some folks apparently have their internal clock set to a different phase than the standard. if you go to sleep earlier than your body wants to, you will wake up too soon. but, if you sleep when your body is ready to, you will get your full 8(ish) hours and feel fine. from what I've read, the best solution to this seems to be to structure your life in such a way that you *can* stay up and get up late.
good luck with it! I also want to say that since Jovino and I have been doing bunnywarez full time, we have naturally fallen into a pattern of being up very late and sleeping until 11 or so. I like to say I don't get up in the single digits without a very good reason
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I've had discussions with people about our nocturnal natures, and taking advantage of this in the therapy realm. Because, really, there are few places (none that I'm aware of) that offer late night/early morning therapy appointments. And there are people who work night shift, and it is a prime time for people to feel lonely or in need. Could be a great thing all around.
Sadly I'm still waiting to see any sort of acknowledgment about sleep patterns in the schools. As I understand it it's been proven teenagers do better if they start later in the day...yet they still always start by ten o'clock.
Ten o'clock? Goodness, whereever that is I wish I had gone to school there. Twelve years of getting up at six in the morning -- I went through my school days like a zombie. It's a miracle I learned anything at all.
I have worked late shifts -- the advantage of those is that I'm completely awake and alert. The disadvantage is that one has no social live.
OTOH, jet lag, for me, is the best thing ever. As much as I hate transatlantic flights, the jet lag is nearly worth it.
SAME HERE. Typically it can be as early as 7 it seems. I think they shifted it right before I got to high school to 8:45, and from what I'm hearing, if they are on block system it is possible (though unlikely?) for them to "not have first period" which would mean starting later. It seems to vary...but I still haven't heard of any really reading the research about it.
Jet lag was fabulous coming back from the east coast...getting up at my normal clock hour was actually "acceptable" morning hour for a change! I don't remember benefiting much from transatlantic, though.
A cursory search for volume control ear buds on Amazon looks promising, although the one I clicked on, the description didn't mention the volume control at all. Can't speak to quality, but they do exist!
Well, if your body is weird, it's weird in almost exactly the same way mine is. If I crash out in the afternoon or evening, I'll wake up by 10pm wired. If I crash out before 2, I may or may not sleep through. If I stay up, I'm wired until 4, and then sleep through past Noon without an alarm to rouse me.
Gah, my body is so strange. If I go to bed before midnight, I wake up, if not entirely rested, completely alert, at 2am.
I know that one :-( My natural sleep cycle is 4-5 am to 12-1pm, and re-asserts itself in as few as two days. If I go to sleep before 1 am, my body thinks it's an afternoon nap. Getting up for a light dinner, a cup of tea and some reading (I read the mathematics section in (the German edition of) Scientific American to keep the brain busy without getting emotional about it), and return to bed after an hour or so is a good way of dealing with it.
You're the third person I heard from that the iPod is too loud...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
some folks apparently have their internal clock set to a different phase than the standard. if you go to sleep earlier than your body wants to, you will wake up too soon. but, if you sleep when your body is ready to, you will get your full 8(ish) hours and feel fine. from what I've read, the best solution to this seems to be to structure your life in such a way that you *can* stay up and get up late.
good luck with it! I also want to say that since Jovino and I have been doing bunnywarez full time, we have naturally fallen into a pattern of being up very late and sleeping until 11 or so. I like to say I don't get up in the single digits without a very good reason ( ... )
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Sadly I'm still waiting to see any sort of acknowledgment about sleep patterns in the schools. As I understand it it's been proven teenagers do better if they start later in the day...yet they still always start by ten o'clock.
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Ten o'clock? Goodness, whereever that is I wish I had gone to school there. Twelve years of getting up at six in the morning -- I went through my school days like a zombie. It's a miracle I learned anything at all.
I have worked late shifts -- the advantage of those is that I'm completely awake and alert. The disadvantage is that one has no social live.
OTOH, jet lag, for me, is the best thing ever. As much as I hate transatlantic flights, the jet lag is nearly worth it.
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Jet lag was fabulous coming back from the east coast...getting up at my normal clock hour was actually "acceptable" morning hour for a change! I don't remember benefiting much from transatlantic, though.
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I know that one :-( My natural sleep cycle is 4-5 am to 12-1pm, and re-asserts itself in as few as two days. If I go to sleep before 1 am, my body thinks it's an afternoon nap. Getting up for a light dinner, a cup of tea and some reading (I read the mathematics section in (the German edition of) Scientific American to keep the brain busy without getting emotional about it), and return to bed after an hour or so is a good way of dealing with it.
You're the third person I heard from that the iPod is too loud...
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I actually managed to get the slider down to 1% last night, and that was about right. :/
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