sleep

Sleep disruption in extremis

Posted 2009-06-12 (金) 午前4:32 by terra

WTF is wrong with my sleeping patterns?

Sleep at 3AM, wake up at 7;
sleep at 12 wake up at 4.

And when I try to sleep all over again, it becomes a staring exercise between me and my darkened ceilings.

Since when did my body start to tell myself four hours is all you need for sleep? My BFF, the abiity to sleep like a log, seems to have left me high and dry ever since I returned to the sunny isle of Singapore (actually make that Hell-level hot).

This is seriously depressing.

Subjects: General

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: sleep

Night shifts

Posted 2006-03-16 (木) 午前10:53 by terra

Switching between working regular hours and night shifts can be debilitating for the uninitiated. It messes up one’s biological clock, and the feeling is somewhat like a persisting jetlag.

I may be accustomed to keeping late nights in the comforts of home after a full day’s work but the feeling is quite different from this weekly or biweekly switching pattern. At work the nervous tension lingers and drains; recoving in the day just doesn’t do it, unless I am able to pretend that day is night. I know of people who can maintain this sort of lifestyle but I just haven’t gotten the hang of it.