Messed up sleeping schedules...

Fatbat

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How many of you guys have them?

I'm up all night then sleep part of the day, then I get up stay up even later the next day, then try to stay up til a proper bed time, then sleep for 3 hours, then up again, then a 4 or 5 hour nap the next afternoon, then up all night again, sleep for awhile, up 24 hours, sleep 10...

I'm a bit fucked up to say the least. I slept 3 hours last night got up and started playing poker. 9 hours into that it's noon now and I've just started into the beer and doobies and cold pizza left overs. Once this game is over, it's back to work, and I have a software demo later this afternoon and a dinner party tonight.
 


i've been going to sleep at like 9am most days for for the past month or so. sometimes i'll sleep from like 12pm - 4pm. really messed up schedule. makes it hard to talk to networks, etc when they're on office hours and i'm the opposite.
 
FatBat - my suggestion in all seriousness is to knock up your girlfriend, have a kid, and this problem will vanish. Whatever windows of time you can manage to find will then be filled under momentary blissful slumber.
 
Same here. And it seems to be getting worse every god damn day for me. I sleep ~3-4 hours every night, then if I'm lucky another 2-3 hours in the afternoon. Stopped going to the gym, too damn tired.

Fucked up.

Fatbat said:
How many of you guys have them?

I'm up all night then sleep part of the day, then I get up stay up even later the next day, then try to stay up til a proper bed time, then sleep for 3 hours, then up again, then a 4 or 5 hour nap the next afternoon, then up all night again, sleep for awhile, up 24 hours, sleep 10...
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Sleep? What's that?

Plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.

Most of the time I work until about 5 or 6 in the morning, then sleep a few hours, go to work, come home and work online until about 5 - 6 am......

I can't sleep much even if I wanted to. I usually have plenty of energy as long as I keep my daily Tai-chi/Bagua routine going. It's strange, but if I stop working out, I need more sleep and have less energy. The older I get, the less sleep I seem to need.
 
Yep Fatbat my sleeping schedule is much the same, the most important thing is you are at least sleeping everyday.
 
yea.. this is a huge problem for me too. the only way for me to fix this is to force myself to do some hardcore workout/swimming in the afternoon then i'll be so freaking tired i'll sleep around 8pm and wake up around 5am feeling super productive. but once i get lazy, my schedule will be fucked again.
 
I do polyphasic sleep (30 min every 4 hours) and when done right its great for the net biz world. However, im single so yeah.

Then again, I've been fuckin up with the schedule and now im 36 hours no sleep and gettin a wee bit delirious.
 
I sleep exactly 6-6 and 1/2 hours. That's all I need. I tend to wake up without an alarm clock. Love it every day. Though, I have to be careful, cause if I need to get up in <6 hours, I have to sleep <4 hours otherwise I wake up at a bad point in my sleep cycle.

Try saying some intentions to yourself before you go to bed, and resetting your body clock. Also, pay attention to your natural body rhythm of when you feel your energy going up and down throughout the day.

I'm a morning person, and I am a PC.
 
Asleep by 10pm, up by 4am during weekdays. On the weekends I will treat myself and sleep in until 730am.
 
No matter what time I sleep I always wake up at the same damn time (7 AM) and trying to sleep past it pretty much kills me for the rest of the day. It's like I have my own internal alarm clock or some shit.
 
G3kk0 said:
I do polyphasic sleep (30 min every 4 hours) and when done right its great for the net biz world. However, im single so yeah.

Then again, I've been fuckin up with the schedule and now im 36 hours no sleep and gettin a wee bit delirious.
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How long have you been on this schedule? Can you recover easily from a fuck up if you've been on the those kinds of sleeping patters for a while?
 
How long have you been on this schedule? Can you recover easily from a fuck up if you've been on the those kinds of sleeping patters for a while?
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On it for around a year. If I miss a nap it hurts for a day. I am pretty strict about it and havent missed in a 3 months. But this is gonna be close to like starting over and will take me 2 weeks to settle back in.

There are several different methods people have used (core sleep of 4 hours with naps is one).

I ran across a link from a forum member here that is damn nice:
How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis
 
You people better watch out for sleep paralysis ("Being awake in your nightmares"). It's the scariest thing bad sleeping habbits can give you. Imagine the scariest looking person/monster you can, trying to rip away your soul type of shit. While your awake and can't move! I suffer from sleep paralysis every now and then and i kid you not, it's nothing to mess with. To be honest though after you get it nearly every night for a week you get more used to it, it's less scary cuz you kind of know whats happening and you learn tricks to wake yourself up.

Freaky Sleep Paralysis: Being Awake in Your Nightmares | Wired Science | Wired.com

If you never had it and would like to, my trick to achieve it is to sleep only few hours for every night in 2-3 days, then get wasted and only sleep few hours on that night too, then the next hangover night, try to keep yourself up laying on your back in a bed for as long as you can. If everything goes well (bad) you will experience sleep paralysis :) good luck.
 
G3kk0 said:
On it for around a year. If I miss a nap it hurts for a day. I am pretty strict about it and havent missed in a 3 months. But this is gonna be close to like starting over and will take me 2 weeks to settle back in.

There are several different methods people have used (core sleep of 4 hours with naps is one).

I ran across a link from a forum member here that is damn nice:
How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis
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Cool, can you go in a bit of detail how it affected you personally? For example suppose you've had a perfect run for a month, are you as content, alert, uplifted as when you used to sleep 7-9 hours regularly? In other words, did it change how you feel and react to the world around you on an emotional and psychological level? I only mean when you have ideal conditions, no missed naps or irregular sleep etc... ignoring that completely.
 
i'm fucked up, go to bed from around 4am to 6am and then up at 12am or 2. suits me grand though, i do my best work at night and US east coast starts work at my 2pm and west coast at my 5pm so its all good if i want to talk to networks or any other 'real' businesses. if only i had a 24 hour gym around here and i'd be laughing.
 
Sleep is a geek obsession for me. I have played with it for 15 years (35 years old now).
So far polyphasic sleep or the variations have worked best for me.

My energy level, productivity, and general well being is consistent.
I don't have dips that happen when I follow a monophasic sleep
schedule. I would get into my metrics (yeah ghey whatever)
but that would lead to a LONG ass post.

I have expiremented with monafidil (drug for narcoleptic peeps), regular
sleep, naps, different sleep times, ect. What I am doing now has been better
as far as mood, effectiveness, energy, and it gives me 4-6 more hours a day.

I get regular blood tests and other whacked medical tests that have given
me no indication that I am doing any harm at this point. My personal
metrics have shown that my moods and optimism seem to be above
my normal baseline.

Adjusting was a bitch. Took me 5 weeks. The one issue I might have with
it is a recent one. I am in a muscle gain mode and it has been slower
than it normally takes to put on mass. My body might not be recovering
fast enough but its to early to tell.

I am a fitness freak and have trained for a marathon on this sleep schedule.

Besides people thinking I am on speed there have been no ill issues.

Steve Palvina Has a good write up on his experience with it that might be of
interest to you (30 days detailed and 90 days summarized).
 
I was having a huge problem sleeping. I couldnt go to sleep and end up going to sleep anywhere between 4-7AM. I had to take benedryl to knock me out. I hate sleeping late, so I would set my alarm for 9-10AM but I just would snooze it and go back to sleep. If I know I dont have anything important to do, ill snooze it. I was sleeping until 12-2PM, which I hate because I feel like I was wasting the whole day away.

I had to get my car inspected early morning so I got up at 7AM with 3 hours of sleep. I forced myself to stay up the whole day and go to sleep around 10-11PM. Ever since then ive been going to sleep before 2AM and if I dont I still wake up around 10AM anyway. Im glad because the schedule was getting worse and worse. Hopefully soon ill be getting up around 8 AM.
 
I have a normal sleep schedule right now (go to sleep around 10pm and wake up around 7-8am).

But what usually happens to me is that I stay up later and later each night and then eventually I'm asleep during the day and awake at night. Then I just continue staying up later and later and then I'm back to normal. I try to stay on a normal schedule as much as possible, but I usually go through this cycle maybe once or twice a month.
 
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