Can You Become a Morning Person?

[@SciShowPsych]

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[@WeeWeeJumbo]

My friend's kid is turning six soon... totally buying the bubble science kit

[@shespawntwin1]

Elementary school.... and up. 😏 I know what I'm getting for my birthday

[@IAmSweetPea]

Are the kits no longer available?

[@athena8794]

im a night owl, forced to be a morning lark, resulting in a permanently exhausted pigeon.

[@AmyDuan]

Ah, i see you are a person of culture as well

[@rumblefish9]

Still better than being a dolphin chronotype

[@DuchessChau]

My entire outlook on life changed when I got a 3-11 job. No more alarm clock. I actually get up ready to work. I find more time to get stuff done because I’m not tired.

[@GS42SCHOPAWE]

Now I'm considering this as well...

[@Ma11Nas1y]

Changing my hours to not start until 1 and turning off my alarm clock has been the best thing ive done for my health. My medication resistant depression has become much more manageable with my medication, my work ethic is much MUCH better, and my friendships are stronger because i actually have the energy after work to spend time with them. Society needs to change, yes, but if you are a night owl and have the ability to adjust your hours to be later, it is 100% in yours and others best interest to do so.

[@DuchessChau]

Matthew Parrish , so true! My meds weren’t helping either. Seemed like I was adjusting or changing meds every six months. After I gained better wellness skills and got a job that lets me rest, everything changed.

[@DuchessChau]

Slartibartfast 42... if the opportunity presents itself, go for it!

[@DuchessChau]

Geraldo iz cool... work hard, play hard.

[@MollieStar]

OMG I could just cry hearing this and seeing all the comments... MY PEOPLE. It is so rough being a night person and feeling constantly shamed by society. I have been called lazy more times than I can fathom and the constant eye rolls etc... I am so over it. It such a beautiful thing to hear someone say that society needs to change around this! I have turned myself blue in the face saying exactly this for decades. I hope we really can change so that future generations do not have to go through what we have.

[@SzDavidHUN]

People be like: JuSt Go To BeD eArLy

[@Metalkatt]

*Someone* had to stay awake and watch out for hyenas when all the rest of the tribe slept. And the thanks we get for having kept their tails alive is to be treated like crud when it's hard to get up.

[@allen8376]

Oh, yeah! That makes total sense! The night owls must have provided an evolutionary advantage for the species, and having some people stay up at night to watch out for predators is a very plausible explanation.

[@izzikat9252]

THIS. This exact concept is the story I tell myself to combat the feeling of worthlessness that society wants to push on people that can't fit the mold. I've tried to figure out my "circadian rhythm" for years, tried to change it using all kinds of methods, found out about "delayed phase sleep syndrome"...but it is seriously surreal how easily the explanation of "night watch" would fit it. Because cycle length and whether or not naps work seems a bit variable. Like a ~28 hour cycle with a tendency to sleep 1-4 hours after dawn, but a dramatic improvement in sleep quality if there are familiar people around, or even in an environment like an airport with lowkey ambient social interactions. But alone, at night? Nope. And it's not like I'm scared. I'm excited, alert, more confident and optimistic than I ever am during the day. It's like the only time my dopamine connects to the right receptors.

[@thehumancv]

@@izzikat9252 i love your comment so much. exactly my experience too. trying to change it, not successful. cycle length a bit longer than 24 hours... and yes, people are like "isnt it scary to be awake at night?" ...oh no! night time is when the world is quiet, so my brain has peace to let all the ideas come through. it is the same peace that a morning person talks about when they get up at 3 or 4 - only that I go to sleep at that time. just like males and females, humans need both sides to be sustainable.

[@uss_04]

Ever get the feeling that “people would like you more if you were a morning person” In the same way that someone would tell you to “Smile more”

[@TheAureliac]

I like your comparison. Most workplaces reward the early arrivals, even if they simply drink coffee, eat breakfast and schmooze for the first two hours of the day. Those who stay late and finish up everything go unrecognized. Also, night shift workers are generally stigmatized as being less capable, despite the fact that they generally have to work with less supervision and resources than day workers.

[@Swanwoods4]

When they hit there mid day slump we are just getting started.

[@uss_04]

@@Swanwoods4 and when they are about to head out the door we’re right in our groove

[@Tolop07]

ah yes, i can see it already Job requirements: Masters degree in relevant field 5 years of experience Possession of morning lark chronotype

[@celinak5062]

+ money, genes and luck

[@RemizZ]

The thing is, every time I try to explain what it feels like to be a night owl, the answer is just 'you need to grow up' or 'you're just lazy'. Early birds have managed to make everyone believe these myths and made the world work for their schedule.

[@SuV33358]

Ikr

[@rhedinrage1601]

So many jobs I've lost because of my sleeping pattern, that I've tried so hard to change even had medications and therapy to change it, years upon years of drama and anxiety and depression over the simplest of things.. Sleeping, and still, I'm seen as the one being lazy, despite when allowed to work 3 hours in the morning 5 hours in the evening, start late, nap once, I do twice as much as anyone around me..

[@psfreak333]

What I hate is I feel bad everyday going into the lab at my university so late in the day when everyone else is already hard working but I would much rather stay late in the evening in the lab than get up early and feel miserable...

[@juggernaut93]

Same.

[@Sluggii]

Same, like I feel physically bad when I wake up early but I feel depressed when I wake up later cuz I feel useless

[@metodospsicofisicos6586]

Me too :/

[@suki5048]

Same.. this was the main bone of contention between me and my PI. She would want all her students to meet her at 9:30am. And since I used to really struggle reaching by 9:30 I was termed lazy, inefficient and irresponsible 🙄

[@psfreak333]

@@suki5048 Yeah I'd imagine that could be quite difficult after awhile! Luckily I'm never expected to be there early but I definitely feel guilty arriving later than everyone else but I'll happily stay there longer into the night if there is work to do.

[@steamedjellyfish8608]

I remember staring at my ceiling until 1 or 2 in the morning trying to go to bed through most of elementary and middle school. I work the night shift now and dont have sleep trouble anymore so I'm ecstatic to hear it was my DNA and not something more serious.

[@Dollightful]

That was very interesting. Schools are a difficult problem to tackle... we could adopt the sign-up method seen at colleges and universities. You could sign your kids up for later or earlier classes in the day, maybe? Although I imagine many schools out there don't have the resources or money to accommodate those kinds of changes. Hmmm......

[@bluesillybeard]

It is a tough problem to solve indeed.

[@Kevin_Williamson]

I'm a definite night owl. As I got older, it became more entrenched. I used to be able function if I had to be up with the rest of humanity but now that option is gone. I can't sleep until at least 4 AM. I tried to reset my clock using everything from set times going to bed to sleeping pills to melatonin pills. Nothing worked. I could pop prescription sleep aids and not sleep until 4 AM rolled around. I was always tired and irritable and braindead. I did binge eat like crazy when I was trying to change my sleep pattern. Finally, I just accepted this was who I was and found work that allowed me to live my life. Now I'm happier and have my eating under control. Of course, none of my family can grasp my sleeping schedule. They want to do things at ungodly hours like 9 or 10AM. When I explain I'm still sleeping they just seem so amazed and act like I'm just lazy.

[@athena8794]

im a night owl myself and in the same boat as you, except my father was literally a drill sergent who's convinced its a sin to sleep past 7am thats roughly equivalent to eating a baby.

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

if you want there is a trick, air travel to some place that have different hours, stay some time until you get use to that time, then came back to your home and re-ajust your time again, or if you choose the right place maybe you don't need it. the night owl it is like living in a city with a different hour than you have in your body.

[@bobthegoat7090]

I don't get why people call night owls lazy. I mean we don't get more sleep than they do. Maybe we should call our friends and family at 3 AM and ask them if they want to go on a hike and then call them lazy when they say they are asleep. Actually, you should do that. It might make them understand

[@jonathanodude6660]

@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez it will reset back to your old sleep times because of the day night cycle. i found when i went to england, within 2 days i was sleeping consistently at 1am and then when i came back to australia, literally the day i got back after a 24 hour flight and an examat uni, i went to bed at 1 and continued at 1-5am since september. though i dont really get jet lag so idk how comparable that is. waking up early for school/uni is way worse than any jet lag ive ever had.

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

@@jonathanodude6660 depends on how much exposure you had to the new hour, you get get lagged if you don't get used to the new hours. Also a reset is what I talk about, it could help to regain the earlier bird cycle. And yes I went to the university, for worst it was every Saturday from 7:30 am to 5:30pm. It was hard for the hours more than I learned.

[@jjmitchell14]

The non-specificity of the statement “at a store near you” has the same vaguely ominous aura of a Night Vale ad. Excellent.

[@JuliusUnique]

we need an online-school, I currently use an online-university and I can go to bed whenever I want to, also wake up whenever I want to, so nice! It really helps me getting those 9-10 hours of good sleep each day

[@supersparkie]

I’m a night owl. I go to bed late, I wake up late. I go to bed early, I still wake up late, but I’m more rested, so that same night I’m not that tired, thus I go to bed late. Rinse and repeat.

[@JoaoPedro-qp9cw]

It seems like you are a morning person with a sleep deficit. If it is possible, you should try sleeping early (even if you wake up late) for a week or so and then try to wake up earlier while still going to sleep early

[@supersparkie]

It’s possible and I should try it, but I sleep about 8 to 8 and a half hours every night... And turning in early is the most difficult thing ever cause my brain always needs more knowledge #intj

[@WindKing0]

4:25 - 4:35 "So Hank, how's parenthood treating you? " "..I'm fighting my DNA." XD

[@sebastianelytron8450]

I was always a night owl until I sank into a depression and existential crisis. Since then I've always been a mourning person.

[@Gulgathydra]

I adapted my night owl chronotype to the world by sleeping 3-5 hours per night. This cuts down my life expectancy, but I console myself with the idea that I'll have the same number of waking hours overall.

[@myjciskate4]

Gulgathydra There was a joke in the comment that flew right over your head lol

[@sean..L]

Ah man I’m an hour late.

[@kristinabaker4433]

🙄

[@mac4951]

Yikesssss

[@psfreak333]

When people say they're a nightowl and stay up until midnight I can't help but laugh because here I am staying up till 2-3am everyday because I can't sleep no matter how hard I try to change my schedule lol

[@treeaboo]

Yeah the "I'm a night owl" but they only stay up 'til 11pm or midnight and here I am consistently at between 3am and 5am, "Yeah sure."

[@marios1861]

@@treeaboo lets not gatekeep but I agree. The video was eye opening. I have ruined my sleep schedule so many times probably because it wants to revert to it's natural preference. When I stray even once from my schedule it really gets ruined. WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS.

[@psfreak333]

Mariano Ntrougkas I’ve had to recently start an earlier schedule and I feel like death for the last month...at first it was just that was a bad sleep but it has now accumulated to the point where I feel less effective/efficient and unhappy lol I don’t want to work any less than anyone else I just wanna work at a later time is all

[@loganphillips5142]

Those are rookie numbers I always naturally fall asleep around 6-7am even if i forvce myself to adopt a normal schedule I always drift back towards the 6am-3pm schedule...feels bad man

[@Cynthia63636]

The point isn't who's the best night owl the point is that everyone is different.. you don't get a medal for going to bed the latest..

[@Azzarinne]

THANK YOU!! I've always been a night owl, and the consequences of being forced into a diurnal schedule have cost me grades, and even jobs before. Also, every one of the associated health problems you listed are something I either have now or am predicted to develop at some point. I wish there were more work and school options for those of us who would have guarded the cave while the rest of the tribe slept thousands of years ago. There doesn't seem to be much room for introverted night people.

[@cube_cup]

"teenagers are generally night owls" let's start school at 8. Bloody hell.

[@CustardCream22]

Deldarel I was always a morning person as a teenager. Never understood why people say teenagers need to sleep more lol.

[@beth8775]

The 8:30 recommendation is probably an attempt to compromise between teen/adult natural schedules.

[@kellymaldia128]

SPORTS is a huge issue. Until "we" (US) stops putting so much emphasis on athletics and change our approach to learning, school is going to continue to start crazy early.

[@BloodReaper95]

Schools should start at 9 or 10 in the morning. Id rather be home at 5-6 in the evening then be tired and unable to learn and focus.

[@notxbox5115]

Schools are making bigger mistakes than me.

[@Asarrrrrr]

My body want's to go to bed at 1-2am and get up 10-11am 😒

[@effingsmashing5551]

Ooh yes me too. How do I join this society?

[@TheShuckleNoob]

Could be worse i've been falling asleep at 10 am and waking up at around 4-7 pm, depending on f work calls for me to be in at 5 pm.

[@drkmgic]

That's a lot of sleep

[@Asarrrrrr]

@@drkmgic yeah i tend to sleep at a lot. Also im still a teenager so

[@saltylemon8203]

That's how teenagers sleep patterns usually are

[@revenevan11]

I want to do the blood test to find out! College has me so messed up that I can't tell what my rhythm should be. I overdid it on sleep deprivation a little over a year ago, and can no longer get up early or stay up late, let alone both like I used to.

[@angelfi]

revenevan11 I can relate to that, after five intense years of studies of architecture. Try to establish a rhytm of going to sleep and waking up at the same time every single day. It should help after a while.

[@busraterzi8189]

This video makes me feel SO understood. I can't count how many times I've been told in high school "Oh you just have to sleep early to wake up early. You'll get used to it after a few days" etc. and I was there, rolling my eyes, trying to tell them how most of my relatives also can't sleep at night, even as a child I was sleeping late comparing to my peers... In these conversations, I remember literally saying "No, the society has to change." multiple times.

[@Swenthorian]

The sleep doctor says I have a free-running clock. For years, I'd fall asleep at a random time every night, between midnight and 7am. Now I use light therapy and melatonin, and while it helps (I'm asleep by 2am most nights), it's no silver bullet.

[@ghosthallgremlin]

oh how i dream of the day when the world can accept that i am most functional between midnight and five am.

[@BRUXXUS]

Meeee tooo!

[@Starfals]

Yea one day going to sleep later ruins your sleep times forever. Im the night kind of person usually and even when i fix my sleep clock (after days of not sleeping to go to sleep on time.. and coffee) it still eventually breaks up. Its hard to go to sleep at the same time day after day after day.

[@ashleyashleym2969]

And waking up at the same time? I actually find it fixes things as long as I wake up at the same time.

[@DeviousWizard]

I have to reverse my sleep every other week for work. On work week days, I work from 20 to 07 (8PM to 7AM) Where I need to sleep from around 08 to 15-16. The most efficient way of turning it around I've found is to just stay awake. That way it can be turned in one day, leaving you most of the week at decent sleep. On the plus side, I don't drink coffee or smoke.

[@shirophoenix01]

My mom tells me all the time how when I was in her womb I was really active at night and super calm in the day. Fast forwars to being born the same thing happened. My poor Mom couldnt sleep cause I was active during the night. I remember as a tween relishing summer vacation bc I could stay up in the night and sleep during the day. This has continued during all my life. I like the night sky more than the day, the moon i find is more soothing than the warm rays of the sun, the silence of night and the darkness is just something that I find comforting. I love walking at night and just being out at night. It sucks tho that one has to deal with the imposed notion that everyone is a morning person. I hate going to school and work early but when i used tk work 3-12 I was super productove as well as night classes, where I participated way more than in early classes.

[@yellowmalice3036]

I'm actually between jobs currently, and looking for an evening/night job, since I just couldn't tolerate being up and ready for work at 7am. No matter how much I tried, and what I took to force myself to sleep at night, my entire system just didn't agree with waking up & going to sleep that early.

[@WolffStaedtler]

I was recently diagnosed with delayed sleep phase disorder. They measured my melatonin and found my natural sleep time is 1:30 AM. This disorder is still little known so if you relate to being a "night owl" this might be something you should look into. It helps to know it's not your fault you aren't going to sleep sooner. I'm currently taking melatonin and using light therapy to try to treat it.

[@brendankendall41]

As I've always said: "Why is there not one person on this planet who needs me at any time other than the ungodly hour of 6:00am?"

[@BRUXXUS]

I honestly think my natural day is coded to be like 25 hours. When working for myself, and don't have to get up regularly for a job, I tend to go through a rolling sleep cycle where my bedtime slowly shifts over time to be later and later until it rolls back to where it starts. It's frustrating being active only in the middle of the night, but I'm WAY more productive and creative if I sleep when I'm tired and wake when fully rested.

[@Teth47]

Well this explains why I develop a continuous tension headache if I wake up before about 9AM that literally doesn't go away until I let myself sleep in for a couple of days. 8AM shifts Mon-Fri at one job. I lasted 2 months before I couldn't deal with feeling like my neck was being ripped into, nothing made it go away. I didn't realize it was waking up early that was doing it at the time, so for 2 more weeks after I quit, I tried to maintain the sleep schedule. When the headache didn't go away I just stopped caring about life and slept until like 2PM that day, woke up without a headache. I work night shifts now, it's much better. Edit: Also caffeine makes me uncontrollably anxious, so that's out entirely.

[@apteropith]

God, my childhood of being forced to wake up at 6 in the morning (or worse, 6 in the morning on Daylight "Savings" Time), every weekday for school, was _miserable._

[@FreqyBiker]

I'm neither a morning lark or a night owl- I'm a permanently exhausted pigeon

[@515leopard]

Me: I want to be a morning person, maybe this’ll help... Also me: *watches video at 3:14am*

[@TheRugsy]

2 am here

[@AdamChef85]

I have been watching u guys for years and years now and I just want to say thank you that’s all.

[@tahroo4262]

I've been trying all my life to not be up all night.. no matter what mixture of going to sleep early or staying up when I'm extremely tired.. it only sticks for about 2 or 3 days before I just suddenly realize it's morning again and I didn't sleep the whole night in spite of waking up at 6 or 7am.

[@celinak5062]

That sounds like some sort of sleep illness or chronic fatigue, maybe

[@redflamearrow7113]

That's my daughter's sleep schedule. Try to work around it. Forcing yourself to change it will just make you miserable.

[@tvdan1043]

My dad was one of those who thought if he stood next to my bed and yelled at me to go to sleep I would go to sleep. Doesn’t work like that dad, but sure keep yelling.

[@JonnesTT]

Y'know what, this is surprisingly calming. I mean I'm still working to become a creative lead for one of the most predatory industries at the moment, so I am expected to be at the daily pitch off meetings, but at least it's not my fault that I have to reset my internal clock regularly. Aaand I can get therapy to help with that. That's nice.

[@LiftPizzas]

I've been an extreme night owl for over 30 years, and then for about a year when my kids were still in diapers, I was sleepy in late evening and getting up early in the morning without an alarm and completely refreshed. It made everything so much easier and I had so much more energy while it lasted.

[@hannasophia18]

I've recently changed my workschedule so I don't have to start work until 11 am. I'm self employed and working in the creative industry, so this works fine. I used to feel so guilty before, when I rarely managed to feel productive before 11, but I feel so much better and less stressed (because I would always be late, trying to sleep 15 min longer) and I just work longer, if I have to I don't mind working until 10pm. I now wake up naturally some time between 8 and 9 am and that feels great!

[@JHA854]

I cannot wake up early. For like 8 years I have struggled with this.

[@BarbarianGod]

I found that for me personally, eliminating blue light (I have f.lux permanently on 4000k to 3700k and it goes down to 3000k depending on the monitor) pushed me easily from not being able to sleep at night or get up easily in the morning, to waking up at 6-7am on weekends without an alarm clock. As a side note I don't spend any time on my phone in bed as that would be another source of blue light (though I think most phones now have some way of producing/setting warmer colours)

[@celinak5062]

+

[@munchkinmeep]

As a definite night owl, I realized in college how amazing it was to learn material in the evenings, versus the mornings. Evening classes made a huge difference in my ability to take in education materials. This in stark contrast to Freshman year class starting at 8 and then I would pass out from 9:30 to 9:45 NO MATTER WHAT. Going to bed early, more coffee, nothing helped! I just needed to shift everything down a few hours. I would love a society that plays to these strengths: having staggered workforce waves, for example.

[@teresa_meow]

I'm somewhere in between, I have my fixed sleeping pattern and routines. I hate having to wake up before 8 am, but also staying awake past midnight is tough... I need my 9 hours of sleep!

[@amberhawksong]

Same but I lean slightly towards night owl more.

[@MK-je7kz]

I'm not a morning person, but my real problem is that my internal day is not 24 hours. If I didn't have to adjust to society my day would probably be 25-27 hours.

[@marios1861]

doesnt work like that

[@brendontompa-clinch2306]

Lol what? Im 5'10 but if i didnt have to adjust to society my height would be 6'2

[@AlexanderPavel]

@@marios1861 There is a circadian rhythm disorder that causes that called Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep-wake_disorder

[@ScientistDog]

You should go to Mars, you will have almost 40 minutes more each day. (?)

[@Tmpp88]

@@marios1861 It's a real thing bros and it sucks dongs. Non-24 is the entire clinical shebang, but a whole lot of people have rhythms that are just a smidge under or over 24 hours and that's enough to throw a huge wrench into things in the long run. Like for example if your brain really wants there to be 24 hours and 10 minutes in every full day. Doesn't sound like a big deal but when your sleep tries to creep that 10 minutes forward each day it's gonna start putting a huge pressure on your night/morning routines within a couple of weeks. My natural rhythm is somewhere between 25-26 hours and I have pull an allnighter reset about every 2-3 months. And even that's just a shoddy patch on the gaping wound and never an enjoyable experience, plus it fails to work like half the time.

[@DocDoesGamingTV]

This is so important. Ever since I started working night shifts (as a night owl) I'm doing so much better health wise. Mentally and physically!

[@EnvAdam]

0:57 - A interesting thing Ive found is Ive been trying to make my self not a night-owl but I cant seem to achieve it considering Ive spent about 7 to 10 years trying, I always feel more comfortable waking up at around 2AM to 4AM, before sunrise. I easily fall asleep during the daytime although I'd prefer a more "normal schedule"

[@redflamearrow7113]

Just go with your own flow, as long as it's possible to do this

[@NessaOfDorthonion]

I'm really excited for the universe unboxed kits. My daughter is about to turn 3 and she finally sits down for a minute to listen to an explanation, I think she would love these (and so will I)

[@NewMessage]

I don't blame the bell curve for my being a 'night owl'... but the school bell sure did all it could to fight me on it.

[@maracachucho8701]

My university doesn't care about any of that, all of my classmates are permanently sleep deprived.

[@ElonMuskegon]

Oddly enough, my circadian rhythm shifted around 2 weeks ago. I used to go to sleep at like 3AM and wake up around noon, now I sleep around 11PM and wake up at 6 or 7AM. No reason at all, just slept early once and now it's become a habit.

[@HeatherLandon227]

I cannot get up early unless I absolutely have to. Anything before 9am is a no go. If I have something that's early, I end up staying up most of the night and napping during the afternoon afterward. Getting up at the crack of dawn is associated with how horrible our school system is.

[@T_Greer]

In the 70s I went to an experimental open classroom school in California (shocking). One of the things they did was test us at various times of the day. In grades 1-3 this placed us in work groups that learned logic and creativity at different times. Tests were also given based on the time of your better scores. In 4-5 we were given different start times were my school day started at 10: 30 aka Second Shift. We worked with kids from First Shift based on academic levels. By the time we got to 6th grade they started gearing us towards "societal norms" we started early and learned as a classroom but tested in 2 time groups. Of course, once middle school and puberty happened we were thrown to the lions. At least I could zone out during Homeroom and P.E. I was a nerd, that red ball had my name on it anyway

[@parallel4]

Having varying circadian rhythms would actually be very beneficial for humans, evolutionarily speaking. It means that, in a group of humans, there's never a time where all humans are asleep, so that in the case of emergency/threat, the awake human can alert/protect the sleeping humans.

[@larryholbrook5307]

It's like night owls were there to guard the morning larks. They were smarter, hungrier, etc. night owls burn more energy using their brains looking for bad guys. Morning larks make the breakfast for night owls, then they hunt and gather, when needed the night owls will back up the group or the morning larks will back them up. They both served a purpose life and society.

[@_KingOfCalifornia]

It's never been like that

[@bluesillybeard]

sadly not true in the modern world

[@TheSkyHunterHQ]

As someone who works on a toxic hospital schedule... this is video just funny... circadian rhythm? What's that 😂

[@turkeybowlwinkle4440]

As a night owl I spent 40 years suffering through mornings and no, you can't change. At least I couldn't. Now I'm retired and I sleep to about 10 everyday. It feels great to finally get some sleep.

[@nkwhite]

I knew it... You gotdam morning people have been trying to kill me for years... 😒

[@quendelf]

This is why I find it SO HARD to change my sleep schedule. If I stay up late on a Friday it takes a whole week or more to get back to normal

[@CailinRuaAnChead]

Before watching this as someone who is most definitely more prone to night owl tendencies, and who has a five year old who thinks 5am is just a great time to wake up and start the day, and has done since day one, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say no. No it is not possible.

[@ridered300]

Working rotating shifts I've found lots of water and a healthy diet helps me wake up at 430am when I need to, and stay up til 7am when I need to. I've always had trouble sleeping though, so staying awake through night shifts isn't much of a problem.

[@angeldude101]

My parents pester me pretty much every day they're home to "not stay up too late". In spite of that, I tend to go to be fairly consistently between 1 and 2 AM. They are really determined to make me go to bed earlier.

[@mschrisfrank2420]

I was a night owl as a kid, but now I’m 31 and I have to get up between 5am and 6am for work. As long as I stick to a routine, I’m fine. But when I’m off work for a week or more, I tend to wake up around 8am and stay up an extra hour.

[@uplink-on-yt]

I wake up early, or I wake up friendly.

[@bluesillybeard]

same

[@Bellencer]

I had a genetic test done and one of the interesting tidbits was that apparently I wake up at 9am naturally. This is true, if I don’t have to wake up early I will naturally wake up at 9am every single day for the past 6 years. However since I’ve been working 6am-12pm, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting up naturally at 8am on my days off, and I feel much more awake when I do get up.

[@pigcatapult]

My mother and I both have an extreme chronotype where we naturally go to bed a bit after dawn and awaken in the afternoon. I take medication every night so I can get to sleep while it's still dark out and wake up around noonish, but getting out of bed is hard.

[@katerwhall1865]

The world needs more science toys for adults.

[@H43X]

If we want to start to change society first we might want to start by not calling it a circadian rhythm DISORDER. Also, 2nd shift exists, it's amazing and I hope the push for it keeps growing cause it made me actually happy to wake up and go to work at a time that felt natural. It's sad that it's so rare still though.

[@SpaceDwarfNova]

I work PM shift and I LOVE IT. I've worked it forever. Healthcare is an amazing industry to find PM shift work, but of course healthcare isn't for everyone

[@zay-fl7oy]

0:14 the 2 kinds of ppl in the world the ones that entertain and the ones that observe

[@matthewdrummond1340]

*"...or in their late 30's." Frantically waves hand.*

[@katiebryant6063]

I feel like I could definitely benefit from this wisdom...seeing as I’m watching this at 3am

[@amberdent651]

As a night owl my entire life and perpetually exhausted to matter how much sleep I get, I feel this. Literally nothing is made with my schedule in mind. 3am-10am is the perfect amount of sleep at the right time, but what starts after 10am? Pretty much nothing.

[@seasong7655]

Society is discriminating against night people

[@harsharnkaur2075]

aint that the turth!

[@smite6918]

u right

[@kcazseeley]

We could take over the world while they sleep

[@tlac4120]

Join the night society!

[@robertt9342]

kcazseeley . Then we take it back when you are a sleep during the day, but faster because we aren't bumping into things in the dark.

[@Swanwoods4]

Yes it’s called delayed phase sleep disorder when your internal clock clock. You can get a light therapy box or go into the sunlight the same time every morning and it does work. I need to go back to doing this, but I do love the night. It’s like night owls lose either way

[@SoraKoudo]

Oh hey, I’m more a night person, and I’ve been happy to find a work shift that has me closing the store- getting there at 5pm and working until around 11:30 - it’s perfect, I can get home and just pass out and sleep in however long I need

[@Xirpzy]

So true. This winter i went to bed at 7 in the morning and woke up at 16. Took a week with forced changes to my habit before i got back to a somewhat regular sleep cycle. Feel alot better now and get more stuff done because of it. Going to sleep few hours earlier is easier than trying to skip a day/night.

[@matrinoxtm]

We accommodate people who are differently abled so why can’t we accommodate people with different schedules.

[@tvdan1043]

Because there haven't been enough lawsuits. People using wheelchairs and other mobility devices had to sue for decades to get both governments and corporations to change.

[@stevenboelke6661]

I'm a night owl, but I have found that I do really well when I sleep and wake super early and exercise. I had never felt better than when I was sleeping from 9pm - 5am every single night.

[@super-weirdo5219]

4:49 "society has to change" Now ain't that right. School should start no earlier than 9 in the morning!!! Anytime before 9 AM is unacceptable. I did not know that Morning Lark and Night Owl were actually scientific terms before i watched this video. Cool.

[@jonathanodude6660]

@@tomshiba8073 i bet you sleep more than the majority of night owls who have ever existed. youre the one sleeping their life away my friend.

[@allen8376]

@@tomshiba8073 I think you might be a sleepless elite! :O

[@dropmelon]

@@tomshiba8073 Though I know most people now could only get 5 hour sleep at best, man that's unhealthy.

[@765respect]

8 AM is fine for elementary/primary grades but the best time for secondary/junior high/ highschool would be 1030 AM. Parents could pick them up on the way home from work. Teenage brains are more alert in the late mornings. Too much mischief to be made while on their own in the early afternoon till when the parent gets home hours later.

[@altrag]

@@tomshiba8073 The day has the same number of hours for night owls. Its less convenient to be awake at 4am (cause society hates us) but its not a lesser amount of total time. . The real problem is that we're _not_ sleeping our lives away -- we're being awake when we're not supposed to be, and we live in a half-dazed state for half our "awake" time due to it not being the time our bodies enjoy being awake. And similarly, our sleep tends to be worse as well since we're forcing our bodies to (attempt to) sleep when they really want to be awake. . We definitely get less done in a day but its because we're half asleep for the first few hours, whether we start at 6 or at 9, and its somewhere between difficult and impossible to change that (as the video noted.) . Our only real option is to find a job more agreeable with our natural cycle (and there's lots of people on this forum stating how happy they were after taking an afternoon or evening job) .. but those jobs are still pretty rare, and it still leaves us in a pickle with regard to all of the non-work aspects of life (school for kids.. church for the religious types.. but even simple things like banking or grocery shopping or getting a haircut are a challenge if you live the "wrong" schedule.) . For my personal story, I recently got a job that starts at 10am and a very short commute (like less than 10min.) That's _doable_ for me. Barely. If it started much earlier I would probably be late frequently, no matter how many alarms I set, and would be practically useless until 10 or 11 anyway.

[@ecamville2928]

I work in schools. I have disordered sleep due to ADHD but I can't get treatments because it's too expensive in the US. I also just have a different natural sleep pattern than morning people--my mom's a 2am-10am sleeper and I seem to have inherited that. ADHD makes that sleep schedule vary wildly, but when I can get a regular schedule it's 2-10. Trouble is, schools start at 7. I cannot force myself to go to sleep early enough. I try. I TRY. I will lay in bed for hours, not sleeping. I would say I'm not built for this schedule, but frankly with how tired the students are? I just don't think schools are built for us.

[@alluneedislessthan3]

OMG I just thought I was a lazy good-for-nothing piece of garbage!!! You mean there’s a REASON I can’t seem to wake up early no matter how hard I try???

[@livialimaastrologia]

I've been a night owl ever since I was a kid. Never had troubles staying up late at night. I remember at parties, all my cousins sleeping at the couches and me all awaken! There were some times in my life that I would wake up late afternoon and went to bed when people in my house was waking up - having night shift in college messed around me good. Though I love my nights, it was complicated to live in a society where everything closes when I'm starting my day. Luckily where I live there is now a 24/7 market, a 24/7 drugstore and even a 24/7 restaurant, all around my block, so I'm happier nowadays. I've managed to wake before moon and going to bed around 2pm for three years, and it was fine. But now I'm back to going to bed in the morning but I'm never getting 8h sleep, and I cut caffeine a few months ago, so I feel like garbage most of the time.

[@jamiehay1027]

Watching this in the morning.

[@katezimmerman6793]

Hmmm does watching this video at 3 AM classify me as a night owl? 😆

[@beth8775]

That mismatch with your 2 year old statement is too real! And YAYYY for Universe Unboxed! This sounds great for my kids!

[@aerendyll]

I'm definitely a night owl. Thankfully I'm also in a situation where I can sleep in until the afternoon or so, which definitely makes it easier for me to function. There's definitely pressure from my social circle to get up earlier in the morning, though... which I absolutely struggle with. To all fellow night owls who feel that pressure to get up earlier: I feel you.

[@SpaceDwarfNova]

So true!!! Ditto

[@werelemur1138]

For a couple of years, I worked a 2pm - 10am schedule. It was the only time in my life I've managed to regularly wake up for work without an alarm clock.

[@SynchrotizedPsychotherapist]

Yep my mom and I were clear night owls and resulting I was constantly late for school. If I didn't get my mom up I wouldn't have had chance to even get to school. Uni was great because most of my classes were in the afternoon or even the evening at 8-10pm and I did my best work then haha

[@ThePolaris87]

YES!!! Thank you for this! Been fighting social jet lag my whole life! Society for some reason has deemed that "'morning larks" are more valuable, to the detriment of all night owls.

[@mitchelswanson1380]

I work 7pm to 7am at a factory. The job itself is pretty easy but the hardest parts are getting to sleep on time and the difficulties of waking up when many important businesses have already closed. Often times I don't go sleep until noon which in best case scenarios means I only get about 5 hours of sleep. When I need to say go to my bank, visit a doctor, mechanic, etc. I have to stay up later or wake up earlier making my sleeping habits super inconsistent. Not to mention things like road construction and day commuters add a whole lot of noise into the mix which can lead to waking up repeatedly and thereby reducing your overall rem cycle sleep. It's a recipe for insomnia if I've ever seen one.

[@harmonicaveronica]

My partner and I both get up at 5:30 every day - I don't find it especially hard to wake up, but it's always a struggle for him. I'm probably 1.5hrs off my body's clock so it isn't ideal, but the difference for him is 3-4 hours

[@hotaru6765]

great timing, yesterday I decided to try to be a morning person. Here I'm, today I woke up at 7am. Let's see how it goes after a few days

[@reynaldacontreras9165]

idk if you remember this comment, but if you do, how did it go? XD

[@norielsylvire4097]

Here in Spain you can study on the evening. Starting at about 4:30PM and ending at 10PM I would like for society to go to sleep at 5AM and wake up at 2PM

[@cymaxo]

I literally can never fall asleep before 12am and I have to get up for school af 6am each day. My energy levels are at their best when I naturally sleep at 2 (not earlier, not later) and wake up at 9-10am).

[@ozdergekko]

I'm glad I never had to work fixed times. School was horrible though. Now in retirement I'm back to my natural rhythm - sleep times average on 2:30 to 10:30.

[@michelavila4740]

Thanks, Hank! I feel validated