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Your sleep patterns: what are they like? (pg. 2)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
usually i don't go to sleep before 3-4am and i wake up around 10-11am :(
awww Lira and i are bros! |
*hi five* |
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| butterfly |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I have been reading about the influence of industrialization and man-made lighting on sleep patterns. Pretty much everyone on earth lacked affordable artificial light before the 19th century or so, which meant that sleep patterns were a lot different than in our time, since people had no other option but to spend a lot of time in the dark. A common sleeping pattern in medieval Europe was to sleep for a few hours, have a substantial waking period, then sleep until it was light out or nearly so. The two segments of rest were called "first sleep" and "second sleep" in English, and other European languages have analogous phrases.
In modern times, of course, we are able to choose our sleep and wake times with reference to when other people will be up, or when we have to be at work, rather than in accord with sunrise and sunset. In this book the author notes how in many modern countries eight straight hours of sleep is considered the norm, perhaps even the biologically "appropriate" thing to do, something that people ought to be treated for if they fail to achieve it, when in fact it is much more common historically and perhaps even a bit more natural to wake up during the night. Our current sleep pattern is just a concession to the modern drive for efficiency: we sleep all in one stretch, or perhaps in one large stretch with a small nap in the afternoon, because it lets us enlarge our portion of waking productive time. And there are even efforts to figure out how people can do with even less sleep for the sake of being able to fit more in a day, as with drugs like modafinil.
Warren also writes about an experiment in which people volunteered to use no artificial light at night for a month. They basically returned to the "ancestral" sleep pattern after a few weeks. Apparently during this period they reported feeling more awake and "vivid" during the day than they ever had before.
So, now that I've written all that babble: what are your sleep patterns like? How many hours in a normal day? When do you go to bed, get to sleep, and wake? Do you do it in one long stretch, or segments? |
where did you read this? it explains so much... I used to sleep in 4 hour stretches in college - 4 am - 8am, go to class, and then sleep from noon until 4 pm. I thought it was because i was just lazy but you are saying this is "natural".
Now I generally sleep 10-12 hours a day (midnight to noon), except on Fridays I sleep midnight to 6 am because I switch from swing shift to dayshift. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I usually sleep 4-6 hours a night. Earliest I get to bed is 11, latest is 1. I get up at roughly 5am 4 days a week. |
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| Cpt.Cocaine |
| There are a lot of tribal societies where the norm is to divide up your sleep into blocks of a few hours, waking up periodically to take part in some other activity, socialize with other people, only to go back to bed after. |
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| _Nut_ |
My sleep schedule follows a 6 week cycle:
2 weeks of going to bed by 9p and getting up at 430a (work 6a to 4p)
2 weeks of going to bed at 2a and getting up 10a or so (work 3-4p to 11-mid)
2 weeks of going to bed noon and getting up some time around 8-9 [later if possible] and working 11p-mid to 7-8a]
My Circadian rhythm seems to follow suit over those weeks. |
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| TranceOwnsLol |
I go to sleep around 1.30am - 2am during school on weekdays, and get up at 6.45.
One the weekends it depends what time I sleep but usually around 3am, then wake up at 12 on a Saturday and 10.30 on a Sunday because of church. =/
I should probably sleep more... |
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| Ian |
| generally I like to sleep at 11pm on weekdays and get up around 8am, sometimes earlier if I need to walk the dog early, at weekends a tad later, midnight-1am bed and 9-10am up |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
house. i feel perpetually tired. still at work by 8.35am everyday tho, but im not happy about it. |
Me too. My natural cycle is sleeping from 1am to 10am. Work does not accommodate this. I generally feel most creative and productive late at night, round 9 or 10pm. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
Me too. My natural cycle is sleeping from 1am to 10am. Work does not accommodate this. I generally feel most creative and productive late at night, round 9 or 10pm. |
Me too, but productivity peaks after midnight. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
I'm a shift worker. I have no sleep pattern.
I sleep when I get the chance - which is not as often as I'd like. |
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| w_ashley |
I'm considering some solar or wind or manual generators for when I go up north again, but I was a little pissed at paying 20$ a month without even using the power so I called in and canceled it after paying 150$ for power I never used.
None the less this is exactly my plan when I go up. Although I'll still be exposed to artificial light when I go shopping or to the library. The plan is basically to enjoy the day times and use my wood stove/furnace to cook with or build a firepit/grill. I'm looking forward to it. Reading in natural light.
I'm wondering what type of electric system to use though, either that or no electronic music or word processing. It rains up there so I'm not sure a solar cell is the best bet. I'm interested in getting a pedal generator or something that I can charge batteries by using a riding bicycle. Anyone know of an affordable human power generator? |
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