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These hours usually include stand-by time. If you work in a job like this, with time you usually learn to fall asleep very quickly, whenever, wherever. This wil
by deng 3y ago
These hours usually include stand-by time. If you work in a job like this, with time you usually learn to fall asleep very quickly, whenever, wherever. This will keep you at least functioning to some degree. You will miss a lot of slow-wave sleep compared to people with a normal routine, and that surely is one of the reasons people in these kind of jobs often struggle with mental health.
- nairboon 3y ago> with time you usually learn to fall asleep very quickly Can that really be learned or is that a sign of a serious circadian rhythm dysfunction? A healthy human body doesn't just sleep at a moment's notice, that only works when the clock is broken.
- deng 3y agoThis can definitely be learned in a methodical way, this is very common in the military, for instance. Of course, this will usually not work when you are wide awake and not sleepy at all, but in that case it is also not needed. So you are not wrong: this is for times when you simply cannot have a normal sleep schedule, for instance during a military operation or while doing a multi-day shift at the hospital, where you are practically always sleep-deprived. In the military, this is methodically trained specifically for these situations, in a civilian setting it will often simply develop naturally, out of necessity.
- brianwawok 3y agoMany new parents develop this strategy, which thankfully goes away in about 2 years.