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I simply am not WIRED to wake up at 6 am and go to bed at around 9 o clock. I can't do it. I am not sleepy at 9 or 10 at night, but if it's the morning and I have to sit in front of a computer screen for several hours one can be sure that I am dozing off. Coffee is no longer working, it is only making my heart beat too fast and trying to go to bed when I should doesn't work either because I simply am not sleepy. Like right now. Posts: 9942 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Or I could become a professional writer and write until 3am and sleep happily till 11. If I can ever get this novel done and if people want to read such a thing...
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My take on it is that we are all perpetually jet lagged. Considering the fact that I go to be around 4 AM and get up at noon, I figure I'm about 5 hours behind. Then I would be going to bed at 11 and getting up at 7. So *does the math* that would mean that I should be in England right now. I figure it's as good an excuse as any for wanting to live in England. Posts: 1789 | Registered: Jul 2003
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I used to work 10:30 PM to 7:00 AM That was a great schedule for me. Now I'm on a more second-shift schedule, which is still good because I can sleep till around noon if I want to, but overall it's a lot less convenient.
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My schedule right now is normalish (3pm-10pm mon-fri), considering, and i go to bed anywhere from 2-4am. but when i actually start working it starts going from day shift for 6 days and a break and then night shift for 6 days and then break, and it never ends. my internal clock is going to be destroyed.
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Hmmm... I work 4:30 am to 12:30 pm. I love it... I've been all kinds of people (night person, day person, needs-eight-hours-or-she-dies person) and I think sleep just takes determination and discipline! And perhaps a teaspoon of Nyquil here and there.
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I'm living on Japan time. I was up at 1 am trying to make myself stop reading Harry Potter 5 and listening to Sia long enough to just go to sleep! But when it gets 1 in the afternoon I'll be nodding off.
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My son has the same sleep cycle as you, syn - he is NOT a morning person.
But luckily he is in a job where he works 3 PM to midnight, then he usually stays up until 3 AM winding down after work, then sleeps until nearly noon.
His only problem is when he comes home on weekends, because at my house, he can't stay up until 3 AM (without bothering those of us trying to sleep) so he tries to shift his schedule back, in order to get up for 9 AM church.
Maybe you can find something second shift. The up side for people like that -- second shift also usually pays a shift differential of MORE money per hour than first shift.
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Really I'm not sure how much hardwired biology there is to this sort of thing. I've felt precisely the same way for months at a time before, Synesthesia, when in fact I had merely altered my own sleep cycle by either staying up later or going to bed earlier.
This trend usually cycles for me to staying up a half-hour later or so every few nights, and that time being my new earliest bedtime. Eventually I'm going to bed at 4:00am and having to be up at 8:00am or earlier.
Then I yank the reins in by about four or five hours, and once again I am a "morning person".
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I'm pretty much wired to sleep around 3 or 4 and rise at noon. I can alter that with work, but if I allow myself to revert to what my body wants, that's it.
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I am that way, too. Since I was a kid. I am just not sleepy (unless seriously sleep deprived) in the middle of the night. And I have to distract myself to sleep - lying in bed in a dark room only makes it worse.
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I find I generally like to be awake for about 18 hours and then sleep for 9. This adds up to a total sleep/wake cycle of 27 hours/day, which unfortunately, does not match the rotation of the planet...
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