Are You A Night Owl Is Anyone Here More Nocturnal?

[junglegirl]

I have always been nocturnal even as a toddler I love the afternoon and evening I am energized at these times. Studies have been done showing the historical importance of nocturnals- saying we were the sentinels watching at night while the others slept. I can imagine them enjoying the stars. My ptsd is worse if I have to wake up early because I have always been and am naturally nocturnal. I am healthy for simeone who suffered ptsd for so long I have a great amount of energy but I have a harder time in the mornings with my ptsd. Bc I m aturally nocturnal. How do you feel?

 

[SeanCharles]

I can so relate to this and I wonder if THIS is in part why my ptsd symptoms seem to be more difficult where my job and my life is concerned.

I have, despite people's attempts to mold me into a non nocturnal being. For example, I am expected to be at work and ready to work at 7 a.m. five days out of a 7 day week! While I have accepted this and haven't deliberately been tardy to work or called saying I am running late (purposely) I realize now that much of what I want is to be able to set my own schedule, not be forced into someone else's agenda and expectations (except maybe my own customers which is part of the problem preventing me from engaging in self-employment).

 

[junglegirl]

Geordie,
I have done exactly that. I am fortunate to be able to create my own hours. Four years ago I started my own business and journey towards finding the healthiest environment for me which i have now been living in for more than a year. I have healed more in the last year than in my entire life experience. Goodness gave me a facility for language. and the privilege to live abroad as a child and so I know what I need the level of nature i need around me and I have been able to create an extremely healthy lifestyle fotfor myself as a result

I hope you will be able to give yourself that as soon as possible. You deserve it.

 

[SeanCharles]

My problem is I don't make enough, even though I make make more than my previous broken by gaps work history. This job I have worked the longest out of those other jobs as well. What I can't quite work out is moving from my employment to self-employment even though I actually have 3 companies I own that seem stuck at the development and planning stages for a few years now! :(

 

[Rizen]

Sometimes I am. My sleep's chaos.

 

[J_trustno1]

Yes, I am nocturnal. I could stay up all night and study but if you tell me to wake up early to studying then that was impossible. I could concentrate more towards 6pm (in winter) and after 7pm in summer when sun started setting down. I was mentally more focused in the evening than daytime. I am more frustrated during the day because I hate daylight as I can't concentrate then. The sun irritates me and frustrates me. I've always had depression coming back late spring and full depression in summer because of heat and greater day light. However, I am better in windy and cloudy days than bright sunlight. I've always studied at night and achieved lowest of B- and highest of A at school and university if this helps.

 

[junglegirl]

Geordie,
A lifetime of trying to conform and being forced to conform to a diurnal society, especially having ptsd is quite simply exhausting. Our kind were very very important to the survival of the human race,yet we are not repaid for our service to humankind. One must be an entrepreneur or settle for less money if workingfr another if one is nocturnal. A shame because people are making themselves sick trying to do this going against our bodies' natural biorythm.

 

[junglegirl]

Yes jess, I relate to much of your post. Thanks 4 posting.

 

[Lionheart]

I am a day person, but for the past year or so, I have been staying up into the wee hours of the morning because it is so quiet and peaceful, less chaotic and I can relax and focus better. Most of the time this means that I am up all night and sleep during the morning hours..Still I worry that this is part of social withdrawal for me and I have to consider that this may be a problem.[DOUBLEPOST=1397971776][/DOUBLEPOST]I am a day person, but for the past year or so, I have been staying up into the wee hours of the morning because it is so quiet and peaceful, less chaotic and I can relax and focus better. Most of the time this means that I am up all night and sleep during the morning hours..Still I worry that this is part of social withdrawal for me and I have to consider that this may be a problem.

 

[Definitely..maybe]

I am a nocturnal early owl bird- but not by choice! Unfortunately I have a really hard time sleeping with my ptsd. But I am happiest around late afternoon/ nighttime, when I feel more relaxed and not like I'm wasting a day!

 

[junglegirl]

Lionheart, I can't speak to whether you are withdrawing socially. I can say that I am very social and I spend my afternoons and early evenings with others every day. I find that following my natural biorythm has helped my social life markedly because I am well-rested now and enjoy being with others more since I am energized and healthy. As I said university research discovered that nocturnwl beings were essential during our development in order to alert diurnal workers to any threats at night while they slept. Without us the human race wouldn't have survived. Unfotrtunately corporate capitalism does not allow for its worker bees to choose their schedul. They demand conformity for their own productivity goals and capital gain. It's about the bottom line not the individual productivity and well being of the person. In essence I recommend discovring what makes you feel more relaxd in this overly stimulating too much information coming at you world.

 

[anthony]

I have pretty much always been a night person as an adult... and still am, yet I can also function quite normally by sleeping at night and being awake daily, as most are. I run more inline with normal sleep patterns due to my wife, though if she goes away for an extended period of a week or more, I find myself back in my old pattern quite quickly, being up at night and sleep longer during the day.