What Happens When A Night Owl Wakes Up Early

It's difficult when you like to get up early but your job goes late. So I'm usually up between 6-8am but I don't get off work until 8-9pm, then eat dinner, wind down, bed at 10-11pm. Oh and I "sleep" for 9hrs as it takes me an hour to get to bed. So if I go to bed at 11pm, I'm asleep by 12am and up at 6am= 5½-6hrs of sleep every night. Yet I want and need 8. It's not fun!

Or society could let us night owls work later in the morning. I literally feel like there’s going to come a point where I just can’t get up for work anymore cause it’s too early, the winter also makes it worse.

I'm Autistic+ADHD and I simply do not respect anything that tries to wake me up before 09 AM. Elementary, primary, middle chools? I had more missed days than anyone else. Jobs? I will not attend your 08 AM meeting thank you. I did my high school at a night college, I did my undergrad degree at a night/remote college, I did my technical degree at a night college. The post-grad of my choosing was really interesting, but 07 AM? lol no
People get even more annoyed at my behaviour cus they know it doesn't cause performance issues, it just causes "but I want things done my NORMAL neurotypical way!!!" issues.
I got a job with an American company recently (I'm from overseas) and because it's remote, they asked me to do 09 AM to 5 PM of their time, which translates to 11 AM to 7 PM in my country. Words cannot express how delighted I am. It's the first time in my life where I actually feel ANXIOUS to start working.

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I have been a night owl my entire life, even as a child and have taken crap for it from every person I have lived with. Its not fun

I'm a streamer, content creator, full time student and full time employee who works 4PM-12AM. I am frequently interested in the difference between night owls and early birds! Although I work evenings, I do have the option on my personal time to go to bed around 1AM directly after my shift and wake up fairly early (10am-ish). However, because that is extremely difficult for me and will cause me extreme tiredness near the end of my shift, I frequently choose to stay up until 6-9 hours after work and sleep until it's time to go to work the following evening at 4PM. I am unsure about whether not I want to lean into this habit, or commit to early rising and staying awake for 14-16 hours with no naps. what do you think?

Lol true night owls don’t wake up before noon come on

This is somthing that always really angers me, cause of how naturally if I go to bed at around 2:30 AM, I can get only 6 hours of sleep and be completely fine, but because of work and classes, I am forced to get up at 6 am, and even with 10 hours of sleep, plus tons of caffeine I will still feel exhausted.

My natural sleep times are from 2am to like 9 or 10.
So obviously in high school I got so intensely suicidally depressed that I would have dropped out, had my parents and teachers not dragged me through the last year. The only reason I even showed up to my graduation was because a family member had travelled two hours to attend, that was it, and I left halfway through because I sincerely did not give a single shit about school.

I would have loved to have gone on to study biology or linguistics, but I made the active choice to survive into my thirties by lack of suicide instead.

I could have been a scientist, but instead I’m just the family disappointment, but at least I’m still alive! 💜

Bs new society I could a been a watchtower guard w my sleep schedule

Omg that schedule is my dream schedule how did you know ?! 👁️👄👁️

TL,DR: They’re grumpy and sleep deprived

I'll never understand why schools starting absurdly and unhealthily early isn't considered the least bit abusive. When you're start times are harming the growth of your students and causing mental health issues that's pretty bad just saying. It's especially unhealthy for a night owl to be up at that hour because we're simply not programmed to be like that.

Lol... that ain't a "night owl" schedule... I'm up till 4-5 AM but my best schedule is bed at 10AM wake at 4 PM and 8 min nap around 2 hrs before sunset. That way I get sunrise and sunset. Plus access to normal needs mostly.

Our school starts at 7 am, China

Comment section was never so relatable until this video showed up

Im a night owl who wakes up early

Not me watching this at 3 am XD

Proud night owl here!! I'm a nurse and work the night shifts. I tried going to the day shift for awhile, but waking up at 6 in the morning was brutal! I can easily stay up all night, but not all day, LOL. Thank you for validating that I'm still "real"

Not me watching this at 7 am

no comment.. or yes comment. yay i have to live like this for the rest ? of my life :D >:/

Im a night owl and I usually go to sleep around 5 to 6am (after all else fails). Sleeping in is considered 12pm otherwise Im up by 9am with just 3 to 4 hours of sleep. I want to day sleep in the summer, and in the winter I don't sleep at all.

As a night owl, I would reframe the title of the video and call it "The authoritarian dictatorship of the early birds", that would be more descriptive to what society has become

(early birds) 5am man I feel like I can run a marathon!!
(Night owls) 11pm man I fell like I can run a marathon!

Honestly it all comes down to your discipline, I find myself watching these videos, but I know inside myself I actually want to be a pigeon

me watching this at 4:39AM

Don’t hit snooze??!?!???!?!?!!

Watching this at 6am trying to sleep

I used to think I was a night owl. Fall asleep an hour or so after going to bed at 3am, get up an hour or so after waking at 2pm.
My maternal gramma goes to bed at 11 in the morning, and wakes at 6 at night.

I'm an evening bird, Gramma is an actual owl.

I thought it got so bad at this point no matter what time I go to sleep I’m always tired, Just got diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia

I've never considered someone who wakes up at 9am as a night owl lol.
I like to go to sleep between 7 and 8 am and wake up between 3 to 5pm

There is no owls or early birds. There's just people who have trouble with going to sleep and waking early and people who don't

The Toyota plant in Texas gives you two weeks Night Shift then two weeks dayshift. I believe they do this, so that you never really catch up and basically they can plan and control your life.

I was born at night, maybe that's why Im a night owl.

You should not go against what your body is telling you for what dumb as society wants you are literally killing yourself slowly when you don't listen too your body do not wake up early cause it's socially acceptable.

I’m just naturally more awake and alert at night and prefer the dark and the starry, moonlit sky to the obnoxious burning ball of hydrogen and helium that’s going to consume the planet one day. Is that a crime?

“Society” is stupid.

Its weird I like staying up late but getting up early in the morning I'm the only person I know that's like this lol

I literally stay up during the night and sleep the rest of the day and I feel the best when I can do that.

Currently watching this at 5 am after trying to go to sleep early and was then completely unable to sleep at all

I remember I baby sat my aunt’s dog and I had to wake up at 6:30 AM for a few days to let him out. It felt like my body was twice as heavy. Versus waking up at 8:30 AM to go to school isn’t as bad. I usually wake up around 11 AM or 12 PM with no obligations and fall asleep between 1-3 AM.

lol a school i attended expected us to arrive everyday at 730. who tf designed these early morning systems. deep down we all hate it no matter if you're a night owl or not. but because it's a 'nOrMaL' thing no one can really change it. WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY...

Used to have to get up at like 6am in the morning for school and unfortunately nobody else is awake, so cant turn any lights on and in the winter time especially, had to leave the house and walk in practically night time to catch the bus, and then youre often at school when its s t i l l dark out. 😔 and then morning class teachers insist on keeping lights off.

I have trouble waking up before 12 noon and I have never been able to sleep before 4am. I'm happy as I am and I have no desire to change, but society makes it so damn hard to be a night owl in an early bird world. Everything closes way too early and the reason for depression is the loneliness - everyone else is asleep while we're awake and alert. You can't even play music or do housework for fear of waking up the normies. You end up being trapped in dark silence for hours every night.

me watching this at 1am knowing I should be asleep

it's almost like you don't actually NEED to be waking up at the ass-crack of dawn to work some boring dumb job... huh, that's weird innit? oh well, guess we'll just keep pretending everything is fine!

Remember one sr two studies of say for example the obesity rate thing, is not proof. Also a lot of teens stay up not because it being nature, but because we want to continue whatever activity we are doing. A non “night owl” can stay up to much and get there body’s used to it, making it so the only reason they become “night owls” is because of bad habits. Also a long time ago lookouts like you mentioned had to train themselves to stay up and attentive at those times.

imagine watching at 12:00am