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  I think this is a really good way of summarising it. 
  The options you mentioned are early/late but stomach-able. 
  Whereas no matter which way you look at it — staying up till 3-4am or getting up at 3-4am — both options suck. 
  Like majorly, majorly suck.
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  You would have to go to bed at 8 and wake up at 4am for midnight to be truly the middle >
  
  I work in a factory so you got the times perfect for me >
  
  All of society collapsing if factories had three shifts a day instead of two >
  
  Lots of factories have three shifts >
  
  11pm-7am, 7am-3pm, 3pm-11pm >
  
  hey that sounds like 7-Eleven. >
  
  It's actually called 7 Eleven cause it's open 7 hours a day, 11 days a week. >
  
  I know you're being facetious, but the real reason is that they were open from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., which was a big deal at one point. >
  
  Man, that's only 4 hours! Such a tight window to get there in time. >
  
  You should normally use doors to get in there though >
  
  And why, at 3AM, does it feel like I can stay up all night, but just before dawn I get extra tired? >
  
  I suffer from this, too! And at 33 i still haven’t learned to go to bed at a sensible time! >
  
  I literally can't do it. No matter what time I wake up in the morning (it's usually early), I'm never in bed before midnight. I've tried. I just can't get my body to go to sleep before a certain time. It's honestly debilitating. During the work week I'll only get 5-6 hours of sleep most nights because I just cannot fall asleep until it's later at night >
  
  Same here. Then I sleep in on weekends and my sleep schedule is fucked by Monday >
  
  I have found my people! >
  
  Night owls exist. 50% of the population is forced into this bullshit because the early risers hate us >
  
  It's so frustrating. I would be so much more productive and happy if workplaces would start accommodating night owls. It doesn't even have to be that late - just don't make everyone work at 7 or 8 am. >
  
  When people named 12 AM midnight, it was centuries before electricity was in use. Work days were daylight hours. People who could afford beeswax candles were generally wealthy and didn’t need to work at night; anyone who did often used tallow candles or rush lights. So you generally had a tea (dinner) at 4 PM and a light supper (snack, say bread and cheese) at 7 or 8 PM. You went to bed immediately after and began your day at 4 or 5 AM, when the rooster woke you or the “knock up man”, who would in turn wake up the bell-ringer and knock on townspeople’s windows in case you needed to be awoken. So historically, 12 was definitely “mid-night”. With the advent of electric power in the late 19th century, everything shifted, including our sleep and work schedules, by three or four hours, because darkness was no longer a hindrance. 
  The more you know… 🌈💫 >
  
  But who would wake up the knock up man? >
  
  Knock up rooster. >
  
  But who wakes up the knock up rooster? >
  
  Me. >
  
  I am the one who wakes. >
  
  I am the one who knocks up. >
  
  ...roosters. >
  
  Typically it’s the cock that does the knocking up. >
  
  Knock-Cock >
  
  Sleep researchers call this hour between 3 and 4 o'clock at night “wolf hour” or “hour of the wolf”.
  "The hour between night and dawn. The hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fears, when ghost and demons are most powerful, the hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born." 
  -From Ingmar Bergman's Film HOUR OF THE WOLF >
  
  Your comment, and this entire post made me think of this:
  "Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slow. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that’s burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face. It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead – And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time."
  From Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. >
  
  Hm. Reading this at 2:47am, I think I'll go to bed now. >
  
  4:01 here. Wondering if I'm going to be able to make the 3 hr drive to the dispensary at 8. >
  
  Bro I'm just sorry you live that far away from legal weed. >
  
  For me, 1-2 am is staying up late while 5-6 am is waking up early so 3-4 am is the dead of night for me as I rarely see it