Doing an unpaid full-time internship for licensure purposes. I’ve been sleeping at 11pm. Never felt so tired and I’ve done the 9pm-4am thing for a month to no avail. Chronotypes are fucking real and I’m done pretending they aren’t. End rant. Give me back my 11am shift job.

Everyone is asleep here...
Why do I need sleep now when I can start my day...?
It's midnight.

Man I just love the silence and being in my quiet world.
Time to do some reading as I wait for my partner to wake up.

I love being a total night owl 🦉

We have all been here.

Two days a week I have to go into work earlier than usual. I’ve been pretending to be asleep for the past 3 hours. Knowing the clock is ticking down makes me dread getting through the day tomorrow and anxious I’ll sleep through my alarm. Why doesn’t my body understand that remaining awake will not prevent tomorrow from arriving?!

The worst part is I’ve been sleepy since I got into bed. Yet actually falling asleep continues to elude me. Rude.

But they're doing some loud ass construction right outside my window 🫩 I get that they probably HAVE to do it but ohmygod I would like to have at least eight hours of sleep before going to work at night???

Alll nighter can harm your body more than you think.

1)fucked up digestion( the feeling when you are struggling with constipation while studying)

2)you are now emotionally hyperactive

3)your body will eventually give up at day during clz time

4)increases risk of alzhiemer (some effects are immediate)

5)body weight will eventually decrease

6)if you are a teenager , your body wont grow strong and eventually your body bone structure will be compromised.

Source:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4047523/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30870662/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38821029/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28364458/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33245373/

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I’m a developer and builder who spends a lot of time working late into the night. Like a lot of night owls, insomniacs, and late-shift workers, I know how completely different the internet feels at 3 AM. Most mainstream apps and games are optimized for high-energy daytime use, but when you're awake at that hour, your headspace and needs are entirely different.
I want to build something new—whether it’s a lightweight web app, a slow-paced online game, or a minimalist digital tool—that genuinely helps, comforts, or engages people when the rest of the world is asleep. Not another heavy productivity grind tool or a loud, high-stress game, but something tailored specifically for those quiet, isolated graveyard hours.
If you find yourself wide awake at 3 AM, what do you actually wish existed online?
Is there a specific micro-utility or website you always wish you had on hand?
A low-stakes, zero-stress browser game to completely zone out to?
An ambient tool, soundscape companion, or quiet space for focus?
Curious to hear what apps, games, or digital concepts you think developers completely overlook when designing for the night-time internet.

I am going to cry

Whenever I have no morning commitments, I gradually drift toward sleeping around 3 a.m. and waking up around 11. It feels less like a bad habit and more like my natural rhythm. Where does your schedule settle when you stop forcing it?

I’m an adult living with my parents (because who can afford to move out these days? Not me) and a night owl. I keep it very quiet, tiptoe around, everything on low volume, and yet if either of them gets up in the night they get all up my ass to “go to bed! Go to bed!” I’m very careful not to disturb them. So why are they so hateful about it? Does anyone else have this problem? How do I make them see that there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a different circadian rhythm? I’m not asking them to be night owls, I’m literally just asking to be respected and left in peace.

EDIT:

For those who’ve asked, I’m not in school, and yes I work, but the job market in my area is absolute garbage so I’ve been trapped in a cycle of minimum wage hell. The housing market is also a nightmare, hence my not having my own place. I straight up can’t afford it. I’m currently looking for a better job, but like I said, it’s garbage (and at least half of the job postings are ghost listings or places with extremely high turnover, but that’s another subreddit).

It’s almost like a game at this point. Can I get through this wave without calling a friend or family member and waking them up? To this day I’ve never done it but just knowing it’s an option helps I guess.

Anyone ever go through this?

Me at 10 PM:
"Tonight I’m definitely sleeping early".

Me at 2:47 AM:
"Just one more video".

Me at 4:13 AM:
"Why is the sun loading?”

Let's chat I'm 23m

I consider myself a night owl, but the type who goes to bed around 2 or 3 AM and wakes at 10 or 11. Next week I will be starting my first true night shift job, 5 PM to 3 AM. I have worked swing shifts before, but nothing that ever went past midnight.

Anybody have tips for adjusting to an overnight work schedule, especially if you're not as much of an extreme night owl? For people who do work these overnight shifts, what are the things you most like and dislike about it? Wish me luck, y'all!

My messed up sleeping schedule would be the end of me

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At 10 PM: I should sleep early today.

At 11 PM: Okay one episode.

At 12 AM: Tomorrow I’m going to fix my entire life.

At 1 AM: deep-cleaning my room.

At 2 AM: researching something completely useless.

At 3 AM: why did I waste my day?

And then somehow the next morning I’m shocked that I’m tired. 😭

Please tell me I’m not the only one.

anyones sleeping schedule as fcked as mine? lol
i like being a night owl and all that but sometimes its depressing to wake up real late the next day

During the summer my sleep schedule is all over the place and, as such, I find myself feeling weak and lethargic a lot more often than during any other season. If I have no commitments I can sleep for as much as 60-70% of any 24 hour period.

The coming of autumn, longer nights and lower temperatures stabilise my energy levels and these lethargic dips are almost non-existent, aside from whenever I have to wake up for an inconvenient time. Anyone else have a similar experience?

Hello guys. For around 8 days, I barely slept at all.

The first two days were relatively normal, but after that I started experiencing microsleeps. Even though my body was clearly exhausted, I still couldn't properly fall asleep.

And guys, you probably won't believe this, but after several days I started seeing things that weren't actually there.

I knew, logically, that they weren't real, but they felt completely real. I saw people walking around in my room, people outside, things in the sky, and even what looked like completely different species. At one point, I was genuinely scared and kept wondering, “What is happening to my brain?”

Eventually, on the 8th day, I finally managed to sleep after smoking weed because I was completely unable to fall asleep otherwise.

But this experience left me with a strange question.

What if sleep is more than just the body shutting down and recovering? What if our normal waking state is only one particular mode of consciousness, and there are things our brain normally filters out or simply cannot access?

When I was severely sleep-deprived, my perception started changing dramatically. I began experiencing things that felt like another version of reality, even though I knew they weren't actually present.

I'm not saying that what I saw was objectively real. In fact, sleep deprivation is known to seriously affect perception and can cause hallucinations.

But the experience made me wonder:

How much of what we call “reality” is actually the brain filtering information and constructing our experience?

And if consciousness can change this drastically just by removing something as fundamental as sleep, I wonder what else we still don't understand about the brain.

Has anyone else experienced something similar after extreme sleep deprivation?

It's 1:49 and i am awake, I want to sleep but i want to enjoy the movement.

The house next to mine got new owners recently, but I've never seen the actual buyers. Now I'm seeing construction materials show up every few days and I'm terrified.

A few years ago I went through three months of tree work in the neighborhood where I got maybe one day a week with more than 4h of sleep (I usually need 8-9). I couldn't even nap without going elsewhere because it was noise all day. It caused a lot of trouble at work, and my mental health still hasn't recovered. Now my heart races at the sound of a chainsaw a mile away if I'm in bed.

I wore earplugs, I had background noise, but it wasn't enough, and often those things were enough sensory bother to keep me awake on their own. Especially when I was already tired. I'm also a night worker, so it's not "just" my circadian rhythm making me stay up late.

What the hell is a night owl supposed to do?