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I always tend to fall asleep after midnight. 00:30 on weekdays where I have to force myself to get out of bed to get to work, 02:30 on holidays or self-employed

by marvin 6y ago

I always tend to fall asleep after midnight. 00:30 on weekdays where I have to force myself to get out of bed to get to work, 02:30 on holidays or self-employed periods where I can allow myself to follow a rhythm that's closer to natural. I am most alert between 18:00 and 01:00. I am barely able to do brainy work before 12:00, and have just given up on trying to force it. If I'm forced to get up early multiple days in a row, my rhythm will shift slightly, but it comes back after a few days if there is no pressure. My partner is the opposite. She'll be almost comically tired after 22:00, but will normally wake up around 05:00 and be super alert in the morning. Sometimes even earlier. On our natural rhythms, we will cover all but two or three hours of the day awake, mostly with one person who is alert and performs excellently. This would be ridiculously useful in a more dangerous world than modern civilian society, and it comes in super useful on days when the routine is out of the ordinary. An active holiday, long car trips, errands that need to happen on odd hours etc. It's not a disorder, it's an adaption. At least unless it gets more extreme than our experience. If society doesn't fit, then screw society. Honestly. Make room for those who don't hit the median, please.

JesseMReeves 6y ago
What will happen is that big pharma will throw some pills on the market and do heavy marketing claiming that nightowlism is a severe disease that needs to be treated with “changing brain chemistry”, and night owls will be labeled as mentally ill or of weak character by society forever for their evolutionary adaptation. It already happens to an extend, night owls who can’t use their peak productivity hours around 2am because they have to adhere to some artificial schedule (often made by people who don’t have to do a lot of brainy things) are often on smart drugs during the day.

by marvin 6y ago

JesseMReeves 6y ago

What will happen is that big pharma will throw some pills on the market and do heavy marketing claiming that nightowlism is a severe disease that needs to be treated with “changing brain chemistry”, and night owls will be labeled as mentally ill or of weak character by society forever for their evolutionary adaptation. It already happens to an extend, night owls who can’t use their peak productivity hours around 2am because they have to adhere to some artificial schedule (often made by people who don’t have to do a lot of brainy things) are often on smart drugs during the day.