how many of you are living a nocturnal life?
By jacklintan
@jacklintan (1302)
Malaysia
March 28, 2011 9:05am CST
Hi brilliant mylotters!
Nocturnal life meaning those who sleep during the day and wakes up during at night and have prompt activities at night.
I believed there are many people out there who have difficulty sleeping at night and they stay up late by watching movies, getting online on computers, playing games, onced they got hungry, they will eat some heavy food and that keeps them awake throughout the whole night!
People who lead a nocturnal life, doesn't necessarily mean they're party/club goers, they are those who works at night shift but it simply are those who having difficulty to sleep at night. Some people have their brain more active at night and they seem to be more productive at nightly hours!
I remember a few celebrities like Micheal Jackson who produces song lyrics at night.
I guess, this is also a bad habit. More like a vampire's lifestyles, which I find it's not good for health.
Anyone out there who lead this life too??? Please share with me and let's figure out some ways to help those who wanted to lead back a daily life. Thank you.
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10 responses
@Jlyn10 (11966)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
Hi Jackie,
No, I don't live a nocturnal life but I do sometimes stay up until very late although I have to wake up early the next morning to send my kids to school. I guess I just can't get used to going to bed early, more worse if I just had a glass of "teh tarik". That will definitely keep me wide awake the whole night.
I know it is not a good habit. I've been repeatedly telling myself that I have to change this bad habit of mine, but to no avail. I guess my willpower isn't that strong enough, hehe!
I guess a solution to that would be:-
1. To start disciplining ourself.
2. Probably set a time table for ourself on what to do and when to do it. (Hope it will work. 
)
3. Also, a walk in the park in the morning would make us feel fresh for the days work (a friend shared this with me this morning).
4. Try not to take naps in the afternoon.
5. Set a time limit when using the computer because that this mainly the cause of late nights, lol.
Let's hope we all can get used to it and lead ourselves back to a normal daily life. 
)
3. Also, a walk in the park in the morning would make us feel fresh for the days work (a friend shared this with me this morning).
4. Try not to take naps in the afternoon.
5. Set a time limit when using the computer because that this mainly the cause of late nights, lol.
Let's hope we all can get used to it and lead ourselves back to a normal daily life. 
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
3am but I wake up at 12pm! OMG....now I know this sounded like a disaster! LOL
I'll try to make some progress by waking up early. So, no more tele and limited time online....
I'll try to go to bed by 9pm later.
hopefully, I will managed to change it...they said, it takes 21 days to change a bad habit.
Can I???
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
hi Jyln10,
Nice to hear from you. Yeah, the "teh tarik" effect works the same on me too!
That's why I try to skip caffeine drinks and no heavy food during the night. I'm also a heavy coffee drinker and I'm trying to cut it down slowly which is going to be good for my health and it won't drag my sleeping time longer.
Besides trying to lose some weights, I try to go to bed earlier and hope I can get up before 8am. It has been a long time I'd been waking up in the afternoon.
So, Im not quite a night owls as I will go to bed latest before 3am. (which I still consider late!)
But if I wake up too early in the morning, Im afraid i will do napping. Urghh....
Hope I can get this by with all your supports!
Btw, how many kids do you have so far?
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
hello jack,
I'm living with this kind...nocturnal whatever life is.
Working at night and sleeping in daytime.
But even before i had this graveyard shift(job) i do have some trouble sleeping in night time,that is why i haven't had any problem with my night job as i am used to it.
I guess,this is not about insomnia,i just can't get sleep at night.
Let's wait for other mylotters how did they cope up with nocturnal life.
happy weekdays
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
hello again jack,
First...yes,i am a female (gosh do i look like a guy in my profile picture?
)
I don't feel embarrassed with my sleeping habit.
Like i wrote earlier,i work at night (i worked in a call center) my shift starts at 12 midnight till 9am.
I usually arrives home by 11am and have my lunch,done some mylotting while cooking for dinner and off to bed by 1pm or 2pm and wakes up 9pm.
Good for you that you don't need to wake up early to go to work...are you a self-made business person or do you work at home?
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I don't feel embarrassed with my sleeping habit.
Like i wrote earlier,i work at night (i worked in a call center) my shift starts at 12 midnight till 9am.
I usually arrives home by 11am and have my lunch,done some mylotting while cooking for dinner and off to bed by 1pm or 2pm and wakes up 9pm.
Good for you that you don't need to wake up early to go to work...are you a self-made business person or do you work at home?@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
hi jaiho again.
Im glad to hear from you :)
Do you find you have more time for family when you worked on afternoon shift?
Yes, i work for myself but it's not a good habit either.
Im trying to wake up early these days, but onced I got up, I dont feel i have the energy to work. looks like afternoon fetch me higher energy level to work.
isnt it funny???
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@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
28 Mar 11
hi jaiho2009,
first, are u a female? :) Thanks for your honesty about your sleeping pattern. Some people will gets embarassed about their sleeping hours.
For me it, it started with problems from work, which activated my brain power whenever Im trying to sleep at night. I tempted to think more at night and all the solutions towards my problems just came out. deliberately, it became a habit.
I dont go awake every night. I'm just sleeping abit later like 4am. thanks God, i dont need to punch cards and to be at the office at 8am. Probably my job is free moving and I dont need to report to any manager. Thats why I have no worries about the time Im waking up (which I consider indicipline).
I'm planning to wake up early these days. :)I hope to have friends who managed to do so give me some solutions.
Thanks
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@apples99 (6556)
• United States
29 Mar 11
Yes right now I'm kind of living a nocturnal life, at least until I start those college courses, and I'm not referring to club hopping I'm just saying I tend to be a midnight owl, I like to do things late at night um stuff like watch tv surf the web exercise and other stuff but that will change when I begin collage.
@apples99 (6556)
• United States
29 Mar 11
Yes in some ways I do feel that I'm more productive and sharper in the evenings then I am during the day, its sort of like a switch gets turned on in my brain at night.
Oh by the way I hope that IQ study is true because it sure would be cool if I had a good IQ I never took a test for that haha, though I never put much thought on IQ test it still be sort of cool to have a good IQ.
Oh by the way I hope that IQ study is true because it sure would be cool if I had a good IQ I never took a test for that haha, though I never put much thought on IQ test it still be sort of cool to have a good IQ.@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
Hi apples99,
I searched for some articles online regarding sleeping patterns and why some people are morning larks and some handful of them are night owls.
It's rather unusual to find out that there is a Japanese Professor who researched on the sleeping patterns and found out that those who sleep during the day and wakes up during the night tempt to have higher IQ than those who wakes up during the day!
This finding was remarkably surprise me!
Do you feel you can't think better at night and you are more productive?
@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
29 Mar 11
Hi there,
Before I got married virtually I passed a nocturnal life. I would stay wake up till three or four O' clock in the morning and sleep for just two hours or so and then would go to college and after the classes were over, I would come back to my room and after lunch sleep for more than 4 hours.
Later on it so happened that even though tried to sleep early I would not get sleep. But I enjoy the nocturnal life. It was full of mystery and things enveloped by darkness and half lights and you are with your works.
But nocturnal life in the long run affects the normal life for whom this is not a must. So now I have changed it and only sometime when pending works are there I stay late. Or else it is all normal.
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
I think sleeping at late hours and sqeeze in sleeping for few hours before the sun rise is a painful process to go through.
Sleep deprivation is crucial and it will affect your daily work and your concentration at work.
For me, it must have been a bad choice to sleep like zombee. It started during the uni time. It's where it all started with getting too much online and losing the discipline of time. I have sacrificed my sleeping hours and it was a disaster even since.
I managed to pick up myself after I graduated and with my first job.It was steady weaking up early and going to bed early for 2 years.
Gradually, it became a habit again of sleeping late due to some family problems. Then, it continues till today. On and off I'd been struggling to sleep early and waking up early. (Both is really tough)
I hope by being honest about myself here, I will be able to make faster improvement by changing myself to sleep early.
Thanks guy. Good to hear from you and hope to hear from you more.
:)
@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
29 Mar 11
For me in any case if I go late to bed I must get up late or else I remain off mooded all the day.
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
1 Apr 11
hi krajibg,
It has been the 6th days for a night owls like me to walk like a morning lark!
It's a tough process to handle but I'm trying it step by step everyday.
I'll get this done for 21 days and hope it will be a Habit for me soon.
Thanks and hope to have ur support!
@Angelgirl16 (2171)
• United States
28 Mar 11
I guess you can say that I am living a semi nocturnal life; I work during the day, come home and get some sleep, then I will get up and work on the computer straight through the night. I get a few hours of sleep before it is time to go to work and I use my egg timer to help me not be late for work. I am so used to this routine that I even do it on weekends and holidays as well.
@Angelgirl16 (2171)
• United States
13 Apr 11
That is exactly right, I can't live without my egg timer. I do work and attend college so I am going and going like the pink bunny.I do get up and do different jobs on the internet.
I do get up and do different jobs on the internet.@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
hi angelgirl16,
why are you working so hard?? :) poor girl
do you mean after 9-5pm job, you will get some rest and then when your egg timer awakes you, you will get online and do some work?
what kind of online job did you do?
@elvieb02 (695)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
Before I live in nocturnal life, my work is at night and I sleep during the day. It wasn't good for me nor for my family, I hardly speak to them because when I come back home, they will leave or had left for school. And when they come back from school, I'll be off for work.
But aside from that, since I am a night person, I have all my energy at night, I think that's also the reason why I took the job. And about sleeping during the day, sometimes it is kind of difficult specially when there are people at home making noise, and the light too. So, I needed to close the window and everything to make the room dark.
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
28 Mar 11
hi elvie02,
what time do you wake up for work at night? do you mind, if i asked what kind of job do you do?
for me, i will wake up at 2pm and sleep at 4am. I wish i can wake up earlier because sometimes, my day time is so short that i cannot do anything.
have you thought about changing your sleeping hour? its very tough to sleep during the day too. those noises and the lights...which i can understand.
nice to hear from you :) cheers
@elvieb02 (695)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
oops, sorry about my verb tenses, they sounded like I am still working at night 
I had that night life before, but now it's back to normal. I was a data encoder before and there were several shifts, so I took the night shifts because work was more before. Then I sometimes I would extend my working hours so I would come back home like 10am and must be at work by 6pm.
I had that night life before, but now it's back to normal. I was a data encoder before and there were several shifts, so I took the night shifts because work was more before. Then I sometimes I would extend my working hours so I would come back home like 10am and must be at work by 6pm.@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
28 Mar 11
is it hard to change back to sleeping early pattern??
Please advise. thank you.
@carrine (2743)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
I used to have that kind of life when my shift is graveyard. I will sleep during day time and work night time. Its very hard and boring, because you dont have life at all. After your work i will go home and sleep, and after I sleep i have to prepare to work again. So I tried to talk to my supervisor if i can change my schedule and good thing that it was granted. So i have a normal life right now, not nocturnal anymore.
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
hi carrine,
some people find it hard to cope with nocturnal life.
if it's your will to stay up late and rest the next day, you'll be finding this exciting.
some people (like me) prefer to adapt to waking up at night time so that i can do many things without disturbance.
I have higher energy at night. I wonder why...but i cannot cope with night life forever. I need to change it somehow. :)
@orang13 (723)
• Philippines
29 Mar 11
I am a nocturnal person. I can't sleep at night especially during summer breaks. I find myself productive during night time. I think i got it after i enrolled myself to a school that makes students carry a lot of homeworks forgetting that they should still get some sleep. Yes, so then.. i can't sleep at night anymore. I even once took medication for it and it actually kinda work but i have to stop it cause it affects my gastritis problem. Then right now i am back to being nocturnal again.
I guess i am like that especially when i am not doing any heavy stuff during mornings. I think i need more exercise to worn myself at night. Yes! I guess thats the safest way to solve it. And try to limit computer activities, internet can make me high.
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
hi orang13,
Im so surprised that there are so many of you out there who lead a nocturnal life.
Those who awake during the whole nights are night owls.
Deep down, if you're wanting to change your sleeping pattern, first, you have to sit down and think what you have been deprived in your life. There are things you wanted to do but you can't accomplished it and this keep you "busy" at night.
I understand sleeping problems are very much associated with what you're not satisfying in your heart.
It's true some activities like computers, online chatting and games can make a person high and deprived their sleeps. I'm trying to cut this down too.
Good luck and nice hearing from you :)
@natjohn20 (200)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
Now a days I live in a nocturnal life, eating, watching TV shows at night, playing p.c games even exercising. I know this is a one way of living an unhealthy life, and its bad; but I cant help myself. The reason why I stayed late at night its because I have no work or nothing else to do during the day, the only thing I do during the day is sleep, and sometime go out with friends when they're on a break or off duty. That only thing I know how to do during the day. I'm still looking for a job, hopefully someday I would get hired and have a job, so I could stop this habit of mine staying all night long with nothing else to do productively.
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
hi natjohn20,
not all people who stay up late because they have unproductive life.
You may feel you're not working for money , and you think thats why you stay up late.
But when you started working one day, you're going to stick with the new schedules of waking up early and going to bed too.
so, how are you going to chang/switch your sleeping habit?? Please advice coz you're not alone.
Thanks
@sashakiddo (1102)
• United States
31 Mar 11
I prefer the nocturnal life because that means I don't have to deal with the regulars! The ones who go by the organized schedule. Never oversleeping. Always waking up for breakfast, always going to sleep before midnight. It's pretty boring isn't it!
The nocturnal life is an addiction. The one full of hardships because it often keeps us from making our afternoon or morning appointments. Yet it is so attractive because we are sort of free from the noisy meaningless life of day time.
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
1 Apr 11
hi, i used to think that way.
Let me recall it. It started when I was in 20s. (I'm now in early 30s)I used to work long hours. I prefer it that way because I want to climb the corporate ladder and made it before 30. so, I stayed up late thinking if I spend less time sleeping, i will be using more time than normal people do and I'll made it.
When I was much younger, I stayed up late to finish reading and for exams! Ohh..those were the times, I can never forget. :)
Nocturnal life is really nice, cooling, quiet and most of all less disturbance. U can have all the time for yourself and you can finish reading a book! Imagine me finish reading a book a day. heheh
