Blair Thaumic Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 For the past few months, I've been living a nocturnal lifestyle. Today I went to sleep at 7AM and didn't get up until 4PM. That's going to change soon... next month, I have a class that requires that I wake up at 6 in the morning. I'm also going back to uni later in the year. Therefore, I'm going to try moving to a diurnal schedule. Any advice? Can I do it all at once, or should I do it in steps: going to bed at 3:00 one night, 2:00 the next, and so on, until I have a normal sleep cycle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acid-brain Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Haha, I have the same problem. Although most websites recommend gradual changes, I find that the best way to get back into gear is to do it all in one go; I stay awake an entire day, keeping myself up through doing some super-stimulating activity, like computer gaming. Then I go to sleep a few hours before the time that I plan to sleep in my new schedule. So in your case, you would wake up at 4PM, then stay up for a whole 24 period until about 5PM the following day. You will be so tired that you should be able to immediately sleep. Then you will have a long ~12 hour sleep, and should wake up at 5AM the next morning like you need to. You might need to use a combination of caffeine/naps/alarms to get the balance right, but it should work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 You'll probably have to shut out light, like with a sleep mask or hanging dark curtains over your windows. You have the benefit of artificial light when you're awake, so you need artificial dark when you sleep. I think yes, you can do it all at once, it just sucks for a while as you get used to it. Like jet lag when you've gone a far distance. When I went to London (8 hours ahead of here) for a week, I spent half the week waking up in the middle of the night and getting super tired in the middle of the day, and only at the end of the week was I used to it. Just in time to fuck up my schedule again as I went home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair Thaumic Posted February 6, 2014 Author Share Posted February 6, 2014 It's working so far... went to sleep at 5AM last night, woke up to my alarm at 9. If I tuck in early tonight my clock should be reset. In the meantime, I'm a lightweight when it comes to sleep deprivation, so I may be even more strange than normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 you be right, mind over matter i have started work at every single hour in the 24 hour clock, in the last 25 years. currently im at 1am til 3 pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergi Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 I'm actually not ever going to attempt changing my sleeping/waking rhythm. I go to bed at 5 am (0500 hours) wake up at 2 pm (1400 hours). +/- an hour. Of course if I really have to I can get up at any time and go to bed at any time... it's not very hard when you don't have any other choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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