28h Days: year 1 update
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28h Days: year 1 update
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Re: 28h Days: year 1 update
#2This flies in the face of circadean rhythm research. I know the human body is extremely adaptable, but imagine making every single day a jet-lagged day. My younger self may have been able to tolerate it well enough, but there's no way I'd come out unscathed now.
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#3This flies in the face of circadean rhythm research. I know the human body is extremely adaptable, but imagine making every single day a jet-lagged day. My younger self may have been able to tolerate it well enough, but there's no way I'd come out unscathed now.
I have tried on occasion to work night shift. It is OK for a few weeks but within months I reach extreme exhaustion falling asleep while operating dangerous machinery, despite sleeping during the day. I experienced a similar phenomenon working on a fishing boat where I simply never adapted to sea sickness and after weeks of throwing up almost all food and fluids it took months to crawl back to activity and recover including the pneumonia induced from my immune system and homeostasis being beat down.
Human body can be really bad at adapting to unworldly environments to the point you totally break down.
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#4This flies in the face of circadean rhythm research. I know the human body is extremely adaptable, but imagine making every single day a jet-lagged day. My younger self may have been able to tolerate it well enough, but there's no way I'd come out unscathed now.
You must not be aware of the research on Non-24[1] (or "Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder") which OP seems to have (though perhaps they also aren't aware this is a thing).
Not saying non-24 is good for you, but for people unable to follow a 24-hour schedule, free-running sleep (which is what OP is doing) is vastly better than constantly pushing through sleep deprivation, when one's schedule allows for it.
Speaking as someone with non-24 myself (which is much more severe in the winter)
edit: after reading more closely, it appears OP has entrained to a 28-hour day rather than doing free-running sleep; 28-hour days are convenient in that the week gets sliced into 6 days and allows for a consistent weekly schedule. However, I suspect OP actually naturally gravitates towards a shorter day like 26 or 27 hours based on their napping patterns. I also wonder if they might even have more success with 24-hour days and regular exercise, as from their description it almost seems like the daily exercise practice which they started after the 28-hour day might be regulating their circadian rhythm to be closer to a natural day.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wake...
Re: 28h Days: year 1 update
#5See a sleep psychologist. This is likely a non-24-hour sleep-wake rhythm disorder.
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#6We don’t approve. You are only productive if your butt is on your office seat 9-5.
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#7Most of the benefits are things that you could just be more intentional about in a 24h cycle. Glad it works for him on 28h and I don't think he's endorsing this for others necessarily, but my goodness quite a lot of disruption to accomplish what others should be able to accomplish in a standard 24h day.
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#8See a sleep psychologist. This is likely a non-24-hour sleep-wake rhythm disorder.
Why should they? If they've got a workable solution and are living a happy life, there's no reason to treat it as a problem.
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#9This flies in the face of circadean rhythm research. I know the human body is extremely adaptable, but imagine making every single day a jet-lagged day. My younger self may have been able to tolerate it well enough, but there's no way I'd come out unscathed now.
I doubt your assertion about circadian rhythm research, largely because of the cave experiments that show that people naturally assume non-24 hour days when removed from sunlight and social cues.
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#10I once had the opportunity to do a transatlantic Cruise from west to east in which we changed ship time every two days, resulting in 24.5 hour days.
They were much more natural to me than a 24 hours day length.
If I ever win the lottery, I just may sail endlessly west to east...