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For those of us who are naturally nocturnal but work day shifts I'm wondering if we're in the same risk profile by simply not respecting our weird but establish
by Daishiman 5y ago
For those of us who are naturally nocturnal but work day shifts I'm wondering if we're in the same risk profile by simply not respecting our weird but established circadian rhythms.
I naturally wake up at 11AM - 12 PM and have difficulty going to sleep before 3 AM. Having to wake up at 6:30 daily would be a comparable torture.
- superkuh 5y agoOr maybe it has nothing to do with circadian rhythms and all people are just significantly worse at driving when there is no light to see (at night).
- 29083011397778 5y agoI wouldn't necessarily assume so, and neither does TFA: >According to researchers at the University of Missouri, people who develop this condition are also three times more likely to be involved in a vehicle accident. They don't mention lack of light, but instead associate the higher crash rate with sleep disorders brought on by consistently working graveyard shifts.
- superkuh 5y agoWhat times of day are consistently night shift people going to be driving? Mostly night time. It's inseparable unless explicitly controlled for which it sounds like they didn't.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoI am one of those people (and, also, coincidentally, typing this at 3:07 AM local time). There was a period of time in which I was forced by circumstances to go to bed every night at 10 PM (by which, I mean lights out, in bed, ready to fall asleep), and wake up at 6 AM. I did not like it, but, eventually my body adapted to it to the point where when 10 PM rolled around, I would be tired, and automatically wake up at 6 AM. This all went straight to hell when I ended up working a very long shift one day that extended well past my 10 AM working time. From then on, I was going to sleep more like 12-1AM and waking up at 9-10 AM.