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I experimented with this though college. I found the idea that you could have extra months in your year amazing. But I could never stick with it for more than a

I experimented with this though college. I found the idea that you could have extra months in your year amazing. But I could never stick with it for more than a couple days at a time. It was primarily this that kept kicking me off: "I also have a theory about just being conscience that long, you start to lose a sense of time there is no finality just this never ending loop of waking up and sleeping" I really decided I needed significant time sleeping to reset my brain. Otherwise it did just feel like a single extended consciousness. And if you believe John Medina in Brain Rules (http://www.brainrules.net/ http://www.brainrules.net/) sleep is what solidifies memory. Which missing that isn't so helpful to a college student.

googletron 15y ago
I couldn't agree more!
freehunter 15y ago
I never tried any unusual sleep schedule, but I have worked third shift while trying to keep a social life. It does get hard, even on a third shift schedule that millions of normal people deal with, to tell the days apart. When the day switches in the middle of your work shift, when it's light out all "night", even a normal third shift schedule makes the days run together. I did it for a year, and not a single day went by when it didn't feel like I took a short nap through the day then worked the rest of the time. Even when I got 8 hours of sleep. I started drinking. I started smoking. I got short with my friends. I had to quit, because when there are no "days", life became meaningless to me. It was just one long night that lasted for a year. Things that happened ten minutes ago went into my memory as happening yesterday. When I quit my job and went back to sleeping normal, I stopped my self destructive habits literally overnight. Millions of normal healthy people do it every day. But beware of forcing yourself into sleep schedules that you are not mentally prepared to handle. Know when to throw in the towel.
- calloc 15y ago
  My sleep schedule naturally is all over the board, that is just the way my body is designed, I can't help it, and I have found my days running together in some sort of glob, like there is nothing in between. To me it is a weird sensation, but being a work-aholic I hardly noticed it till I started being off by a day or two and my boss caught me on it. I started making sure to take the weekends off and it has slowly corrected itself, now I take the weekends off and do what I want to do not work and it is absolutely fantastic.

googletron 15y ago

I couldn't agree more!

freehunter 15y ago

I never tried any unusual sleep schedule, but I have worked third shift while trying to keep a social life. It does get hard, even on a third shift schedule that millions of normal people deal with, to tell the days apart. When the day switches in the middle of your work shift, when it's light out all "night", even a normal third shift schedule makes the days run together. I did it for a year, and not a single day went by when it didn't feel like I took a short nap through the day then worked the rest of the time. Even when I got 8 hours of sleep. I started drinking. I started smoking. I got short with my friends. I had to quit, because when there are no "days", life became meaningless to me. It was just one long night that lasted for a year. Things that happened ten minutes ago went into my memory as happening yesterday. When I quit my job and went back to sleeping normal, I stopped my self destructive habits literally overnight. Millions of normal healthy people do it every day. But beware of forcing yourself into sleep schedules that you are not mentally prepared to handle. Know when to throw in the towel.

calloc 15y ago
My sleep schedule naturally is all over the board, that is just the way my body is designed, I can't help it, and I have found my days running together in some sort of glob, like there is nothing in between. To me it is a weird sensation, but being a work-aholic I hardly noticed it till I started being off by a day or two and my boss caught me on it. I started making sure to take the weekends off and it has slowly corrected itself, now I take the weekends off and do what I want to do not work and it is absolutely fantastic.