It’s been said that “early birds get the worm”, but when it comes to humans, do early birds really have an advantage over night owl? What if “night owls get the mouse”? Will they have any advantage over early birds?

When it comes to sleeping, circadian rhythms is the word. Circadian rhythms (The body energy) are the changes that occur in our brain and body for the 24 hours of a day, is the body energy by itself, the energy that allows us to stay awake during the day and asleep during the night, but, since every person is physically and genetically different, keeping awake during the day or night is all about our body clock.

The body clock is the natural clock of every person, the one that regulates our circadian rhythms to tell us when to go to sleep and when to keep awake, but, as I said before, there are some ancestral variation in every person, and here is when “early birds” and “night owls” come to context; that is to say, being diurnal or nocturnal creatures.

Diurnal creatures are those people who prefer waking up pretty early in the morning and having a good sleep during the night; and, in the other hand are the nocturnal creatures, people who are more active during the night than the day.

In life there are different kind of people that have different habits, different lifestyles, and different ways to make things. Ones prefers to make things during the day, and others during the night, but, the only thing that is true is that circadian rhythms will be always regulated by the body clock, and that is what will make us to be awake or asleep.