Why artists prefer to sleep in?

Artists are usually associated with sleeping in – or that’s what I associate them with anyway. This association may have caused some people to think of artists as lazy, since they don’t even bother dragging themselves out of bed, until late into the afternoon.

But I think there might be more behind this sleeping in phenomenon than just common laziness, after all would you call a person who spends all their free time painting, writing, or composing a musical piece as lazy? I doubt not.

I believe that the reason why so many artists prefer to sleep in is because they spend their nights and late evenings creating art. After all the night offers a certain kind of safe haven, where there are less distractions than during the day, and no other people hassling about with their meager little business.

During the night the artiste can afford to be themselves, since there isn’t criticizing audience around preventing them from acting as they like. An author may for example try out his newly written dialogue out loud to see if it sounds the way he wanted it to as he was writing it.

Sleeping in has been seen as a faulty faculty to posses, one that is often connected with bohemians and other unconventional types. But that is due to people only thinking of sleeping in as a symptom of laziness and not seeing the amount of creative work that was accomplished during the night.