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Post by RockyMountainExtreme on Aug 3, 2018 9:03:48 GMT 10
Brought this up at the end of yesterday's stream. What do you consider to be the boundary between "late night" and "early morning"? Regardless of when you personally wake up, what hours do you consider to be the endpoint for the "night owl" hours, and start point for the "early bird" hours?
For me, 3 AM is certainly late night, and 5 AM is certainly early morning, 4 AM is pretty much in the dead center. In a way, it's kind of like a no man's land. If you're a night owl, most of your gaming friends are already asleep by now, and if you sleep 8 hours, you're gonna still be asleep past noon. If you're an early bird, you're awake at a time when practically nothing but 24-hour shops are open, and you'll need to be asleep by 8 PM to get a good 8 hours of sleep. I have my alarm set for 4:00 AM, with the alarm being set on a jazz radio station, but don't usually get out of bed until 5:00 AM. I use the alarm clock as a means to gradually wake up, rather than be woken up and have to get up instantaneously.
I'd say 4:30-4:59 AM is early morning, since 4:30 AM is when Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks open. 4:00-4:29 AM may lean more late night since the only shops open then are 24-hour shops.
So what about you? What do you consider to be the boundary between "late night" and "early morning"?
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Post by SharksFan99 on Aug 3, 2018 9:27:17 GMT 10
I would actually consider 4am to be the start of the "early morning" hours, even though it is still a little too early for most people to commute to work.
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Post by longaotian on Aug 3, 2018 14:16:06 GMT 10
I would personally say 4:30am is the cut-off.
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Post by dount2005 on Aug 4, 2018 14:57:23 GMT 10
It depends on what season it is.
In summer and spring, the days are generally longer and thus sunset rises earlier, so when it's summer or spring 4am leans towards early morning.
In fall and Winter, when the days start getting shorter and sunset rises later, 4am is more like late at night.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2018 11:35:56 GMT 10
I agree with your assessment that 4:00-4:30AM is a no man's land, and I think it's best leave it at that. It's too early in the morning to wake up to (your circadian rhythm will work against you), and even most insomniacs are asleep by then. 4:30AM is the start of early morning. I wake up at 4:30AM from late summer (August 10th) to early spring (May 1st). I wake up at 5AM in between those dates. The sun sets past 8:30PM in between those two dates (peaking at 9:04PM on 21st June, and it's not completely night time until 30-40 minutes afterwards), and as much as I LOVE twilight, I hate wasting daylight hours more, so I wake up later in the spring/summer
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Post by rainbow on Aug 7, 2018 5:57:26 GMT 10
4AM IMO is more like early morning, and I say that as someone who's kind of a night owl.
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Post by RockyMountainExtreme on Aug 7, 2018 6:01:00 GMT 10
4AM IMO is more like early morning, and I say that as someone who's kind of a night owl. "Kind of". Like, stay up until 12am-2am kind of night owl?
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Post by rainbow on Aug 7, 2018 6:03:20 GMT 10
4AM IMO is more like early morning, and I say that as someone who's kind of a night owl. "Kind of". Like, stay up until 12am-2am kind of night owl? Yeah, like on the weekend or during summer break I usually go to bed around 1AM - 3AM. I never usually stay awake after 3AM, which is weird cause to me, 4AM is still more like early morning. IMO 3AM is the last true "late at night" hour and the last overall hour I'd consider being "late at night".
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Post by SharksFan99 on Jul 1, 2020 3:25:35 GMT 10
It's almost 3.30am here and i'm very rarely up at this time, so I thought I would weigh in on this while i'm experiencing it. To be honest, I actually feel as though the entire period from about 3am - 4.30am is a bit of a "dead zone", its something I've thought before when I've been up at this time. Most people are usually in bed by this point, however its still generally too early for the early-risers to be up. It's the part of the night that always seems to go the slowest, at least it does for me personally.
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Post by karlpalaka on Jul 1, 2020 16:05:27 GMT 10
12 am-11:59 am is considered morning. I tend to view 10 pm-11:59 pm as late night and 12 am-5:59 am as early morning.
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