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My problem stems mostly from the 7 years I spent working a night shift at a grocery store. It completely flipped my sleep cycle script and I'm about 400% more efficient/focused between 10pm and 4am than I am at any other time during the day/night.
At least 16 hours a day lately. :-/ (No joke.)
OTOH I have noticed that in these foggy days, especially in the afternoon, I get very creative insights. I just write them down because I can't use them on that day, but after a good night of sleep these insights come very handy in the next days.
EDIT: that's before I stopped coffee. My sleep pattern has been irregular these last few days. I don't enough data yet, but I seem to need less sleep. I guess my average will go below 10, maybe down to 9h. I'll see in a year.
EDIT2: I'm obviously not counting "crash coding" sessions. I may stay awake for 36h, with serious pain in old injuries past the 24h mark, and hallucinations past that 36h limit. My productivity seems low after 24h, so I don't bother and just go to bed.
Probably about 5-6 hours a night. People tell me that you can't have make up sleep... but during the weekends I'll hit the bed at 2am and wake up somewhere in the middle of the next afternoon and feel perfectly refreshed. My problem stems mostly from the 7 years I spent working a night shift at a grocery store. It completely flipped my sleep cycle script and I'm about 400% more efficient/focused between 10pm and 4am…
I exercise around 2-3am daily, too, so that must contribute to my increased alertness during the night.
The other night I fell asleep at 6pm, woke up 4 hours later (10pm) then done some work until about 4:30am and caught 3 hours sleep and I felt great the next day. It was really weird, felt like I was up all night but wasn't tired at all the next day until late evening. Anyway, I usually get 6 hours on weekdays and feel crap for an hour before brushing my teeth etc.
I find that consistently getting 6 hours is survivable, but if I do it for too long I feel quite sluggish mentally.
On the weekends the strict schedule goes out the window. I go to bed when I get home or if its a night in when I'm tired, and wake up whenever it feels right.
Probably about 5-6 hours a night. People tell me that you can't have make up sleep... but during the weekends I'll hit the bed at 2am and wake up somewhere in the middle of the next afternoon and feel perfectly refreshed. My problem stems mostly from the 7 years I spent working a night shift at a grocery store. It completely flipped my sleep cycle script and I'm about 400% more efficient/focused between 10pm and 4am…
I'm usually ineffective until about 10am, then good until the midafternoon, when I have trouble focusing for awhile, then good until the evening slump (transitioning out of work) then good until 2am-4am.