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I have a 26-hour circadian sleep-rhythm, and so each night I go to bed 2 hours later than the night before. It made school years absolutely insufferable, but n

I have a 26-hour circadian sleep-rhythm, and so each night I go to bed 2 hours later than the night before. It made school years absolutely insufferable, but now I have a job where I can set my own hours and I just go with it. I'm not able to do certain things like shop during my "awake during the night" phase, but it usually works out. I'm not sure if I have much to contribute other than "me too". I can confirm though that in my experience, drugs, routines, etc just don't work for me.

einhverfr 15y ago
I was also going to note that I have worked shifts that are hard on sleep. When working an overnight shift, for example, I found it impossible to sleep more htan 4 hours per day (day because you get to sleep maybe 8am). The funny thing is the impairment isn't linear throughout the day. There are times when it is really bad (1-3am) and times when it is pretty good (dawn, during the daylight hours etc). In general the only times I found myself impaired was at work. I have talked to people who worked in other industry overnight and their experience was the same. As far as I can tell, without tremendous amounts of caffeine, the brain seems to go partway to sleep, able to recover from approx. half of the outstanding sleep debt per day. Part of the problem is the way in which we use caffeine to compensate.
espinchi 15y ago
How can you measure how long your circadian sleep cycle is?
- SquareWheel 15y ago
  The time you wake up one day, to the time you wake up the next, averaged out over a long period of time. For most people it's right around 24 hours, as it should be. Circadian technically means every 24 hours, so a better word may have been just "body clock": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Criteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Criteria

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I have a 26-hour circadian sleep-rhythm, and so each night I go to bed 2 hours later than the night before. It made school years absolutely insufferable, but n

by SquareWheel 15y ago

einhverfr 15y ago
I was also going to note that I have worked shifts that are hard on sleep. When working an overnight shift, for example, I found it impossible to sleep more htan 4 hours per day (day because you get to sleep maybe 8am). The funny thing is the impairment isn't linear throughout the day. There are times when it is really bad (1-3am) and times when it is pretty good (dawn, during the daylight hours etc). In general the only times I found myself impaired was at work. I have talked to people who worked in other industry overnight and their experience was the same. As far as I can tell, without tremendous amounts of caffeine, the brain seems to go partway to sleep, able to recover from approx. half of the outstanding sleep debt per day. Part of the problem is the way in which we use caffeine to compensate.
espinchi 15y ago
How can you measure how long your circadian sleep cycle is?
- SquareWheel 15y ago
  The time you wake up one day, to the time you wake up the next, averaged out over a long period of time. For most people it's right around 24 hours, as it should be. Circadian technically means every 24 hours, so a better word may have been just "body clock": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Criteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Criteria