Morning person

[Haruki-kun]

Are you a morning person? There seem to be several types of people in relation to how their day starts.

Are you the type of person whose alarm goes off and wakes up feeling nice and fresh greeting the day ahead?

Or are you the type (like me) who presses snooze about five times before getting up and finally does so upset that the alarm clock ruined your last hour of sleep?

[DeadManSleeping]

Once I've actually stood up, I'm pretty much ready to go. I have, however, not yet found a way to plug my alarm clock in at a height where I need to stand up.

But I'm still more of a morning person than most people.

[KuReshtin]

I am definitely not a morning person. I need to set my clock radio to start playing about an hour and a half before I need to get up, and I then still have 4 different times set as alarms on my phone.
That still usually doesn't get me up in the mornings.

I can, however, stay up with no problem until about 2-3am even if I get up relatively early in the morning.

So I'm definitely an evening/night person.

[Lillith]

Morning? What's that? :smallconfused:

Oh, you mean that period of time between me going to bed and 10am? :smalleek: I usually waltz through that period half asleep if it's required for me to be functioning during that time. Depending on how early I have to wake up and what I have to do during that day I either wake up immediately after my alarm clock goes off or wait another 10 minutes. Though then I do go up. My alarm doesn't have a snooze button.

I am not by any means a morning person though. Then again I have weird sleeping problems that make it that I can't fall asleep before 1.30am which makes waking up early a pain for me.

[Danne]

Ew, I hate mornings. :smallyuk: I have my alarm set on the other side of the room so that I actually have to get up to turn it off, otherwise I'd never get out of bed!

[Mordokai]

I hit the snooze button once and get up... at four am. I wake up at eight am during weekends. I wake up at nine am, after seven and half beers I had last night.

Yeah. I consider myself a morning person.

[rayne_dragon]

My natal time zone is 3 hours ahead of where I'm living, so I can manage mornings, but my brain still needs until at least 9 (here) to wake up. I'm generally at my best late afternoon or evening.

[Xefas]

Depends greatly on whether I wake up voluntarily or my alarm clock wakes me up.

Generally, if I manage to wake up before my alarm, even if it's an hour or two before I normally get up, I feel amazing. I get up with a burst of eagerness and energy and have no problem with grogginess throughout the day, even without caffeine or sugar.

And so, conversely, if my alarm wakes me up, I feel like crap until I've taken a shower. And then I continue to feel kinda crappy throughout the entire day. Typically speaking.

To give an example, most Sundays, I go to sleep at about 2am and then have to get up at 6am. If I wake up at 5:59am (which happens more often than one might think) and turn off my alarm, I'm fresh as a daisy all day. If my body makes me wait until 6am for the alarm, I feel like bursting into tears and then stabbing someone to death pretty much until I get to sleep that evening.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and if someone else wakes me up in a non-abrasive manner, I'm also peachy-keen all day up to and including using terms like "peachy-keen".

[CoffeeIncluded]

Oh, I am most definitely a morning person.

[CynicalAvocado]

of course i'm a morning person. if you consider 12:00 morning

[Temotei]

That depends. I'm pretty great from 12:00 a.m. to about 3:00 a.m. Waking up sucks, so I hate sleeping. Once I'm up on my feet, though, I'm usually okay.

[Roukon]

I'm not a morning person.

However, I can be up at any time during the 24 hour period, and function. I know this because I have done it. Name a hour, and chances are I've either gotten up then or started work then. Given the choice, I would wake up around between 8 and 10 am. (Which is much earlier than when I was in HS.)

Later Days,
Roukon

[Form]

Are you the type of person whose alarm goes off and wakes up feeling nice and fresh greeting the day ahead?


Oh no. I hate waking up early and not being able to sleep in. Of course I certainly can do so if it's needed for a class or something, but I sure don't like it. I wish I could feel all nice and refreshed early in the morning though.

[Eldan]

Sure, during the holidays I'm always awake in the morning. Until 6am or so, when I got to bed.

Otherwise...
Well, normally I get up at six, shower, eat breakfast, go on the bus, and fall asleep again, without ever really waking up in between. Then on the train, and asleep again.

[CrimsonAngel]

After I get up, I can pretty much get going. It takes motivation to get me up, though. After a long day's work... I hate everybody, and if you make me mad it's your funeral. :smallannoyed:

[Icewalker]

I can kind of go either way. I enjoy sleeping in, waking up and going immediately back to sleep etc and then actually getting up at like 1 PM (which I did today and yesterday). But I don't terribly mind getting up early, if I can have a slow warming morning, do some stretching and shower and the like. I have some trouble getting out of bed sometimes, but once I'm out I'm usually up fine.

Also I've been planning on setting up a system of waking myself up and inspiring myself more in mornings via use of epic music. So I'm putting together an epic music soundtrack. Some bits and pieces of the Gurren Lagann soundtrack, Two Steps from Hell, and some Homestuck music...also, the Imperial March.

[Serpentine]

I'm so bad at mornings, I suspect that if I didn't feel guilty about it and didn't have anything to do I could quite literally sleep all day. Seriously.
It's very, very rare that I'll wake up and actually feel awake enough to easily get up. On the other hand, it's pretty easy for me to stay up until ridiculously late...

For comparison: 1am is an early night for me, and 10am a decent morning. I have to get up at 8.45am on Saturdays for work nowadays, and that's way harder than it ought to be.

[Moff Chumley]

I visited Morning once. The scenery can be okay, but the food is awful, and the people are friendly, but a little... weird, ya know? :smalltongue:

[Don Julio Anejo]

I'm weird. On the one hand, I'm a night person through and through, staying up till 3AM normally, waking up at noon or even past it if I don't have to be anywhere and taking a nap during the day. On the other, I have absolutely no trouble waking up and a lot of the time I'm actually up about 5 minutes before my alarm clock is supposed to go off. The payback is that 2 hours AFTER waking up, I'm ready to pass out.

[Vaynor]

Do I count as a morning person if I go to sleep when the morning begins?

[Haruki-kun]

I visited Morning once. The scenery can be okay, but the food is awful, and the people are friendly, but a little... weird, ya know? :smalltongue:

:smallbiggrin:


I'm so bad at mornings, I suspect that if I didn't feel guilty about it and didn't have anything to do I could quite literally sleep all day. Seriously.
It's very, very rare that I'll wake up and actually feel awake enough to easily get up. On the other hand, it's pretty easy for me to stay up until ridiculously late...

For comparison: 1am is an early night for me, and 10am a decent morning. I have to get up at 8.45am on Saturdays for work nowadays, and that's way harder than it ought to be.

I go to bed that late, usually, and wake up pretty early. About 7 or 8. So yeah... I have trouble with it. And these days it's almost like I'm living on caffeine. I think I may be becoming dependant or something.


Do I count as a morning person if I go to sleep when the morning begins?

:smalltongue:

[Partof1]

I'm absolutely not a morning person. I hate snooze at least twice every day, and I sleep through this entirely until the third alarm goes, or my mom wakes me up. Then, I'm fairly groggy for the rest of the morning, and I don't stop yawning occasonally until 3 ish. By 5 pm, I'm fully alert, and could go all night if I needed.

[Nosferocktu]

I can't be a morning person anymore. I work nights. Morning is my cue for sleepytime after work. Delicious sleepytime.

[Lioness]

I can be a morning person...it depends how much I've slept the night before, how early I get up, and how regular my sleep schedule is.

If I've slept 7-8 hours, I can be a morning person.
If I get up between about 6.30-7am, I'm a morning person...meaning that if I get up and moving straight away, I've got energy to last me the day, and I feel good.
If I've been maintaining a 10pm to 7am sleep schedule every night...well, I'm a fantastic morning person. I'm up, and bouncy, and happy, and full of awesomeness.

However, if I've been going to bed at 2-3am...like I have for the past few weeks. Well...mornings definitely don't like me.

I'm undecided...because I love sleeping in as much as I possibly can. But I love how much extra time to get things done that I have when I get up early.

[Mercenary Pen]

I've trained myself to get out of bed when my alarm clock goes off (on the other side of my room), simply because when I'm due on a 7am start at work, I don't have the option of sleeping through it...

That being said, I do not much like mornings, and if I have an early start after working late the night before, I will spend a good portion of the day half asleep, no matter what I try. Luckily, there's quite a bit I can do relatively well whilst half asleep.

[Asthix]

I slept in today! Didn't get up till 7:45 AM. (Sadly, not an exaggeration)

The most dangerous thing about becoming a morning person is that sunlight or pretty mush any lightening of the sky will wake you after a while. It's almost like reverse insomnia.

[Coidzor]

Usually not. I prefer to sleep away the morning if at all possible. But there will be times when I wake up before my alarm feeling chipper and wanting to get out and do something, so much so that I wake up in the process of climbing out of bed.

[Obrysii]

If I've had any alcohol the night before, I snap awake - instantly to full wakefulness - at about 5am, regardless of how late it was I went to bed.

[Crow]

If you wake up naturally, you will feel good. If an alarm wakes you up, you're not going to feel good.

Waking up naturally means that your body is rested, and ready to begin the day. When an alarm wakes you up, you are basically having your sleep interrupted. Early to bed, early to rise. "Morning People" generally go to bed much earlier than non-morning people, with the latter generally staying up into the later hours.

It also depends on what you consider to be the "morning". I get up at 4:50am every day, so for me, the morning is pretty much between 5-7. For others, the "morning" might be 8-10. If you're in the 8-10 group, you have a much higher likelyhood of being a morning person because you probably have gotten a little more sleep, and when the sun is up, the body has an easier time transitioning to a waking state. Of course there are the occasional freaks that love the morning and seem to require virtually no sleep.

[Serpentine]

I just don't wake up. I'll go to bed at 3am (averagish for me... :/), and then I can easily sleep 'til 1 or 2pm.

[factotum]

I don't have a problem waking up in the morning, unless I went to sleep too late. Wouldn't mind following the Spanish idea of having an early-afternoon nap most days, though! :smallsmile:

[golentan]

I'm a morning person the same way Ben Yahtzee Croshaw is a video game person. I like them and will voluntarily go there, but only in a state of extreme crankiness and I tend to terrify those I meet.

I don't like getting up, but if I have to get up I prefer to do so before 9. Unfortunately, my inner clock has been destroyed by omnipresent fluorescent lighting, so that involves getting less sleep than I like.

[Haruki-kun]

Of course there are the occasional freaks that love the morning and seem to require virtually no sleep.

I do not know how they do it. My guess is that it's a combination of a lot of caffeine and a "just do it" attitude.

[Zocelot]

I am one of very, very few people I know who get up the first time their alarm goes off in the morning. Still, I'd rather sleep in until at least noon if I have a choice

[Weimann]

I don't consider myself a morning person. I can operate on 6 hours of sleep indefinitely, and get up when the clock rings, but I can also sleep 10 or 12 hours when I have the opportunity. I need some start up time before I function completely, and I'm much better at working late into the night than start early in the morning.

[Solaris]

I do not know how they do it. My guess is that it's a combination of a lot of caffeine and a "just do it" attitude.

A sadistic streak helps much more than caffeine. Caffeine's for lightweights.

My hours of late have been down at 2330, awake at 0300 whether I want to or not. Work's at 0615. It kinda scares my room-mate, 'cause he thinks I'm awake all the time.

[Mercenary Pen]

A sadistic streak helps much more than caffeine. Caffeine's for lightweights.

My hours of late have been down at 2330, awake at 0300 whether I want to or not. Work's at 0615. It kinda scares my room-mate, 'cause he thinks I'm awake all the time.

Didn't you know, you are awake all the time, you just forget a couple of hours in every 24, no big deal really:smallwink: For extra fun, tell the guy about 'all the sleep-talking he does' and watch his reaction.

[TheThan]

No one in my family is a morning person. But the worst is my brother. He's in zombie mode until he has his first sip of coffee. Then BOOM! he's awake, its like someone turns on the light.

[Solaris]

Didn't you know, you are awake all the time, you just forget a couple of hours in every 24, no big deal really:smallwink: For extra fun, tell the guy about 'all the sleep-talking he does' and watch his reaction.

No, see, I've learned my lesson about mind-games with my room-mates. Fun when dealing with civilians, but he's a military engineer. They let him work with explosives.

[Moff Chumley]

I prepared explosive runes this morning, indeed. :smallwink:

[golentan]

In my mind, Explosives is just another way of saying "Happy Fun times," or possibly "For Science!"

Though being the subject of such fun times and/or science would be less fun, I must admit. *serious face* We have a conundrum.

(please don't get blown up Solaris)

[Eloel]

Morning?

Oh right, that's what mortals call sunrise. Well, I don't care much for the sun, given that my sleep 'schedule' is inexistant. Sleep at 2100 & wake up at 0300 is just as common as 2400-0800 and 1600-1900 sleeps.

I'm a student who has regular classes that start at 0840, not someone with changing work hours.

Sleeping across the clock require you to wake up in an instant, so if you define morning as 'when you wake up', then yes, I'm a morning person.

[Vella_Malachite]

I'm a bit odd, in that I just dislike sleeping in general. I put off going to sleep at night, but I also like to try and wake up as early as possible. ATM, I have an "11pm-to-7-or-8am" sleeping pattern, which works pretty well for me.

That said, I'm totally a night owl when it comes to when I'm most coherent...

[Solaris]

In my mind, Explosives is just another way of saying "Happy Fun times," or possibly "For Science!"

Though being the subject of such fun times and/or science would be less fun, I must admit. *serious face* We have a conundrum.

(please don't get blown up Solaris)

So you understand my problem perfectly.

[Ricky S]

I have an easier time just staying up the entire night rather than trying to wake up.

[Haruki-kun]

A sadistic streak helps much more than caffeine. Caffeine's for lightweights.

I'm a huge lightweight, then. :smalltongue:

In the past year, my caffeine intake has gone from "every once in a while" to "daily", to "several a day."

I ended up having to switch to sugar substitute before it starts showing. :smalleek:

[DeadManSleeping]

The downside of being a morning person: if you had a sucky night, you wake up the exact same as when you went to bed. No grogginess to get you to the breakfast table intact.

[Mercenary Pen]

No, see, I've learned my lesson about mind-games with my room-mates. Fun when dealing with civilians, but he's a military engineer. They let him work with explosives.

Yeah, I can see what you mean- much as it would have been fun. All it means is you need to think of different targets for your amusement...

[KuReshtin]

No, see, I've learned my lesson about mind-games with my room-mates. Fun when dealing with civilians, but he's a military engineer. They let him work with explosives.

Still.. It'd be funny to hear his reaction if you just casually said to him that he usually looks so peaceful when he sleeps. And then smile a bit.

[grimbold]

I will go to bed at 3 and then wake up at 10-11 at which point i will surf the interwebs until lunch i wont leave bed though