Switching to night shifts - How to guide?

[theboyfold]

I'm in the lucky position of working nights for the best part of a month! Having only done this once before (which ironically was on the other side of the world, so jet-lag helped!) I'm not sure what's the best way to get used to the odd sleeping patterns?

I'm also aware that I'm best off posting this at 3am rather then just as the night shift has ended!!

[theboyfold]

Thanks for the advice, the alarm has just been set for 4am. By the weekend I'm starting at midnight... I'll see how I get on!

[theboyfold]

Well I managed about 4 or 5 hours sleep in advance of tonight! I'd been slowly getting up earlier throughout the week so I could fall alseep at about 5 and get up at 10.

We are done at around 1pm tomorrow, so it's a stupidly long day without it being over night!