Do you think morning people (Larks) and night people (Owls) are born that way or choose to be? Elaborate.?

Answer 1

That's an interesting question and I have asked myself often too. I found that personally I started off life as a night-owl but somehow evolved into a morning person as I got older. I think that age plays a significant role as younger people tend to enjoy the 'nightlife' more and also need more sleep than older people. I also found that loving what you do has a significant influence as well. For instance, pre-school kids are up early morning on the weekends because they can't wait to watch cartoons or play. When I was doing something I absolutely loved I jumped out of bed every morning with full enthusiasm and went to bed sleeping like a log. Unfortunately, most people, and many night-owls, often have to get up in the morning to do something they didn't choose to do, but have to do (school or work) and they repress all the things that they would rather do, like being creative or just playing and having fun till after work, that is in the evening. I think that's whats really behind the ;'nighowl' phenomenon.

Answer 2

A life-long friend of mine has never been able to sleep well at night...therefore works the overnight shift...as this person sleeps just fine in the daytime.

As for myself, I go back and forth. I can sleep well at night and be an early-morning person for a while. Other times, I stay up at night, and fall asleep in the daytime (or even the following evening).

I really think that some people were born one way or the other...but that other people have just chosen to live as a lark or an owl.
Once again, it's both nature and nurture!

Answer 3

I think they're born that way. I'm an "Owl" and always have been. I just don't do mornings very well, no matter how hard I try. I actually had to switch to the afternoon shift because I was having such a hard time getting up in the mornings.

Answer 4

I really think they're born that way because if it were something conditioned, you could be happy living either way as long as you had enough time to get used to it. And I've always been a night owl, even when I've spent years in school or at jobs where I had to be up early. I never get used to it!

Answer 5

I am definitely a night owl. I prefer the prowl of the night and the cover of darkness, which makes everything much more interesting...I was born in the evening but I think I was conditioned by my environment to love the cover of darkness. Sometimes I relinquish the daylight as a vampire would,
There is something seductive to me when the moon is out the stars are twinkling and all of my thoughts surround me....

Answer 6

For the most part, they're born that way. For as long as I can remember, I have never liked getting up early in the morning. It is a real effort for me. I will do it if I have to but I much prefer staying up late at night and getting up later.

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Answer 8

ok, i assume you are able to say that i'm a Morning Lark. i upward push up early, 5 AM, and do what must be executed and drink coffee or ice tea and the two study or watch the information on the boob tube. Yeah i assume you are able to say i'm a 'Morning Lark'. all of it seems to bypass down hill after that.

Answer 9

I think you're born that way.

When I was a child my mother struggled to get me up in the morning, and to bed at night. When I joined the military I volunteered to work the night shift. I was more focused at 4 p.m. than 7a.m.

Answer 10

Circadian rhythms are biological, but can be altered. I observed in my careers working with children that circadian rhythms can be altered or "re-set" as early as 4 or 5 months during gestation by the mother's activity levels and sleep cycles during pregnancy. Then, during the first four years of life, circadian rhythms are impacted on by numerous activities of life, including our families' sleep schedules, the amount of noise in a home when babies are sleeping (noise prevents them from achieving deepest stages of sleep, although they appear to be asleep), by "family" bed arrangements in which babies sleep with adults and their deeper sleep stages are abridged by the multiplied incidence in slight awakenings throughout the night, and even by diet and whether a baby is or is not put to bed with a high carb meal close to bedtime, which affects sleep duration and blood sugar levels that cycle up and down around the clock and impact on other body system rhythms. We can re-set our own circadian rhythms during adulthood, including through the use of melantonin which is also produced in our pineal gland and regulates sleepiness in a function with our chronotype and lightness/darkness. I have not kept up with this field for ten years but I recently read that in Owl/Lark relationships and night-shift work, re-setting circadian rhythms is less harmful to males than to females in the long run.

http://www.srbr.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype