Are you a morning person?

I was always a night person, but there's something about having kids that changes that. [] I'm still a night person in that I simply cannot make myself go to bed early, but I don't have any trouble getting up when the alarm goes off, and on weekends when I don't set it I automatically wake up around 7:30 a.m
 
Joyce

ORIGINAL: Xerxes

I am NOT a morning person.  But I have trained myself to act like one.  

The most important thing you can do (take notes carefully) is to get a set schedule.  ALWAYS be in bed by a specific time.  (For me it is in bed by 1130-though I'm usually in there earlier)  If you can't sleep-read a book, don't watch TV and don't play video games or turn on the computer.  (The light from those will affect the part of the brain that has something to do with melatonin and you won't be tired.)

Get up at the same time as well.  No matter how tempted you are to sleep in-don't.  It will ruin your inner timer.

No caffeine after 4pm.  Ever!  No sugary drinks after 9pm. 

As far as the waking up thing, I have two dogs that dance on my head if I don't wake up.  I have my TV come on loudly first thing as an alarm, then another alarm and about 10 minutes later another alarm.

Don't be tempted to sleep in on the weekends.  That too will ruin the internal clock mechanism.

I have to be up by 630 every day for work-so even on the weekends I am up and out of bed by 630-645.  It also helps that the dogs are on a fixed "potty" schedule.

 
I totally believe that you need a routine and the reason I believe that is because of my mom. When she was working, she ALWAYS went to the bed at the same time every night and had to be up no later than 4:30 AM every day. My mom is some kind of alien because she has never ONCE needed an alarm clock. I don't even think she has one. She just wakes up on her own. After she stopped working, she continued this routine for years. Not because she wanted to get up that early, but because her body was so used to it, having done it for so long. It took her forever to get used to sleeping and sleeping in to my mom is 7 AM. She is never in bed in any longer than that.

My mom is some kind of alien because she has never ONCE needed an alarm clock.

 
[]The key to this is TOTAL ROUTINE!! For Christmas we got one of those alarm clocks that project the time on the ceiling and we haven't ONCE needed to use that alarm since we got it. DH and I are now so use to getting up at the same time every day since we have the dogs that we wake up within the same 15 minute time block every single day regardless if it is a weekday or weekend...  

haha, i shouldn't even touch this one, i have never been a morning person and dread the day i cannot sleep in. right now i sleep until my kids get up around 10ish, but i would sleep all day and stay up all night if i could, in fact i used to.in school i would saty up all night and go to school then come home and crash until it got dark out. it is going to be hell for me when ally starts school, AHH!

so i definitly feel your pain, or need to sleep during the day anyway, good luck!

edit: typo in first sentence, said night meant morning!

I've been both depending on which my life required.  I am currently a full fledged morning person.  I go to bed at 9PM and rise at 5am.  I absolutely want to stay in bed most mornings, but it's simply not an option for me - too much to do before being at work at 7AM.  I think if you go to bed a bit earlier and make sure you really are getting as much sleep as *your* body requires, it shouldn't be AS painful in the morning.

I hate to say it, but I am definitely a morning person, I always have been.  I should qualify this by saying that I love being up early in the morning, but I don't like to interact with anyone.  It usually takes me about an hour before I want to talk.  I get up at 4:45 am, take Charlie for a walk, come home, get ready and be at work by 6:30 (I only work 5 minutes from the house).  We have flex time, so the earlier I get in the earlier I get to leave. 
 
I usually start to crash about at 10:00 and then head to bed.  DH is a night person and sometimes won't come to bed until 1:00 am.  On the weekends I will sleep until about 6:30.
 

ORIGINAL: mrstjohnson

 I should qualify this by saying that I love being up early in the morning, but I don't like to interact with anyone.  It usually takes me about an hour before I want to talk. 

 
I am the same way, with regards to interaction.  That's what I love about being up really early when there's snow on the ground.  I get to enjoy the silent morning, cold crisp and crunchy while I shovel to my hearts content.  I wish I had dogs that could handle being outside with me.  Most of the time I'll shovel my own space, 3 or 4 others, the walk to the condo and the condo stairs.  My neighbors think I'm weird.  I just think it's the most peaceful time ever. 
 
Sorry, I know it's OT.

ORIGINAL: ashland

Are you a morning person?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!  But when I do get up early, I usually enjoy the fact that my day is longer.

I WISH I was a morning person!  The few times I have got my butt out of bed when the DH goes to work I have gots tons of stuff done by noon and always feel like I've had a productive day.  But when I oversleep and don't get up till late there just don't seem to be enough hours to get everything done and soon there will be a baby taking up even more of my time..... OTOH I suppose I should treasure these lie-ins while they last (only six weeks to go!)

Depends. While camping I am a very happy morning person. But at home..nope. I am up around 6. I can never sleep past 7. I don't mind getting up early. It just has to be on my own. If the kids wake me up with whinning, fighting, crying... then that's it I'm done in until they are on the bus. But if they leave me be and just let me wake up, get to the bathroom without any complaints then I'm good to go.

In my teens and early 20s I used to think that morning was for suckers. [sm=lol.gif] I loved staying up late and I had absolutely no use for mornings. But as my life & priorities have changed, so has my schedule. I still find it easy to slip into a night owl schedule (if I'm not working for a while, etc), but I am much happier when I'm early to bed and early to rise, even (if not especially!) on the weekends. I get bummed out on the days I sleep too late.
 
If I read a book in bed, I can be asleep in 10 minutes if I'm really tired, 20-30 min more typically. If I can't read, I am likely to toss & turn. I like to go to bed before I'm really tired... and enjoy reading in bed for a while. One of my motivations for getting up early on weekdays is I really hate to be rushed in the mornings - so I get up early enough that I can eat a bowl of cereal and watch the weather report without running around like a madwoman.

I'm not a morning person.  My mom has told me that when I was little nobody wanted to baby sit for me because I never wanted to go to bed.  Once, my great gram was watching me on a Saturday night, she was asleep on the couch, I was up watching the Tonight Show when they got home!  When I was in a crib, I would rock back and forth until I rolled my crib over to the light switch and turned it on. 

I work a second shift now and Willow is totally not a morning dog.  She doesn't even like to eat until early afternoon.  So, we are a great match.

But, I don't mind getting up early if it's just to do something I want to on the weekend like get an early start on errands or something like that.  It's when I have to be somewhere early that I really don't like.

I guess I am a morning person.  It's 8:30 right now and I could go to sleep and I'm off this entire week from work!! 
 
My ideal schedule would be to sleep from 10-6 or 11-7.  I can fall asleep the second my head hits the pillow.  I do need to sleep in utter darkness though, which probably has something to do with my sleep schedule. I am also very cranky if someone wakes me up. 
 
I just like being done with school/work/errands by a decent time and having some daylight left.

No I'm not a morning person and frankly I can't even see a REASON for morning! *grump*
 
I come alive when I get home from work -- dark?  who cares! Use a light!! Edison was a hero!

Oh, i wish i was too. I have to get up at 6-6:30, (used to be 5:30), just to go to school, which starts way too early, 7:20. Even worse, I cant go to bed earlier, because I'm not tired, and I'm woken up by an alarm clock on the cell phone that goes on for a minute, then stops, then starts again after 5 mins, and so on. It normally takes about 3-4 alarms to wake me up. Even worse, in the winter, I woke up and I feel like I slept in a refridgerator. First thing I do when I wake up is get on my really thick arctic parka, and I'm still cold! To make a long story short, it's not much fun being me.