It seems that doctors find that being a night owl is completely unacceptable. True or not?
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Without knowing exactly what information you’re getting it’s hard to answer the question.
Some people have great difficulty sleeping during the day. Between the light and the noise, some people just can’t get good sleep. There’s also the problem with nothing is open during a night worker’s “day” so in order to interact with most of the rest of the world they have to dig into their normal sleep time. I also know from my time working an overnight schedule that people have zero respect for the fact that it’s your midnight and will think nothing of bothering you in the middle of the day when you’re just lazing about anyway – and that’s for the people who actually know! There’s all kinds of people who will bother you at ‘midnight’ because that’s when they’re legally permitted to, like door-to-door solicitation, maintenance requests if you live in an apartment, things like that. And if you have roommates that aren’t on the same schedule as you that just exacerbates the problem.
I haven’t seen the numbers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some degree of sleep deprivation was endemic to the overnight worker demographic. And sleep deprivation is incredibly bad for you.
There may be other health effects which are unique to overnighters, but I bet that’s the big one.
And one *can* sleep during the day. Some are just better at it than others. I have no problems getting a full nights sleep during the day, even without taking extra effort to go full blackout. The noise doesn’t bother me, the light doesn’t bother me. I can sleep anywhere anytime, much to my wife’s dismay.
I had a friend who couldn’t sleep a wink if there was any natural light *at all,* even a single ray poking through the foil he put up was enough to wake him up.
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