Are you a morning person?

[Drew]

My brain doesn't really turn on till 2pm so I really hate morning people. Still, I begrudgingly admit you do exist. Out yourself here.

[DCSL]

I can fake it for work but I hate being awake in the morning. Morning people just make it worse.

[B4Hand]

I love the morning..it's something about the quiet stillness..and everything waking up to a new beginning. I tend to keep my love of mornings to myself as not to offend my co-workers who are def not morning people.

[BriarFox]

Thank [divine being of choice] for coffee.

[Drew]

Thank [divine being of choice] for coffee.

Koar.

[Sam]

I'm draggin' today. I'm gonna need an upgrade from coffee now that I come to work at 5 AM.

[Asha]

I am the morning MASTER on my days off. Only then, though.

[AnticorRifling]

I'm a morning person. Alarm goes off and I'm awake and going.

[DCSL]

I'm draggin' today. I'm gonna need an upgrade from coffee now that I come to work at 5 AM.

...heroin?

[Beguiler]

Alarm goes off at 5:30, I'm up and running. Been that way for years due to my work hours.

That said, I am SO not a morning person. If it's a weekend or day off, I will say up until the wee small hours of the night, and sleep until 11 or so. Mmmm. So no, not a morning person, but pure backbone gets my arse out of bed and moving. Then an extra large DD coffee kicks in.

[Stanley Burrell]

Depends on if I somehow get into a rigid cycle I was accustomed to. Not really sure if there's an on/off button. Sometimes I can head out like I did, sometimes I'm weak. Doesn't have to be the morning, just when I wake up.

I suppose nic gum helps. And melatonin if I have enough time to sleep and magically know what my schedule will be like in advance.

[Inspire]

I'm an early early morning person. I like to get up at 3am and turn on ABC morning news now.

[msconstrew]

I can go to bed at 4am and still be up at 7am and not able to go back to sleep. Stupid, stupid body. Latest I've ever slept is 9:30am. And yes, I am obnoxious and chipper, too.

[phantasm]

Fucking assholes.

[Drew]

Latest I've ever slept is 9:30am.



I don't grok this either. I'll sleep a full 8 hours no matter what time I go to sleep. Back in my younger days I'd get home at like 6 AM and I'd sleep till 3 or 4pm.

[Atlanteax]

You left out the "Fark no, NIGHT OWL" option.

[msconstrew]

I don't grok this either. I'll sleep a full 8 hours no matter what time I go to sleep. Back in my younger days I'd get home at like 6 AM and I'd sleep till 3 or 4pm.

It just doesn't work that way for me. I went to bed at 3am last night and woke up without the alarm at 6am this morning. I feel tired, but OK. Around 2pm I will crash and be a miserable, tired bitch for the rest of the day.

It's even worse when I drink. If I get drunk, I'll pass out and then wake up still drunk and unable to get back to sleep. I'm not gonna lie, it sucks.

[Drew]

Sounds like you did something to make your body hate you at a young age.

[msconstrew]

Sounds like you did something to make your body hate you at a young age.

My mother's side of the family is all like this, and it will apparently get progressively worse. My uncle (her brother) goes to sleep at 9pm and wakes at 4 or 3.

[Gnome Rage]

It depends what you consider a morning person.

I struggle to get out of bed, I snooze my alarm at least twice if not more. However, once I've been awake and out of bed for 5 or 10 minutes I feel fine. I may be tired and achy if I didn't get enough sleep but I can be productive (or whatever) without caffiene. I simply have to wait a little bit, and have all the lights on. Being in the dark just makes me tired.

[Inspire]

My uncle (her brother) goes to sleep at 9pm and wakes at 4 or 3.


I prefer that but I can't stay on that sleeping pattern for very long.


I'll sleep for 6 hours one day, 12 the next, then 4, then 8, then 12, ....

It makes me curious though, do you guys have a set bed time to match your set waking time?

[Gnome Rage]

When my dad still had his job he would go to bed at 9 and wake up at 3:30, take a shower so he could start work at 4. But he drank coffee and chain smoked cigarettes all day, so I wouldn't really call him a morning person either.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I get up at 4AM just about every day, and go to bed weeknights between 10:30 and 11:00, and weekends usually around midnight. Always loved the mornings, I get a shitload more done, think clearer, am just more productive overall.

I also must shower immediately upon getting up, I can't stand not showering first thing. It's what fully wakes me up.

[Liagala]

I roll out of bed as late as possible, throw on clothes, get coffee, and leave. It's usually about an hour before I'm actually awake, longer if the coffee step is left out for whatever reason. That's now, when I have no specific time I need to be at work, but usually shoot for 9-10 somewhere. When I used to manage Dunkin stores, I had to be in between 5 and 7am, depending on day/store/other crap. Then I'd roll out of bed as late as possible, throw on clothes, find myself at work without any real memory of how I got there, and make coffee. Somewhere 30-60 minutes later I'd become coherent, and it was another half an hour-ish before I was actually anywhere near intelligent.

[Hulkein]

I consider myself a semi-morning person. I never sleep through alarms. I do not need coffee and am pretty happy in the morning. That being said, some days I don't want to get out of bed.

I am the same way as msconstrew when it comes to waking up after nights of drinking. I will always wake up relatively early (if I went to bed at 2am I'll wake up at 7 am, if 3 am then 8 am, etc) and cannot fall back asleep. It blows. I have to get up, eat, drink, then try to fall asleep on the couch to TV. Now with a kid it basically means I'm up for the rest of the day.

[Sean]

I hate getting out bed in the morning but once I'm up then I'm up.

[Middian]

The morning makes me want to PUNCH! Thank goodness for this guy! (Taps his coffee cup) =)

P.S. 2pm is when I start to dive bomb and is therefore equal to mornings! =P

[CrystalTears]

I hate mornings. I can fake the happiness but I'm not fully awake until about 10am, so basically 4 hours after I wake up. I try not to sleep late on the weekends just so that we can do stuff together, but given my way, I can easily sleep for a full 12 hours and then just lie there for another hour or two.

The only time I enjoyed working in customer support was when I had the 10-7 shift. I wish I could do that shift now. I'd be way happier.

[Solkern]

I'm a morning person, I wake up 6am every morning, and pass out at 1ish every night, except on weekends. Love the morning, I hate waking up late, and feel like I wasted half the day sleeping!

Especially in Summer here, doesn't get dark till 12-1am here, and sun comes back up around 3am.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I never sleep through alarms.

I stopped using an alarm like 6 years ago. I just get up at 4 or 5 each morning and shower.

[Gweneivia]

I'm a nap person. I wake up at 6. I go to bed at 1. And then I take a nice nap whenever I can. If I don't get my nap I do get a little crabby, though. I don't do power drinks or coffee or soda so I'm pretty much going on my own steam, which means my ass is dragging, most days, especially pre-nap.

[Aylien]

I SEVERELY DISLIKE MORNINGS.

I SEVERELY DISLIKE MORNING PEOPLE.

I am not allowed to have caffiene, and my brain kicks on somewhere around 1pm. Before then, you may get anything from "Meh" to "Go the fuck away and leave me alone".

[Hulkein]

I stopped using an alarm like 6 years ago. I just get up at 4 or 5 each morning and shower.

You have the Cosmo Kramer internal clock.

[CrystalTears]

I SEVERELY DISLIKE MORNINGS.

I SEVERELY DISLIKE MORNING PEOPLE.

I am not allowed to have caffiene, and my brain kicks on somewhere around 1pm. Before then, you may get anything from "Meh" to "Go the fuck away and leave me alone".
Yep, this is me too. My husband doesn't even like waking me because he says I'm such a bitch. Dur. I'm a bitch when I'm in a good mood, can you imagine when I don't want to be awake? Good luck with that.

Morning people are also annoying. Tone down the happiness and the chirping, singing birds please because I really do not care.

[Aylien]

Yep, this is me too. My husband doesn't even like waking me because he says I'm such a bitch. Dur. I'm a bitch when I'm in a good mood, can you imagine when I don't want to be awake? Good luck with that.

Morning people are also annoying. Tone down the happiness and the chirping, singing birds please because I really do not care.

The worst arguement my husband and I had was one day when I had the day off and decided I was going to sleep till noon exactly. HE decided 11am was good enough and he wanted us to "get the day started". The day couldn't start one fuckin hour later? Apparently he wanted to go to the movies or some shit. Needless to say we never left the house and he got bitchface all day. He spent all day in the living room because I was in the computer room and I was not fun to be around. About once an hour, I would go into the living room and ask him "Why was it a good idea to wake me again?" "I wanted to get the day started." "What the fuck does that even mean?" and he would sigh and go back to playing Final Fantasy. He seriously avoided me all day.

That was like 8 years ago and I STILL get pissed about it. I was fucking ASLEEP.

ETA: Now he only wakes me when I tell him I need to be up (in which case I am prepared for it and generally also have an alarm set) or when the house is on fire.

[Drew]

You sound like an exemplary wife!

[Rucca]

I get up at 4AM just about every day, and go to bed weeknights between 10:30 and 11:00, and weekends usually around midnight. Always loved the mornings, I get a shitload more done, think clearer, am just more productive overall.

I also must shower immediately upon getting up, I can't stand not showering first thing. It's what fully wakes me up.

That's about when I usually go to bed. I also feel more productive at night. I just don't get the people who wake up early in the morning and are all chipper and talkative. How??

[AnticorRifling]

I'm generally banished from the bedroom the moment I wake up because my wife is not a morning person....and neither are my weiners. All of them stay in bed while I get up and carpe that fuckin diem.

[msconstrew]

The worst arguement my husband and I had was one day when I had the day off and decided I was going to sleep till noon exactly. HE decided 11am was good enough and he wanted us to "get the day started". . . .

That was like 8 years ago and I STILL get pissed about it. I was fucking ASLEEP.

This story made me feel immediately and irrevocably guilty for every time I've done this to my husband on a Saturday morning. *taptap* "Psst! It's 7am, let's go to the Farmer's Market!"

[Drew]

I'm generally banished from the bedroom the moment I wake up because my wife is not a morning person....and neither are my weiners. All of them stay in bed while I get up and carpe that fuckin diem.

But no carpe weiner?

[Rucca]

I'm generally banished from the bedroom the moment I wake up because my wife is not a morning person....and neither are my weiners. All of them stay in bed while I get up and carpe that fuckin diem.

I vive that fuckin vida loca.

[Latrinsorm]

Koar.You're thanking the guy who sleeps in a mountain for all eternity for coffee?

[Drew]

This story made me feel immediately and irrevocably guilty for every time I've done this to my husband on a Saturday morning. *taptap* "Psst! It's 7am, let's go to the Farmer's Market!"



Oh man, I thought being angry for 8 years over being woken at up at 11 instead of 12 was ridiculous, but this is also ridiculous! First time this happened to me I'd intentionally crash the car because I was "sleepy". PROBLEM SOLVED!

[Drew]

You're thanking the guy who sleeps in a mountain for all eternity for coffee?

Fine, all praise to his might Juan Valdezness.

[msconstrew]

Oh man, I thought being angry for 8 years over being woken at up at 11 instead of 12 was ridiculous, but this is also ridiculous! First time this happened to me I'd intentionally crash the car because I was "sleepy". PROBLEM SOLVED!

Whatever, that dude gets enough morning BJs and carpe weiners that he can deal with getting up early to take me to the Farmer's Market once in a while.

[Aylien]

Oh man, I thought being angry for 8 years over being woken at up at 11 instead of 12 was ridiculous, but this is also ridiculous! First time this happened to me I'd intentionally crash the car because I was "sleepy". PROBLEM SOLVED!

For the record, I haven't been pissed about it for 8 continuous years. I don't even think about it that often anymore because for the most part the problem was solved THAT DAY (His ass learned not to wake me up for trivial shit). However, sometimes it comes up that this happened (maybe once a year he likes to tell the story) and I remember and get pissed for about 5 minutes (and he gets reminded not to wake me up for trivial shit).

[Androidpk]

That's about when I usually go to bed. I also feel more productive at night. I just don't get the people who wake up early in the morning and are all chipper and talkative. How??

Drugs.

[Drew]

Whatever, that dude gets enough morning BJs and carpe weiners that he can deal with getting up early to take me to the Farmer's Market once in a while.

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[CrystalTears]

This story made me feel immediately and irrevocably guilty for every time I've done this to my husband on a Saturday morning. *taptap* "Psst! It's 7am, let's go to the Farmer's Market!"
Yeah... I'd pretty much stab you. :D

[Deadelf]

For me it isn't about morning or what ever. I am one of those "I just wake up fine" sort of people. Whether its 04:00 or the afternoon. So I guess that makes me a morning person and like some others I tend to have the internal clock that kicks in to wake me up when I need to wake up.

I don't like the sound of alarms though so I tend to turn them off right before they go off. I only set them because I feel a back up is a good thing in case the internal clock fails me.

My real problem is I do not sleep well or long, I tend to sleep four hours at most and then I am wide awake and stay awake. Hell some times I go a couple days before I can sleep and then again it typically is for around four hours. That gets old.

This goes on for a couple weeks and then one day I'll have a longer sleep where I crash for around 6 to 8 hours. I've just sort of given up on fighting my system and try to roll with it.

Now where I do get grouchy is the end of the day, where a lot of people are more relaxed when their day is over I tend to feel more worn down and grumpy. Which means I don't want to deal with people at first including loved ones, until I've had a few minutes to unwind after getting in the door.

[Drakefang]

I stopped using an alarm like 6 years ago. I just get up at 4 or 5 each morning and shower.

This sort of behavior is disgusting.

Having said that... I never was a morning person until the last 3-4 years. I have no idea when the last week was that I averaged 8 hours of sleep. Unless I am bone weary exhausted, I don't go to bed before 11PM (often after midnight). I usually hit the snooze a couple times, my alarm being set for 4:45AM on work mornings and 2:45AM on Sundays (for work at 4AM). Now, I find it difficult to sleep once dawn hits. I pretty much always wake between 5-6 on my days off and force myself back to sleep. Regardless of that, I am out of bed by 8AM on most of my days off. Once I am out of bed I shave and shower. Once that's done I am good to go. Sunday's generally take a little longer to become functional.

Coffee helps, but more from the heat of it and the act of drinking than the caffeine. Now, I enjoy my mornings but don't love them. I'd have called myself a night owl up until the last 18-24 months.

[TheEschaton]

I used to be a morning person. From the age of 7 or so I was waking up at 6 a few minutes before my alarm to go to school, and it just continued that way. In high school, even when I partied, I'd go to sleep at 5 and wake up at 7, which was the latest I'd wake up ever - I'd rarely party two nights in a row, though, and when I did, that third day I'd usually crash at like, 8 or 9 pm. Never was a huge napper.

Even in college, I'd wake up at 6 to work out, then run, then eat breakfast at like 7:30, and take all the morning classes that started between 8 and 9. Hardest drug I did during that time was caffeine - usually Dunkin or Diet Coke, of which I drank a lot.

In Africa, I woke up when the sun came up, since I didn't have electricity. That was usually around 5:30-6 (sunrise didn't seem to change much, benefit of living inside the tropics, I guess). Of course, back then, when the sun went down, we went to sleep since we couldn't do anything in the dark.

But then I went to law school. And I started drinking (yes, I didn't drink til I was 25). And I started not only NOT waking up before my alarm, but hitting snooze on it. And sleeping through it. And now I hate mornings. I had an Intellectual Property class my 3L year that I was taking for no reason other than that it was big and I could get easily lost in it, and the professor had a signup sheet for the days when you were on call (IE, could be called on to answer a question). It was at 9 am, and I think I can count on one hand how many times I made the class on days when I wasn't on call. It met 3 times a week for a semester.

Luckily in law school, attendance rarely counts towards your grade, so I got an A- in the class - IP is easy, if stupid.

[4a6c1]

Yes. The annoying kind. Get out of my way. Most of my shit is going to get accomplished before noon. Afternoon is for gloating and taunting the slow people.

[Wyrmx]

Definitely not a morning person, i get up because i have to. Coffee helps but if i could have a half hour before i have to interact with anyone else I'd be happy.

[Xanator]

I used to be a morning person. From the age of 7 or so I was waking up at 6 a few minutes before my alarm to go to school, and it just continued that way. In high school, even when I partied, I'd go to sleep at 5 and wake up at 7, which was the latest I'd wake up ever - I'd rarely party two nights in a row, though, and when I did, that third day I'd usually crash at like, 8 or 9 pm. Never was a huge napper.

Even in college, I'd wake up at 6 to work out, then run, then eat breakfast at like 7:30, and take all the morning classes that started between 8 and 9. Hardest drug I did during that time was caffeine - usually Dunkin or Diet Coke, of which I drank a lot.

In Africa, I woke up when the sun came up, since I didn't have electricity. That was usually around 5:30-6 (sunrise didn't seem to change much, benefit of living inside the tropics, I guess). Of course, back then, when the sun went down, we went to sleep since we couldn't do anything in the dark.

But then I went to law school. And I started drinking (yes, I didn't drink til I was 25). And I started not only NOT waking up before my alarm, but hitting snooze on it. And sleeping through it. And now I hate mornings. I had an Intellectual Property class my 3L year that I was taking for no reason other than that it was big and I could get easily lost in it, and the professor had a signup sheet for the days when you were on call (IE, could be called on to answer a question). It was at 9 am, and I think I can count on one hand how many times I made the class on days when I wasn't on call. It met 3 times a week for a semester.

Luckily in law school, attendance rarely counts towards your grade, so I got an A- in the class - IP is easy, if stupid.

tl;dr

4 years in a bakery shoves mornings right up your sleepy ass. Now I just have a few 7 ams a week and the occasional 4 am at the restaurant, and I have an hour drive in. The part that screws with you is when the odd early day follows the clopen: out at midnight, hour drive home, hour drive back to work at 4 am. Thankfully very rare.

[Asha]

I tried all sorts of coffee and eventually moved onto the uber mega powerful filtered fresh kind which blew my head off in the car to work and left me literally on the verge of total panic.
That's what I've settled with :)

[Buckwheet]

Alarm goes off at 6, do about 10 minutes of stretches, hit the shower and everything after that is easy, get to work by 7.

No coffee, or caffeine related beverage, until after work.

I get my best work done from 7-9 before all the lazy bitches come in. I usually have all my work completed by lunch time, as I am much more productive without people around.

The one thing I have never been able to do, was set the alarm for 5am and then do a workout before work. Around 4pm, I would just crash.

So just do the workouts now right after work.

[Kuyuk]

Being a morning person, I totally cant see why people need coffee in the morning.

[joehollywood]

For your poll to give truly scientific results, you'd need to add an option for "go fuck yourself".

Morning people are all, ooh yay, it's morning.

People who are indifferent tend to go, eh, it's morning.

People who are evening folks will say they dislike mornings and prefer the night.

People who are truly not morning people will fight you to the death for 1 extra snooze hit. They have trained their subconscious to lie to you and tell you they really are awake. They are the types of folks who really should NOT have weapons within reach of their bed.

[Liagala]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19174_5-unexpected-downsides-high-intelligence.html

First sign of high inteligence - you're a night owl. Sorry morning people.

[MotleyCrew]

Not a 'morning person' per se, as in I am not like a friggin chirping robin first thing in the AM. I do however prefer to work the early shift and always have. More because I am done early and have the rest of the day to myself without feeling like I have to squeeze stuff in here and there when I can.

[4a6c1]

I'm not sure what you have against friggin chirping robins first thing in the AM but I would suggest that you stop being such a racist.

[Stanley Burrell]

I'm not sure what you have against friggin chirping robins first thing in the AM but I would suggest that you stop being such a racist.

Haha!