You’re right, of course. I’ll do the calculations.
Assume I want to shift my sleep cycle 4 hours ahead (i.e. wake up 4 hours earlier, 8am instead of noon).
We currently have sunrise and sunset roughly at 6:30 and 17:00 local time. I assume for simplicity that this remains constant and also ignore DST.
I’ll want to simulate sunrise at 2:30 am and sunset at 13:00. So assuming the sun is “properly up” (high enough) starting at 7am, I can go outside from 7am-1200 and again after sunset at 1700. I have to stay at home during the night (for artificial lighting starting at 2:30) and during the artificial darkness period, 1300-1700.
This might actually be workable if there aren’t too many interruptions. Hmm...
One thing I don’t yet know is how exactly artificial lighting affects the body’s sleep cycle; how the body reacts to it differently than darkness and also differently than sunlight.
You’re right, of course. I’ll do the calculations.
Assume I want to shift my sleep cycle 4 hours ahead (i.e. wake up 4 hours earlier, 8am instead of noon).
We currently have sunrise and sunset roughly at 6:30 and 17:00 local time. I assume for simplicity that this remains constant and also ignore DST.
I’ll want to simulate sunrise at 2:30 am and sunset at 13:00. So assuming the sun is “properly up” (high enough) starting at 7am, I can go outside from 7am-1200 and again after sunset at 1700. I have to stay at home during the night (for artificial lighting starting at 2:30) and during the artificial darkness period, 1300-1700.
This might actually be workable if there aren’t too many interruptions. Hmm...
One thing I don’t yet know is how exactly artificial lighting affects the body’s sleep cycle; how the body reacts to it differently than darkness and also differently than sunlight.
I’ll have to think about this some more.