Re: Are you a "morning" person?
Re: Are you a "morning" person?
No, I am definitely not a 'morning person' and possibly for the same reason as Floydy – I once worked permanent night shifts. My personal thoughts on this are that we are not nocturnal beings anyway, our 'usual' times to be awake and asleep are governed by our circadian rhythm or 'body clock'. This is regulated by our brains in response to light and dark, night and day. Light is taken in through our eyes and activates a part of the brain, this in turn regulates things such as blood pressure and other responses required for a waking day. Try and go against this natural rhythm and it affects our mood. It's probably alright for a short while but for longer then it's completely going against nature. Our 'body clock' doesn't know where it is, whether it should be instructing us for a day's activity, so activating certain proteins required for that, or whether those should be lessened, as is required for a night's restful sleep. Just one example of this, our blood pressure drops at night and increases on waking in preparation for a day's activity.Re: Are you a "morning" person?
Re: Are you a "morning" person?
I am squarely a morning person. I'm up with the kookaburras every morning at around 6.30 and it's my job to get the other two up and going. Not trying to rub it in Floydy but I love mornings. My house backs on to national park bushland and the morning atmosphere is magic if it's a nice day. Always been the same.
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