Midnight selves

[ccarmo]

Could you please indicate a synonym for the expression "midnight selves"?
Thank you!
Cmp

[JSmiley]

If, at midnight, you are alone, private, and without an outside observer, then 'midnight self' may mean 'true self' or it may mean 'private self' or, because it is such a dark hour, it may mean 'the dark (unsavoury) part of one's self'

This is the kind of poetic license that really needs a context to be properly understood.

Jesse

[ccarmo]

Thank you Jesse for your help, it's quite clear now.
Regards
Cmp

[BobK]

Another possibility to add to the ones Jesse's mentioned involves a secret set-up or arrangement of some kind: their 'midnight selves' could be 'the roles they adopt at midnight'. There could also be a reference to the fairy tale Cinderella (in which various magical things disappear at midnight) - in this sense 'their midnight selves' could mean 'the way people really are, without the intervention of any benign influence'.

b

[JSmiley]

Yes, it maybe implies that people are completly different people than you expect them to be if you meet them at night.

She was uptight at the office but a club dancing demon in her midnight self.

hard to use but i think that ive heard it used this way before.

Regards, and thanks Bob