Does your brain work best at an inconvenient time?

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My brain works best at the most inconvenient time... the late late night to rearly early morning (about 11:30 to 4:00.) I have writer's block at all times but that time, when I could write and write and write and i would be ingenious, fascinating writing. My plans-- same thing-- I only make ingenious, fascinating plans at that time of the day/niht! Talk about inconvenient!

sometimes things come to me out of nowhere if I didn't quite get it before but mostly I feel more energetic and creative at night. My brain does not work however with abrupt noises and disruptances that I didn't see coming.

Yea I find my brain works better at night too, its weird..

I can concentrate a lot better at night because I am by myself and there for I can write more.

My brain is at its peak from 10:00 PM-2:00 AM, and for that period I can't fall asleep... all the more annoying when I have to watch the Daily Show at 11:00 PM and I have a 6:00 AM wake up call...

Me too...if I need do do something tricky I will do it better and faster between 11:00pm and 5am...

Fighting it is futile.

M

Same for me! 11pm to 4am is when my brain is at its creative peak. Being of logical and rationnal nature and trying to explain this fact, I first though I just might be less self-criticizing due to a certain mental fatigue (even thought I hardly feel fatigue, I mostly "know" it). But rechecking whatever Ive done/written/composed/thought during daytime, it seemed it really was highly creative.

The fitest explanation I can give is twofold :

1) Actual fatigue may raise my spontaneity, something I usually lack
2) Being awake during the night when mostly everybody else is asleep seems to let me fully explore my mental horizons, because I dont feel commited to anything I should be doing, as opposed to daytime when I get distracted by what a normal/average person is expected to do.

Mine always starts going strong around 2:00 a.m.... right when I finally start getting sleepy, lol.

same here nobodyzdream lol my brain goes crazy at 2 am, and that is when i end up falling asleep, it's wierd.

10 pm - 2 am. Somehow it's more peaceful at that time. I wonder what we're picking up from around us before then?

Yea. I tend to get on a roll with whatever I'm doing after 11:00 PM and then I stay up till like 2:00 AM. Sometimes I'll feel tired around 8:00 or 9:00 PM and will have trouble working then I'll actually get less tired later on.

My mental peak used to be at night, which worked out quite nicely. I kept a very interesting journal during those years. Now that my workdays are more difficult, I hit my thinking/creativity peak at an inconvenient 10 a.m. (roughly), when I am too busy to write anything down!

I thought I was the only one like this. I'm worthless until about midnight and after, maybe why so many of my posts here are crap. That's when I always do my best work, so that's when I do my homework. I have to intentionally set up my classes to start late because of this, which isn't always easy.

I have a paper due tomorrow and I'm going to do it later tonight once the football game is over, although the game is going badly. If it's a big assignment I drink something with a lot of sugar and caffeine because my eyes get tired when my brain is going.

Yep, that's about the same window I have. My writing during those hours is freaking phenomenal. If I force myself into a different time window, my brain just won't have it. As for studying or assignments, I won't even attempt it earlier than 5PM, because it's a complete waste of time.

yes, it's the most annoying thing ever too. I lay down, think of something I should write down, get up, write it down, lay back down, think of something else, get back up, etc. I finally pass out around 4:00 or so due to it, lol, and am VERY exhausted by then.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I think that when I need to use my brain in certain situations I become afraid and I just sort of shut down, but when Im by myself and it doesnt matter I can think much more clearly.