When night falls that's usually the signal for most people to hit the sack. However, for some nighttime carries a different meaning.
Night owls are people who generally stay up much later than other people do. This usually means going to bed well past midnight.
For those who are morning people staying up until two or three in the morning not only sounds insane but impossible. Also it sounds unproductive and unhealthy.
It's understandable and it goes both ways, night owls can't understand how people can go to bed early and wake up early.
Well here are confessions straight from a night owl about why we do what we do.
Why do we stay up so late? Well it sounds funny but we're sort of programmed that way. We feel more productive during the night than during the day. Also many night owls are artistic types, not all but a lot. So at nighttime when it's quiet it's easier for us to concentrate.
Also there are lots of exciting things that happen at night. During the day many people work or do volunteer work so nighttime is the only time they have available to relax and have fun.
We enjoy the peaceful stillness of the night, it brings a sense of calming. It's used as a time of meditation and reflection. Day time is too hectic and rushed and no one has time to stop and take a breath.
Plus the very idea of not taking advantage of nighttime hours is as bad to us as wasting the daytime by running around here and there. We want freedom to do more fun and entertaining things and during the daylight hours it's not possible when working.
Another thing is we just can't fall asleep too early, even after a long day we just can't sleep. Our brains are still very active and unless we've been driven to complete exhaustion we will continue into the night because we like it.
Which brings me to the fact that we just like being up late. It's more enjoyable for us and we'd rather be up when everyone else is fast asleep.
Now there's a few things we're pretty tired of hearing.
1. Aren't you tired? Yes we probably are but not tired enough to go to bed at 10 at night.
2. Why don't you just go to bed? I don't know, why don't you stay up with me and build a fort?
3. You should go to bed earlier. Yeah I probably should but that would ruin my creative practices and mess up my entire sleep system.
4. You should get up earlier you'd get a lot more done. That's what I use the nighttime for. Yes I will scrub my bathroom at 3 in the morning and then read a novel because I feel more awake at this hour.
Yes we have odd hours and find the night much more stimulating than the day. So feel free to tell us sweet dreams because we will have them, just not at the same hour as you.
