Are you a morning person?

[TruthBTold]

No way. Actually my body may wake up early but my brain doesn't start doing anything for at least an hour and a half later. Whenever I make an appointment for anything it has to be early afternoon, to the consternation of many office people. But I always figure I am the paying client, fit ME in. If they are doing it for free that might be a different story.

[wklucas]

Pilfered from a thread in the Gallery.....

 

[samhexum]

 

 

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[Smurof]

Hell yes, and it's why I will be single 'till death. I fucking hate night owls passionately. Eating dinner at 9 pm, sleeping in until 11 or later. Not for me, ever!

[+ overeasy]

Love mornings before the rest of the world gets up and around. Quiet, relaxed, ....and feels like it's all mine. Up just before sunrise pretty much every day. If I miss it a little, the dog reminds me.

[N13]

Mornings are the best! No one to interrupt my work or life. Most productive time of the day! (Except when I wake up at 3am and go to my desk).

[Smurof]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ow5fn6rNlU

I suppose I could be a night owl for Carly - once.

[samhexum]

I suppose I could be a night owl for Carly - once.

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[+ poolboy48220]

Love mornings before the rest of the world gets up and around. Quiet, relaxed, ....and feels like it's all mine. Up just before sunrise pretty much every day. If I miss it a little, the dog reminds me.

My dog sleeps in. I can only remember one time in four years that she's woken me up. Normally I get up & start the coffee, and she comes down the stairs about 10 minutes later.

[samhexum]

My dog sleeps in. I can only remember one time in four years that she's woken me up. Normally I get up & start the coffee, and she comes down the stairs about 10 minutes later.

 

Does she drink regular or decaf?

[LADoug1]

I’m a morning person but not by choice. A lifetime problem with insomnia makes the choice for me. But I’m super active and productive during the early a.m. hours. Feel like I’m getting a jump on the rest of the world.

[+ poolboy48220]

Does she drink regular or decaf?

She's very much a teetotaler with regards to alcohol or caffeine. On paper, this relationship doesn't work out.

[+ WilliamM]

Only the morning I was discharged from the Army on June 22, 1969. but, to be fair, I could not sleep at night.

Unrelated, it was the night, Judy Garland died in London.

[samhexum]

[RadioRob]

Not only no, but...

 

HELL NO!

[+ easygoingpal]

Ha, ha, ha... And here I am eating breakfast at 5:00 AM reading this comic... Hilarious!

[Walker1]

Not only no, but...

 

HELL NO!

Me either, however then I had kids-oh well I may have sleep in a decade again?

[samhexum]

Internal clock keeps waking me up around the same time on the weekends.

Pets have ‘inner clock’ just like humans

If sometimes you wonder if your dog is angry with you for staying out late, you might be right. New evidence suggests that animals have a clear sense of time, using previously undiscovered neurons that seem to switch on to count off minutes as they wait.

 

The discovery was made by a team fromNorthwestern University while studying the medial entorhinal cortex of mice. Located in the mid-temporal lobe, it’s the part of the brain associated with memory and navigation. And since it encodes spatial information in episodic memories, lead study author Daniel Dombeck theorized that it could function as a sort of “inner clock” as well.

 

“There are many similarities between the brains of mice, cats, dogs and humans,” Dombeck told Fox News. “We all have a medial entorhinal cortex (the region we found that may act as an inner clock), so it’s logical to think that this brain region serves a similar function in all of these different species.”

 

To test his theory, Dombeck and his team put a mouse on a physical treadmill in a virtual reality environment. The mouse would run (on the treadmill) down a hallway to a door. After six seconds, the “door” would open and the mouse would get a (non–virtual reality) treat. They would repeat this a few times before making the door invisible. Dombeck was surprised to find that the mouse would still run and stop at the invisible door, waiting for six seconds for it to “open” so it could eat. Since the mouse didn’t know whether the door was open or closed and waited exactly six seconds, the team concluded that it had to have used its inner clock.

 

The researchers also monitored the mouse’s brain activity, finding that the mouse’s neurons would fire as it ran. When it stopped at the door, those neurons would turn off before a new set began firing. These newly discovered neurons only fired when the mouse stopped, keeping track of the time the mouse was resting.

 

Dombeck believes that dogs and cats more than likely have the same neurons that encode time.

 

“There’s evidence that humans and monkeys can estimate time intervals using some form of an ‘inner clock’ and now with our work we know that mice also can explicitly represent time intervals in their brains and can perform timing tasks,” he explained. “Therefore, it’s logical to think that animals in between mice and humans in the hierarchy chain, like our pets (dogs and cats), can also use their brains to estimate time intervals.”

 

The team’s research could have an impact on humans. The entorhinal cortex is one of the first regions of the brain affected by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, and researchers could study how these diseases affect the new time–encoding neurons.

 

“When doing basic research like we are, it’s always difficult to know where or how your findings will make an impact, but it’s really results from basic research like ours that eventually lead to better treatments or understanding of diseases, and sometimes even provide insights into how things like designing better computer software (by mimicking brain function),” Dombeck said. “Since the medial temporal lobe (the larger brain region that includes the medial entorhinal cortex) is one of the first regions affected by Alzheimer’s disease, and since the timekeeping properties of this part of the brain were previously unknown, it’s not unreasonable to think that clinicians could soon be asking patients to estimate different amounts of elapsed time as part of the battery of tests to look for early signs of dementia.”

 

The study can be found in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

[Derrick Rigg]

Yes, I go to the gym at 5:40 am everyday except Sundays. Waking up early gets my day going.

[samhexum]

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[+ Oliver]

Not! Fortunately, neither was my wife. I liked to eat breakfast before dressing (still do); she got dressed before eating breakfast. Ergo- we never met at the breakfast table (which she set the night before) and therefore, did not have to speak to each other. Early on in our marriage when we were still having to save our pennies, I made the mistake of asking one morning what was in the lunch she had packed for me (I was totally spoiled). Her response: "Just take it and eat it!" That evening when we had both returned home from work, she told me "If you want to know what's in your lunch, ask me the night before."

 

She was a definite creature of habit (as am I). She laid out her clothes the night before, so she did not have to think about it in the morning. I threatened to mix up the order (tho never did) so that she would end up with her bra on the outside.

 

Every other April Fools Day she would put salt in the sugar bowl. She got me every time - I was never awake enough to be suspicious even when I stirred the coffee - it makes a different sound!

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[Bearofdistinction]

Everybody Shut Up till Im awake -- Then bring me Crisp Bacon!!

[samhexum]

 

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