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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 isaacforce »

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 from the day when I go to sleep after the sun has been up for a while is a bit bothersome. When it gets to that point I usually stay up all day so I go to sleep at a "normal" time.

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#12

Post by limedaring »

It's 3am, I wanted to be sleeping by 1am, but no dice. Being (f)unemployed has definitely skewed my sleeping habits later and later as I find myself working on things that I don't want to stop. Last few days I've slept in past noon, when in the past I hated sleeping past 10am.

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Post by DLWormwood »

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…

This is me, as well. I’ve found that every time I’m between jobs, my weeks go from 24/7 to 28/6. The worst part of the cycle is when my bedtime’s about noon; I can’t find many places to shop or run errands before 10am and most everything’s closed when I wake back up at about 7pm.

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Post by bluesmoon »

I don't have a fixed time to sleep, though it might be more correct to say that I live on a 26 hour day so each day I sleep 2 hours later than the day before. At some point I end up sleeping during the day and working at night, but every now and then my girlfriend will call me at 9 or 10am and reset my clock.

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#17

Post by metamemetics »

sleep ~4am-9am and ~8pm-9pm. I hit the internet cafe as soon as I wake up in the morning. After dinner I take a nap. When I wake up at night I go to bar or meet friends. I do sleep longer than 6 hours during the beginning of the week, but I haven't felt the need to switch to the traditional 9 hour schedule.

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#18

Post by robryan »

I voted after 4am because without daytime commitments I usually end up in a cycle where I try to get to sleep an hour or 2 before the sun lights up the room, so been getting to sleep at 5am.

Of course with uni I try my best to change this and make as much stuff as possible, ideally night classes would suit me but no chance of getting them.

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Post by jakevoytko »

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

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