Out of Whack
 

Somehow I've turned into some weird sort of night creature. Gah. I blame school.

School is okay in and of itself. It takes away that vampiric boredom that sucks the very meaning of my time and life away from the roots. I get things done, I go home with a feeling of accomplishment even if I fell asleep learning Algebra I already knew or listening to the English teacher tell me how great I am at writing (which is a bit embarrassing if you've ever had a professor fawn over you, it's akin to someone telling you that your puke is pretty n the right sunlight.)

School ate up my time and made an excuse to get up early, which, despite my beliefs at the time, was a good thing. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, I suppose. When you have to get up early, you go to bed early, or at least by midnight. Midnight is half time for nighttime, it's the part where if you aren't doing something like sleeping or drinking, you have to either start or give up. But school ended a week or two ago (I've lost count already?!) and since then my sleep cycle has been kicked in the gonads with a steel toed boot wrapped in cenented glass and silverware.

Since then I've had two days off and two days where work didn't start until 2pm. The first day I set my alarm as per a school day, and realised at 7:30 the next morning that I was a moron. The next day was a work at 2 day, and I slept till 10:30am. I looked at the clock in some kind of paralisys. Ten thirty? I hadn't slept that late since.. and that's when it struck me that school's ending was really just me getting my old, confused as hell schedule back that I had before the shit even started. Shit.

So yesterday was my day off, and I slept until 12:30pm. PM! Gah! I had crossed the line! I had gone over the Midday Half-time, where you had to be doing something (working or learning or Recreation) or giving up. Shit. The rest of the day was a blur of being tired (I just slept ten hours, why am I tired?!) and trying to find someone to drink with. I failed, and ended my night at one or two this morning (yesterday morning? Fuck, it's quarter after one in the morning).

The problem lies in when I go to sleep. I'm not tired from too much activity (school + work + schoolwork) and going to sleep earlier to keep up on my sleep, now I'm trying to cut back on it as if it's some tumour that's been growing uncontrollably from the side of my face. I never would have imagined this state of affairs a month ago.

Anyway, how does being off affect you? Is it like me, or are you able to get up whenever you want, or do you get up at the same time every day? What is your sleep cycle.

(second question: Does dropping a huge post like this one doom a thread because it's late at night?)

ive still got a few weeks left, then europe!

I work from 12am-8am every day

embrace the night

I have a different problem.
I go to bed around 8 or 8:30 every night and wake up around 5 or 6 in the morning.

I have no sleep cycle...I get little sleep and stay up way too damn late when I'm caffinated, I get too little sleep when I need it/get it the most and I still can't seem to go to bed early, and my hours vary, so my "mental clock" has no absolute function...

Thank God the jobs I'm looking at after school's out won't have shifts starting until at least noon at the earliest...I'd otherwise have a shit-fit with my life...

I've always had problems with sleep. I tend to stay awake longer than most people, and I like to sleep longer than most people. I remember staying up 20 hours at one was like the minimum for me, then of course I would sleep for 12 like it was nothing.

I also find I like nighttime more, so my sleeping patterns always seem creep back to a 'sleep during the day, awake at night' sort of thing. Fuck.. I think i'm nocturnal ;) It's one of the reason alot of teachers get pissed at me. If I wasn't able to do a weeks worth of work in the 2 or 3 days a week that I actually attend, i'd be headed nowhere quick.

I'm in the principal's office at least once a week being lectured about attendance. But I have a way of talking my way out of tight situations, and my excuses are hard to question, even after i've used about a million.. so for some reason, they keep me around.

Bottom line, I sleep when i'm tired. I wake up when i'm not. If I wake up at 3PM, it's easier for me to stay up overnight then to try to get a few hours sleep and be up early the next morning. Because if I go to sleep tired as a motherfucker, i'm not waking up in 3 or 4 hours.

I'm gonna design and build a gigantic solid rocket engine that's about a quarter the size of the North American continent, mount it somewhere on the equator facing west, and fire it off in order to slow the Earth's rotation down to a point where there's 36 hours in a day...

I've found that if I could sleep 12 hours for every 24 that I stay awake, I would never need another caffeinated drink ever again. But Mother Nature doesn't like me, so she made Earth's days only 24 hours long... the bitch. And hell, if I could slow Earth down that much, I'd instantly lose 75 pounds. :D

But you'd still have the same mass. :p

Yeah, but my bathroom floor scale doesn't know that. :p

I'm pretty much nocturnal.
*Is a bat at heart*

Same.

*g* this thread kinda sounds gay....

yeah we had a senior sleepover for band, and like stayed up till 3-4 then the sun came up around 7 and we had a band thing and all of us were like freaking zombies, but it was fun

I pretty much keep the same sleep schedule weather I am working or not.

I go bed around 10:30 and get up around 6. I went out with friends last weekend and stayed out until 4 am. My body just woke up at 7am out of habit.

~ Missy

Eh? Wouldn't you gain weight, from the loss of centrifugal force?

Local physics forums Nazi, at your service. ;)

[edit]Anyway, yeah, personally I prefer no real "sleep cycle" - being made to be somewhere at a certain time makes me sleepy, no matter what time that is (well, 3PM would be tolerable), or what time I go to bed. This is why I get far more work done during the afternoon, evening, and night. Morning is just the time to wake up, while being required to sit at work.[/edit]

I usually go to bed around 3:00 a.m. and wake up at 10:00 a.m. I find I have nothing to do late at night... of course, I don't exactly have much to do at 10:00 in the morning either, considering I don't work until 4 or 5 p.m., but I get pissed off at myself if I sleep in too late.

Better than the schedule I used to have--go to bed at 6 a.m. and wake up at 1 in the afternoon...

there is only one absolute in my sleeping schedule:
on weekdays I have to be awake by 5:30 AM so I can be to work by 6:30.

Most of my friends work graveyard shifts so they are on that sleep during the day be awake at night schedule and I find myself falling into that same schedule. I know a place that is hiring graveyard security guards so I think I will go put in an ap... might be good.

The faster a planet spins, the more gravity it creates... and vice versa. At least I think that's right.

Anyways, back on topic.

That's the exact planet I'm on/would like to be on. Oh God, a 36 hour day would be perfection.

[Derail]
If we would be on the inside yes, but we are on the outside of the planet and the faster it spins, the more we are being swung off.
Think about the bucket filled with water which you fling about. The faster you swing, the more the water gets pressed against the bottom. But, if the bottom would be on the inside and the water on the outside (our position), the water would be thrown out.
I hope that's clear... :rolleyes:

[/Derail]

Gravity has nothing to do with the spin of the earth.

Gravity exists because of the earth's mass.

Gravity will remain the same, but when the earth starts spinning faster, the upward force will get stronger. Therefore the resulting downward force will get weaker.

Right, so slowing it down, the resulting downward force increases...

sunday night (well actually it was monday morning) I went to bed at around 1:30 am and woke up at 5:30 am. after work and hanging out with friends I got home at 1:45 this morning. woke up at 5:30 and went to work. tonight if I am lucky I will be in bed by midnight and have to get up tomorrow morning at 5;30 so goes for the rest of the week. Come Saturday my schedule goes out the window because friday is the last day of school and if there is no school there is no one for me to drive to school so im out of work. I look forward to being able to take a week or so to sleep in on weekdays. I think I would like a 36 hour day. so umm yeah.

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