I prefer to run at night, often sleep from 2-5 am till noon, or so. Wake up w/o alarm, naturally. I’ve noticed as I’ve aged, that sleepiness hits me around 2 or 3. Always guess the time, before checking, usually pretty close. It crept up on me, I had to get accustomed to recognizing it. Never used to be a problem. It’s all got to do with zircadian? Rythems. There’s 2 different natural body clocks. Which schedule your body runs on, dictates whether you’re a night owl or day person. 9:30 at night, I’m getting ready to grill some steaks for dinner.Hit the sak around 3:00 am. Normal day.
Natural night owls who struggle a bit with night time driving
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That's why it's so curious to me that night time driving seems to get to me. As I said, I think a big part of it is just staring into the blackness for so long. I listen to podcasts during the daytime but at nighttime they put me to sleep.
I'll listen to music at night time to keep me going. Others mentioned the 70's/80's rock and roll and yeah, I listen to all that. My parents listened to it all the time (it was their generations music) when I was growing up, so I love it as much as they do.
But even the music only helps to a certain extent. Again, 2am-5am seems to be the death zone no matter how well rested I am or taking any other external factors into account. -
Whenever I’d have to sleep in the truck I’d start late and run all night, it’s just more chill.
I’m not a graveyard shift guy though.
My perfect schedule would be second shift but that ain’t happening for me. I have to get up at 5:15 m-f.authentic251, D.Tibbitt, FlaSwampRat and 2 others Thank this. -
I just got home, it's 01:36. I'll probably go to sleep around 03:30 and get up at 06:00 to take my daughter to school. Them I will come home, do what I need to do and go back to sleep around 10:00 and wake up at 14:00 to get ready for work. I find splitting sleep up works better for me.
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I thought I would add a rant that pertains to this. You will have days like I am having today. I got about 2 hours of sleep before I had to take my daughter to school and can't fall back asleep so it's gonna be a rough night lol.
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I try to drive at night as much as possible. I find that I get a boost when the sun comes up if I'm feeling a bit tired. Take time to pull over and get out and get the blood pumping if you start to feel like you're nodding off. I definitely keep plenty of five hour energy around also. There are times when the demands of the job will flip me around the other way before I've had a chance to flip my sleep clock the other way. You have to prepare for things like that and it can be really exhausting.
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