Are you an early bird or a night owl?

I start work at 4am, and get up at 3am
I need a large coffee before I start the day. Luckily I work literally less than 500 metres from my home. So I am an early morning bird but not by choice

I suppose I am an early bird, wake about 4.30 and up at 5, go to bed about 9.30 to 10.00 no later.

I lie in and read, answer emails listen to the news etc. I'm usually up until we'll after midnight and hardly ever get out of bed before 9 with the advantage that walking the dog happens after school run has finished and it's quieter. I do have to get up at 8 to quickly let the dog out for a pee in the garden so she can wait for a later walkies.

About 1am is my normal early ish bedtime.

A night owl. Rarely in bed before midnight, and read for a while. I set my alarm for 8.00 - but don’t always get up then. I could fall asleep in the early evening, though don’t, and vow that, tonight, I’ll go to bed much earlier, but by about 9.30, I have a new lease of life. I might do some ironing, or wash the kitchen floor, and have forgotten all about going to bed. I used to let myself in to my late mum’s flat about 11.00am, and find her still asleep. She would watch tv in bed, and not fall asleep until the early hours. I didn’t think that was good for her, but I now see how that can happen!

I used to be a night-owl, but since my husband's last illness when I slept with one ear open, as he needed help overnight, I find myself waking at seven in the morning - shockingly early for me.

Now nearly 18 months after my husband's death, I am beginning to occasionally sleep until eight, so perhaps the night-owl is on her way back.

Definitely an early bird, think it’s years of being a newsagent!
Wake at five, tea at six but oh the luxury of then staying in bed reading the paper and doing puzzles! Up at eight and straight out for a walk. Always ready for bed by nine though!

Bed between 10 and half past usually, read for about forty minutes, up anytime between 7&8, straight out of bed, no TV in our bedroom.

I was always a night owl.
I worked late or night shifts only,as I couldn't trust myself to get up early.

I did manage to get up, ad the years went on, but I've never enjoyed it.

Definitely a lark. I get up between 7 and 7.30 and start panicking if I have to stay up after 10.30. My DH is the complete opposite.

I’m a lark. I go to bed about 10, read until 11, then straight to sleep and wake between 5&6, after a couple of nocturnal trips to the bathroom ☹️

We’re both larks always have been 5am tea watch the news in bed breakfast at leisurely 6.30. Bed 10 pm suits us both we’ve plenty to fill each day.

I used to be a lark when I had to travel into the office for 9am, used to leave the house just after 7am to avoid the traffic and was often in the office before 8 am. It made more sense to be in the office preparing for my day as if I waited to be in the office just before 9 I’d have had to leave the house by 7:20 and would’ve spent most of that time sitting in nose to tail traffic.

After years of getting children to school, commuting etc., I am thoroughly enjoying my mornings. In the winter, I tend not to go to bed until at least 11:30, but no reading in bed. Then the night begins; if I am lucky I sleep until about 2:30, then up to the loo, and then fidget/sleep/ache/turn over until I fall into an exhausted sleep at about 6am. Up around 8;30, then slow breakfast. Surprisingly, I function quite well, so perhaps I am getting more sleep than I think I am. In the summer, I get up earlier as I love my wander around the garden, coffee in hand.

I’ve always been a lark but now I’ve been described as a “extreme” lark, waking up around 330 onwards.
Now a widow, I stay in bed, have one (or two) drinks, answer mails, read, etc. before having a shower and getting my paper around 7.
I do have z short nap most afternoons otherwise I’d be asleep by 9 pm!

I'm neither - I go to bed at 9.30 and wake up at 9.30. When my time comes, I'll probably just not wake up!

Before my job working in Residential care with teenagers I had a normal sleep pattern ie bed at 11pm straight asleep up at 7.15am. After 8 years working 24 hrs shifts where you were almost always up until 1am and often 3am I now can't sleep until 2am and wake around 9.30. I've tried many times to get back to my original sleep pattern but just end up tossing and turning unable to sleep for most of the night. So I go to bed at 1am then read til 2am then straight asleep. I'm not much good before midday so all appointments are usually afternoons. Works for me.

Yes, while doing the cat meds, definitely more like the pigeon😆😴

Allira

5 am is the middle of the night 😯

I agree

Sadly, I’m neither now!

I used to get up pretty early whilst working, when still fit and healthy, and go to bed late late.

These days I’m a late riser and early to bed!

Same as you Babs03, especially with tv watching etc, it seems to be only time i can have to myself with no chores/meals to do.I knit then too, while tv is on, i've always been a multitasker.And like you i make a cuppa, in my room, to take my time getting up.we are kindred spirits.Been hard lately though, as giving meds to cat every 6hrs round the clock.Hes getting better though.

Can’t describe myself as a lark, really, as I tend to wake between 8 & 9 am depending how tired I am. I suppose I’m more owl, but my bedtime varies depending how tired I feel so can be anything between 10 pm and 12.30am. I think I more accurately fit marmight’s pigeon 😂😂.

Love that, Marmight.

Early bird.

I am jet lagged this week but lately I seem to need my bed earlier and earlier. Wake up at silly o’clock then linger in bed until 9 ish. Must be winter. Roll on lighter mornings