If you have been struggling all your life to wake up early to start your day before the Sun rises but haven’t been able to successfully incorporate it quite yet!
Welcome to the club of Night Owls! you must have heard that, to be able to make most out of your day, to be successful, you must get up early and most probably you would have spent some years in your childhood growing up learning the poem…
Early to Bed and Early to rise! Makes a man Healthy, wealthy and wise!
Well! it is certainly a debatable topic in todays era, when night shifts, collaboration and travel around the world has made night shifts a commoners life style . A lot of people has their favorite time to work as evening and night time.
Literature often romanticizes night owls. The fact that they keep unusual hours, and that they are most productive in the evenings or even at night can make them seem mysterious — both appealing and somewhat frightening.
Definition
A night owl, evening person or simply owl, is a person who tends to stay up until late at night, or the early hours of the morning. Night owls who are involuntarily unable to fall asleep for several hours after a normal time.
Characteristics of a Night Owl
Usually, people who are night owls stay awake past midnight, and extreme night owls may stay awake until just before or even after dawn. Night owls tend to feel most energetic just before they go to sleep at night.
Some night owls have a preference or habit for staying up late, or stay up to work the night shift. Night owls who work the day shift often have difficulties adapting to standard daytime working hours.
Night owls have often been blamed for unpunctuality or attitude problems. Employers, however, have begun to learn to increase productivity by respecting body clocks through flexible working hours.
Some research has found that night owls are more intelligent and creative and more likely to get high-paying jobs than larks. However, they lag behind larks in academic performance, and they tend to have unhealthier eating habits, as well as higher rates of smoking.
Some night owls, with great difficulty adopting normal sleeping and waking times may have delayed sleep-phase disorder. Morning light therapy may be helpful in shifting sleep rhythms for the night owl.
Given the high number of people who are naturally inclined to go to bed late and wake up late, it is essential to understand what impact their rhythms may have on their health, and why. In more general terms, research about individual body clocks and sleep-wake patterns can help us build a healthier and happier society.
What are the best habits in the night considering you are a Night Owl?
- Always brush your teeth before going to bed and if possible, take a shower.
- Read at least 10 pages of a book. If it’s not fiction, so much the better.
- Stretch before bed. This will relax your muscles and help you get a good night’s sleep.
- Always have a pen and notebook near your bed. Sometimes ideas that will change your life can come to mind at 2 AM.
- Have a glass of water before sleeping. If you don’t, at least do it first thing in the morning.
- Write down 3 things that you are truly grateful for. Keep a journal to track the progress of your day. Also write down your expenses.
- Choose the clothes that you will wear the next day.
- Pack your suitcase for work or study tomorrow. Make sure you are not missing anything important.
- Spend 10 minutes without thinking about anything.
- Inhale Exhale.
Changing perception towards Night owls
Researchers say “If, as a society, we could be more flexible about how we manage time, we could go a long way towards maximizing productivity and minimizing health risks,”
“If anything, it’s actually economically illiterate not to offer this as you have a whole host of people working way below their maximum potential, which morality aside is simply bad business,” the same person asserted.
And night owls do have their advantages, which researchers also acknowledge. One study from 1999 argues that “early to bed, early to rise will likely make you anything but wise,” finding that night owls score better on intelligence tests than morning larks.
As an educationalist and parent, I feel that we need to understand that for today’s generation of our children and students we need to understand and accept that Not being a morning lark is not a crime at all and night owls are still Wise owls!
With hopes to have a more positive perception towards night owls, and while this happens, let’s follow what our heart, body and soul says…
“Listen to the night as the night knows your truths, your stories, your aches, your dreams, your cravings, your forgotten memories, not so forgotten.”
Victoria Erickson
“I will always write.
Henry Rollins
I will capture nights all over the world
and bring them to you.”
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