I’m not fully myself until I’ve had an hour to feed the dogs, read some e-mails, make coffee, take my meds, make the bed, etc.
My wife got a timed feeder which pops open early in the morning so the dog can eat on her own.
A strange quirk about LA, and to a lesser extent San Francisco, is what early cities they are. There are historical reasons for this. In LA, the studios wanted everyone on set at daybreak to catch the light. Couple that with everything happening back in New York, the banking/financing, the corporate decision making, etc. LA didn’t really come into its own until the 1920s/30s, but by then the habits were ingrained. Then, there was all this shift work going on, and a shift could be 7 AM to 3 PM. The vast aerospace companies did this.
Now, people prefer to leave for work really early and leave work really early, to “avoid the traffic.” Problem is, everyone has the same idea. You haven’t lived until you’ve been on the 405 at 6:30 AM and a solid eight lanes of traffic in each direction are at an absolute standstill.
I used to be a night person, but now I’m up at the crack of dawn. For all the good it does me.
I had a harder time getting used to the move from Pacific time to Eastern time.
if it wasnt for stupid day shifts….7 or 8 am would be my bed time
soooo…very much a night owl
6 years of day shift still hasnt made any kind of change to that….bout 8pm is when i really start to feel awake….
i do seem to be making progress on at least being able to sleep coz i have to tho