Efficacy of an Atypical Circadian. in The Napkin.

Sleeping in is way easier if it’s dark outside.

My typical shift is 4am - 1pm. Most people would probably wake up just before the shift, right? 3ish? Maybe even redline to 3:45am? Their circadian wouldn’t be considered too weird beyond just “going to bed a little earlier”.

Lifting days, I get up between 10 and 11pm, and lift between 12-2am. It’s only a few hours earlier, yet it’s considered bizarre. If I aim for a bedtime of 3pm, I’ll get 7-8 hours of sleep. On nonlifting days, I can sleep in.

Since I’m sleeping in the evening, I don’t consider myself nocturnal. After all, I’m always awake in the morning. Noctural is more going to bed around dawn, I feel.

Went to bed last night around 5am. Woke up around 2am. Cool, 9 hours of sleep. But, I felt like crap. Ate my oatmeal, tried to muddle through my usual passing-of-time. As that’s all life is, passing time. My eyes burned, and I felt depressed.

So, I went back to bed.

Which is really easy in a cool, dark room.

Sleeping in on a typical circadian means trying to fall asleep past dawn, when fellow humans are making too much damned noise.

I got 3 more hours of sleep, my eyes feel better, and the depressive funk has lessened in intensity.

It’s certainly impressive when people are all LOOK AT ALL THIS STUFF I’M DOING NONSTOP, but nah. Sleep, man. I go-go-go so I can enjoy my downtime. And sleep is definitely the apex of downtime.