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  I am the one who knocks up.
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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.