• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteEnglish
    82·
    10 months ago

    My body is very much driven by the sun, which means in the winter I don’t really want to wake up until nearly 9. In the summer I’ll get up at 5-6 AM.

    I hate that work is rigidly scheduled around arbitrary times.

  • doingless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    412·
    10 months ago

    Prepare for getting up early by staying up all night a couple of times in a row. Sleeping early will be easier and waking up early will seem natural.

    I work crazy shifts in all hours and it’s impossible to go backwards. Go forward.

    • Classy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      151·
      10 months ago

      So you recommend staying awake for 48+ hours just to adjust to waking up a few hours earlier? Sounds like a great way of getting a heart attack.

      • doingless@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        I should have been more specific and/or not assumed people wouldn’t take me quite so literally. Just staying up until the following time you need to go to bed will do it. Or catch a power nap but don’t let yourself have a good long sleep until you can do it at an appropriate time. Within a couple of days you’ll be ready to sleep at the right time.

        I have stayed up a little over 72 hours once, I do not recommend. I slept a little over 24 hours straight at the end of it. But I got an A- on that term paper.

        • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Yeah, We used to work festivals where we’d do actual 20 hour days Saturday to Monday and get drink and high for the other four hours - by Monday morning takedown the tiredness would be by far the strongest drug

          One time I had a conversation with my friend about how weird it was watching yourself load a truck, then it hit me that we couldn’t be watching ourselves from outside the truck and realized suddenly we were inside doing the work. We were both totally out of it so we went to take a break and stood at the back of the truck but when I looked in we were still working and it was the exact situation I’d been seeing before.

          No idea the real order of events but my perception of time was messed up beyond anything I’ve experienced, if I lived in a less scientific time I’d 100% belive I’d time travelled or done weird magic. I assume the events must have been muddled together after or something but it felt so real.

        • Classy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I do first shift and I have found myself very naturally falling into a polyphasic sleep schedule. I sleep 4.5-6 hours at night and after work I take a 20 minute power nap. It does wonders for me!

    • M137@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      This sorta worked for me in my teens and early twenties, but not anymore. Now I get so out of whack from just one night up that I’m unable to concentrate on anything at all and just sit and scroll random websites the whole day without actually taking anything in, then I fall asleep at 9pm and sleep till 2pm the next day and feel like absolute shit the next couple of days.

      • doingless@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yeah when you’re that tired you have to utilize alarms to keep yourself from oversleeping into the wrong time. If I was up all night and I know I’m going to fall asleep at some point I set an alarm for every 2 or 3 hours so I can still be awake after and be ready to go to sleep at the next appropriate “bedtime”.

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    10 months ago

    Had to get surgery on October to fix a severely broken ankle. My sleep schedule was absolute dog shit for months because I would stay up all night watching weird vids to distract from the pain I was in. It was the worst.

    • Dud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Man I remember for like a month after my motorcycle accident I didn’t so much as sleep as randomly pass out sitting up throughout the day. That was a nightmare of a sleep schedule. Especially waking up and having to get upright to go pee.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    If your body clock leans towards staying up at night I have some very bad news - you’re going to spend a lot of your life tired and drained!

  • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    I made this mistake with that Australian guy did that two hour video where he went to South America to do a documentary about hidden land mine fields set up by drug cartels… All the land mines were built in the USA, it was fucked up. He went hard, like how come these drug cartels have US military land mines?

    • Thrashy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      If I had to hazard a guess, I would say they were probably provided to a friendly military dictatorship and/or right wing paramilitary during the era of peak CIA fuckery in Latin America, and from there either were transferred to the cartels via good old fashioned corruption, or got lifted from military stores during the inevitable unrest that happened when said dictatorship collapsed.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    According to Google news, if you leave gnomes in your garden you are probably signaling others that you are a swinger. So I went to my sister in laws Christmas party and they had gnomes. My wife said no. I mean she’s hot. But my wife said no.

    • Mamertine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      First no plastic flamingos, then no pineapples, now no gnomes!

      What’s the world coming to?

      I just want kitschy stuff in my yard without people trying to bang me!

      • ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Apparently you can’t wear black rings or have tattoos of card suites either. Which is funny, considering black rings could also signify that you’re asexual.

        I don’t think anybody knows.

  • Mechaguana@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    I feel this in my sleepy eyelids

    Why must life be so cruel, if we all had a super power to choose from, Id choose narcolepsy

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I want a nice simple video game dialogue box ‘sleep 6 hours’, ‘sleep until rested’ they can put it with the thing that shows what bits of me are actually injured so I don’t need to irrationality worry that I’ve broken my leg or developed a rare super infection without noticing. Maybe a note on negative buffs how to remove them? ‘your brain is foggy, it’s not anaemia or anything you just need to drink some water and stretch your legs for a bit’

      How much exp I need to level up skills would be good too, like I’d be able to practice for ages if I could see the number getting close to the level up mark

    • kase@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I hate to break it to you but if you want to not have sleepy eyelids, you definitely don’t want narcolepsy. It makes you tired all the time, plus insomnia is a pretty common symptom with it.

  • CptEnder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    But every now and then your sleep schedule becomes so messed up you come full circle and wake up at your normal time (definitely not me right now).

  • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    You can’t post this and not link to some of the best south American gnome sighting videos.