My house is much too hectic during the day. Annoying little sister, naggy mother, despised father,If I slept at a normal time I would never get anything done. I'm up until three in the morning, enjoying the quiet I'm barely allowed normally. In fact, most of the stories/poems/ blog posts I've done were written between one and five in the morning.

I'm more of a night owl in the summer than the winter. When I'm on summer break I'll usually stay up til after sunrise and go for walks/bike rides at night, and in the winter I'm very drowsy around 10 or 11 pm.

I've always preferred to be hidden and remain unseen as I greatly dislike all the clamor that midday brings. At night I do also feel a sense of freedom that is absent during the light of day, as well as a greater reserve of energy.

I'd happily stay up all night, I can concentrate the best then. But I have to be at uni from 8 am till 6pm, doesn't allow me to stay up long.
Else I would. Cos night time is peaceful

I love to write and draw (Mostly pen and ink) and I've always found I do much better at night than I do during the day. During the day my writing seems to be less fluid and my art is a little sloppier. At night I feel more awake. The creativity just flows.

I also find the day to be much too hectic. Too many people. At night I can be alone to think. And that beautiful night air... so much fresher than the day. I love the sky at night as well, the stars and the moon. Or even an unclear night with those eerie darkened clouds blocking the light, making it even darker, more mysterious. I especially love forests at night, though I rarely get to visit one.

I've always had a fascination with the night. it's so much more... beautiful. That may be a matter of opinion but to me the night seems so much more elegant than the day. The day is always in such a rush, all those busy people going about their ways. At night it all slows down and you get to see things another way.

The Phantom reminds us well of why we love the night...

Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation,
Darkness wakes and stirs imagination...

-- Nephele

^^And I officially love you for posting that song.

I feel at home during the night. When I'm at home and it is dark, I don't need to turn the lights on in my house. I feel perfectly comfortable wandering my house in near blackness unless I really need some light to see what I'm doing.

Heh in addition to liking the night for most of the reasons stated here already: The quiet, less people, and just generally liking it more, there is one other huge reason:

I live in TEXAS, and its pretty much never not-hot and not-bright during the day.

As summer comes closer, I start to become a little nocturnal for a change. Too bad I still need to get up at four or five AM.

I don't live in the best of areas, so I don't like being out at night unless I'm with a group of people. I even get spooked staying in my house alone. >__<

I also don't live in the best area of my particular town so I try to do everything I need to do during the nighttime. If I am with friends out in the city I don't mind staying out late and enjoying the calm of the evening.

I was out last night and it really was more comfortable than I remember. I haven't much time to go outside at night lately, and I had forgotten how much I enjoy night. Just a passing thought...

Oh, yes, indeed! I feel tranquil, serene, melancholy, and all around glorious during the night... I am also so much more creative. During the day, I grow weary...
I make every excuse to go inside at day, but at night, it is quite the contrary; I get outside as much as possible...

My nocturnal tendencies are a habit I haven't been able to shake, in spite of being all grown up and responsible with a family and all. Although I seldom get out much anymore (right now, I'm kind of stuck with the rhythms of the Ronald McDonald house I'm staying at while my daughter is in the NICU) I can't seem to switch "off" to sleep mode during night hours, even when I'm tired (which at the moment is all the time, new baby and all.) Night time has always been my creative time, it's when I do my best writing and painting, when I do my best planning and problem-solving, and when I was a student it was my peak study hours.

Far from being some romanticized child of darkness, it actually creates problems when I'm working normal business hours, and with my older kids' school schedules. And apparently it runs in the family. My son really loves walking at night more than anything. He doesn't go anywhere particular or meet up with friends, he just kind of paces around the park in the twilight. My oldest daughter is in her last year of elementary school, and she is notoriously difficult to get to bed before 10, sometimes getting up for repeated bathroom trips, drinks of water, or to look for the cat as late as 11 or 12. It makes her cranky and panicked in the morning. And like me, both kids seem to prefer nighttime studying. When we were homeschooling, this meant "teachable moments" springing out of bedtime stories or last minute questions while being tucked in, which often would keep us up till midnight or later flipping through books or pictures. Now they are both in public school, and really push the late night limits doing their homework.

Nocturnal wakefulness kind of works with an infant, before they can get to sleeping through the night. Of course with a newborn, you just sleep whenever they do. With Violet in the NICU, I can come in to see her any time 24 hours a day, but since I'm staying at the RMH which is a communal living environment, and using the shuttle to get to the hospital, I'm kind of limited to their schedule, at least for most of my activities. I usually find myself going down to the kitchen to raid the fridge at midnight, and staying up till 2 wasting time on facebook because I don't want to wake anybody up.