Sleeping Habits: Daytime Sleep and Nighttime Awake?

[Entropy]

I've been going to sleep increasingly later and later over the past week, last night I just went to sleep at 7 in the morning and woke up at 5:30 in the afternoon. For some reason I like sleeping during the daytime and like being up at night. Anyone else fell this way?

 

[Danger]

I've always been nocturnal by nature, but for the past few years I've been in jobs where I couldn't be. I still revert on Sundays if I'm not exhausted from the rest of the week.

 

[Entropy]

Yeah, I have most of my classes in the morning and right when I get home around noon I go right back to bed until diner, or should I say breakfast.

 

[JasonRox]

No way!

I've been staying up later and later the past week too. I told myself not to go to bed later than 4am though. It used to be like 10-11pm.

I like it so much more. I'm also more productive doing work/homework.

The difference is that I wake up around 10am, and go back to bed at 5-9pm. I get my 8 hours everyday still.

I'm changing it up a bit, so it fits my into exam schedule, but next term during school I'm going back to this schedule.

 

[mattmns]

I usually go to bed at 11-12 at night and wake up at 7am.

 

[Jelfish]

I feel like I naturally start getting sleepy at dawn, so if I'm not careful, a few days of sleep freedom will have me going to sleep at 6-7am and waking at around 3pm.

 

[hypatia]

In bed by 12 to 1 am up at 5:30, but there's a cat nap around 4 if I can manage it.

 

[Integral]

On nonworking nights I stay up as late as I can, usually 2 to 4am, then I sleep as late as I can, usually 9am -noon). On working nights I get to bed by 8am and up between noon and 2:30pm.

 

[Evo]

I am naturally nocturnal. I'd sleep all day and stay up all night if I had my way. I'm much more creative at night, I think clearer at night.

I hate happy, peppy morning people. Someone needs to just smack those people.

 

[Archon]

Ha! Sleep is for the weak!

I find that my days seem longer if I don't sleep at all. And longer...and longer...and longer...I really can't explain it. It just seems to work that way.

 

[cronxeh]

Yeaah.. whoever's been around when I used to go sleepless for 3-5 days at a time remembers how cranky I got
Recently the only reason why I'd stay up is because I had a craving to listen to more and more and more.. and more.. and more.. and more.. and.. more.. and more.. and more music
I go to sleep around 2. Wake up around 8. And that's how I do
(Definition of around = +/- 15 minutes)

 

[Evo]

Ha! Sleep is for the weak!
I find that my days seem longer if I don't sleep at all. And longer...and longer...and longer...I really can't explain it. It just seems to work that way.

I believe that's referred to as "free running", at least it was years ago. They did studies where they put a person in a room totally shut off from outside stimulus, no clocks, no way to keep track of time. They found that without knowing the time or when it was light or dark that people tended to stay awake for longer and longer periods, with their days and nights becoming switched. People with no idea of "when" they should sleep would stay awake late at night and sleep during the day. That is a natural sleep pattern. What is currently acceptable (sleep at night wake up early) is not natural.

 

[Astronuc]

I hate happy, peppy morning people. Someone needs to just smack those people.

Morning would be better - if it came later in the day.

 

[tribdog]

I think they went to a 28 hour day cycle. Don't know where I heard that though.

 

[JasonRox]

I'd still recommend getting atleast 7 hours of sleep for those who don't get it.

 

[Evo]

I think they went to a 28 hour day cycle. Don't know where I heard that though.

That sounds right.

 

[tribdog]

of course, I said it.

 

[Gale]

i sleep different hours every night basically. and i nap sometimes, and different times every day i nap. i have classes but they rarely effect how i sleep. i'll sleep through them when i want a lot of the time. I'm also a really light sleeper. but i do dream a lot. i wake up all the time during the night though. some nights i don't get to bed until well after sun up, and with it being winter now, there have been many days where i haven't really seen the sun.

 

[Tide]

Sleeping habits?

Define sleep. It's an unfamiliar concept. :)

 

[Entropy]

6:50 am right now, been watching infomercials all morning. I'm going for 9 am so I can get breakfast, then I'm going to bed.

 

[Entropy]

Damnit, and they better have pancakes. God help them if they aren't serving pancakes!

 

[JasonRox]

Staying late watching infomercials is just stupid. Find something better to do with your time.

 

[Gale]

Staying late watching infomercials is just stupid. Find something better to do with your time.

not if he's waiting up for pancakes! the only time i get breakfast is when i stay up all night for it.

 

[JCCol]

For me it really depends. When i have time I will stay up as long as i can for because i can't fall asleep knowing i could have stayed up. But normally I get around 4 or 5 hours of sleep. Yep i love the night.

 

[Entropy]

They didn't have pancakes... I'm sad.

Staying late watching infomercials is just stupid. Find something better to do with your time.

What else can you do at 5 in the morning other than post here and watch infomercials?

 

[Gale]

i like some infomercials anyway. Jasonrox doesn't know how cool they can be! i love that bullet blender. its amazing all the different dishes it can cook up! FROM SCRATCH WOO! and those knives ones where they cut cans. got to admit that's pretty cool. Plus, that new flashlight one, where they use faraday's laws and blah blah, and you never need batteries! amazing!

(yes, I've stayed up many nights watching informercials... its either those or the dating shows... hehe... man i love those too...)

 

[Moonbear]

I believe that's referred to as "free running", at least it was years ago. They did studies where they put a person in a room totally shut off from outside stimulus, no clocks, no way to keep track of time. They found that without knowing the time or when it was light or dark that people tended to stay awake for longer and longer periods, with their days and nights becoming switched. People with no idea of "when" they should sleep would stay awake late at night and sleep during the day. That is a natural sleep pattern. What is currently acceptable (sleep at night wake up early) is not natural.

It is called a free-running rhythm, but they don't actually stay awake longer and longer, just slightly longer than 24 hours so they keep going to sleep later and waking up later. It's not 28 hours, as tribdog stated, more like something between 23 and 25 hour days.

Unfortunately, it is natural to wake up in the morning and sleep at night. What's not natural is waking up before the sun comes up in the morning. Daylight is supposed to keep our daily rhythm synchronized to the environment around us. Thus, I think I should only have to be awake 8 hours a day in the winter.

 

[Evo]

It's not 28 hours, as tribdog stated, more like something between 23 and 25 hour days.

I actually found it last night, 25.3 hours, I just didn't want to hurt tribdog's feelings.

Unfortunately, it is natural to wake up in the morning and sleep at night.

You will NEVER convince me of this. Humans altered their normal sleep patterns in order to take advantage of sunlight in the times before artificial lighting, there is no longer any reason for it.

Yeah, yeah, I've read all the stuff about being in sync with the artificially made up calendar days. Sleep at night, work during the daylight. BAH HUMBUG! Early morning lemmings.

Night dwellers unite!

 

[cronxeh]

I actually found it last night, 25.3 hours, I just didn't want to hurt tribdog's feelings.
You will NEVER convince me of this. Humans altered their normal sleep patterns in order to take advantage of sunlight in the times before artificial lighting, there is no longer any reason for it.
Yeah, yeah, I've read all the stuff about being in sync with the artificially made up calendar days. Sleep at night, work during the daylight. BAH HUMBUG! Early morning lemmings.
Night dwellers unite!

Evo just needs a man in her life that also happens to work 9-5

and get beee-zaay 10-12

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death, as Nas puts it.

 

[mattmns]

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death, as Nas puts it.

Illmatic, I can't think of the actual song though, right on Greg!

edit... It ain't hard to tell?

edit2... nope, NY State of mind

 

[Moonbear]

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death, as Nas puts it.

"I'll live while I'm alive and sleep when I'm dead." By some rock group.

I was up at 4 AM today, got a nap between 8:30 and 11 AM, and don't see another break for a nap until sometime tomorrow afternoon. Plus, it's snowing like mad, so I'm scared the roads are going to become too icy to get done everything I need to be doing (I need to drive samples back from the farm every 4 hours...at least the person coming out for the 1 AM and 3 AM samples has 4WD, so I can ask him to bring the samples up to the lab when he's done, but I still need to get there by 5 AM for the next shift!...my sheep aren't cooperating and made me start early...tonight I was supposed to be snuggled in bed early to rest up for the remainder of the week. ).

Uh, yeah, I get a bit cranky when I'm tired. (Zooby's going to tell me I'm humorless. )

 

[moose]

School forces me to wake up at 5:30am everyday. Sucks, because I usually don't feel like starting homework until around 7pm everyday, and then end up going to sleep anywhere between 11pm and 1am. This of course changes when tests are coming up, or when it's now (grr). Yesterday was Saturday and I was taking the ACT test, which started at 8 in the morning, so I had to wake up early :(

I don't get enough sleep though. I would love to have school start at 9am and end at 5pm. During the summer however, I tend to go to sleep about an hour later everyday, sleeping 10 hours daily. Except I started limiting myself to going to sleep at around 3 or 4 AM. Who knew that in the middle of the night, the best cspan online streaming stuff is on? Or different talkshows with scientists..!

 

[JCCol]

Same with me, school forces me up at 6 AM and I like to go to sleep at around 12 to 2 AM becuase I like to watch Adult Swim