My sleep schedule drifts forward gradually. Right now, I go to bed around 6pm and wake up around 2am. Tomorrow, it'll probably be an hour later. A couple weeks from now, I'll be going to bed at 6am. I do find that I'm much more productive when I'm awake during the night. It's probably because there aren't any interruptions and I couldn't run an errand if I wanted to.
I really thought I was the only one. Seriously. I call it my "sleep clock", one day I'm awake from 10am->11pm, and a week later I'm awake 10pm->11am. Not good though when you have things planned, you have to make sure your in the right timezone when you need to be.
Poll: How late do you stay up?
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Social life starts way before 10PM. Not everything social is a late-night party.
You miss out on parties, but that's not all. Because sleeping just after dinner is unhealthy (it becomes the equivalent of the late night snack) you also have to move dinner forward to something like 5pm or 6pm. Result - you won't be able to eat with friends anymore. When you go to bed at 10pm you don't just trade a few night hours for morning hours, your entire schedule has to shift. Don't think that's worth it.
No one has to eat the early-bird special because they get a good night's sleep. Listen to your individual body, not the generalized recommendations of others.
A normal 10pm bedtime does not preclude late nights now and then, anyhow.
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#63I am in bed by 10 PM and asleep before midnight. The delay is waiting for my girlfriend to wind down.
The difference is that until 3 years ago I lived in NZ and finished work at 6PM at the latest. I then commuted home in 30 minutes, and had dinner by 7:30PM.
Most of my friends and colleagues did the same.
I am still in that routine, except that dinner has been pushed back later, as my girl does not get home until 7:30 at the earliest from work.
Her reason for this is that she works for a US company that does not seem to start it's day until 10:30 AM.
I can still be home from work on time, because like in NZ my colleagues and I all start around 9 AM.
So I get the feeling that our sleeping habits are becoming driven more from work than social lifes.... especially as you get older.
Currently I am on the East Coast working, yet am still mentally on West Coast time... so I wake up at 3:30 AM and got to bed at 7 PM. And have a headache because of it.
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#64Also I think a follow up poll to this is how much caffeine and sugar do you inhale daily.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I too am a 10PM bed timer, only recently though, it forces me to use the time before bed more productively. Before I would waste time browsing news.yc, digg, watching videos and reading blogs/news. Now I try to catch up on blogs whenever I have the chance and place more attention of developing stuff.
Just out of interest; how old were you when you switched to 10PM ?
I switched over when I recently got a new job. I need to be up at 5:30 to get to work on time, and if I don't got to bed by 10, the next day sucks. Friday, and Saturday though I tend to stay up later.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think what he is describing is talking about quality of sleep rather than quantity. I'm no expert, so I'm really just regurgitating something I read awhile ago, so please bare in mind that it is probably not 100% correct, but the seed of the idea is there. I'm more or less going to describe what I've done based off what I've read. The body only needs a couple of hours of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep to feel fully…
I'm no expert on this either; I just studied this section of the book pretty thoroughly :) What you say is correct, but about SWS ("Slow Wave Sleep", or stages 3 and 4 -- stage 1 being when REM occurs). These are the main recouperative stages. Eliminating REM sleep (e.g. by waking someone up at the start of a REM cycle then letting them go back to sleep when the cycle would have ended) has little or no effect on aler…
Thanks for clearing it up :)
I read some material on this subject several years ago and have been putting it into practice ever since, so the specifics get lost in the day to day usage.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really thought I was the only one. Seriously. I call it my "sleep clock", one day I'm awake from 10am->11pm, and a week later I'm awake 10pm->11am. Not good though when you have things planned, you have to make sure your in the right timezone when you need to be.
http://www.xkcd.com/448/
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I am 21 now. I switched a little over 2 weeks ago.
What happened to your social life?
Well, to answer your question, not much.
3 out of 4 days Im home around 530. I skateboarding or play basketball with friends for about an hour, eat dinner around 7.
Ill then get down to writing code til around 10, then troll blogs/yc for 15 minutes, shower and end up hitting the sack around 10:30 - 10:45.
Then there is pillow talk with my gf, which probably the pinnacle of my 'social life'. Then Ive got the weekends to hang with friends and stuff.
Does that satisfy your curiousity?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happened to your social life?
Well, to answer your question, not much. 3 out of 4 days Im home around 530. I skateboarding or play basketball with friends for about an hour, eat dinner around 7. Ill then get down to writing code til around 10, then troll blogs/yc for 15 minutes, shower and end up hitting the sack around 10:30 - 10:45. Then there is pillow talk with my gf, which probably the pinnacle of my 'social life'. Then Ive got the weekends…
Thanks for the response. I wasn't curious for specifics, I was thinking about the tradeoff between productive and being social in general. That by optimizing your hours for productivity you might lose out on a lot of other stuff.
Glad it works out for you.