More awake at night?

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If I had my way sleep all day be up all night.

I'm definitely a night person, I usually go to bed between 3 and 7 AM (right now it's 5 for example and I'm still not tired) but it can be more sometimes. I love to live at night because it's so calm and silent, I can devote myself to my interests without anyone interrupting me. I am definitely more receptive and inspired at night. As I don't have a job for the moment I can keep on living like I do, wake up in the middle of the afternoon without having to feel bad about it... I'm thinking about looking for a night job but at the same time I'm a bit skeptical about it as I would lose the feeling of peace and calm I can feel at night and have less time for my interests... I know I will have to adapt in some ways but right now I feel completely fine with my nocturnal rhythm and want to enjoy it as much as possible.

Although I agree with the consensus that the solitude and serenity of night is preferable to the chaos of daytime, I am so diurnal that the extent at which I am such is almost unusual in retrospect to the diurnal society I live in. I am usually awake by eight A.M., if not much earlier (on a school day, I will wake up at 5:30, often waking up at least once a night). I begin to tire around eight-thirty P.M. (earlier on a day of greater stimulation); at 11:17, the time at which I am posting this, I am consciously struggling to keep my eyes open.

WerewolfPoet, I have to note that your use of language is simply beautiful, I thoroughly enjoyed to read your post. I think it is pretty clear your special interest is peotry just by your name and how you write.
It is a shame that society basically forces us to live our life at daytime seeing how many of us seem to have problems with overstimulation during daytime.

There is one thing I would like to ask:
How do other people here usually get back to their "duty routine"?
For example: I have school on Monday, this means I will have to get up earlier than I used to in the previous days. Often I struggle a lot trying to get into that old/normal routine because of my preference to have a nocturnal schedule...

This is an EXTREMELY interesting forum post. I also am nocturnal, I even work a night shift! And I, too, naturally go to sleep sometime before sunrise and wake a little before or after noon (when unemployed, when I was younger, on long vacations, etc.). This landslide of posts hints that maybe we DO have an important place in our species, but perhaps the traits have been over-concentrated or otherwise augmented. I know that I, for one, would make an AMAZING night watchman. I hear every rustle, every squeak - and I'm pitifully dutiful, to the point of self-sacrifice. Always have been. I am senselessly loyal to things, for no obvious reason. But that also has made me a very reliable and useful person to many employers over the years.

But perhaps the diurnal are simply uninterested in this thread? If so, perhaps an opposite thread is due...

I am nocturnal, I tend to fall asleep anytime between 2am and 6am normally. If I have to, due to school, work or travel I can get into a routine of going to bed a bit earlier but I find it rather annoying going to bed when I feel wide awake. If I need to adjust my sleep cycle, I tend Valerian. It's an over the counter herb which acts as a muscle relaxant and it can help get a decent 6 hours in. One of my friends recommended it after I had an all-nighter due to simply not being tired enough to fall asleep at a decent time.

I have massive problems with sleeping and always have really.

I just cannot switch off even if I do try to go to bed and attempt to sleep at, say, 11pm. Normal scenario is that I will life for a while, take a sleeping pill, not be able to relax and get up an hour or 2 later not even feeling remotely tired. I will then at least feel like I am doing something remotely productive even if it is just sorting through my photos or researching something of interest. I will often net get tired and go to bed to sleep until about 3-4am or even later. This is particularly a problem since I have a job to be at. Although my boss has told me his is not concerned too much about what time exactly I arrive, I think the expectation is that I come in around 8-9am. Needless to say this is a problem when you only get to sleep at 4am and it takes you an hour to get ready and cycle to work. I will very often arrive late on very little sleep. I want to be more balanced in my sleeping but it just seems so hardwired into my nature to stay up late.

I have been trying to make sense of this in terms of Asperger's and I have a theory. I have always needed my own space and time on my own as seems quite common on the spectrum (or even just in general). I have been living with my wife for about 7 years but have always had the study (my 'man cave') to retreat to when I require time and space on my own. I had my computer and music kit in there and my wife would rarely venture in meaning that I didnt really acknowledge how much I really needed this me-time because I never had to go without it. However, a year ago we changed around the room configuration and I lost the man cave as it became our bedroom. Although I have access to the computer and music stuff still, it is all in a shared throughway type dining room which has zero privacy compared to the other room. This means that the only time I can get proper uninterrupted me-time is after my wife goes to bed. This coincides with when my sleeping which is always bad, became much worse and I started missing entire nights of sleep and having to call in sick simply because I had just screwed up my sleep in a major way.

Night is usually the time that I go on these forums, but it's very early in the morning over here.

Still trying to get into my old routine. Maybe I should do an "all-dayer" (if diurnal people do "all-nighters", then it must be an "all-dayer" in my case).

Inferno87, I tend to "gravitate back to staying up all night" as well. Making myself tired with little sleep and staying awake for 24 hours is usually a tactic I use too, but the problem is that the night has an incredibly strong gravity and the next day I can be awake in the night - once again.