Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by bryanlarsen on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:05PM
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An owl is somebody who wakes up naturally later than 7AM, according to the article. The OP cannot fall asleep until 3AM-4AM. That's not an owl, that's a medical condition.
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by madaxe_again on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:16PM
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Not necessarily. I go to bed late because I struggle to put down whatever it is I'm doing - be it reading a book, writing code, playing a game - it's always one more chapter, let's just get this one bit working, let's just beat this one level.
In the morning, my drive to do anything much isn't there - it takes a few hours for the furnaces to come online.
You could argue that that's a medical condition, but I'd argue that it stems from being more mentally active as the day progresses - which is kinda the definition of an owl.
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by AznHisoka on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:15PM
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That struggle isn't a medical condition but its not something to just shrug and give in to either. learning to stop thinking after a certain time of the day is a skill. It can be practiced.
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by oldmanjay on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:26PM
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It seems like there is no particular justification to consider it a disorder. You seem to be advocating conformity for its own sake.
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by AznHisoka on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:18PM
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It's not a disorder any more than wanting to eat lots of sweets is a disorder. Modern society is filled with lots of things to consume us especially at night when we should be quieting our brain. Was easy in the past when we didn't have video games or computers around.
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by ChoGGi on Friday April 01, 2016 @05:19AM
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Before I had a computer it was usually "just one more chapter".
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by madaxe_again on Friday April 01, 2016 @06:04AM
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Was easy in the past when we didn't have books or candles around.
Let's go back to australopithecine principles, so we can all sleep better. Except someone will need to stay up to look out for predators.
And there you have your evolutionary basis. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by AznHisoka on Friday April 01, 2016 @03:33PM
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Except books actually help you sleep, unlike electronics
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by atemerev on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:32PM
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Half of HN have this "medical condition". Why it is more normal to wake earlier?
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by Hydraulix989 on Friday April 01, 2016 @11:42PM
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Seems to be more common in engineers, and "smarter people," of which I argue are a larger-than-average makeup of the HN population:
http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/night-owls-creative-intel...
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by falcolas on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:12PM
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If you wake up at noon, then going to bed at 4am gives you a good 8 hours of sleep. That makes it a rather healthy time to go to bed for waking up at noon.
Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against
by bryanlarsen on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:17PM
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The OP was waking up before 10AM.
> There are night owls among us — whose whole circadian schedules are shifted later — and morning larks, who are shifted earlier. (If you're curious, you can assess your chronotype with this quiz here.) These traits are determined by genetics and are extremely hard to change. What's more, the research is finding that if we fight our chronotypes, our health may suffer.