r/NightOwls

Anyone else feel like night time just hits different?

Everything slows down, less noise, less pressure… I somehow end up being more productive and focused than during the day.

I’ve been using that time to experiment with some late-night music lately. Trying to capture that quiet, empty atmosphere.

Curious how others experience it.

It’s late, the world is quiet, but your brain just refuses to shut down.

​I’m sitting here wondering what everyone else’s "midnight nemesis" is.

Am I just being a stickler when I think to myself that I often see posts here that are more in line with insomnia then being a night owl with an atypical circadian rhythm? Like I am always most productive and awake at hours that are typically sleeping time for others and I am still sleeping when others are typically well into the day. Even if I'm massively sleep deprived I still end up feeling alert at around midnight.

Sun comes up super early and it wakes me up instantly even if I’m dead tired. Blackout curtains help a little but not enough. What do you use to make the room totally dark?

Are people more active on social media in the morning when they first wake up or at night before bed?

Hi, I’m just here to share 2 poems that I wrote. I have no experience in writing poems but I hope people appreciate this. I wrote them when I was on a low.
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Souls unveiling,
warm blanket of the day-star
encased our fleshy-prison.
Further sailing, drifting,
out on the whale-path.
The feeling of earth’s breath
tickling my fingers.
The beat of drums building,
thunders and echoes.

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Dark eyes, starry-eyed.
my phone, a source of light.
If eyes are windows to the soul,
Souls are like stars.
Pure, gleaming with light.
Phone so bright yet a void.
A void deep and dark,
A black hole eating stars.

A little while ago someone posted the difficulty of traveling as a night person or on nightshift because of hotel checkout times being accursedly early. (Oh and let's not talk about their breakfast ending at 8:30am.)

This site has day use hotels https://www.dayuse.com/ which has your regular brand name hotels, but they offer the off peak hours during the day generally for a significantly reduced rate.

I haven't used it so I can't vouch for it, I heard it's not in all cities, but if you're traveling and you're on the graveyard shift sleep schedule this might be helpful.

So basically, I am a natural night owl. My favorite sleeping scedule was going to bed at 3 AM and waking up around 11 or 12.

But 7 months ago, I started going to cosmetology school. I live 45 minutes away from my school, so I have to get up around 6:20 AM latest to make it to school on time.

This is Hell. My body wont let me go to sleep early, but now its also accustomed to waking up early too. These days all I get is 4 to 6 hours of sleep. And on my days off, the days I can "sleep" I wake up at 8-9 AM latest. And thats after a few rounds of waking up at 6 AM and forcing myself to go back to sleep.

Im just so tired all the time. Sometimes I take naps during the day. Especially when I get home from school, but in a way it makes it worse because then it further extends my ability to stay up late. But it feels like physically cannot sleep then at the same time. Im just so tired.

made a discord for people that are naturally awake throughout the night

music, games, art, random conversations, night drives, working on stuff, sitting in vc doing nothing, etc

still building it rn but yeah just a space for the nightshift crew to co-exist while the rest of the world is asleep

comment or DM if interested in joining the Discord.

Come over and gave a chat and a laugh x