One CM reader sides with Mr. Chattering in believing that morning people are born, not made. In fact, Rebecca T. (who ruminates on all kinds of smart things here) says true night people have trouble adjusting in a world that equates productivity and well-being with bouncing out of bed before 7 a.m.:

Actually, many people are born night people and it runs in families. If you look up “delayed sleep onset disorder” you can find information about it (although in fairness, it’s not actually a disorder, just a scheduling issue)… Being wired as a night person is a big enough struggle in our early-to-rise world without having our supposed spiritual inferiority heaped on us as well. Throughout my life, I have been most likely to encounter God in intense ways in the quiet, dark blanket of night, while morning is just a fog that does nothing but give my spirit one more thing to struggle with. This is how God made me and I refuse to accept that He made me inferior just because my sleep-wake cycle doesn’t have me up at the crack of dawn!