Chronotype

[greg]

Does everyone know the basic chronotypes- early/evening/in-between? It's about when you naturally wake up/fall asleep during the day.

There's supposedly a system that divides this into four: bear, dolphin, wolf, lion.

You can take the short quiz here (though you do have to give it your e-mail address):

https://thepowerofwhenquiz.com/


If anyone takes this, does it seem legit to you?


Short description of the types:

Bears   
Bears form the majority of the population – 50% of the people are bears. They prefer a solar-based schedule, which means that the normal workday schedule suits them.

They are outgoing and friendly, cautious and open-minded. They are easy to talk to and tend to avoid conflicts.

They are not adventurous and take comfort in the familiar; however, they prioritize happiness both for themselves and their close ones.

They are more than fine getting up at 7 a.m. and going to bed at 11 a.m.; they are most productive during the late part of the morning and most alert between mid-morning and late afternoon.

Their only problem: just like bears, they are anytime hunters, and sometimes deadlines drive them to sleep deprivation; after all, even when tired, they do wake up after the first alarm at 7 a.m.

Lions     
Lions – 15-20% of the people – are early birds: they are morning hunters and have a medium sleep drive.

They don't need alarms to wake up in the morning – and when we say morning, we mean while it's still dark outside.

They are get-to-the-top overachievers and tacticians, stable and practical people who prioritize their health and fitness.

They are most productive in the early morning, and most alert at noon.

By early evening, they are too tired to do anything but go to sleep.

Dolphins
Dolphins are very light sleepers: just like the animals, they sleep only with one half of their brains; the other one is anxious about what kind of predators tomorrow may bring.

Many dolphins – 10% of the population – are introverted insomniacs: they have a low sleep drive and have a tough time falling asleep.

However, they are also very intelligent and strive for perfection. Their attentiveness to details sometimes leads them to obsessive-compulsive disorders and neuroticism.

They are most alert when they need this the least: late at night; and they are most productive at different times of the day, in spurts.

Which is why it's difficult for them to keep a regular schedule.

Wolves
Just like lions, wolves – 15-20% – have a medium sleep drive, but, unlike them, they are nocturnal hunters.

There's no way that a Woolf will wake up with a single alarm or go through the day without a few cups of coffee.

Wolves are moody pessimists, but they are also incredibly creative individuals.

They are impulsive and adventurous but tend to overdramatize from time to time and react with emotional intensity.

They prioritize pleasure before all, which is why they'd rather sleep than work in the morning.

They are most alert sometime around 7 p.m., and most productive late at night.

They have no idea why society is organized the way it is.

I got Dolphin. Everything is eerily on point with the description.

-Tired/unproductive until the late evening, with productivity spurts here and there throughout the day
-Often waking up multiple times at night
-Thinking about how to redo mistakes from the day
-Sometimes experiencing not knowing whether they slept at all
-Irritable and intelligent
-Suitable work includes composing/performing, coding
-Perfectionistic/happiest left alone rather than working with a team
-Naturally fast metabolism
-Rate themselves lower in life satisfaction

Only things that might be a little off:
-insomnia... don't suffer from it that often. But it does happen every now and then.
-the number of hours that I usually sleep is 9 hour each night when I have a long series of days off. Otherwise, it's 10-11 hours on the weekends to make up for lack of sleep on the weekdays. Not sure that could be considered a "light" sleeper or not? Maybe in the sense of waking up easily, but not in the sense of total hours.

It's interesting that mine is the least common type. And it explains a lot the history of my life... as a kid, I took at least 2 hours each night to fall asleep. I always felt dead in the morning, slept throughout all of my classes in school whenever possible because I always felt tired. Waking up before 9 AM I've always found to be extremely unnatural. But when you are in the minority, the majority (bears) are going to make your life feel like it's constantly going against the grain and constantly being sleep-deprived.

Though luckily those days of waking up too early were gone a long time ago.

Video about dolphin:
https://vimeo.com/165486659

[amw]

I think my chronotype is the domestic cat: need 16 hours of sleep a day, yet always somehow most active between 4 and 6 am, and if I get bored I might start ripping toilet paper rolls apart. Approximately 7% of the human population are housecats like myself, and it correlates strongly with the star sign Virgo, the ENTJ personality type and the Hogwarts house Hufflepuff.

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I think my chronotype is the domestic cat: need 16 hours of sleep a day, yet always somehow most active between 4 and 6 am, and if I get bored I might start ripping toilet paper rolls apart. Approximately 7% of the human population are housecats like myself, and it correlates strongly with the star sign Virgo, the ENTJ personality type and the Hogwarts house Hufflepuff.

[greg]

I think my chronotype is the domestic cat: need 16 hours of sleep a day, yet always somehow most active between 4 and 6 am, and if I get bored I might start ripping toilet paper rolls apart. Approximately 7% of the human population are housecats like myself, and it correlates strongly with the star sign Virgo, the ENTJ personality type and the Hogwarts house Hufflepuff.

Talk to your doctor...

[greg]

So um, anyone else with weird sleep patterns? Or extremely NOT a morning person?

Funny memories: in church in the mornings this old lady used to sarcastically call me "smiley" because I couldn't stop frowning; a lady at my last job sarcastically called me "sunshine"; at that job one day some people i was helping complained that i was depressing them (i guess because i couldn't stop frowning); one day my manager told me i should probably go home because i made a mess and couldn't care.

So eventually they realized to make me work in the evening and all was well lol.