Are You a Night Owl or a Morning Lark?

Are You a Night Owl or a Morning Lark?
(from: http://sleepdisorders.about.com/b/2009/ ... k.htm?nl=1)

Scientists believe that some people have a genetic predisposition to rise early, like a morning lark, or to stay up late like a night owl. These genetic tendencies may lead to subtle variance in circadian rhythms, with a desire to sleep shifted either slightly early or late.

Others may have profound shifts in their circadian rhythms causing disorders that lead to problems meeting social or professional obligations. For example, teenagers are prone to delayed sleep phase syndrome with a desire to stay up until the wee hours of the morning while sleeping in the next day. The other extreme, with early bedtimes and wake-times, may represent advanced sleep phase syndrome. Each of these may be effectively treated with gradual shifts in the sleep schedule, or with the use of melatonin or bright light therapy.

I am definitely a combination... Usually in bed between 10-11pm and back up again by 6am...

I'm a hardcore night owl. I love staying up. Hate waking up. CPAP might actually change this. Too soon to tell.

Definately a MORNING person. I go to sleep 11 - 12, and get up 5 - 6.

Prior to my OSA diagnosis, I would have said that I was a morning lark. I was up very early every morning, including vacations and weekends. However, since my xPAP usage, I tend to be more of a night owl. My job requires I still pretend to be a morning lark most of the time, but I find while on vacation such as last week, I gravitate towards being a night owl. It makes the first day back to work (today!) really tough.

If left to my own devices, I'm definitely a night-owl, but I also tend to wake up pretty early.

I've been working on getting to bed earlier recently, in an effort to extend the time I spend asleep; some nights, I'm more successful than others with that, but I'm working on it. I've never been the type to have to drag my butt out of bed in the morning, though, no matter what time I go to sleep. Once I'm awake, I'm up. I don't think I've ever hit the snooze button in my life.

So, night owl or morning lark? Both, I guess. But my driver's license says I'm a Robin.

I am definitely a night owl, and I probably have delayed sleep phase syndrome too, as my "clock" can get really out of whack and requires heavy duty resetting periodically. I'm also likely to go to bed and not fall asleep for a l-o-n-g time. My initial sleep study showed a sleep efficiency of 48%! Since CPAP (a month now!), I've been sleeping better ... till the last few nights. I didn't think I slept at all last night, but I had apneas around 1:00 and 4:00 am, so I must have slept. I had a 95% leak rate of 0.0L/min last night, too! (I started washing my pillows in Dr. Bronner's soap and sealing with Lansinoh. The pillows seem more stable now that I've removed the soft wraps, too.)

RipVW wrote:...Scientists believe that some people have a genetic predisposition to rise early, like a morning lark, or to stay up late like a night owl. These genetic tendencies may lead to subtle variance in circadian rhythms, with a desire to sleep shifted either slightly early or late.

My dad, a jazz musician, was a high owl and I take after him.

RipVW wrote:...causing disorders that lead to problems meeting social or professional obligations...

Yeah, sure got these, boss always complained so we shifted my scheduled hours.

RipVW wrote:Each of these may be effectively treated with gradual shifts in the sleep schedule, or with the use of melatonin or bright light therapy.

xPAP has helped me shift to an earlier rhythm, but since layoff, I find myself shifting back to my natural owl rhythm...not sure if this is good or bad or maybe it doesn't matter given the job market right now .

I've always been both. go to bed late and wake early. Not sure if being in the Army had anything to do with it cause I was always an early riser even before joining. Going to be interesting seeing how I sleep once I'm able to start my treatment.

I'm a night owl, but as I've aged I've found it increasingly more difficult to "sleep in". My white mini-blinds let in plenty of sunshine even when closed, and as soon as my peepers get a glimpse of that light, I'm up for good - not wonderful on days when I went to bed after 3AM. And even in the winter months, I tend to rise naturally after about 7 hours, even if it's still relatively dark outside.

Love to stay up late. I love the peace that night brings. However, I must get up kinda of early for work. Otherwise I would sleep in. When everything is dialed in just right, I can feel great on 6 1/2 to 7 hours of sleep.

On my sleep in days off... my automatic programed body clock still wakes at work time, even though the rest of me says sleep!

Night owl definitely. I seem to get the most productive work done in late evenings. I have had to severely limit this since beginning CPAP to ensure I am getting 7 or more hours of sleep. This is the single biggest problem I have with this therapy, and it is slowly forcing other, highly undesirable (from a personal standpoint) lifestyle changes.

Morning LarK???

I must never have gotten up early enough to see one!

Night owl.

I can be a day person if I have to be, but I like being up after everyone else has gone to bed, with no TV on, no phones ringing off the way, etc. so I can focus on my writing.