Unconventional sleep schedule

[ken nubo]

I’m experimenting an unorthodox sleep schedule. Basically I sleep at 5 in the afternoon and wake up shortly after midnight.

Then I stay awake all night, all morning, all afternoon and then sleep just before 6 in the evening at the latest.

The reason why I do this is because I get work done during night/early morning.

And then I'm awake during the morning and day, so I can still hang out and talk to people, plus the stores are opened in the morning, where I can buy stuff without much wait in the line.

The only draw back is that your night life is going to be non-existence, unless you train yourself for 6 hours of sleep and hit up the club at 11 or something.

Anyone else wanna give this a try, it might fit your unorthodox life style!

[escapee]

Some concerns about the sleeping pattern. This is just FYI

Melatonin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Normally, the production of melatonin by the pineal gland is inhibited by light and permitted by darkness. For this reason melatonin has been called "the hormone of darkness." The secretion of melatonin peaks in the middle of the night, and gradually falls during the second half of the night. Until recent history, humans in temperate climates were exposed to up to eighteen hours of darkness in the winter. In this modern world, artificial lighting typically reduces this to eight hours or less per day all year round. Even low light levels inhibit melatonin production to some extent, but over-illumination can create significant reduction in melatonin production. Reduced melatonin production has been proposed as a likely factor in the significantly higher cancer rates in night workers,[12] and the effect of modern lighting practice on endogenous melatonin has been proposed as a contributory factor to the larger overall incidence of some cancers in the developed world.[13] As inadequate as blood concentrations may be in brightly-lit environments, some scientists now believe that people's overnight output of melatonin can be further jeopardized each time they interrupt their sleep and turn on a bright light (suggesting that the lower brightness level of a nightlight would be safer). Others suggest that such short exposures do no harm.

[silicon toad2000]

sounds like someone is an uber-early riser