Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced risk of depression: study

Re:Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced ris... by sneak on Saturday May 29, 2021 @09:59PM (#27329964)

It’s only a burden if you pay any mind to the kind of fuckheads who would openly mock you for sleeping until your body indicates it has had enough sleep. People behaving that way is a good signal about them.

(I am non-24 and have been so my whole life. I have a 25-26h day and slowly drift out and back in to phase with the rest of the world on a few week period. I just woke up (19:00 local), for example.)

I sleep when I am tired, and I wake up when I am done sleeping. I dropped out of high school and have almost never kept a square job, but both of those things sucked when I tried them, so I was glad to be rid of an alarm clock.

Now my winter/pandemic home is in a city with more 24h restaurants and services than any other on the planet, as far as I can tell.

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Re:Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced ris... by jjeaff on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:26PM (#27330104)

I'm curious if you have a regular workout schedule?

I have also always been a 25-26 hr a day person. But i have found that if I get vigorous exercise that day, then I am actually more like 24.

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Re:Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced ris... by sneak on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:40PM (#27330407)

I have a regular workout schedule at the moment, but only when I wake up after 18:00 local, because cycling on the roads in CONUS when there are normal levels of traffic on them is approximately suicidal. I cover myself in EL wire and way too many flashing LEDs and go at like 03:00. I'm also a lights-off midnight console jockey and being outdoors in the mojave during daytime would cause me to immediately burst into flames.

Doesn't seem to have much effect on my sleep, but I also famously ingest way too much caffeine at all hours of the day.

TBH I prefer to be awake when everyone else is asleep. Crowds and lines and traffic are all pretty terrible, but so is living in low-population-density areas without easy access to goods and services. Being nocturnal in an urban environment is the only mitigation I know of. If I could be "cured" I wouldn't want to be.

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