Why do people shower in the morning?

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niky
Showering in the morning is cheaper than leaving the AC on all night. Even cheaper-er if you don't use a water heater... and not using a water heater wakes you up, right quick. Which is why I shower in the morning.

I also shower in the evening if I've been out. Showering in the evening to feel fresh while you sleep is cheaper than turning on the AC all night so you don't sweat and itch. Still cheaper if you use a water heater... which is relaxing and will help make you drowsy. Which is why I sometimes shower in the evenings.
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^ You just shower when you want to and make up clever reasons afterwards. :p
 
I had a bath yesterday. I spent four days without a bath before that, however.

What relevance this has to the subject, I don't know.

But to keep the trend, I usually have a bath between 2:30pm-7:00pm, and go to bed at 10:30pm.
 
As a kid I think I peed in every bath I took. Now I only take a bath on the rare occasion that I'm sick or my body aches, I think it will help every time and it never does. I've cut out the peeing but I'll still fart, underwater farts have such a distinct smell and are much more potent, if only for a short while. I used to make massive waves as a kid as well, not so cool anymore. I just realized why our bathroom floor was rotting away.

My brothers brush their teeth in the shower, I prefer cold water for cleaning my teeth.
 
Azuremen
Shocker, but people are different.

Mostly circadian cycle in this case, which is also why some people are night owls, like myself. There have been studies to suggest that genetics plays some part in this as well.

What I do know is, regardless of when I get to bed, I do not like to be up before 9am. Ever. And regardless of when I wake up, I tend to want to stay up till 2am or so.
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Yes, people are different but it's usually people's sleeping habits that cause some of the things you've mentioned.
Morning light starts you circadian cycle, more or less. It took me all of 3 days to accustom myself to being out of bed at 6AM instead of 8am. Waking up at the same time will more or less dictate when you go to bed at night.
As for the night owl people, that's mostly a choice, isn't it? You chose to stay up late which causes you to sleep late which shifts your circadian rhythm.
 
eSZee
As for the night owl people, that's mostly a choice, isn't it? You chose to stay up late which causes you to sleep late which shifts your circadian rhythm.
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I've been on a get up at 5am and ride for an hour schedule. That lasted a whole month before it fell apart because my body simply prefers to be up later. The only time I've maintained a morning schedule is when I've had to for certain jobs, and even then I wasn't able to get to sleep earlier enough to feel rested. I almost always become more alert around 11pm regardless of when I woke, and tend to do my best work late at night. I certainly don't choose to be up till 4am when I have to get up at 7am, as I will feel sick for the start of the day.

Like I said, there are genetic factors suspected in the circadian cycle. Then some psychological factors are also considered such are logical versus creative.

Honesty, the 8 to 5 shift is extremely out dated, along with schooling (high school), is extremely dated and mostly from the pre-industrial era.
 
Azuremen
Honesty, the 8 to 5 shift is extremely out dated, along with schooling (high school), is extremely dated and mostly from the pre-industrial era.
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People work 8-5? I thought 9-5 was standard.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to cope fine on 4-5 hours sleep, so I can go to sleep at 3 and wake up at 8:30 no problems.

Though sometimes I just work through the night and go straight back into the office at 9am. Cause I'm a hardcore mofo.
 
I work 7-3:30 or 6-2:30, works out really well since it gives me most of the afternoon.
 
heingericke
If there is one bit of info that should be past down from generation to generation is this....

If you go to sleep with an itchy bum, you're going to wake up with a smelly finger.

Fact.

Granted it's not quite "with great power comes great responsibilty."
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Ohh dude, that made me seriously :lol:
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I also need to agree with Bluemen, errh Azuremen, I read the same thing about the 2 types of people, those who get up early and those who stay up late, and that if you force one in the other camp for a long time, he can become very sick.
Funny thing is I'm both, for years I've been up very early without a problem, and nowadays I'm a nightowl.
 
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Azuremen
I've been on a get up at 5am and ride for an hour schedule. That lasted a whole month before it fell apart because my body simply prefers to be up later. The only time I've maintained a morning schedule is when I've had to for certain jobs, and even then I wasn't able to get to sleep earlier enough to feel rested. I almost always become more alert around 11pm regardless of when I woke, and tend to do my best work late at night. I certainly don't choose to be up till 4am when I have to get up at 7am, as I will feel sick for the start of the day.

Like I said, there are genetic factors suspected in the circadian cycle. Then some psychological factors are also considered such are logical versus creative.

Honesty, the 8 to 5 shift is extremely out dated, along with schooling (high school), is extremely dated and mostly from the pre-industrial era.
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Have you figured out how much sleep you need every night?
 
If you don't shower, that's fine and dandy. But for the love of god and my nostrils, wear some damn deodorant to cover that stank.
 
I also often shower at night because I work in a kitchen, and all summer it's pushing 145F in there. I shower when I get home from work, and then usually end up staying up until 3, and then waking up at 11 to go to work at 12 again :lol:

There's no point to shower in the morning if I'm just going to sweat all day in a hot kitchen and get covered in food grease.
 
You'd NEED to take at least two showers living here, since it averages 30 degrees, and the humidity probably averages above 70% :grumpy:

As for me, I have to wake up at 5:45am to go to school, so the morning shower helps to wake me up. Then one in the afternoon one hour before jogging, and another one right before sleep.
 
I'm a morning shower person too. I'm a night owl and i'll go to bed when i'm tired and not before hand. If i shower at night, which i will do if i've done something that makes me sweaty that afternoon/evening, it generally wakes me up which means i'm unlikely to drop straight off.

A shower in the morning means two things. A) it helps wake me up. B) i spend my working day, where most of the time i'm in the close company of colleagues and clients, smelling at my freshest.

I don't care about going to bed at my 'most dirtiest' since i'll spend that time mostly asleep and also my bed sheets are washed frequently.
 
Makes me get out of bed earlier, otherwise I'll sleep another 2 hours more. Also simply makes me feel cleaner and my hair looks... acceptable :lol:
 
MarinaDiamandis
My girlfriend will sometimes shower up to four or five times in a single day and each shower will last over half an hour. Do all women do this? I think mine might be broken.
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Only two and a half hours in the shower? Your girlfriend is as quick in the shower as
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is on the running track!

I shower in the morning for a combination of reason 1* and the waking me up and sometimes reason 2 if I have the time. (I need at least 5 hours)
*although I am not a newly hatched chicken
 
I can break a sweat at night while sleeping in a room approaching 5C air temperature.

My metabolism at night is just unreal, my girlfriend claims I can warm a whole room. :odd:
 
I do have a shower in the evening to wash off my stink of the day, but because I have thin hair I wake up looking like a tramp. So I have a shower in the morning to refresh and revitalise my hair and body.

Because I'm worth it :sly:
 
I used to shower at night.

There were several problems with that, chief of which is that it would have the opposite effect of waking me up at the time that I showered (usually 9 pm or so) - I would almost always nearly fall asleep in the shower. The other thing, and the main reason why I switched to showering in the mornings, is because if I showered at night, all the cleanliness as a result of the shower would be gone by the time I woke up (I move around a lot when I sleep), so I would smell bad for the rest of the day. I think besides waking them up, that's the main reason people shower in the morning - so they won't drive people away with their no-longer-clean body's odors.

I'm sure that if I ever get to the point where I share the bed with a significant other every night, I may switch back to showering at night, but I see no reason why anyone who sleeps alone would want to do so. Be clean and smell good for actual people or your walls and bed? Hmm...
 
I woke up in a pool of sweat this morning. Must have been around 38 last night. I had to shower this morning before work!
 
I'm ecstatic that I was born with good genes. Unless I'm working REALLY hard, even after a light sweat I don't stink. Yay me.

LOL @ people saying you are dirty when you wake up after taking a shower at night. You might be, but you are dirtier if you don't. And you're sleeping in that all night. :sick:
 
R1600Turbo
LOL @ people saying you are dirty when you wake up after taking a shower at night. You might be, but you are dirtier if you don't. And you're sleeping in that all night. :sick:
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Dirty or not, I did not enjoy the odor eminating from myself throughout the day after I took a shower at night, and there is no unpleasant smell after I shower in the morning. Plain and simple.
 
I shower at night!
On the days that I am lazy, for no apparent reason, and do not feel like showering I wash my hands, arms, face. I think those are the only areas that are exposed to all the filth in the world. Unless you should walk naked your clothes should cover up. 👍
It is a must I shower every Tuesday at night, no exceptions as I play soccer.
I am a night person and a morning person! :sly: once I'm up, I am up! do not need shower to wake me up and can be up 'till sunrise with no problems.
On hot days, I do shower in the morning or if I have an important early meeting or wanna look nice. I also shower before any "important" event even if I have already showered in the morning and have not done anything all day.
 
R1600Turbo
LOL @ people saying you are dirty when you wake up after taking a shower at night. You might be, but you are dirtier if you don't. And you're sleeping in that all night. :sick:
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WHich is why you shower before and after bed.
 

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