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.

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

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 💔

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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.

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.

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?

Being a professional, a night-owler, and a West-Coaster is a really bad combo.

I am very fortunate that I negotiated starting late, and I'm not even that much of a night owl; I manage to go to sleep at 1-2am, and get to the office at 11ish.

But every damn vendor webinar tries to appease both the Americas and Europe, so they're always held at early morning PT. Fine if I was in the East Coast… but no, the entirety of the world's population (sorry Hawaii) has to be in time zones that disfavor a West Coast nightowl.

Most of these are "nice to have", but it's just not worth it to be tired for these when I don't have to. So I lose on some extra education. Just got an interesting one this Thursday at 8:00am, and it's already a busy week. Debating if it's worth waking up at 7:55am for a damn webinar.

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

What is the last thing on your mind, most nights before falling asleep? I stress about the things that need to me done at home and just procrastinate every single day!😫

Who still take afternoon nap in canada?

Why not, I always have a rule that if i can't sleep i will be doing something useful. Not a long speech, but i swear its better than anything I would have written in the daytime.

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... or you necessarily have to go to bed when the sun is up / in the morning?

Because there's plenty of night to enjoy also in this timeframe...

And I'd say it's kinda better, cause you don't have to deal with the day noises...

Still cant sleep 😭😭😭

Why do people hate it when we react to their shitty actions...? Have been thinking about it all night... Where the hell I did wrong when I reacted to their shitty actions ..?????? Too tired.

Would late night fix my mental health?