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Re:Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night... by eps on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:26AM (#24950568)
I once casually mentioned that I wished a day was 25 hours long to my family doctor and he gave me a lecture on how the majority of population does in fact have a sleep cycle of at least 25 hours.

That is, if I go to bed at 23:00, wake up on my own, then I will be able to fall asleep only at midnight. The only "fix" for this drift is to under-sleep each day, but that all but guarantees shitty and groggy first two hours. I really hate this, it's such a nuisance.

The good news is that there is apparently a lot of us who are his way. Yaaay.

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Re:Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night... by dijksterhuis on Saturday October 31, 2020 @10:15AM (#24951643)
Seems Harvard scientists debunked this idea back in 1999?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/1999/07/human-biologi...

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Re:Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night... by eps on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:31PM (#24952781)
I don't know what they debunked, but I do know that if I follow my natural sleeping rhythm, the wake-up time keeps advancing by an hour a day. If I wake up an hour earlier to compensate for this, it's really hard and unpleasant to do and I feel like shit afterwards.

So what I converged to is sleeping 2 hours less on weekdays and then sleep in on the weekends. This is marginally better, but still Fridays aren't very nice.

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Re:Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night... by Contax on Saturday October 31, 2020 @03:24PM (#24954417)
I'm like you. If left alone -no schedule at all- I will go to bed about one hour later everyday.
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Re:Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night... by bg4 on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:33AM (#24960547)
This is exactly me and I've struggled with it since I was a child.
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