How much do you sleep?
- Thread starter Deepak
- Start date
During my extensive research I've found that going backwards is alot harder than to just stay up longer and longer. Unfortunately, I've also noticed that it's pretty damn hard to stop at the mark. If you try to stay up for say 3 hours longer every day untill you're close to the desired schedule, there's a high risk of being unable to stop and you'll just keep on going and going, which sucks quite alot of Kong genitalia.
Edit: I guess that's a no to your question.
Edit: I guess that's a no to your question.
Last edited by a moderator:
MuFu said:
The only thing that works for me is to stay awake until it's 8 hours before I'm supposed to get up. Which means doing a 30 hour stint or so... unfortunately, yes, it does fuck you up for a couple of days.
But for me, not as much as just setting the clock and sleep for just 2-4 hours. That does me in for an entire week. Seriously they could do a study on me or something, it seems my biorythm is set on a 26 hour day or something. I just can't stay on a regular daily sleeping cycle. If I'm supposed to keep a regular time every morning I invariably get only 6h/night during the week and then I'm a goddamn zombie .
MPI said:
Actually, I recall this study conducted on this and shown on TV (this was quite a while ago, maybe 1995) and it showed that the average person has 25-hour internal clock.
They put people into rooms, something like a cross between a hospital and a hotel. They were given things so they had something to do, but they didn't have clocks and they were deprived of sunlight (perhaps a major flaw in the experiment). No TV programs that revealed that actual time (news, etc). Basically, they had no idea what time it was. They had electric light and they could flip this on as they wished. I don't remember all the details, but the result was that, on average, they would push one our per day after adjusting to this new lifestyle of not knowing what time it was.
This is on average, but I am sure there are more extreme cases in both directions. However, light is a very important factor and sunlight is the main provider and this is not under our control.
arjan de lumens
Veteran
Not really sure how much I sleep normally, I think about 8 to 10 hours, but sometimes considerably more. Unless there are important resons otherwise I tend to have somewhat disorganized sleeping patterns not really tied to anything close to a ~24-hour rhythm or night/day, with the somewhat odd result that when I e.g. travel back and forth between Europe and USA, I do not experience jet-lag. At least I haven't yet.
digitalwanderer
Legend
Yeah, I used to have to switch sleeping patterns a lot doing shift work and it just f-ing sucks. The best way I found was to just not sleep the day of transition and then I'd be so wiped passing out whenever the opportunity allowed was easy.MuFu said:
