Who do so many people hate morning darkness so much?

[Polybius]

I totally get it if you prefer not to take your kids to school when it's dark outside, so let's put that aside for now. I start work at 7:00 AM, and I love that it's still dark when I head out in the morning.

Yet, it appears that almost everyone else dislikes it except for me! I'm curious, why is that? What is it about the darkness in the morning that you find unappealing?

[Raven123]

1. I'm a morning person. Early to bed ... etc. The morning light suits my biorhythm

[Irish_Dem]

2. Maybe it doesn't feel like morning, but feels like night time?

Who wants to get up in the middle of the night and go to work?

I don't like driving in the dark, but I like being up early when most people are still asleep.
It is so quiet and peaceful. And I get a head start on everyone else.

[Polybius]

13. "Maybe it doesn't feel like morning, but feels like night time?"

That's precisely why I love it. I hate mornings.

Who wants to get up in the middle of the night and go to work?

I like being up early when most people are still asleep.
It is so quiet and peaceful. And I get a head start on everyone else.

I fully agree there!

[hlthe2b]

3. Not me. Out the door and at the nearby park with my pup to meet two other dog-owners before dawn every AM...

We all wear headlamps and flashing lights on the dog's collars, but otherwise we get to see the sky, the moon, the constellations and planets as they change, an occasional shooting star or meteor shower, and the sunrise. Worth every morning!

[Niagara]

4. I dislike the fact that it gets dark at 4:30 to 5:00pm at night

They have it backwards and they need to give us an extra hour of daylight in the winter instead of the summer.


It's depressing as hell. It's colder when the sun sets and one needs to shovel or snowblow snow. There's 10 million Americans who have seasonal light disorder.


I also don't like driving in the dark at all.


I would like to have artificial light in my living room in the winter but I already have a colossal window in my living room. I just need it to shine artificial light instead of being pitch black.

Here's some idea of what season light disorder is.

[Srkdqltr]

5. I used to start work at 6AM , still dark. Never liked or disliked the dark. It just is.

Some people are such babies now.
We tried to make our kids more comfortable. I guess we did to much.

[GJGCA]

6. It's the fear of late-shift & hungry...

...vampires. (Around Halloween anyway.)

[DBoon]

7. I worked graveyard shift long ago

in a fast food place after graduating from high school. Got to stay up the entire night.

Darkness is for sleeping not working.

[CTyankee]

8. I've been on the beach on Chappaquiddick Island at night. There are no street lights on the island and you can see all

stars in the sky. It was just fabulous.

[Americanme]

9. I love being up before the sun.

I get up at 3, out the door for work by 4:30. I love seeing the sunrise, it's my favorite time of day.

[RandomNumbers]

10. Meh ... if we would just STOP CHANGING THE FUCKING CLOCKS

twice a year, I'm fine with dark in the morning, dark in the evening, WHATEVER. As long as we get the x hours of light that we should ... as long as the sun is rising and setting we should be just fine.

STOP CHANGING THE FUCKING CLOCKS and we could all just get used to it.

(I'm yelling at clouds, not you)

[Nittersing]

11. I am totally a morning person

I love being awake as the world wakes up. I get to enjoy listening to the birds before the traffic noise starts to hum and the neighborhood starts coming to life.

One morning I woke up after an ice storm. A lot of branches were braking. There wasn't any other sound except for the crack of another branch and the wooshing sound it made as it fell.

I'm such a morning person that I still set an alarm to get up.

[kacekwl]

12. It is hard going to work when dark and

being dark when you come home.

[electric_blue68]

14. I'm an afternoon to night owl person...

Although I did pretty well when a certain job went from 10 AM - 6 PM.

But getting up at any where from ? 6:50A - about 7:30A - blah!

[OldBaldy1701E]

18. I wake up every morning around 5 a.m.. It is always dark.

It is not by choice and I hate it.

I guess decades of doing so made me a tool even when I tried to fight it.

Oh well.

[electric_blue68]

20. That's a drag. Sorry to hear.

[k0rs]

15. I used to work nights

I hated driving home (sixty miles) as the sun was rising. It felt as if someone was pouring sand in my eyes. I much preferred driving home in the dark. It also made it easier to fall asleep once I got home if it was still dark. In the fall, just as it was getting more pleasant to drive, the time was changed to make the sunrise artificially earlier. Institutionally implemented torture. Arrgh.

Incidentally, my wife, a natural night owl, often stayed awake until I arrived home and retired to bed with me. She found the night time perfect to attend to her personal chores. We have animals so she would often work in the barn overnight with her horses or rescue cats.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Not being able to see where you're going and what you're doing might be a small part of it. nt

[Polybius]

17. If you can't see while driving in the dark, it might be time to invest in some glasses for night driving

It can help lots.

[eppur_se_muova]

19. Try dropping you car keys in the grass. Glasses won't help that. nt

[Polybius]

21. My car doesn't have keys

It unlocks when I approach.

[Torchlight]

22. I wonder the same thing about fried liver and onions.

[LudwigPastorius]

23. I usually get up when the sun is warm, like 1:30 - 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

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