The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Slammed]

theres literally nothing wrong with that sleep schedule...i have nothing to do during the day so i sleep

That's why doctors and medical experts around the world so frequently talk about how shift work, especially night shift work, even on a short term basis can be so detrimental to a persons mental and physical health.

 

[PrincessHades]

That's why doctors and medical experts around the world so frequently talk about how shift work, especially night shift work, even on a short term basis can be so detrimental to a persons mental and physical health.

fuck mental and physical health

 

[Slammed]

Haha. What a dead set legend!

 

[Onder]

That's why doctors and medical experts around the world so frequently talk about how shift work, especially night shift work, even on a short term basis can be so detrimental to a persons mental and physical health.

I used to do night shifts when I was undergrad and that shit was killing me. I could literally feel how my health is being fucked. Then later I said no more night shifts and instead opted for weekend shifts which helped a lot. 12 hour shifts still, and had to wake up at 4AM on the weekends, but still a wise decision.

 

[Phylactery]

It’s 5:30am here and I’m still awake. My sleeping pattern always reverts back to this during holidays. I certainly don’t sleep until 6pm, though. I generally sleep for 6-7 hours. But yeah I don’t like it, I always feel disgusting. But I’ve always felt the most awake and productive between 10pm - 2am since I can remember. It’s really odd. Like I can be tired as fuck and then it hits 10pm or so and I feel wide awake.

 

[PrincessHades]

I used to do night shifts when I was undergrad and that shit was killing me. I could literally feel how my health is being fucked. Then later I said no more night shifts and instead opted for weekend shifts which helped a lot. 12 hour shifts still, and had to wake up at 4AM on the weekends, but still a wise decision.

it really doesnt bother me unless i let it. i remember feeling sick as fuck all last summer to the point of nearly puking for basically no reason a fe w times, but for me ive realized i have a natural tendency to sleep all day and as long as i dont try to change it im fine

@Phylactery if i sleep for like 14-16 hours i start to feel kind of tired and confused but it goes away after a few hours. i feel the most energy between 2 am and 5 am, after that i start to feel a little bored but i dont get tired until 6 or 7 am, but even then im not tired enough to sleep

 

[CiG]

i have a natural tendency to sleep all day

 

[Phylactery]

Sleeping for 14 - 16 hours?! That’s madness to me. I start to feel like shit if I sleep any more than 9. Like really groggy all day. It’s horrible.

Also I thought I got up early at 6am when I’m at work, but some of you guys consider that a lie in! Christ. What time do you generally go to bed CiG?

 

[PrincessHades]

Sleeping for 14 - 16 hours?! That’s madness to me. I start to feel like shit if I sleep any more than 9. Like really groggy all day. It’s horrible.

Also I thought I got up early at 6am when I’m at work, but some of you guys consider that a lie in! Christ. What time do you generally go to bed CiG?

the only time i actually sleep that long is at the beginning of summer, after im up all night, or when i skip school

my ideal is like 10...during the school year its usually like 4-6

 

[CiG]

What time do you generally go to bed CiG?

I've been an early bird my whole life, which sucked actually when I worked night shift in my early 20's.

These days I'm in bed by 11:30 on the work days.

 

[Slammed]

I used to do night shifts when I was undergrad and that shit was killing me. I could literally feel how my health is being fucked. Then later I said no more night shifts and instead opted for weekend shifts which helped a lot. 12 hour shifts still, and had to wake up at 4AM on the weekends, but still a wise decision.

I did permanent night shift (10pm - 10am 6 days) for 10 years, the entire time spent on the road catching sleep in short bursts at different stops and then keeping my own businesses running during the day. For the first two years I thought I was managing okay, even after a decade I thought I was pretty fucked up but still okay. Now 10 years out of that life I still can't sleep more than a few hours at a time and never get more than 5 hours a night. Even if I kid myself that I'm not a mental fuck up I certainly know my sleeping is fucked.

 

[Onder]

I did permanent night shift (10pm - 10am 6 days) for 10 years, the entire time spent on the road catching sleep in short bursts at different stops and then keeping my own businesses running during the day. For the first two years I thought I was managing okay, even after a decade I thought I was pretty fucked up but still okay. Now 10 years out of that life I still can't sleep more than a few hours at a time and never get more than 5 hours a night. Even if I kid myself that I'm not a mental fuck up I certainly know my sleeping is fucked.

Every human reacts to it differently I think, but there's always some damage.

 

[PrincessHades]

Every human reacts to it differently I think, but there's always some damage.

some ppl are definitely set to sleep at different times than others, but i highly doubt working a night shift actually causes brain damage

rn im hungry as FUCK. i feel like i have the shits too but i want to eat a whole pizza or something

 

[Slammed]

Every human reacts to it differently I think, but there's always some damage.

There is a physical and mental aspect to permanently changing your body clock. The physical is easy it's just a matter of forcing yourself to sleep and be awake at a different time. Being coherent and functional for the same hours can often be a little more difficult but again not hard to change once you get into a rhythm. The mental side of it is a lot harder to change because most people don't realise how their mental well being can be effected by simply changing their body clock. It does effect people different and not all people will be effected for the rest of their life but one of the biggest problems is that there is no way of saying for sure who gets effected and how much they get effected.

Shift work and the effects its had on people have been a big thing in my area in recent years and I know a lot of people who have been involved in studies to look at the physical and mental effects short and long term shift work has had on them from a variety of industries. In some ways I wish I'd got involved in the studies but 20 years ago when a lot of them started I was one of the people who believed working shift work was nothing more than changing your sleeping patterns.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

I'm naturally a night owl, which is why I have an issue with getting to bed on time, so in the morning I drink coffee to amp myself up. Typically the ideal for me is to sleep 9 hours, but when working I sleep 5-7 hours because I have issues going to sleep. Also, I'm a complete monster of a person if I don't get enough sleep. I annoy myself with how moody I am. My boyfriend works nights now, and I've noticed he gets really cranky in the mornings waking up (because I've been home for summer break I've noticed it more) and he's not normally a cranky person at all. I think partially because it's harder to manage your time well when you work nights and you feel like you have no social life, and don't do much but go to work and come home. And I think maybe the lack of Vitamin D too has something to do with it.

 

[EternalMetal]

Damn, you guys are making me worried. I am going to a job interview today with a good chance of getting the job, but the only problem is that it is a night shift position. I used to volunteer nights as an EMT so I know that I can do it, but I wasnt doing enough hours to have to permanently alter my sleep schedule. Im not sure if I could do it for more than a year or two.

 

[Krow]

Does anyone else drink way too many fucking energy drinks to keep going? I bought a tub of G Fuel for a breakfast drink and usually have 1-2 more throughout a day depending on how bad it is. I switched to sugar free varieties because the sugar crash just isn’t worth it. Bang is pretty good. Ultra Paradise Monster and the 300 mg Caffeine Rockstars are also acceptable.

 

[The Ozzman]

Does anyone else drink way too many fucking energy drinks to keep going? I bought a tub of G Fuel for a breakfast drink and usually have 1-2 more throughout a day depending on how bad it is. I switched to sugar free varieties because the sugar crash just isn’t worth it. Bang is pretty good. Ultra Paradise Monster and the 300 mg Caffeine Rockstars are also acceptable.

I drink energy drinks occasionally. I brew coffee at my desk when I'm at work and I'll typically only grab an energy drink at work if the coffee isn't working for whatever reason. If I get any more than 4-5 coffees worth of caffeine during the day, I crash pretty hard when I get home.

I've never had a Bang, but I typically go to the Black Cherry Mt Dew Kickstarts if I need something with caffeine other than coffee.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@CiG
there's this recessive-gene medical condition where sunlight makes a person sleepy
i think @HadesRagnazrath might have this condition,
which should be fine if he gets some sort of nightshift job that lets him go to sleep at about sunrise

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Damn, you guys are making me worried. I am going to a job interview today with a good chance of getting the job, but the only problem is that it is a night shift position. I used to volunteer nights as an EMT so I know that I can do it, but I wasnt doing enough hours to have to permanently alter my sleep schedule. Im not sure if I could do it for more than a year or two.

a person's default sleeping rhythm is determined/controlled by sunrise
some people like @HadesRagnazrath naturally get sleepy at sunrise
some people like @Slammed and @CiG just naturally get up at sunrise