Is it normal to be tired by day, wired by night?

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Is it normal to be tired by day, but wired by night?

I've been this way forever.

Even if I miss sleep, stay awake all day (tired), I feel my energy lift as soon as nightfall blackens the sky with that blueish twilight. Once midnight rolls in, I'm very lively. I feel perfect happiness at midnight.

I do sleep at night, but I tend to fall asleep at 2-3AM, if I have to be awake by 7-8AM.
If I can have it all my way, I sleep from 2-3AM to 10AM like clockwork.

I absolutely LOVE the night. My eyes are light sensitive. I can see quite well at night. I find the daytime such a bore. It's the stark lighting. Too bright, too annoying. Headache. Blah! Even if I do sleep at night like by 12 or 1 and wake up after a solid 8 hrs, I feel like jet lag, and my body clock refuses to adjust. I just want to find dark shade, shadow, and wait for night to arrive once again.

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e51pegasi

6 years ago

Do you by any chance sleep in a coffin, have 2 pointy teeth & detest garlic?

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  6 years ago
  
  Fangs present. I have an indoor hammock, if that subs as a coffin. Garlic? Oh,bad aftertaste. Hmmm....
  
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Endless

6 years ago

It's actually a normal thing particularly with creative minds do you draw or write or create music or anything like that? I draw and find that I am more productive and creative from about 5pm onwards. in my college years when I would get home I would stay up do my work till sun rise then go to sleep till about 10-11am then get up do it all over again, did this till i was about 25 I'm now 30. I've always been like this but have trained myself to go to bed at a decent time now days because my current job demands it, plus you get more done the earlier you get up. But if you're young and have no responsibilities fuck it do what you do because that kind of freedom doesn't last forever.

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- Spyman
  
  6 years ago
  
  A nocturnal mind is also normal in the clandestine community of cyber espionage.
  
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  - Anonymous Post Author
    
    6 years ago
    
    I've borrowed a few retail stores wifi after 1AM, if that counts as cyber espionage. They leave it on, so, why not use it. Try this, it works.
    
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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  6 years ago
  
  I'm too critical to say I'm "creative", lol. But, yeah, I do all that you mention by dabbling in arts for my own fun.
  Yep, same. My productive high awakens around 10pm, if I've got to get work done. College, lol. Everyone seems awake past midnight on campus. I'm totally normal there.
  
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bubsy

6 years ago

Congrats, you're a teenager. The sooner you realize that nothing productive happens after 9PM, the better. And jerking to your phone for five hours doesn't count.

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- suckonthis9
  
  6 years ago
  
  Hey stupid: There is a small, but very important subset of the population, who provide essential services, that must be undertaken at night.
  Otherwise, when the day-time power-players woke up, there would be no goods on the shelves, at most of the stores; and there would be no energy, for them to wash and shave with, or to make breakfast with.
  There are (were) also a whole host of servers, cooks / chefs and entertainers, who provide(d) diversion from the mundane world of the diurns, in the evening, and at night.
  There are doctors and nurses working, because people do get sick and injured at night.
  There are also astronomers, who find it very difficult to observe the stars during the day, because Sol interferes with that.
  The are also some construction activities, that must be done at night, because there would be too much civil disruption during the day.
  What would happen if you had to drive all night, and you couldn't get fuel, because everything is closed, and the fuel delivery truck didn't make their rounds?
  There are also a whole host of other occupations, that must get all or part of their work done at night, or everything stops functioning during the day.
  
  Nocturns, had developed their own exciting and vibrant culture.
  But it seems that some utterly naïve, thoughtless and stupid, senile, corrupt, diurnal creep, weirdo, and perverted police-criminals, had somehow convinced other perverted creep, weirdo police-criminals to destroy all that; and in the process, destroy themselves.
  
  Everything happens at night!
  
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  - EccentricWeird
    
    6 years ago
    
    Ya but not likely he's one of those people. Cause it's a small population. YOU SAID IT YOU - SELF
    
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  - Anonymous Post Author
    
    6 years ago
    
    Yeah, exactly. It's a 24/7 world now. It's always been, that way, really. It's just that some narrow minded people think that all humans wake up at the crack of dawn. Nope. Before lights and power were normal, somebody had to be up all night as the night watchmen, right?
    
    I've had some fun volunteering at a few hospitals in their ER overnight. It can get busy. It's not as if illness only happens during conventional business hours.
    
    Night it is for me.
    I've had to convert my schedule to the typical morning crap. It has to be forced. I've been a late night person as far back as possible. I know that when I was like 8 or 9, I was up past 2AM.
    
    I just feel better at night. It is only weird to me because I might stay up all night, go all day with having had no sleep. I should be sleepy by evening right? I will be so tired around 2-3pm but as soon as night arrives, I'm completely fine, alert, awake, and fine. I'll be up until 1AM likely. That's unusual. I must be wired for night.
    
    This is how I function in this world. Funny enough I get things done fine. But, ah, I love night!
    
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  - bubsy
    
    6 years ago
    
    I figured my 9PM comment would get me the wrath of a graveyard-shifter. 'Nocturn' is a cool word, but there's nothing cool about living at night instead of the day.
    
    Vitamin D issues aside, vampire, I am well aware that work gets done every hour of the day. But OP has to be awake at 7-8AM, and by my guess he/she is a college kid with a bad sleep schedule.
    
    Hardmode: don't use your phone while you're in bed.
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      6 years ago
      
      Yes, I'm at school as a grad student. It is a lively place past midnight every single night.
      
      I have always hated mornings. I think many more people in the world hate early morning hence, the huge demand for coffee sales.
      
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      - Anonymous Post Author
        
        6 years ago
        
        We should revolt against this pressure to conform to being happy, chirpy morning people. I'm not, lol. I'm very much mute until noon rolls around.
        
        I function best at night.
        
        Maybe this is good. Um, as you all say, graveyard shift. That could be monetarily good for me.
        
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Anonymous Post Author

6 years ago

Back just to say, I should go in for research on my weird nocturnal liveliness. I swear, I feel so blaaaah during the day. Bright light just makes me want to find a shadowy spot and sleep.

The other day, I was up all night, and since I had to go to school and then work, I didn't sleep a wink. I was so sleepy around 3pm, and once going home around 5pm I was thinking, okay I can sleep anywhere like on the pavement on the way to my car, just stretch out anywhere on the ground, lol. I felt like a zombie. Yeah, so, once I get home at 7pm, that sun is trailing over the horizon, and yes, 8pm rolls around, and I'm like WTF!?!?! I don't feel sleepy at all. So, I made myself busy until I finally finally finally could doze off around 2AM. I had to take melatonin to go to sleep.

I shall have to move to Romania and see about buying Dracula's castle, yep.

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Anonymous Post Author

6 years ago

Aha 2AM, I'm awake, and I love it.

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RenanRuseler

6 years ago

Yes it is. It happens to me as well.

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Anonymous Post Author

6 years ago

Yay it's midnight and as usual, I feel fantastic energy right now.

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Franz21

6 years ago

I think you're just used to it...

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