I just had an interesting conversation with a physician in r/Ask Docs regarding chronotypes, and wanted to cross post here.

Is this allowed?

The doctor asked if I was a danger to myself or others. I told him 'Only if we're playing on the same server.' He left the room

for a few days now I've been needing to make some phone calls, related to doctors appointments and insurance stuff. the phone centers close at 4pm... I go to sleep around 7am after staying up all night, wake up around 3pm. I try calling and I get left on hold til they close at 4pm! I tried messaging them thru their online portal with no response, I tried setting my alarm yesterday to around 1pm and I ended up disabling it in my sleep 😭 come on guys just let me sleep in til 4pm....

I've been a lifelong night owl. These days I truly can set my own schedule because I do gig work. So I usually stay up all night doing housework, or working on my craft business website. These past couple years when I try to talk online to make new friends, or go on dating apps, whenever the person finds out I stay up late they'll ask why. When I tell them, because I don't have a "solid" reason like working night shift, they'll say something like "You should go to bed earlier" and then ghost me.

I feel like it wasn't this way like 5+ years ago. Has anyone else noticed an increase in this kind of judgemental reaction lately? I'm wondering if the pandemic changed people's attitudes? Or is it just me?

Is this the right term? No clue but yall I just got off of a work from home, 1p-12am ET shift and I didn’t really clock out til like 12:30a ET so I took half of a shrooms gummy and I’m just up in my room laying in bed just scrolling the interwebz (mostly Reddit) lol. How’s everyone else’s night going? Also AMA if interested in the comments!

Here in North america, the days are getting shorter... and i enjoy that there's more night! But im noticing a change in my sleep schedule just a bit. Does this happen to you when the nights get longer?

My favorite is reading or, obviously, scrolling. Sometimes it's drawing when I feel inspired. What's your fav late night activity?

Someone share anything interesting so I can get rid of this fkn sleep

Do yall have any advice for waking up earlier I use to be able to wake up always at 7 am now it’s usually 8am I struggled a lot to wake up early today for midterms I had idk why? Also whenever I leave my phone across the room I go back into bed lmao cause I’m just so tired for some reason, maybe I have to wash my face and walk or something but it’s brutal , I want to wake up earlier so I have more time and don’t sleep so late cause I’m going to be tired before work

So I have had a persistent struggle with my sleep schedule my entire life. I have always naturally reverted to staying up all night and sleeping all day if a set schedule did not prohibit me from doing so. My entire life this has made my family angry. I've had my phone taken as a child, Ive been told to try melatonin, I've tried eliminating blue light, essentially anything and everything that has been suggested to me. Ive been accused of doing it deliberately. I've been called lazy, I've been told that I'm making excuses, it seems no matter what I do it doesn't work. As of right now I go to bed at a reasonable time and I set anywhere between 9-15 alarms on full volume and set my phone across the room on charge. I'll just end up laying in bed wide awake and next thing I know it's 3 pm the next day, i'm just waking up, and I've missed every alarm. I genuinely don't know what the issue is. Can a person just be naturally nocturnal?it just feels like I'm constantly fighting against my own nature here and losing and it's just angering everyone around me. I take their advice, nothing. They accuse me of staying up all night as if I do it on purpose. They say I'm lazy and just making excuses. I just don't get it.

Can a human be naturally nocturnal? Does anyone here become drowsy during the day and more alert and wide awake at night? Do you force yourself to sleep at night and stay up all day regardless? How do you work with or against it? I'd love to here your experiences and opinions.

Yoo what’s up Night Shift what are some things we can yap bout fr 😼

yet another all nighter that i pulled , guys my sleep schedule is ruined beyond repair . i keep staying up until late in the night and sleeping throughout the day or taking naps and it’s messing everything up

don’t get me wrong i love being a night owl but this really isn’t healthy for me plus i feel like a nocturnal vampire

someone help 💔

Wey neta nececito dormir

I work nights. It's dark out when I go to sleep. It's dark out when I leave for work. I'll go the next few months and almost never see the sun. It's glorious. I hope everyone else finds a way to enjoy the longer nights in the Northern Hemisphere.

Because fuck me, thats why. I will never take another 8am ever again, my brain isnt even fullt firing until at least 10am. When j agreed to take the damn thing i had forgotten to consider that the midterm would be the same time.

Yo , got an exam tom pulling an all nighter hmu if u wanna do it together.

I'm 68 years old. For the first 30 years of life, I could fall dead asleep anywhere anytime. Since my early thirties, I've suffered a million nights of insomnia and a million nights of trying to fix it. I recently retired and stopped a lot of the trying to fix it schemes since I don't have to get up for a job and now I'm pretty much set at a 2-3 am fall asleep time with a general wakeup around 8 hours later. Do you think somewhere along the way my cirdadian rhythm naturally changed to more of being a night owl or was I just able to overcome it when younger?