A sleep scientist/professor named Matt Walker has a podcast about, you guessed it, sleep. He talks about this and how it’s very unfair to people who are biologically programmed to get tired later.
He goes on to describe scientific proof of the effect this has on their sleep and the impact to their health. It’s sad really, but his hope is to raise awareness and acceptance of the night owl’s schedule.
When they all got together to decide what kind of civilization to have, all the slackers slept in. That’s why we have to work before noon.
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As an early person I think night owls have it better in some ways, yeah work can start early but if you want to do anything “cool” it’s always late at night. Wish they’d do more daytime concerts and stuff
Oh cool! Daytime concerts in the scorching Sun!
Sure, but I’m tired from being up too early lol.
When I get off work, I have a good 7 hours of daylight, all the stores are still open, I can take a nap without ruining my sleep, I have plenty of time to play with my kid. I’m very cool with going to bed at 9-10 if that’s the tradeoff.
It’s because they got all the worms
This just in: early birds have worms
But what about them early worms
Got them too
What are they talking about? Is 9-5 not the standard office grind? It’s not even polite to phone someone before 9 am.
Office grind sure. Most people don’t work in offices. If you work in logistics, manufacturing, construction, trades of any kind really, basically anything other than an office or retail or food service, you start work at 6 or 7am.
In Asia the standard office hours are 10 to 6
I only start getting productive after 13h
Do u think I can be up and ready for work/school in half an hour?
Yeah?
You’re not a night owl. You’re just depressed and have no motivation. Humans evolved to wake up with the sun.
What do nite owls do? Drink in bars? Game all night? Cool story bro. Let me know when you earn enough money to support a family and actually do things with your life.
Why do I need to support a family if I dont want, like or have kids?
I rather enjoy life than support a family.
Do you need a cookie?
Lol. Oh no sorry please tell me again how i just go out drinking and gaming while at work from 2100 -0900…
No one gave them too much power. They just woke up early and took it before anyone else could.
But they are seen as more productive because they are on farmers’ hours
It’s cause the sun is out at 8:30 am and not 8:30 pm.
My sleep schedule is not based on the sun, probably on some random celestial body which moves in very chaotic ways
Sun sets at 10 pm here in summer, so nope.
I meant on average. It makes more sense to do things when it’s lit outside than when it’s dark.
This is not a shit post, it’s a real issue for many. In Denmark there is a political movement for the rights of non-early birds, called B-Samfundet (B-Society).
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Some months ago, I found a video about chronotypes. I don’t know how much of it can be considered scientific, but the websites have some interesting statistics about the number of people that fit in each of the categories. Apparently, only a minority is an early-bird or lion-type or morning-person. It has some associated traits that may explain why that schedule prevails (extraversion, leadership, good health), but it is unhealthy and unproductive for the rest! It’s not okay.
Why not both? Get up at 6am, go to bed at 1am.
Thats called depression
Or being under 35.
Thats called depression
Or… this person is just a gamer and plays until it’s way too late at night because they work during the day
Thats called depression
It’s why you keep calling the early bird people at 8pm for work stuff and giving them shit for not working late until they get the message that them calling you at 8am is just as annoying.
It’s biology. When winter comes and we switch daylight saving times again, I wake up an hour earlier according to the clock while walking up at the same sun time the entire year.
That’s how you get fired.
On the bright side, I both prefer and get paid more to take the later shift at work.
I’m not sure how much is really genetics vs behavior/environment. I’m a night owl too, if I can on weekends I’m up till after midnight or into the early hours. But that’s because I’m playing games, sit in front of PC displays, look at my phone and so on (and still feel like shit the next day obviously, no matter how long I sleep).
But if I force myself to go to bed early a few days in a row, which I’ve only done a few times so far, I suddenly wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, even early in the morning.
So I’m not sure if there’s actually so many night owls around, or if this is just an issue of not moving enough and having artificial light sources all around you in the evening (with plenty of screen usage). To get up early in the morning you have to go into bed early, it doesn’t work otherwise. And to go to bed early you have to stick to a schedule, otherwise it’s like jet lag, if I go to bed every day after midnight then obviously I’ll have a difficult time falling asleep at 10 p.m. the one time I actually try to.
