Are you a night person?

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I love being up late. When school is in session, I have practiced my tuba outdoors as late as midnight and then gone in and spent another couple of hours talking to friends. I play in an RPG that meets once a week from eight to midnight. With the help of copious ammounts of coffee, I can live on four and five hours of sleep for an entire semester. Then I come home, go to bed at respectable hours for a couple of weeks, start feeling rested, and get right back into my old habits.

I used to be but not anymore. I sometimes still stay up late but I try and get as much sleep as possible now and also I get tired earlier now. I still have to be up at night anyway because I have no choice and then I go back to sleep. I am also supposed to try and sleep during the day too but I never have the willpower to do it. Plus my body never seems to want to sleep when the sun is up. I have to be very very tired to sleep when it's day time.

As a child I always hated going to bed and I wouldn't even take naps so I would always be over tired at night. My parents gave up trying to give me naps. That's why I was always up late when I was a toddler because I never wanted to go to bed. I wonder how I took naps as an infant?

But I was never a morning person. I still get up in the morning but if I am forced to get up early, I am cranky. Sometimes I am up early because I can't get back to sleep.

As a child i was a night owl and stayed up all night sometimes. As for now i sleep at 11p.m. or 12a.m. so i do fall asleep late but it doesnt take me long to fall asleep. I do have a busy schedule though with 2 kids with autism so maybe thats why i am so tired.

My brain is. Damn thing won't turn off. I try to get to sleep by 11pm. My brain puts up a fight.

I like mid-morning/ noonish. That when I'm the most productive.

Yeah, I like to stay up too. I also sleep in until 9 or 10. If I get up a few hours earlier than that, I can't hold food down, and I just feel like a zombie...

My sleeping patterns are very irregular. Sometimes I stay up all night and sleep all day, and other times I go to bed before midnight and wake up in the morning.

However, I have noticed that every time I wake up in the morning, no matter how many hours of sleep I had the previous night, I'll always end up getting sleepy shortly after noon.

Yes. I'm only a person between the hours of 8pm and 4am. The rest of the time, I'm a duck.

When I was young I was on a tight schedule. I would be forced to get up every morning at the same time, and I would be forced to go to bed at the same time. Now that I am older I generally don't feel tired until after midnight, and it isn't unheard-of for me to stay up until 3 or 4 AM, because I can't fall asleep before then. When I was young I rocked myself to sleep, and that may have helped me fall asleep earlier. Now that I no longer rock myself, I don't get the calming effect that comes from repetitive motion. White noise-type sounds (e.g., the drone of an electric fan) seems to help, though. - LJS

Yes. Definitely.

I used to be a night owl. My time table won't allow for it, so I'm in bed before 10. I have to be up for work at 4 in the morning.

When I work, I usually go to bed at about 12:00 am, even though I really need a bit more sleep than that. However, when I do not have to work, I tend to stay up until 6:30 or 7:00 am.

I've always been a night person, even as a baby. My earliest memories are as a pre-schooler sitting in bed, looking at the glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling for hours after my parents sent me to bed. I have chronic insomnia and refuse to take medication for it so this is me.

Always. As I type this it's 02:11 and I feel like I'm still getting more deeply involved with the things I wanted to do. The early part of a day is for the essentials, but as night falls I then get to work on the interesting stuff.
If I'm programming something then things generally start heating up after 23:00 and just go on to completion: 02:00, 03:00 - it doesn't really matter.
Tired? Pah!

I used to be that way a lot but the Army with its ridiculously early mornings cured me of that somewhat. Nowadays it depends on how much I'm constrained by an early morning at work.