Evidently we are smart and creative…
I naturally think about sleeping about 2 am and I wake up at 9:30 or 10:00.
As I am semi retired I can set my own schedule now.
And that feels great.
That said, if I need to get up early for a trip or whatever I manage nicely.
My H needs to sleep by 10 and awake by 7–his natural rhythm.
But he cannot rally even for a wonderful evening with friends.
So, with the new research out saying it really does not matter if you are a night owl or an
early bird I am beginning to (finally) embrace my own time clock because it is oddly more
flexible than an early bird.
AND I am posting around 1 am and have an entire hour to enjoy myself 
Ho oregon! I am awake but only because I have insomnia! I fall asleep around 10:30 or 11 but then wake up around 3 or 3:30. I am tired!
Yeah, my natural pattern also tends to night owl junior…I am usually calling it a day by around midnight.
I have always been an early to bed person. I could rally for going out sometimes, but in general, I was always in bed by 10, even as a teen during summer vacation.
Not any more. I used to work from 5 or 6 pm until 3 or 4 am, got to bed by 5 am and slept until 11:30 am. Now we turn out the lights around midnight - not exactly nightowlworthy. But I do have a “Night Owl” coffee cup as a memento.
@oregon101, I’m exactly like you, but my H is the same, so no conflicts. My semi-retirement allows me to make my own hours and it’s a blessing. Dragging myself out of bed at 6:15 for all the years I worked was hellish, and l never felt even vaguely human until I got to the office. I still don’t exactly leap out of bed to face the day with a smile. I’m a very slow starter and don’t even want to talk to anyone until I’ve been up for an hour or so. Also don’t want to eat for several hours. But I get a surge of energy late in the evening and then can go for hours on a project. It’s just the way I’m made. I’ve tried and failed to change, so I just accept that I’m out of sync with most of the world… My parents were the same, so I come by it honestly. My friends know my pattern and don’t even try to contact me at whatever insanely early hours they are up and about.
I’m a night owl and always have been. I just gravitate towards evening hours. I can get up early if I need to, as i did when I worked for several decades, but my natural rhythms are to go to bed really late and wake up really late.
I always felt that if you could take SATs at 8PM instead of 8AM, I would have aced them! 
I could have written your post, OP! I’m a night owl married to an early bird. Somehow we’ve managed to live together happily for over 30 years 
I’m another night owl married to an early bird. I usually go to bed around midnight and read for ~30 minutes. I have to wake up at 6 am, but naturally wake up about 5:30 or 5:45.
DH is a runner and wants to run early, so wakes up about 5:00. But, to do that he has to get to bed around 9:30 pm or 10. If I go to bed around 10 pm, I’m awake at 3 am and can’t get back to sleep. So, I guess it’s more that I just can’t sleep more than about 5 hours. If I could, I’d go to bed ~2 am and get up at ~7 am; that’s what I did in college.
I need only 3 - 5 hours of sleep and it has been a blessing. If I sleep more than 5 hours, then I feel very tired the next day and most likely will have a headache. I do not have many of them though. I can do more in my day than most others. On a flip side, I had to develop few hobbies to waste my time after work after my youngest went to college. It has been rewarding though. I do not know if I am an owl or an early bird. I go to bed anytime between 8pm and 10pm, but if I get carried away with something, I can stay up much later. I am usually asleep around 11:30 - 12 midnight and then wake up around 3:30 - 4:30am before my alarm. I stay in bed until 4:30, then go swimming and then to work. I feel tired only during meetings (thank goodness we do not have many), but I develop a technique of how to stay awake during meetings - I have to doodle. I never feel tired when I am actually working. I cannot have more than 3 cups of regular coffee per week, I am too sensitive to coffee. Since I have so much time on my hands, besides my time consuming hobbies, I also exercise for 2-3 hours every day. My sleep schedule is about the same when I go on vacations. I am past full retirement age but work full time as my job is a major source of the entertainment and, of course, income. My H. absolutely needs at least 8 hours of sleep and goes to bed at about 8pm. No conflict at all!
Happy to have company!
My H’s family have made me feel that is was bad to be out of sync with them when visiting.
I grew so tired of “Well, looks whose up” or “I saw your light on really late last night”
or “wow, you slept late” (that would mean after 8am).
So I am happy that it have been shown that they are not superior just because they
have a different rhythm. They have missed out on the peace and calmness of the after midnight hours.
It is so nice to be able to set my own hours. And that hustle and bustle of breakfast with people talking 8-|! Seriously painful.
Complete early bird with a night owl child. Phew. But I miss my night owl now that he flew the nest. :’(
Yes. Especially during the summers when I work completely from home, my sleep schedule gets out of control. Last night I didn’t go to sleep until around 5AM and then slept on and off until 3 PM.
Normally I try to sleep by 4 and wake by noon but my body’s tendency is just to keep going later and later.
Mr R doesn’t really have a natural rhythm. When given the chance he just sleeps and wakes whenever. No pattern. But he works a job where he has to be up by 6 and I’m usually awake by the time he comes home from lunch. Today wasn’t one of those days.
I am not generally a night owl - but I have noticed if I stay up past the time when I feel tired (around 10:00 pm), then i find it hard to fall asleep and can stay up and read until midnight or so. My mom, however, was a true night owl - she would be up until well past 2:00 am but didn’t get up til late morning. It was great if we woke up with a bad dream late at night, but most mornings she slept through getting us out for school in the morning. I hated that; so much so, I guess, that I always get up at 6:30 to make breakfast and see DH off to work in the morning, even though I work from home and don’t need to be up early.
Night owl here. Bed between midnight and 1 am (sometimes 2 am). Wake up between 5:30 and 6. I got prepaid sleep in college.
Definitely a night owl, married to another night owl. I don’t even think about going to bed until midnight, and it generally takes me another hour or two to actually get there (after cleaning up guinea pig poop, checking CC one last time, etc.)! I’m usually in bed an hour before DH, who stays up late playing World of Warcraft. I’m up at 8 if we have a morning cooking class; otherwise, it’s between 10 and noon. I love being retired! :D/
I guess I’m really a night owl when I read here other’s referencing going to bed around midnight and I’m thinking to myself, hmmm, that’s early. I don’t think anyone in my extended family goes to bed before midnight.
I fit right in when traveling to other countries where they eat dinner at 10pm.
NIght owl here. Bedtime 2 am, up at 7:45, unless DH needs a ride to Metro (we are three people with two cars).
Night owl here too. When it’s up to me, I go to sleep 2-3 and get up around 10. Unfortunately, it’s not often up to me. H is an early bird. Kids are one of each.
H is a total night owl. Works from 7 PM until 5 AM. Falls asleep around 7 and sleeps until early afternoon! It’s crazy but he likes it.
He saw a sleep Doctor recently and got a CPAP machine which has helped enormously. The doc told him that being a night owl is fine, but changing your schedule back and forth is not good for you.