NOT a morning person

I am not a morning person at all. I get up at 5:15 to make the family breakfast and lunch but then I climb back into bed. When the family leaves for work and school at about 7, I usually fall asleep again and really have to force myself to get up by about 9. Fortunately I work from home so I can afford to do that. But I don't want hubby to come home unexpectedly (as he is known to do) and catch me.

I have memories of childhood...my mom repeatedly waking me up for school. I usually missed breakfast. In high school I struggled to stay awake during morning classes. Now, I have to start work no later than 8 am. I get up, resentfully. Have 2-4 cups of coffee before I head for the shower. Morning is a HUGE struggle for me.
No one has specifically mentioned it...I am a middle of the day person. I am usually fully awake by/at 11 am. I get home about 5 pm. The main thing I am thinking about at 5pm is bedtime.

Not a morning person here either....never have been & at the age of 62....NEVER WILL BE.

When I have something to do early in the morning....like I had to take someone to the airport by 6am so I had to be up & going at 5am so I could pick them up by 5:30am. I was so worried about sleeping through the alarm that I didn't even bother to try I go do bed that night....I just stayed up & cleaned my kitchen.....I got a lot done actually...no distractions or phone calls or places I needed to run to.....a lot of times I like staying up & working around the house all night just for that reason....I can finally focus if I don't fall flat on my face asleep.

Many times I will end up going to sleep around 4-5am & sleep till 9 or 10 am.

Even when I was working as a computer engineer, I never did mornings unless I had a meeting with the customer. I was able to come in after getting up normally without an alarm, leisurly get ready for work, do a few things around the house then head to work & usually worked until about 2am....home then start it all over again....but if I got up early or had something I needed to do during the day, I would go in earlier & take the time to get done what I needed to do during the day...go back to work & finish off the day.

What I can't handle is waking up with an alarm clock....it's like it shoots adrenalin through my body like a zap of electricity & then I'm no good for anything for days after that.....recovery time is definitely needed when an alarm wakes me up.

Of course, now there is this dog pile on my bed at night...& when I even move a muscle before I'm awake, Leo is on top of me & in my face giving me doggie kisses & Tawny starts pushing at my arm to get me to pet her.....ALL BEFORE I'M AWAKE...& that is dangerous for them because I strike out at anything that wakes me from my sleep if it touches me. I have no idea where that response came from but I've been like that all my life & my daughter learned the hard way NOT to touch mom when she's sleeping it will have BAD RESULTS.

I often don't go to sleep because I always had this thing where I would go to bed after I accomplished x (whatever)....well, now, sometimes x takes days to finish & I need my sleep before days have gone by.

Nope, not a morning person even if I go to bed really early the night before

Im not a morning person, either. Sometimes, you can do everything by waking up early.

Best post EVER! I am exactly in the same boat!

I loved working 2nd shift at my old job. My new job requires me to be there and AWAKE at 7:00 a.m. How RUDE! When I worked 2nd shift, I could sleep in and get up whenever I wanted. *pouts*

I've always found such people to be suitable for target practice....

Oh, bite me!

I used to be a morning person. Not any more.

Nope. Never.
Love comedian Mike Birbiglia's take on it...Sleepy Carl
I can sleep through anything.

The main reason i dislike mornings is because that is when the morning people are the most active.

I HATE mornings! My insomnia gets me up at 4 or 5 every morning and it really sucks. I basically sit around like a zombie for a few hours until I finally wake up. Blah.

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Yeah. Today I woke up at 6 am. It's almost 9:30 now, and I still feel sluggish. Coffee not withstanding. Darned medications. Bleh.

I've never been a morning person, and I absolutely hate coffee. I've never reacted well to caffeine. I really think I don't have a 24 hour circadian; it's more like a 30 hour.

Thanks for posting all of this, liz...and everyone. Giggling at all the applicable memes....

NOT being a "morning person" has always been a source of an upsetting atmosphere of exclusion, and has increased my separateness from other people, greatly. I was always made to feel terrible that I was this way, from my earliest memories.

Mornings have always been a challenge, and it has gotten much worse in the last few years (especially in the years leading up to my diagnoses of MDD and GAD.).

It would be nice if there were more info about circadian disturbances made widely available, so people wouldn't feel so odd about their natural sleep/ lack of sleep tendencies.

I'm tired of trying to explain to people that I am simply not on the same clock as them, and very likely never will be.

i think i might be a morning person. i usually feel worse/more unsafe at night.

I am a lifelong morning person. Up at the crack of dawn, eyes wide open, raring to go.
And, while I will have a cup of coffee now & again ... fewer than one a month ... I start my morning with a cold Diet Coke. 20+ years in the Army & I didn't develop a craving for coffee.

Hugs and smiles for all the Morning People out there! If you only could know how I envy you. The world is definitely biased in your direction.

I used to be able to get up very early and accomplish 20,000 things before noon. But that being something I could depend upon seems as though it started abandoning me almost another lifetime ago.

Occasionally, I can be disciplined and energetic enough in the a.m.'s to be places that I NEED to be and do the things required. But a nap usually also figures-in on those days as well.

NOT being able to drink caffeinated drinks also leaves me with very few options for feeling alert first thing in the a.m..

Circadian disturbances (which fluctuate on a timetable all their own) keep me sleepless and restless, and then down-for-the-count for days on end.

I am afraid I am doomed to be a vampire forever.

I reiterate my response to George H.

Night person. Stay up all night.

Thanks to a ton of meds I am sleeping better and I wake up earlier, I still don't actually wake up mentally until 3 in the afternoon. My body is up and moving but I'm not all there.

They can manipulate night people to get up at dawn but they can't fool them into being truly awake until later. We night folk will always be night folk.

Mornings do not agree with me.

I was hired for second shift but am still training which is on days. I have to be up at 5:30 for my shift, assuming they aren't snow/ice days then it is even earlier. It is killing me in an of itself. Even getting my meds adjusted to this time has only helped some but near enough to function at this time of the morning; it affects my performance, if they only knew. I need to get on second shift sooner rather than later.

The only positive thing is that I have the house to myself at this time, no one to bother me or have to carry on a conversation first thing immediately, and the dogs know the routine now, even they go back to bed after eating and going out. They are not morning people either.

for Fresia:

The dogs are not morning people either! That smashes a few stereotypes then, doesn't it? And it's really very funny.

My cats are also very wrapped around my schedule (when there is one, hee hee.). Just goes to show that animals can be more flexible and tolerant than people. And that they really must see us as "pack leaders".

OX And good luck with everything! You've gotten yourself through so much, I have all confidence you will carry on beautifully.