I Been Up All Day, I Might Sleep All Night?
For those of you lame enough to admit it, you’ll recognize the above as a lyrical reversal from the Counting Crows. My sleep schedule has been going wacko recently with all the random stuff going on in my life. I decided that when you’re getting to bed at 8 AM you’re just a wee bit too far off the beaten path of society and are doing yourself more harm than good.
At the same time, though, how to fix the cycle? There’s no way I’m reasonably going to get up at 3 PM and go back to sleep again 9 hours later. Instead, I’m going to push all the way through and make a day-and-a-half out of it. The plus side: lots of time and peace and quiet to work on things tonight and I’m (hopefully) sure to get a good night’s rest tomorrow.
I suppose this kind of sleep cycle can’t really go on forever … can’t let things get pushed back indefinitely over and over again. Still, even without a typical 9-to-5 day job I’m thinking it should be possible to at least roughly align myself with the daily drudgers. And if I still end up on a 2-to-10 sleeping schedule? Well, then I figure I’m on the right track to act like a ‘normal’ person and can still rub in the fact I get to sleep in late!
Jeff said,
January 25, 2008 @ 3:05 am
I’ve been trying to aim for crashing at midnight and starting the day around 5 am but within the past week it’s been anywhere from sleeping in the late afternoon like an old man to sleeping for almost 24 hours at once.
I think the optimal sleeping schedule for single people who work online is waking up around 5 or 6am, working from 7am to around noon - pause for a one hour break - then working from 1pm to 10pm and finally crashing around 11pm or midnight. The social life dies pretty soon but I could think of a few million reasons not to care right now ;)
Allsux said,
January 25, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
Yeah, that seems like a good one. Honestly I’d be happy crashing at 1 or 2 am and waking up around 10. As for my experiment: /FAIL … I made it to sleep by around 2:30 but I was so exhausted I slept through the alarm and woke up at 3:30 pm … basically resetting everything again :) Kind of a waste of a day but so it goes :P