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Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by VeejayRampay on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:37AM (#15711360)
I have to admit that I'm quite ignorant about the science of "morning persons" VS "night persons", sleeping schedules, natural rhythms so for anyone more in the know than I am, aren't body and brain extremely flexible and retrainable to accommodate for different schedules? As in, if you force yourself to go to bed at 10PM every night and wake up everyday at 7AM, don't you eventually become a "morning person"? And say that "eventually" happens over a period of a few years to make the transition smooth.

Genuine question, I'm really curious.

Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by srean on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:01AM (#15711472)
> As in, if you force yourself to go to bed at 10PM every night and wake up everyday at 7AM, don't you eventually become a "morning person"?

Been trying that for ~15 years, hasn't worked yet.

Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by YuriNiyazov on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:56AM (#15713662)
You should have some children, you will turn in 2 years or so
Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by cosmie on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:57PM (#15749966)
That's not always the case. My daughter's going on 6, and she actively enables my being a night person.

But it's worked out perfectly in my case. My daughter is definitely a morning person and enjoys having some alone time. About two years ago, she realized that the better she is the less reason I have to get up and the longer she gets some alone time. I prep breakfast the night before so she can get it without help in the morning, then she lets the dog out, turns on music or an audiobook with the Echo and gets some drawing/crafting in until I wake up. There's also a 50/50 chance that she'll have tidied up my living room and the playroom before I get up, too. Basically anything that would get me out of bed early she started taking care of, as a way to prevent me from having a reason to get up. The only part of the routine I actively created was the breakfast one, because of a few spilt milk jugs in her attempts to make cereal alone.

She's made me quite envious of morning people, actually. Even when I get up with her though, she just makes me a cozy pallet on the couch and insists I lay back down and leave her the hell alone and stay out of her way until at least 10am.

Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by srean on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:15AM (#15719456)
Thanks, that drew a chuckle.
Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by lichenwarp on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:28AM (#15719536)
nose exhale
Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by Grangar on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:37AM (#15712164)
If I force myself to go to bed at 10PM I just end up frustrated for hours on end and actually sleep less than if I go around 12-1am. That's the absolute earliest I can - in uni I regularly didn't sleep before 4am.

You can't just force out a habit that built up over (in my case) a very long part of your life.

Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by rsanders on Thursday November 16, 2017 @08:21AM (#15712406)
Going to bed and going to sleep aren't the same thing, so at least in my experience, no.
Re:Don't be a morning person if you're not one by sandos on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:31AM (#15712142)
I think we are adaptable like this, I am anyway.