Sleep

[Meoricin]

tonym911 said:

Meoricin said:

tonym911 said:

An interesting experiment was carried out a few years ago in which a bunch of bods were put into a house that was normal apart from a complete absence of windows or clocks, so they had no idea what time it was. They were told to live normally, and go to bed whenever they felt it was the right time. After a couple of weeks they settled into a pattern of 8 hours awake, 8 asleep, 8 awake and so on. In other words, left to its own devices, the human body will naturally create a 16-hour 'day' – as opposed to the 24-hour one we appear to have foisted onto ourselves purely on the basis of the Earth's axis-rotation speed.

What on earth would you do? Presumably no access to computers or any other form of media, since pretty much anything will give you a time. No wonder they'd get bored and sleep if they had to stay indoors all day with nothing to do.

They didn't have nothing to do, their living conditions were as near to normal as they could be made (without clocks and windows).

I appreciate that - but what would they actually be able to do? Can't watch films/tv, due to it being too easy to work out times from it, can't go on the internet, can't listen to the radio, can't communicate with the outside world so can't work. The only way I could see this not turn into a nightmarishly boring situation would be if they were given a full gym setup, all the food they wanted, and had an interesting variation of women in there. Also lots of books.

If you can't go outside or communicate with the outside, 'normal' isn't going to work at all.

[Kays vRS]

8 hours is too much for me. If I get that much sleep I'm usually really sluggish thhe next day. On monday night I got 9.5 hrs sleep (after spending over 4hrs that afternoon napping in the back of a car) and the next day I was pretty pointless. Tuesday night I made a point of staying up til 1 and getting up at 7 and I didn't feel tired all day.

[captainzep]

Having had 2 children, one of which has been nocturnal for most of his 2 yrs, I am totally used to getting by with regularly broken and little... erm... I, did I tax the car? And the clouds?

Do the clouds?

But you just get on with it, when Susannah Reid's breasts. Soft. And the touching. Hmmm! tee hee

ARRRGGGGHHH SPIDERS!

But some people just seem half asleep, lightweights.

What was the question?

[becksW]

captainzep said:

Having had 2 children, one of which has been nocturnal for most of his 2 yrs, I am totally used to getting by with regularly broken and little... erm... I, did I tax the car? And the clouds?

Do the clouds?

But you just get on with it, when Susannah Reid's breasts. Soft. And the touching. Hmmm! tee hee

ARRRGGGGHHH SPIDERS!

But some people just seem half asleep, lightweights.

What was the question?

excellent

[Arnold The Bat]

Weekdays I normally get between 6.5 and 7 hours a night but weekends 9 or even 10 hours is quite possible. However over the past couple of weeks I've found myself falling asleep in the early afternoon and I don't know why. Nothing has changed in my routine but around 2pm I will suddenly become very tired and will generally nod off. It's even happened whilst I've been driving not because I'd driven loads of miles just that my body had decided it was 2pm and therefore it was naptime.

[Shaw Tarse]

I sleep like a baby...

[Dan_1981]

Shaw Tarse said:

I sleep like a baby...

You frequently soil yourself and wake up every three hours screaming?