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Did you read the article at all? > There are night owls among us — whose whole circadian schedules are shifted later — and morning larks, who are shifted earli
by sosborn 11y ago
Did you read the article at all?
> There are night owls among us — whose whole circadian schedules are shifted later — and morning larks, who are shifted earlier. (If you're curious, you can assess your chronotype with this quiz here.) These traits are determined by genetics and are extremely hard to change. What's more, the research is finding that if we fight our chronotypes, our health may suffer.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoAn owl is somebody who wakes up naturally later than 7AM, according to the article. The OP cannot fall asleep until 3AM-4AM. That's not an owl, that's a medical condition.
- falcolas 11y agoIf you wake up at noon, then going to bed at 4am gives you a good 8 hours of sleep. That makes it a rather healthy time to go to bed for waking up at noon.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe OP was waking up before 10AM.
- sdgsfsfgfg 11y agoNot necessarily. I personally wake up naturally at around 10am and fall asleep at ~1am. That's without caffeine, without alcohol and without blue tinged electric lights (I fitted red lights), without much stress and without the internet or TV. It's just my rhythm. It sure makes it difficult to get up at 7 for my 9-5 job.
- madaxe_again 11y agoNot necessarily. I go to bed late because I struggle to put down whatever it is I'm doing - be it reading a book, writing code, playing a game - it's always one more chapter, let's just get this one bit working, let's just beat this one level. In the morning, my drive to do anything much isn't there - it takes a few hours for the furnaces to come online. You could argue that that's a medical condition, but I'd argue that it stems from being more mentally active as the day progresses - which is kinda the definition of an owl.
- AznHisoka 11y agoThat struggle isn't a medical condition but its not something to just shrug and give in to either. learning to stop thinking after a certain time of the day is a skill. It can be practiced.
- oldmanjay 11y agoIt seems like there is no particular justification to consider it a disorder. You seem to be advocating conformity for its own sake.
- AznHisoka 11y agoIt's not a disorder any more than wanting to eat lots of sweets is a disorder. Modern society is filled with lots of things to consume us especially at night when we should be quieting our brain. Was easy in the past when we didn't have video games or computers around.
- ChoGGi 11y agoBefore I had a computer it was usually "just one more chapter".
- madaxe_again 11y agoWas easy in the past when we didn't have books or candles around. Let's go back to australopithecine principles, so we can all sleep better. Except someone will need to stay up to look out for predators. And there you have your evolutionary basis. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
- AznHisoka 11y agoExcept books actually help you sleep, unlike electronics
- jxdjsks 11y agoHave you considered that pehaps he cant stop thinking because biologically his body is not ready to shut down? Sonetimes it's impossible to just stop thinking. Try taking 100mg of caffeine and try to meditate. Totally impossible.
- atemerev 11y agoHalf of HN have this "medical condition". Why it is more normal to wake earlier?
- Hydraulix989 11y agoSeems to be more common in engineers, and "smarter people," of which I argue are a larger-than-average makeup of the HN population: http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/night-owls-creative-intelligent/686025/ http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/night-owls-creative-intel...