Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
by benhurmarcel on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:27AM
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I also thought it was normal.
Once for a couple of weeks I worked and slept as I felt like it. I ended up doing ~30h days. It was the best I’ve ever felt while being quite productive.
Unfortunately it’s not an option to do that long term.
It's great as long as you have no need to deal synchronously with any other humans.
Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
by abdullahkhalids on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:37PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm_sleep_disorde... that affects about 3% of the population.
Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
by TJSomething on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:13PM
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The most cited paper on this is "Stability, Precision, and Near-24-Hour Period of the Human Circadian Pacemaker" (Czeisler, et al., 1999), which found that their 24 subjects between ages 13 and 65 had a mean circadian rhythm of 24 hours 10 minutes with a standard deviation of 8 minutes. Earlier studies were affected by artificial light lengthening cycles. Non-24 sleep-wake disorder in sighted people is not researched well enough to have accurate rates: there are only about a hundred cases in the existing studies and the disorder is not well known and probably underdiagnosed.
Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
by rdiddly on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:06PM
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I think there have been studies where people in sleep labs without any natural light, clocks or other cues mostly tended toward ~25-hour days. The "disorder" part is when you can't help but do this, despite having access to all those cues and despite all efforts to the contrary.
Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
by SirHound on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:18PM
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No this isn’t typical. Are you particulary good at coping with jetlag?
Depends which way I'm flying. :) Flying westwards is fine, I can absorb the extra hours without much noticing them. Flying eastwards is awful.
I identify with the parent, and I've always been fine with "jet lag" to the point where I often don't even notice it or it only lasts until I go to bed the first night.
(IE; Sweden->Los Angeles, the inverse is harder but not as hard as most people seem to have it, it knocks some colleagues out for an entire week)
A week? Yeah I'm scragged for a day if I'm losing hours on a flight (although this is exacerbated by the fact that if I'm flying east I'm usually going from my 'starts around 9ish' desk job to 'be on site by 6am' minesite commissioning, so I'm effectively waking up at 2am when I'm used to waking up at 8:30am) but after that I'm fine.
This is a disorder now? I thought that's just how humans worked. It's how I work, anyway - if nothing else (like work, or children waking up at 5:30am) forces me to get up at a set time, I'll slowly cycle through until I'm going to bed at sun-up and waking up at 3pm.