View Full Version : Messed up sleep cycles?
Alright orgers, lets hear your messed up sleep cycles. (for the students/people with time off/late night shifters/, etc).
I'm a student and mines horrendous. I rarely go to sleep before 5.30am, and rarely wake up before 4pm. It's a joke really, but I don't mind it. Not a morning kinda guy.
Anyone else sleep and wake up at stuipd o'clock?
I do 2 day shifts, 2 night shifts and 4 days off - in my days off I'm usually in bed by 2300 and up at 0500ish. I have worked some form of shift all my working life as it's the norm in my line of work - if I'm on the lash on a Saturday night I'll be up at 6 or 7, even if I went to bed at 2!
I've never really needed or wanted a lot of sleep I suppose, and I reckon 30 years of shift work have got me used to disrupted sleep
barwel1992
25-10-10, 08:57 PM
when at collage got to sleep about 2am genuinely cant sleep, then get up about 7am so only 5 hours of sleep
im not a morning person and i cant switch of so end up researching stuf way past 12 midnight
minimorecambe
25-10-10, 08:59 PM
I go to sleep at about 12 - 1am and I am up at 5am when I am at work for a 12 hour shift.
When I am off I tend to go to sleep about 1 - 2am and up about 7am. I try sleep but to no avail.
Never really needed much sleep - I have far too much energy :p
Speaky69
25-10-10, 09:01 PM
Working in spain over the summer i was waking up at 6pm, to start work at 8pm, finish work 4am, and then roll in from the night out at about 9/10am!
Worse thing was coming home and having to try and get back to normal!!
Mr Speirs
25-10-10, 09:04 PM
I quit my job and went unemployed for a little while. I went on holiday to the states for two weeks.
When i got back i had jet lag for nearly a month. As i was unemployed I just slept when I wanted, which was going to sleep at about 2pm in the afternoon and waking up at around 4am. Only snapped out of it when I started uni.
When I was a student getting up at 2pm and being the 1st one up wasnt a random occurence!
If I go to bed late now (at the min its around 3am :rolleyes:) I tend to get up late. Love my bed too much, great place to be whether alone or otherwise :mrgreen:
ChrisSV
25-10-10, 09:12 PM
I work 3 shift, 6am to 2pm, 2pm to 10pm and 10pm to 6am, On my days off i tend to go to bed about 2am and get up around 8ish. but occasionally *cough* i lie in til stupid o clock.
DarrenSV650S
25-10-10, 09:18 PM
Alright orgers, lets hear your messed up sleep cycles. (for the students/people with time off/late night shifters/, etc).
I'm a student and mines horrendous. I rarely go to sleep before 5.30am, and rarely wake up before 4pm. It's a joke really, but I don't mind it. Not a morning kinda guy.
Anyone else sleep and wake up at stuipd o'clock?
That's what I'm like on the xmas hols. Summer I try to get up so I can play on the bike.
When I'm at work I usually get 6 or 7 hours sleep
hongman
25-10-10, 09:20 PM
Iv always been more of a night person than a morning person.
I tend to go to bed around 11-12 and wake up around 8, but don't get out of bed til 9 if I can help it.
Saying that I honesty can't remember the last time i slept through the night, I'm up at least twice every single night either with the kids, or something else.
barwel1992
25-10-10, 09:24 PM
I have far too much energy :p
why hellooooo there ;)
dizzyblonde
25-10-10, 09:34 PM
SLEEEEEP whats that then?
babies, don't have them, if you want to have a normal sleep pattern! I've had better arrangements doing 12 hr night shifts
squirrel_hunter
25-10-10, 10:57 PM
I'm not a morning person. I like the night. Trouble is I work a 9-5 so going to bed in the morning is not good. That and other lifestyle choices make things difficult for me. I've been trying to change for a sometime now but situations have prevented that, though hopefully my current one may help, as I have in the past had a sleep pattern that fitted nicely with work and everything else.
Recently I've been trying to cut down on my evening nap but that did mean the introduction of a 15 minute lunch nap. Trouble is that facility is about to disappear so its going to be tough. But ultimately worth it. Hopefully.
As for the past I really slept well when I worked nights. Sleeping in the day was easy. I'd wake up, eat, go to work around 9ish, be home by 9 in the morning. Eat, watch a film, and then sleep. Never needed an alarm clock for that. Trouble was it didn't help the social life and the day shift I did made everything worse for me. I'd do 5 days of night followed by 1 day of day. But at the time the money and experience was worth it.
However I've wondered for a while why the majority are routed to the 9-5 life style. But thats another thread...
Don't students have to go to University during the day or am I missing something?
Working nights is good cause as said before you dont need an alarm clock which is nice.
Downside is it ruins your social life.
Milky Bar Kid
26-10-10, 01:32 AM
My sleep pattern is atrocious. I work two dayshifts (0800-1700), two backs (1600-0200 or 1700-0300 at wknds) and two nights (2300-0800) with four days off. Basically means my body doesn't have a proper pattern. I am also a bit of an insomniac which doesn't help matters greatly.
SLEEEEEP whats that then?
babies, don't have them, if you want to have a normal sleep pattern! I've had better arrangements doing 12 hr night shifts
+1!
i am a walking zombie ;)
MattCollins
26-10-10, 03:11 AM
48-72 hours is the normal length of my day. If I grab any sleep in between it won't be for more than an hour or two. I'd be much happier if I didn't require sleep at all. Life is waaay to short to spend a third of it sleeping.
48-72 hours is the normal length of my day. If I grab any sleep in between it won't be for more than an hour or two. I'd be much happier if I didn't require sleep at all. Life is waaay to short to spend a third of it sleeping.
Mi6 or what??
Don't students have to go to University during the day or am I missing something?
naa its fine. these days you can sleep thru lectures and download em off the uni website later, so why bother goin in, lool??:smt033
cb1000rsteve
26-10-10, 04:16 AM
I work relief so i was nights fri sat off sunday then nights again tonight for 3 days. Worst turn around is finishing nights then going on to mornings day after. a can't sleep cos your in night shift mode then i've got to be up at 0445 for a 12hr shift.
However I've wondered for a while why the majority are routed to the 9-5 life style. But thats another thread...
If you mean 9am to 5pm there pal, good question. Always wondered the same thing myself!
MattCollins
26-10-10, 05:06 AM
Mi6 or what??
Not too sure what that means.
48-72 hours is the normal length of my day
As in that's a long day mate, by anybodies standards. 48-72hour shift is James Bond business mate.
davepreston
26-10-10, 05:44 AM
mere amateurs the lot of ya,
18 months with busted leg = 9/10 attempts of 30mins/1hr sleeps a day followed by 3 day awake
now working, work from 6am till 8am ,sleep till 3pm ,work till 8pm stay awake till work again , with no sleep 1 out of 3 days
weekend finish work at 6pm hit bar by 8pm drink till 5am sleep till sunday afternoon
start all over again
metalangel
26-10-10, 06:16 AM
On early, I get up just before 5 to be in work for 6. Finish at 2pm.
On late, I start at 2pm and finish about 10pm, meaning I have dinner just before 11pm. And it's not unheard of in here to 'double back', finish a late and have to be in for an early due to the management screwing up the rosters.
Bad though this is, it's nothing on my old job at Cardiff Airport. shifts were all over the place. As an example, up at 2am, in for 3 to do one flight, finish at 7am. Yes, four hour shift. Home, then, back in at 7pm to work all through the night. You basically were booked to come in whenever they needed you, no consistency, no chance for a normal sleeping pattern. For awful pay (£5.02/hour) working for jerks, not good at all.
My is fairly screwed.
I get up between 4:00 and 4:30 to get to work in the week, then I get home between 19:30 and 20:00. Some times I work from home and sleep until 8:00.
When I'm in Denmark every other week they are 1 hour ahead and I get into the office for 8:00 so I need to be up at 6:00 to go to the gym... Which is 5:00 uk time... Generally stay up pretty late when I'm there too.
Weekends my body does not know what to do.
MattCollins
26-10-10, 07:05 AM
As in that's a long day mate, by anybodies standards. 48-72hour shift is James Bond business mate.
No worries, the term MI6 seems to have all sorts of meanings.
I wouldn't call it a shift. I'll grab a bit of sleep if I need it, but the bulk of it comes in one go every 2-3 days. It is a hangover from Uni, travelling to and from Uni and building a business through that period.
My most tiring stretch is the night shift bit, if I'm on shift first night I'll get up at the usual time in the morning, go in for 1900, out at 0800 - I usually only sleep for 2-3 hours and then I'm back in for the second night shift. The following day I don't bother sleeping and go up to bed at around 2000ish, so by then I've gone around 60 hours with very little sleep, that's when I get sinusey and ratty :D
I used to go to the club for a few games of snooker after my second night, to help me sleep early evening, but I can't even manage that these days!
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