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How much do you sleep?

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17:59 / 12.05.06

I'm working on a 2x8 schedule, which means one week I'll be getting up at 4:30am, and the next week I'll be finishing work at midnight. I don't care anymore, only thing is that I'm not able to have lucid dreams with this pattern of sleep.

I'm toying more and more with the idea of entering Uberman sleep schedule. I think I can probably manage to squeeze the needed naps out of my work time. Plus, that would means lucid dreams everyday, yay!

21:47 / 12.05.06

Yay! Lucid!

We have the internet at home now. I am forced to consider joining the lateshift community.

22:05 / 12.05.06

With regard to light waking, this is what wikepedia has to say on Circadian rhythms and light:

Illuminance must be greater than 1000 lux to reset the circadian clock in humans, though much lower light levels have been shown to effectively reset the clocks of nocturnal rodents.

In addition to light intensity, wavelength (or color) of light is an important factor in the degree to which the clock is reset. Melanopsin is most efficiently excited by blue light (420-440 nm).

I think the deaf alarm I saw used blue light, but here is an example of one that uses white light.

22:13 / 12.05.06

Few things finer than climbing into bed at night. Especially into a good bed, onto a good mattress, under a good duvet, in a cosy bedroom. I sleep a lot, dream a lot, enjoy it lots. 7 to 8 hours most nights. I love surrendering myself into the arms of Morpheus.

I like getting up at 8 most days after years of early shifts as a nurse, up at 5.30 or 6.

Some days, some whole weekends, I never really get out of bed. We sit with books, laptops, radio, popping out to the toilet, downstairs to raid the fridge, dozing and resurfacing. John and Yoko Bed-Ins for World Peace.

Tom Paine's Bones

22:30 / 12.05.06

I've been getting 11 or 12 a night at the moment, which actually makes me feel shitty when I do get up. But I think I have a psychological barrier to getting up when I should. Which hopefully should go when I find a job, unemployment never suits me well.

14:01 / 13.05.06

I love surrendering myself into the arms of Morpheus.

If a Neil Gaiman fan reads this there may soon be Xoc/Sandman slash.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

16:34 / 14.05.06

But if you have ordinary curtains then you can sense the light, however dim. There is a beautiful alarm for deaf people which flashes a light on and off. It starts off with brief gentle low level light and progressively the light stays on for longer and more brightly. It shows the human body reacts positively to light and 'wakes up'.
Funny you should mention the light/lack of light thing, Lula.

I just moved into my basement room for the summer. The room is, for all intents and purposes, a bunker. There are no windows. There is a bathroom. And a big closet. And currently a fridge (the one I use at university). But no natural light can enter.

And I sleep WEIRDLY. Not as refreshed as when I'm at univeristy, but for longer periods, and with a tendency to just roll over and go back to sleep.

Then again, I also don't work a 9-5 job. My typical day is probably 11-9, or 9-7, or 12-10, or what have you. Or, occasionally, if my boss is an ass, 5pm-10pm. Don't ask.

My job is just like university. Only longer.

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16:53 / 14.05.06

If a Neil Gaiman fan reads this there may soon be Xoc/Sandman slash.

Too late.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:19 / 14.05.06

If a Neil Gaiman fan reads this there may soon be Xoc/Sandman slash.

See, for a moment there I thought he meant an entirely different Morpheus.

I was concerned, to say the least. Had I been a polar bear (you know where this one's going...)

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