I'm nocturnal. Even before the significant people in my life started living in different time zones and I had the misfortune to be living deep in the east, I have been nocturnal. The omniscient google tells me there must be something wrong with my circadian rhythms (Lets face it, looking up something on the internet is far less time-consuming. Though one does miss holding an actual book in hand) or rather that my night owl-ism must be due to a busy social life/ career/ disease.
:O This I find very offensive!! *looks outraged* Why can't a person be happily nocturnal without being called a sick/ social or worse :O a night-watchman?? (I'm selectively blind to the part of the article that says chronotypes would explain nocturnal behaviour in humans.. where's the fun without a bit of argument)
For the people who worship the good book of science and cold reason (nerds :P ) I have several very good arguments as to why nocturnality is beneficial.
Facts:-
1) Humans are animals.
2)The most powerful and basic of all animal instincts is survival.
3) Adaption lend animals a better chance of survival in their environment.
Survival adaption-
i) Resource competition- Being nocturnal is a form of niche differentiation. Species' niches are partitioned by the amount of time as opposed to amount of resources. (Kids use the park during day. Nocturnals, robbers,muggers and vampires use the same park at night)
ii)Predation- What better time to hunt or be hunted or avoid being hunted than the night. This goes for all forms of hunting. (Imagine the possibilities)
iii)Water conservation- Especially in arid biomes (or tropics) nocturnal behaviour help creatures prevent losing water. (so you don't have to carry a water bottle and a roll of toilet paper to dab your face with because facial tissue isn't enough)
4)Therefore, nocturnality helps your survival. Maybe a new species will evolve from the present day nocturnals.
And as for the romantics. You only have to look around :P. What other time of day stars with a single white star in the violet skies and darkens in to a black blanket over the world dusty with white and golden stars? When can we see the waning moon in her full glory? What is the time when warm scented breezes can blow through your hair and calm your mind? We can all do without too much sun burning behind our eyes, the sweat, The noise, the people and the rush of life all around us. Night is not for sleep. Night is for love and poetry and philosophy. Night is for living and and sitting quietly by a window sill contemplating all the sleeping life around us. Nights are for coffee and chocolate and long talks. Or if you like for singing dancing and enjoying. Nights are for books and imagination. Night is the good time to live. Night is the right time to live. But for night to arrive, the day has to be over and the day creatures have to fall asleep. so let us bear day and its creatures as necessary evil while waiting for the night to reach over and put the day to sleep.
a song for night time
Good night <3
