[fristechill]

Introverts of the world unite! Seriously, night time is great because having large chunks of unstructured time is good for creativity. There's no one to interrupt you or be offended by your (unpredictable) results.

My waking hours are typically 12pm-3am. Can confirm that eating during the early morning (i.e. when normally asleep) puts a noticeable strain on the system. Which must be connected to the scientific fact that night shifts are bad for health. I presume partly because night shift people don't do night shifts all the time and thus have to continually reset their circadian clocks, which will include eating at the 'wrong' times.

[steanne]

that matches my experience: in the period i worked third shift all my co-workers struggled because they tried to switch back to days for weekend time with friends/family, then back to nights for the new workweek. i just kept a steady schedule and was fine.

[BrandoElFollito]

When doing my PhD in a research lab open 24/7 I used to work between 13:00 and 5:00.

This was a quiet time and there was nobody but it had is downsides: the team meetings were in the morning so they never saw me there, my breakfast was lunch and obviously I had no social life (I was there alone so that was the last of my worries. Science FTW!)

[hirundo]

> Can confirm that eating during the early morning (i.e. when normally asleep) puts a noticeable strain on the system.

Me too, when I was carb loading for breakfast. That stopped when I got into the habit of eating (only) beef for breakfast. For me it's just less work to digest, and keeps the hunger away for much longer.