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I once casually mentioned that I wished a day was 25 hours long to my family doctor and he gave me a lecture on how the majority of population does in fact have
by eps 6y ago
I once casually mentioned that I wished a day was 25 hours long to my family doctor and he gave me a lecture on how the majority of population does in fact have a sleep cycle of at least 25 hours.
That is, if I go to bed at 23:00, wake up on my own, then I will be able to fall asleep only at midnight. The only "fix" for this drift is to under-sleep each day, but that all but guarantees shitty and groggy first two hours. I really hate this, it's such a nuisance.
The good news is that there is apparently a lot of us who are his way. Yaaay.
- dijksterhuis 6y agoSeems Harvard scientists debunked this idea back in 1999? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/1999/07/human-biological-clock-set-back-an-hour/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/1999/07/human-biologi...
- eps 6y agoI don't know what they debunked, but I do know that if I follow my natural sleeping rhythm, the wake-up time keeps advancing by an hour a day. If I wake up an hour earlier to compensate for this, it's really hard and unpleasant to do and I feel like shit afterwards. So what I converged to is sleeping 2 hours less on weekdays and then sleep in on the weekends. This is marginally better, but still Fridays aren't very nice.