Modern science has reached striking heights, but the only object in which it has never learned to understand to the end is the man himself. All fields of science dealing with human studies are still very young (on a historical scale). The idea that the processes taking place in the human body, subject to certain time cycles, interested scientists and quite a few decades ago. Then they began to study the character of a man by the biological clock.
Internal clock
Science, studying the clock, which "tick" inside us, helps to understand many very interesting questions. For example, why does the character of the "owl" person differ so much from the nature of the "lark", why in general can we work differently day and night, how the cycles of wakefulness and sleep are related to age, what is the autumn depression and how to fight it with the help of a bright light, how much sleep you need to keep your health and so on.
Biorhythmology gives all interested in its "bird breed" a number of useful tips and offers its advice on different occasions. Everyone has something like a built-in clock that controls his life and sometimes does not want to adapt to external time. You can buy yourself the loudest alarm clock, but the internal clock will go according to its own laws. Even if you settle a person in an underground bunker and deprive them of the opportunity to follow the time, his body will live according to a specific schedule. Moreover, studies show that the average duration of internal subjective days in people isolated from external time signals is slightly longer than usual - 25 hours. But there is another interesting regularity: during studies of male and female biorhythms, it became clear that the fair sex needed more sleep! Living on their subjective schedule, women on average sleep for an hour and a half more than men.
"Larks", "owls" and "pigeons"
Most of the known biorhythmology of oscillations has a period approximately equal to the day. Such rhythms are called daily, or circadian. According to the peculiarities of individual daily rhythms people are divided into several main categories, the most famous of which are "larks" and "owls". The nature of a person is very different, depending on one or another "bird affiliation".
Due to its daily rhythm of activity, the nature of the clock for different people is different. "Larks" are puffed up from the very morning: they wake up without an alarm clock (sometimes long before dawn), eat breakfasts with appetite, enjoy jogging in the morning, and by mid-day, when their performance reaches a peak, they are reworking almost all important matters. True, late in the evening, the "larks" sneak and are no longer able to finish the quarterly report, which was done with such zeal in the morning. Now they can only wearily watch the "owls" that have woken up to this time, which, after sunset, just "the star hour" is just beginning.
As for the "owls", they like to lie closer to the morning and get up close to dinner, they do not have breakfast until a couple of hours after the rise, because before that their body is simply unable to absorb food, and the peak of their work capacity falls to hours for six evenings. By the way, according to statistics, in the morning "owls" make one and a half times more mistakes than "larks", but by the evening this proportion changes to the exact opposite. But, in addition to the schedule - owls "differ from" larks "also because they are easier to adapt to someone else's schedule for them. For example, "owl," for all its dislike for early wakes, it is much easier to get up in the morning than "lark" - to work in the evening. In addition, "owls" have the ability to fill their day (if only there was such a wonderful opportunity), but "larks", as a rule, can fall asleep only when their time comes on the biological clock.
In addition to "larks" and "owls", there is also a third type of people, which biorhythmologists call "pigeons." They live according to the most convenient biological clock. Rise not too late and go to bed at a reasonable time. Usually the peak of their activity is at three o'clock in the afternoon. The daily rhythm of "pigeons" is something between the morning "larks" and night "owls". In other words - birds are daytime and in all respects balanced. And to apply to this type is probably very good.
How to get along with different "birds"
I must admit that "owls" and "larks" get on very well for a long time. But they are not always at war either. Sometimes they enter into mutually beneficial relationships, and some even create families. True, ruthless statistics claim that three out of ten divorces occur precisely because of the incompatibility of the biorhythms of the spouses. Fortunately, the "owls" and "larks" still have some chances to get along.
Psychologists believe that with mutual striving for compromise, a couple of people with different types of activity can even benefit from this position, successfully complementing each other. True, you need to show patience and a certain tact. Some part of the ideas of an impeccable union they will have to sacrifice. For example, evening conversations by the fireplace or joint morning jogs. Everyone will have to constantly remember about the features of the partner and be able to adapt to them: in the morning, the "lark" is better not to wake up the "owl" and even less to talk incessantly, and in the evening the "night owl" should not bother tired of the day "lark". In the end, if you want to experiment, an appropriate time for both of them will be found!