Long time morning freak here. I got in the habit years ago when I had a house full of kids. 4:00 am was the quietest part of the day.
Even now, the hours between 5 and 9 am are my most productive. (if you can call Farking productive)

I wish I was a morning person. I need nine hours of sleep to feel right. It's frustrating.

Another morning person here. I hate it, but there's a point at which my body wakes up and refuses to go back to sleep. If I'm lucky I sleep all the way until 6AM. My whole family is afflicted with it; it's sick.

I wish I could sleep in.

You know what the Sandman said....

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man or woman miss out on the night life"

The real news here is the ongoing correlation between amount of sleep with cardiomyopathy/diabetes and ABCC9.

I generally work 11a to 7p. In bed around 11:30 or mindight, read for awhile, and up at 8:30. On the rare occasions I work 7a to 3p, I can get up at 5:30 no problem. What I hate is having to go to bed earlier at night.

I used to be a night person who likes to operate on 2-3 hours of sleep a night, but as I get older, I'm turning into a morning person, which is odd. On Thanksgiving, my parents thought it was weird that I woke up at 6 and went downstairs to fix computers.

Also, does this happen to anything else? When I wake up, I don't feel rested, I don't feel tired, I feel exactly the same way as I did the night previously, so it all really just feels like an incredibly long continuous day.

paraigmshift: I hate mornings. With a passion. I'm clumsy and foggy. I seem to get better as the day goes on, but give me an hour at any time and I can take a nap. Maybe it's my love of sleep or maybe I just never got out of the college lifestyle of wake up and rush to class. Even then I seemed to do better in my late afternoon/evening classes and just kind get through the morning ones.

/about to hook up my second coffee IV for the morning
//kind of wish they actually made them

I know that feel, man. I stopped scheduling morning classes after 1st semester freshman year. Multivariable calculus sucks donkey dick at 8:00AM. Yeah, it's harder to find parking in the afternoon, but I don't give a fark; I'm not tired then.

i thought it said "moronic" person gene and was wondering why pick on couric for this? there's probably better examples out there! i've barely started on my coffee... i'm moronic in the mornings.

I have no idea what I am. On work night I'm in bed by 9:30 and wake up at 5 a.m. (7.5 hours of sleep), but still feel kind of tired until around 8 a.m. On weekend I can sometimes stay up until midnight, but I usually pass out (from exhaustion, not drinking) at 10:30 or 11, but I can easily sleep in until eleven or noon and feel completely rested when I wake up (about 12-13 hour of sleep). I HATE it because I would rather get up earlier (at 7 or 8) and get shiat done, but I can barely function if I try it on a weekend. I can also nap whenever I want...which usually last 1-2 hours and can still sleep 7-12 hours at night easily.

I've asked my doctor and we've confirmed I don't have sleep apnea, narcolepsy, I don't need meds because I fall asleep easily and stay asleep, no vitamin deficiencies, thyroid is balanced, and I'm not depressed. I bought a better bed and tried light therapy to re-train my sleeping habits, but after 6 months it still didn't help. The next step would be a sleep study, but my doctor just thinks for whatever reason my body think it needs 8-12 hours of sleep a night.

I try to pick two of my days off where I get up early and then let myself sleep in on the third day off, but sometimes I'm so tired on the early days I'll just fall asleep if I'm at my computer or watching tv and sleep two hours anyway. It is so weird, but I feel totally awake afterwards. I wish my work schedule was flexible enough for the da Vinci sleep cycle. I wonder if short naps throughout the day would be better for me.

I also don't drink excessively and completely cut caffeine out of my diet. I drink water all day, eat a well-balanced diet, exercise at least an hour a day, take multivitamins in the morning, and my sugar consumption is low and usually comes from fruit.