Thursday, January 19, 2006 I don't think my waking hours match the world's posted at 9:12 AM Yesterday I got up freakishly early and came in an hour early to work. Today I got up freakishly late and came in an hour late to work. ("Early" and "late" are just based on my usual time, 8:00, because technically I can work whenever I want. Earlier is better because that means I have more daylight hours to do things I want to do, but it also means if I want to stay up late like a normal person I end up overtiring myself.) I'd like to see what hours I'd keep if I could go to sleep when I was tired and get up when I wasn't tired anymore. I'm guessing there would be patterns, but I'm also thinking that I would be awake longer on some days than on others. And I don't mean I don't want to have work, just that I'd like to see how my life would go if I didn't use clocks to determine my sleeping patterns. So I'd get up when I got up, and wake up and go to work when I was ready to work. Theoretically I could try it out now, but I'm afraid I'd sleep in too long :> Comments We studied an experiment when I was in a college psychology class where they had a control group of people live in a building for an extended time period. There were no clocks or access to outside tv or radio or computers and there were no windows, so the volunteer test subjects didn't know whether it was day or night. They had nothingto go on but their own fatigue or internal clocks. Generally what ended up happening is that they ended up being awake longer and sleeping in longer. They were awake in something like 18-20 hr shifts and asleep for that same period thereafter. I sometimes wish I could do this. When I really get working on a project I want to go until its finished, but usually have to stop and go to bed to be up by a certain hour for work or watever commitment I have in the morning. By  mari at Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:34:00 AM   That is really interesting. I wonder if it's a product of the type of work we do in modern culture? After all, we don't physically exhaust ourselves during the daylight hours anymore... By  Heather Meadows at Friday, January 20, 2006 7:25:00 AM   I would agree. If we were out there hunting and gathernig for hours, you better believe we'd be tired before 18 hours, but just sitting here typing away on a comp doesn't really exhaust you, y'know? By  mari at Friday, January 20, 2006 8:54:00 AM   Post a Comment

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