I am a night owl by nature truly
I do not feel like sleeping before 4:00 am -6:00 am depending on how tired I feel. 4:00 a.m. on the earlier side. I write, read, draw, and do crafts among other quiet activities or I’m up with language learning. My spikes in energy when I feel more productive and alert during the day are in the afternoon, evening, and late night until the early hours of the morning. If I am really tired early I might occasionally go to bed closer to 3 am. Then my body is awake again at about 12-1 pm. Eventually i am probably going to go to bed around 4 am and wake up for 11:00-11:30 am so i can at least get up when it is still late morning but i will still be a bit groggy. Even when i take pills to sleep i still don’t seem ready to go to bed until late. I don’t function in the early morning and mid morning. I am still half asleep and not full of energy for the day yet. My sleep chronotype is the wolf. I tried before going to bed earlier but my energy did not kick in still until about noon even so. My circadian rhythm is just naturally wired to burn the midnight oil and I’m tired of being told if I just go to bed earlier I will wake up earlier and still feel refreshed. That does not work because even if I went to bed several hours earlier than usual and had to wake up at nine or ten am I was exhausted and did not feel creative, alert, or productive. I felt irritated and angry. Some people are night owls because they have to be or are by choice. For me it is not a choice but literally the way I am wired.



