My body is very much driven by the sun, which means in the winter I don’t really want to wake up until nearly 9. In the summer I’ll get up at 5-6 AM.
I hate that work is rigidly scheduled around arbitrary times.
This is why I sleep with something over my eyes many nights. Working rotating shifts, I have to be able to disregard daylight and darkness patterns.
Prepare for getting up early by staying up all night a couple of times in a row. Sleeping early will be easier and waking up early will seem natural.
I work crazy shifts in all hours and it’s impossible to go backwards. Go forward.
So you recommend staying awake for 48+ hours just to adjust to waking up a few hours earlier? Sounds like a great way of getting a heart attack.
I should have been more specific and/or not assumed people wouldn’t take me quite so literally. Just staying up until the following time you need to go to bed will do it. Or catch a power nap but don’t let yourself have a good long sleep until you can do it at an appropriate time. Within a couple of days you’ll be ready to sleep at the right time.
I have stayed up a little over 72 hours once, I do not recommend. I slept a little over 24 hours straight at the end of it. But I got an A- on that term paper.
Yeah, We used to work festivals where we’d do actual 20 hour days Saturday to Monday and get drink and high for the other four hours - by Monday morning takedown the tiredness would be by far the strongest drug
One time I had a conversation with my friend about how weird it was watching yourself load a truck, then it hit me that we couldn’t be watching ourselves from outside the truck and realized suddenly we were inside doing the work. We were both totally out of it so we went to take a break and stood at the back of the truck but when I looked in we were still working and it was the exact situation I’d been seeing before.
No idea the real order of events but my perception of time was messed up beyond anything I’ve experienced, if I lived in a less scientific time I’d 100% belive I’d time travelled or done weird magic. I assume the events must have been muddled together after or something but it felt so real.
This sorta worked for me in my teens and early twenties, but not anymore. Now I get so out of whack from just one night up that I’m unable to concentrate on anything at all and just sit and scroll random websites the whole day without actually taking anything in, then I fall asleep at 9pm and sleep till 2pm the next day and feel like absolute shit the next couple of days.
Yeah when you’re that tired you have to utilize alarms to keep yourself from oversleeping into the wrong time. If I was up all night and I know I’m going to fall asleep at some point I set an alarm for every 2 or 3 hours so I can still be awake after and be ready to go to sleep at the next appropriate “bedtime”.
Had to get surgery on October to fix a severely broken ankle. My sleep schedule was absolute dog shit for months because I would stay up all night watching weird vids to distract from the pain I was in. It was the worst.
Man I remember for like a month after my motorcycle accident I didn’t so much as sleep as randomly pass out sitting up throughout the day. That was a nightmare of a sleep schedule. Especially waking up and having to get upright to go pee.
Fun fact: Camping is a great way to reset your circadian rhythm.
Doesn’t work in the winter if you’re in the northern part of the world, since the sun doesn’t come up until 9 am.
Or in even norther part of the world in summer where that bright bastard starts blasting at 4 in the morning.
If your body clock leans towards staying up at night I have some very bad news - you’re going to spend a lot of your life tired and drained!
Main reason that I work nights. If only society adopted my schedule, I’d have it made