lullableThe evening is where you come alive, usually near a lamp. Mornings are a negotiation, the afternoon is fine, and somewhere after dinner the ideas start arriving. Midnight feels like a reasonable bedtime, even when the alarm disagrees.
What your night tends to look like
- Sleep window
- About midnight–1:00 am to 8:00–9:00 am
- Sharpest hours
- Late afternoon into the evening
- Last coffee
- Before 3 pm
- Wind down
- From 11:30 pm
A story for your wind-down: The Hidden Clocks of the Night Sky.
Or a sound with no words at all: Lagoon crickets, crickets at night by the Laguna de Chacahua, Oaxaca, free on greensound.
Whatever hour you finally lie down, the moment is the same: a mind still running. Lullable reads you true, quietly fascinating things in a voice that gets softer every minute, so the thinking has somewhere to go.
Get the appThe other four
- BlackbirdDefinitely a morning type. The first voice in the dawn chorus, singing before there is light to sing by.
- TortoiseModerately a morning type. An early riser who keeps to the daylight and is in no hurry inside it.
- SheepNeither, and in good company. Neither lark nor owl, and the most common of the five, which seems fitting.
- OctopusDefinitely an evening type. You do not properly get going until the sun has gone down.