I have “whiteout blinds”. White woven roller blinds. Their primary function is privacy. They let in enough light, both straight through and round the edges, that when it’s day outside, it’s day inside. When it isn’t winter, I also leave a window open slightly for ventilation.
I’ve never understood the obsession with going to bed and getting up at fixed times, independent of the seasons and everything else. (Is it a general American thing? I don’t hear about it in the UK.) I trust my body to tell me when it’s tired and when it’s wakeful, and act accordingly. However long or short I sleep, that must be the sleep I needed.
I’ve never understood the obsession with going to bed and getting up at fixed times, independent of the seasons and everything else. (Is it a general American thing? I don’t hear about it in the UK.)
It’s a you-have-to-commute-to-work thing. If you’re expected in the office by a particular time (i.e. for morning stand-up), then you need to leave at a particular time. This implies you need to wake up at a particular time, so you can brush your teeth, shower, get dressed, etc.
If I trust my body to tell me when it’s tired, I’ll work all night until about 8-9am, and then go to sleep.
Are there things you do to get your body’s natural sense to actually match up to reality? Turning down the lights or altering the temperature?
My body literally doesn’t send sleep signals. It might send vague fatigue signals at some points, but without actual effort, I would literally stay up all night, every night.
The only exception is on days when I’m already very sleep deprived. Say I slept 2 hours and then worked a 10 hour day. That night, I’ll fall asleep at 9-10 without any effort, but that’s the rare exception.
Are there things you do to get your body’s natural sense to actually match up to reality? Turning down the lights or altering the temperature?
No, nothing of that sort.
My sleep is very irregular, though. I keep records of this and various other things, and over the last seven years the average is 6.5 hours and the standard deviation 1.4. Not a problem, because my work has rarely required fixed hours, nor has my social life involved partying through the night. I only use an alarm when I have something like a train to catch.
I do not get SAD, and my daily cycle is not affected by the clocks changing, nor by travelling a time zone or two east or west.
I have “whiteout blinds”. White woven roller blinds. Their primary function is privacy. They let in enough light, both straight through and round the edges, that when it’s day outside, it’s day inside. When it isn’t winter, I also leave a window open slightly for ventilation.
I’ve never understood the obsession with going to bed and getting up at fixed times, independent of the seasons and everything else. (Is it a general American thing? I don’t hear about it in the UK.) I trust my body to tell me when it’s tired and when it’s wakeful, and act accordingly. However long or short I sleep, that must be the sleep I needed.
It’s a you-have-to-commute-to-work thing. If you’re expected in the office by a particular time (i.e. for morning stand-up), then you need to leave at a particular time. This implies you need to wake up at a particular time, so you can brush your teeth, shower, get dressed, etc.
If I trust my body to tell me when it’s tired, I’ll work all night until about 8-9am, and then go to sleep.
Are there things you do to get your body’s natural sense to actually match up to reality? Turning down the lights or altering the temperature?
My body literally doesn’t send sleep signals. It might send vague fatigue signals at some points, but without actual effort, I would literally stay up all night, every night.
The only exception is on days when I’m already very sleep deprived. Say I slept 2 hours and then worked a 10 hour day. That night, I’ll fall asleep at 9-10 without any effort, but that’s the rare exception.
No, nothing of that sort.
My sleep is very irregular, though. I keep records of this and various other things, and over the last seven years the average is 6.5 hours and the standard deviation 1.4. Not a problem, because my work has rarely required fixed hours, nor has my social life involved partying through the night. I only use an alarm when I have something like a train to catch.
I do not get SAD, and my daily cycle is not affected by the clocks changing, nor by travelling a time zone or two east or west.