Re: Your Experience with Sleeping Patterns
Raycrote, your medication side-effect sounds like a textbook case of mania (the polar opposite of depression). Including it being exhausting.
Also yes, sleep cycles are a battle.
I find I absolutely must have some sort of way to force myself to be up at the right times. If I can't sleep when the right times come around, melatonin is always an option. (The problem with melatonin is that it takes a while to have an effect, and I don't know if I'm going to have trouble sleeping until I'm having trouble sleeping... so using it habitually would probably be better, but I don't wanna.)
What helps? Having a full day, I guess. If you have friends and you have the same school/work hours and you hang out after / before, your cycles will probably drift toward each other.
... Yeah, that's it. Just external factors. Internal motivation can help, but you have to be starting from a strong enough place to have any internal motivation of consequen
ce. Not gonna lie, all these training center and college shenanigans were in part a front in the war on sleep (itself a front of the War on Akrasius, Demon Lord of Sloth and Despair), though not exclusively, because that would be silly. ... and it worked, though not without effort and luck, and now that I've used that up... well, I have no idea how long this Goldylocks interval... honeymoon period? Denouement? is going to last, so get back to me in a month or two.
(I really didn't mean to make this post go back to that subject but no seriously it helped a ton with this particular problem. I think my internal clock is still screwy, and the symptoms are easy to recognize once you know what to look for, but, yeah. There's only so much sliding you can do with an 8-to-5 commitment that you have to walk half a mile to and from. Which leads neatly into my next topic...)
How much should we push "society" for this? Some, at least. Current research
indicates that teenagers emphatically should not start school at 8AM, and no one but the super experimental montesauri-esque private schools have changed anything in response. In the US, workplace culture has gone nanners, and people all over are being pushed to work ridiculous hours and show ridiculous amounts of enthusiasm after spending ridiculous amounts of time and effort to get ridiculous overqualifications from ridiculously pompous universities. In short, work in the US is ridiculous. (Most people who will respond to this with some complaint about being whiny entitled good-for-nothing layabouts tend to be old enough that, when they started working, work was not, in fact, so ridiculous, and neither was college. This does not mean there aren't whiny entitled good-for-nothing layabouts who complain when you try to get them to do paperwork instead of playing on Facebook. The two are not mutually exclusive, you see.)
It's something of an awful catch 22, or at least
, in the case where I link sleep to productivity (research and numerous anecdotes do so, so might as well test it, ne?). To get out of the Slothpit, one needs a full schedule... but if one tried filling the holes in said schedule with the ultimate target work already, then the only thing to do is fill it with something else. So there's a time scarcity either way--one at the hands of sleep deprivation, the other due to schedule conflicts.
And yet, less is definitely more, where free time is concerned. Don't misunderstand me, Kakarot. Free Time is still essential. But whole weeks of free time are terrifying. (If training helped, then the 3 big breaks did very much the opposite. That I have not crashed yet since graduating is a welcome miracle.)
I should add that, for me at least, filling a vacant schedule with lots of sitting is a very inferior solution. Especially if it's the sort where there is no getting up and going elsewhere during the day. This is one r eason--perhaps the most important--that I want to go nowhere near an office job. I'd sooner be a housekeeper (Ahem, "environmental specialist"), since it at least involves getting up and moving around, and has a very clear way to measure progress. Alas, paperwork multiplies, these days, and spills into everything.
This was supposed to be a quick reply, not a novella! -_-
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