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Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by gte910h »

smokinn wrote: post #29
wheaties wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to find something to occupy your time. Even if only a pet programming project. Something you force yourself to do for 2-4 hours every day non-stop as if you were at work. You'd be surprised how your body and mind relax into a "normal" schedule once you've got that "I'm done with work" feeling.

That's completely untrue. I'm the same as the gp. When I don't have a rigid schedule I absolutely have to follow (whenever I'm unemployed or when I was in school) I drift around the clock. It's much more natural for me and I feel much more rested than when I'm on a fixed schedule.

Most people have this issue, some to a larger degree than others, if they don't give themselves strong light cues.

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by timtrueman »

I tend to alternate between two schedules for a week or more at a time:

12-2AM: Life is busy and I've lost track of time but I am always in bed by 2AM.

10PM (ish): My body is in tune with the sun and so I'm waking up at 5-6AM by the light. I find I usually need naps to make it through the day but this schedule is usually my most productive. I get onto this schedule when I crash early from staying up late for an entire week or when I spend time outdoors (e.g. camping for a week in Yosemite under the stars).

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by redraga »

i386 wrote: post #21

Interesting that most people (as of the time of this comment anyway) have picked the 12:00am - 1:59am range. I'd be curious to know at what time most people here start work.

I usually go to sleep between 11:30 pm-12:30 am and wake up around 8 am. I'm at my lab (grad student) by 9:30 am.

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by SoftwareMaven »

dhughes wrote: post #37
isaacforce wrote: post #11

I'm unemployed right now, so my sleeping habits have gotten a bit strange with nothing to force me in to any sort of schedule. I find that my "go to sleep" signals don't start coming until after I've been awake for 18-20 hours, then I sleep anywhere from 6-10 hours, so my sleeping time tends to slip forward on the clock constantly. Not having a fixed schedule doesn't particularly bother me, but being disconnected fro…

I'm on vacation and I am experiencing 'the creep' I have to get up at 6am tomorrow but currently I am going to bed at 3am. I'm not a morning person either, I'm going to die :(

That is usually the point that I decide the three hours sleep isn't worth the pain getting up will cause.

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by SoftwareMaven »

kylec wrote: post #43

I wish you had overlapping intervals, as I usually go to be around 2AM but it varies. My choices are "12:00am - 1:59am" and "2:00am - 3:59am". Since it's about half and half, I voted for both.

That was the same problem I was having. My time is usually 1-3am.

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by darklajid »

i386 wrote: post #21

Interesting that most people (as of the time of this comment anyway) have picked the 12:00am - 1:59am range. I'd be curious to know at what time most people here start work.

My current workplace is very relaxed. I do continue working outside of the office-time and I'm sure that I deliver, but

I regularly start at 10am+, sometimes 11 or 11:30. That doesn't keep me from leaving at ~6pm - it's mostly to have some office time (highly overrated in my opinion).

I'm not going to bed before 1pm, most of the time I pass 2pm as well.

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by silversmith »

jakevoytko wrote: post #20

I wake up at 6:30 to beat the traffic, so I go to bed between 10:30 and 11:30. Waking early has some benefits: working for a few hours before your coworkers are awake is a nice feeling, and I get home in time to run and and cook dinner at a reasonable hour. On the other hand, if a crisis happens at work, everyone else's 9 hour day is my 12 hour day

I've gone into a pattern of going to bet sometime between 12:00 and 1:00, and then waking around 7:00. I am sure this is going to bite me hard in years to come, but damn, at least I have time to get things done this way.
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