Live at night, Sleep during Day

Fukuyama

Anyone ever done this?

I have a load of college work and other stuff I'm supposed to be doing. But I find I can only concentrate on anything at night.

So I'm considering flipping my life around to sleep during the day, and go to work in the evenings and study through the night.

HondaSami

I work shift work so have no choice.

Latchy

It's been around a long time now ....it's called shift work .

1ZRed

Everyone's going to start calling you nocturnal dean and start thinking you're some alco once you start your weekend sessions at 11 in the morning

mconigol

Now this is the story all about how,
My life got flipped, turned upside down....

The Road Runner

Don't go full retard, aka sleeping at 1pm waking at 9pm for the news. It's a lonely beautiful road but the civvies don't get it

danslevent

Prepare for no social life!

Fukuyama

I've also been looking into this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep

I've so much **** to do. College and two jobs.

boboldpilot

Try working overnight shifts. It'll soon cure you of the idea. Around three in the morning you go slightly insane. It's like being drunk. After a month of it you'll be exhausted. Then there's the daytime sleeping, you'll be constantly interrupted by people who don't get the idea that this is your rest time. Then there's those inconsiderate people who let their children play outside on on sunny afternoons while they cut the grass with their petrol mowers. So you never get enough sleep.

Did seven years of it. Probably knocked 14 years off my life.

johnnykilo

Yep, did it for months when I was doing my Masters last year and doing my dissertation over the Summer. Found it was a lot easier to work from about 11pm to 8 in the morning, no distractions. Probably best not to do it long term but I think it helped me get a lot more work done than I would have done working "normal hours". You do tend to go a bit mental though

Not sure what you're studying but I found this was particularly relevant to me:

http://www.whiteboardmag.com/why-programmers-work-at-night-being-tired-makes-us-better-coders/

dodderangler

Shift work doesn't help
I do week of day shift and week or night shift so all over the place really which can be hard when you've a child to get up with in the mornings

Cypher_sounds

What would the neighbours think :eek::eek::eek:

SEPT 23 1989

very bad for your health OP

ElleEm

boboldpilot wrote: »

Try working overnight shifts. It'll soon cure you of the idea. Around three in the morning you go slightly insane. It's like being drunk. After a month of it you'll be exhausted. Then there's the daytime sleeping, you'll be constantly interrupted by people who don't get the idea that this is your rest time. Then there's those inconsiderate people who let their children play outside on on sunny afternoons while they cut the grass with their petrol mowers. So you never get enough sleep.

Did seven years of it. Probably knocked 14 years off my life.

You have just brought back the worst memories. I did shift work for five years, but had to give it up due to health issues. I was constantly sick, my immune system was sh!t, I am convinced the lack of sleep contributed to it. Many a day, I would sit at home crying cos I was nauseous with tiredness, and the kids next door would be playing in the garden.

OP, I'm all for staying up late to get college work completed, but don't stay up ALL night. Maybe 3am depending on how late you sleep in the day. Once you mess up your sleep pattern, you're f*cked for ages!

AnonoBoy

Start taking amphetamines.

What was the problem again?

jimthemental

My housemate does this, but it's probably so we won't catch him smoking weed and chuck him out.

I work night shift every second week and it makes bits of me. Off to work in a few minutes.

Oranage2

worked night shifts for a year, horrible time, made me really anxious around people during the day, made me quite anti social, put on a lot of weight. quit 5 months ago and have been on holiday since, I still don't think I've fully recovered from it. I doubt I'll ever do it again.


On a side note, I've never felt more peaceful then being awake at 4am and watching a movie or playing some online poker. wouldn't recommend doing it on a regular basis though.

Some people don't mind it at all. I hate mornings myself but don't think I would flip around completely. Something like working from 1pm to 9pm and heading to bed around 3am and sleeping until around 12pm I think would be ideal for me.

My mother works 7 nights on 7 nights off (12 hour shifts, 8pm to 8am) and wouldn't swap for anything, I wouldn't be against that myself with the week off every second week. My uncle also refuses to work normal days and instead work a 5pm to 2am shift, waits up then until morning usually before going to bed.

spankysue

I worked shift work for 2 years, did a week of nights every 3 weeks and they fcuked me up completely. The whole week used to feel like one long day, I honestly wouldn't recommend it if you like feeling normal.

WumBuster

In college myself and was up the whole night the last 2 nites working on an assignment to be handed in today. Could never do it during the day. The only drawback is to re-ajust Ive had to stay up all day today and go into college with no sleep, by the time i go to bed later ill be going on 30 hours with no sleep!

I've done it quite a bit over the last few weeks. I'm a freelance translator and also have a teaching job from 4pm to 10pm. I'd stay up translating until 4 or 5am, sleep for most of the day, get up at 2pm, eat lunch and go to work. Miserable life, to be honest. You barely get any daylight and just feel sh*tty. I also now have a really bad case of the flu with a banging headache, so I wouldn't say it was great for my immune system either. And yeah, no social life.

stoneill

Shift work - for nearly 20 years. Night shift is a feckin killer, and get worse as I get older.

Don't do it if you don't have to!

spankysue

spankysue wrote: »

I worked shift work for 2 years, did a week of nights every 3 weeks and they fcuked me up completely. The whole week used to feel like one long day, I honestly wouldn't recommend it if you like feeling normal.

The big problem there though is the switching back and over. If you were on nights all the time you would get used to it.

I'd take a night shift any day over having to get up for work at 5 or 6am, I don't think I could actually get up that early on a regular basis.

kowloon

stoneill wrote: »

Shift work - for nearly 20 years. Night shift is a feckin killer, and get worse as I get older.

Don't do it if you don't have to!

Agreed, once you're not in the best of health it starts to mess with you.

BattleCorp

By law, workers are supposed to have a medical exam before they start work as night shift workers.

These medical exams are supposed to be carried out occasionally to monitor if the night shift is having an adverse effect on your health.

There's a reason for this. I've done it for years and night shift work fcuks you up

ArtyC

i work in a nightclub......been three years and i havent been right. im finally in a position io can say goodbye to it. my boyfriend an friends are delighted, its no way to live

Miss Lockhart

It's my ideal - get up around 2pm bed around 5am. Unfortunately there's no way to do it and still do my job. I'm so much more productive between about 9pm and 3am.

Grayson

danslevent wrote: »

Prepare for no social life!

If only pubs and cinemas were open in the evening.

shedweller

Jaziel Refined Joint wrote: »

The big problem there though is the switching back and over. If you were on nights all the time you would get used to it.

Theres the thing. I'm on 4 nights shift. 22:00 to 07:00 monday to thursday night. Been that way for nearly 8 years and i would love a week on week off. Well, i think i would. I did the continental shift before which was two 12hr days followed by two 12hr nights, followed by four days off. I thought it was ok. A lot of weekends sucked but other than that it was fine. Short term nights are quickly recovered from. Long term nights just wear you down and i cannot imagine how hard it would be to study something on nights.

itac

I edit quite a lot, and tend to find that my most productive times are anywhere from 8/9pm to about 3/4am. Unfortunately, I'm usually up for work anywhere from 6.30/7am onwards...I've always been a bad sleeper though, and most of my jobs when I was younger were pub/restaurant work where I was up til the wee small hours anyway!
It does throw daytime living out of sync though, and I totally agree with the poster who said at some point, the tiredness feels like drunkeness-it might work ideally for you for a little while, but at some point the late night tiredness nausea and burning eyes will get to you, or, as has happened me, the shapes in your room that are usually stationary will start moving around you, and you in your exhausted state, may not really enjoy that....!

Also, as another warning, no matter how tired I was, I rarely slept during the day unless I was feeling physically sick from lack of sleep...so, to concur with many others, don't do it unless you have to!!

tunedout

danslevent wrote: »

Prepare for no social life!

Or, one hell of a social life.