I just finished the book, and am putting a lot more focus on my sleep.
One thing it made me realize is, I don't think it's possible for people to know if they're night owls or not, until they're routinely getting 8 hours of sleep a night.
Of course if you're not getting enough sleep you'll find it hard to get up in the morning and thus claim you're a "night owl" and "can't function in the morning".
Well, it's not just about it being hard to get up in the morning. It's also about the tendency to stay up late when everyone else is tired, isn't it?
Though, I get your point that probably many claim to be born "night owls" when it's probably just the constant light from the monitor and internet addictions that keep them wide awake.
Sure, I suppose it could manifest itself in any number of ways. I've ALWAYS considered myself a night owl for both reasons; difficulty of waking AND desire to stay up late.
No matter how much blue light I get, I fall asleep just fine at night when I go to bed (assuming I don't have too much caffeine late in the day).
That said, I will easily/happily stay up until 2am. I just don't like to go to bed. Call it getting a second wind, or desire to avoid "ending my day" and having to go right to work first thing in the AM, or whatever. I might, in fact, be a night owl, I'm just realizing I don't know myself well enough to say for sure.
I agree. Modern life has created so many ways that artificially change our sleep/wake rhythms unintentionally (for example, binge-watching a show 'til 3am even though I was dead tired 3 hours ago and probably could've fallen asleep immediately).
I'm 30 and I'm still not sure whether I'm a night owl or not, even though I'm awake late into the night 90% of the time. Could just be a habit that I've developed over the years with the aid of artificial lighting and computing.
One thing it made me realize is, I don't think it's possible for people to know if they're night owls or not, until they're routinely getting 8 hours of sleep a night.
Of course if you're not getting enough sleep you'll find it hard to get up in the morning and thus claim you're a "night owl" and "can't function in the morning".