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Are You a Morning Person or a Night Owl?

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The early bird catches the worm ... and he's chipper all day, too. Morning people are happier and more satisfied with life than night owls, a new study suggests, according to LiveScience.

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"We found that older adults reported greater positive emotion than younger adults, and older adults were more likely to be morning-type people than younger adults," study researcher Renee Biss, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, told LiveScience. "The 'morningness' was associated with greater happiness emotions in both age groups."

Only about 7 percent of young adults are morning types, but this tends to change as people age. Morning people also reported feeling healthier than night owls. So why are morning types so perky? Well, they might be more likely to get enough sleep, but they're also on track with the rest of the world. "Society's expectations are far more organized around a morning-type person's schedule," Biss told LiveScience. Are you a morning person or a night owl?
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  • AngryGabby 2012/06/13 00:02:09
    Night owl
    AngryGabby
    +8
    I may rise in the morning, but I certainly don't shine. Who's happy about getting up at the butt crack of dawn?

    Besides, owls are so beautiful!
    barn owl great horned owl snowy owls

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  • kay29 2012/06/14 10:06:33
    Night owl
    kay29
    You wouldn't be a morning person if you had to get up at 6 every day either...
  • May 2012/06/14 10:06:23
    Night owl
    May
    +1
    Well, it is 3:05 a.m. and I need to get to bed. I just cannot seem to shut my brain off or just too many things to do. It drives me crazy. I would like to go to bed by 12:30 but it rarely happens.
  • Fenabarb 2012/06/14 09:49:44
    Night owl
    Fenabarb
    never go to bed before midnight
  • anna 2012/06/14 09:27:17
    Night owl
    anna
    wow wish i could change it, but it's my nature...although i can go to sleep early IF I HAVE TOO..wahhhhhhhhhhhh
  • QueenOfUniverseNataliaRoschina 2012/06/14 07:57:30 (edited)
    Morning person
    QueenOfUniverseNataliaRoschina
    I get up 5am and try to study something new (currently studying French) or write my books (I'm a writer), organise my home better. I stopped drinking coffee for my health, and I don't miss that poison any more. I have healthy vegan breakfasts with my own mixed organic cereal, fresh fruit, fresh salad and cup of organic herb tea. Before breakfast I do dance fitness usually outside to Michael Jackson, Muse, Queen, Shakira, Ricky Martin, Falco or some other music, but mostly Michael Jackson. Wishing everyone health and intelligent living coffee girl queen how to be
  • anna QueenOf... 2012/06/14 09:31:41
    anna
    congrats! i'm veg too..but not a morning person although i do it as much as i can like when a friend stays over and i have to drive him/her to work cuz they don't have a car lol..
    but what songs do you dance from MJ..are you from this planet, i mean country! haha kidding! i like songs from MJ when he was a kid, like My Music..(not for dancing) MJ's songs r not fast enough for MY dancing..haha Zumba is more like it, with merengue, soca etc..
  • NativeEyes 2012/06/14 07:56:27
    Night owl
    NativeEyes
    +2
    I rise with the moon and sleep with the sun. Lol
  • devon.stearns.lautner 2012/06/14 04:06:28
    Night owl
    devon.stearns.lautner
    +1
    I am more of a night owl and then by the time I get to bed I night I give myself a huge lecture about why I need the more sleep.
  • pops 2012/06/14 01:39:16
    Night owl
    pops
    feel so much better.
  • Titi 2012/06/14 01:38:34
    Night owl
    Titi
    I'm both actually. I wake up early and go to sleep late and I love it! But I love being up at night and seeing the world in a different setting.
  • NinjaRebecca 2012/06/14 00:55:00
    Night owl
    NinjaRebecca
    +1
    morning? F that sh*t
  • the wizz 2012/06/14 00:11:04
    Night owl
    the wizz
    I,v worked 2nd shift since I was a 2nd shift wellding iron worker in the 70s in high school. In the C,G, I took mids on purpose as there was NO officers around and the chiefs were hanging in the chiefs club. So long as I did the fuel samples and preflight checks as well as some assigned maintenance on the Helo,s I was own my own and copisetic !!!!
  • nicesteve 2012/06/13 23:21:38
    Night owl
    nicesteve
    I'm most definately a night owl. Thanks to many years of pulling swing and graveyard
    shifts in previous jobs.
  • JEFF 2012/06/13 23:01:14
    Night owl
    JEFF
    MY INTERNAL CLOCK IS BROKEN. I WORK 10 HOURS A DAY YET COME ALIVE AT NIGHT. SLEEP IS NOT AN OPTION.
  • ♥•judy•♥ 2012/06/13 22:25:33 (edited)
    Night owl
    ♥•judy•♥
    +1
    one time my bf thought i was dead cause i slept all threw the night and day
    night owl
    http://www.oit.edu/Libraries/...
  • Andrew 2012/06/13 22:24:19
    Night owl
    Andrew
    +1
    Just woke up, actually. And it's 5:30 PM where I live.
  • Sean McDonald 2012/06/13 22:06:23
    Night owl
    Sean McDonald
  • wes 2012/06/13 20:45:21
    Morning person
    wes
    4 am, 30 mile bike ride, cup of coffee, off to work to make money for the next weekend bike race registration, can't hardly wait most of the time!!
  • Beat Magnum True Hero 2012/06/13 20:30:29 (edited)
    Night owl
    Beat Magnum True Hero
    +5
    I find night time to be far more peaceful. The world during the day - especially the morning - is jarring, busy, and abrupt. I am not anti-social, but I am more introverted so I lose energy when surrounded by large crowds of people. I tend to be more productive at night because there are less distractions. When I worked late shifts, I actually enjoyed grocery shopping after midnight. No one in the store (except floor buffer guy) and no lines. There was also something relaxing about sitting out on my apartment balcony at night, enjoying the cool air, and looking at the stars in the dim glow of a street light. Call me weird, but it's a little piece of heaven for me.
  • TWIIGHTbella 2012/06/13 20:26:24
    Night owl
    TWIIGHTbella
    +1
    I cannot stand mornings or waking up early for that matter.. -_-
  • Kenneth Huang 2012/06/13 20:06:27
    Night owl
    Kenneth Huang
    +2
    "Society's expectations are far more organized around a morning-type person's schedule."

    In other words, you're happiest when you conform.
  • sally 2012/06/13 19:53:03 (edited)
    Night owl
    sally
    +1
    I HATE THE MORNINGS!
  • nvartist 2012/06/13 19:51:43
    Night owl
    nvartist
    What can I say, I was born to be a rock star. LOL
  • Maiko 2012/06/13 19:43:57
    Morning person
    Maiko
    Never used to be a morning person. But as I got older, that changed quick. Now I love the mornings...
  • Tasinahri 2012/06/13 19:32:18
    Night owl
    Tasinahri
    +2
    I go to bed right when the sun comes up.
  • KrSpo 2012/06/13 19:16:10
    Night owl
    KrSpo
    Night's definitely..
  • mikeyavelli 2012/06/13 19:14:47
    Morning person
    mikeyavelli
    for forty years though, i was a night owl.
  • WEREWOLF 2012/06/13 19:05:56
    Night owl
    WEREWOLF
    I am a night owl and just as happy as someone who sleeps the night away if not happier I can last all night and day if needed without coffee and energy drinks never touched the energy drinks to began with I hate what they do to people. they get addicted to them and need them just to make it through the day its sad. plus I know plenty of morning people who are more cranky then night owls. we live in the piece and quite of the night and let the rest of the world deal with the noise.
  • GoreGirl 2012/06/13 18:57:36
    Night owl
    GoreGirl
    I'm still young enough to be able to stay up, but I am a bit of an insomniac lately. 4 or 5 AM is not the time to sleep. >.< insomnia
  • Anjali Shah 2012/06/13 18:46:47
    Night owl
    Anjali Shah
    I won't do mornings even if you give me chocolate... And that stuff is GOOD.
    Either way, I'm not really optimistic or sun-shiny.
  • Tamara McMillan 2012/06/13 18:32:24
    Night owl
    Tamara McMillan
    +2
    I have always loved the late night. I do not do mornings!
  • Kozmo 2012/06/13 18:29:08 (edited)
    Night owl
    Kozmo
    No answer for those trapped in the "Twilight Zone"? I sometimes live Artist hours.

    This reliance on Black/White logic is very dangerous, tends to be divisive.
  • Nameless 2012/06/13 18:18:26
    Morning person
    Nameless
    I used to be a night owl, but then I had children and over the years, 30+, I finally became a morning person. : )
  • michael Nameless 2012/06/14 04:09:02
    michael
    Wish my mom would become a morning person lol
  • Nameless michael 2012/06/14 08:44:39
    Nameless
    I had to learn to get up and make the girls breakfast, make their lunches and get them off to school. I hated getting up so early. However, when I got back home from walking them to school when they were in elementary school I went back to bed for a couple of hours. LOL! I chose to have them so it was my responsibility to care for them until they learned to take care of themselves. Even then, I was up to see how they were doing and to wish them a good day...
  • Lycanthrope101 2012/06/13 18:15:29
    Night owl
    Lycanthrope101
    Every now and then I make myself get up early, and I enjoy it coz all of a sudden I've got loads of time on my hands. But I'd rather just stay in bed!
  • Vicki Palatas 2012/06/13 18:07:10
    Night owl
    Vicki Palatas
    My husband is a morning person. Though he is energetic when he gets up, he is a very pessimistic, easily angered person. I'm the night owl. I am slow to get up, but I am happy with life and very positive. So don't agree with the study!!
  • Vicki P... Vicki P... 2012/07/03 23:10:18
    Vicki Palatas
    I overstated a bit. My husband is a lovely, warm person. He is simply an engineer so he can see problems faster than I can. He works ridiculous hours so he gets very little sleep.
  • whateverbabynevermind 2012/06/13 17:35:54
    Night owl
    whateverbabynevermind
    Neither. I just love to sleep all the time ;)
  • click1695 2012/06/13 17:17:43
    Night owl
    click1695
    +1
    I'm more of an afternoon ape--- My mind feels most refreshed and alive during the afternoon

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