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> "There is only one formula for healthy and refreshing sleep: Go to sleep only when you are very tired. Not earlier. Not later. Wake up naturally without an al
by globular-toast 3y ago
> "There is only one formula for healthy and refreshing sleep: Go to sleep only when you are very tired. Not earlier. Not later. Wake up naturally without an alarm clock."
I did that for years when I was younger. For me that meant a longer-than-24-hour day which quickly led to being completely nocturnal. Those were dark days, literally and figuratively. I can distinctly remember my first "day" without daylight. It wasn't a nice feeling. I would usually try to correct it when that happened which was like having a 12 hour jet lag.
- tstrimple 3y agoWhenever I let my schedule go I usually end up in a similar situation. It almost feels like my body would prefer a 19 hour wake period with 7 hours of sleep which would keep my sleep wake cycle rotating throughout a 24 hour period. Not very conducive to working in a business setting with meetings and such.
- intelVISA 3y agoI'm jealous of people who are aligned to the magic 24hr sleep cycle, for me my days feel better as 20hrs awake 10hrs asleep vs traditional 16:8.
- ClimaxGravely 3y agoAbsolutely. I often fantasize what a different length day might be like.
- throwawaytemp29 3y agoMe too. I had a 26 hour schedule for like a month once. It seems fine til it isn’t.
- earthling8118 3y agoI did this once. It was great. I still think of it and wish I could go back. Yes, it causes issues within our society. That's the only thing keeping me from it and I bemoan this on a daily basis. If we were more flexible I could thrive.
- globular-toast 3y agoFor me it wasn't just about society. In the UK in the winter we only have 6 hours of daylight. So I would be sleeping through that for a week and basically living in a dark world. Not only is it thoroughly limiting as there's so much you can only do in daylight, it just seemed really "wrong" and caused depression to set in very quickly.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoDo you experiment with light at all? I feel like light is an important mediating nexus between depression and lifestyle that is horrificially underexamined and unexplored
- Obscurity4340 3y agoI feel like if you ensure you get the same blast of waking light every day it doesn't really matter what you do, your appetite for sleep and your circ will ensure you crash when that needs to happen and you will entrain yourself to more or less arise at basically the same timeframe