Comments on: Pointlessly forcing ourselves to be diurnal http://www.electricboogaloo.net/wordpress/archives/2009/04/01/pointlessly-forcing-ourselves-to-be-diurnal/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:01:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Not On Fire http://www.electricboogaloo.net/wordpress/archives/2009/04/01/pointlessly-forcing-ourselves-to-be-diurnal/comment-page-1/#comment-182211 Not On Fire Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:48:33 +0000 http://www.electricboogaloo.net/wordpress/?p=1570#comment-182211 I was told by a nurse a long time ago that you cannot move someone's sleep pattern by more than 15 minutes a day. I don't know if that will help you? I don't know where it came from, but I have acted like it is true when we get out of sync and it does seem to work. I was told by a nurse a long time ago that you cannot move someone’s sleep pattern by more than 15 minutes a day. I don’t know if that will help you? I don’t know where it came from, but I have acted like it is true when we get out of sync and it does seem to work.

]]> By: Karen Rucker http://www.electricboogaloo.net/wordpress/archives/2009/04/01/pointlessly-forcing-ourselves-to-be-diurnal/comment-page-1/#comment-179141 Karen Rucker Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:53:48 +0000 http://www.electricboogaloo.net/wordpress/?p=1570#comment-179141 My best plans for being diurnal always involved sleeping later and staying up later until I lapped the rest of the world. If I'm sleeping until 2 p.m., then the next day I could sleep until 3. Then 4, 5, 6... eventually I'd be sleeping in until the a.m.'s and then it's only a matter of time until I'm sleeping in until 7 am and wondering what was up with all those lazy people sleeping in until 8. Of course my husband believes this is nonsense. What does he know. He only teaches Physics. My best plans for being diurnal always involved sleeping later and staying up later until I lapped the rest of the world. If I’m sleeping until 2 p.m., then the next day I could sleep until 3. Then 4, 5, 6… eventually I’d be sleeping in until the a.m.’s and then it’s only a matter of time until I’m sleeping in until 7 am and wondering what was up with all those lazy people sleeping in until 8. Of course my husband believes this is nonsense. What does he know. He only teaches Physics.

]]> By: Chrysoula http://www.electricboogaloo.net/wordpress/archives/2009/04/01/pointlessly-forcing-ourselves-to-be-diurnal/comment-page-1/#comment-178967 Chrysoula Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:16:46 +0000 http://www.electricboogaloo.net/wordpress/?p=1570#comment-178967 Robin went to sleep... ok, I don't know. I gave up on him at 6:00 AM and went to bed myself. I think maybe he finally decided to lay down then? Maybe? He was talking to his feet as I went to the bathroom. But! I woke him up at 3:30 this afternoon! And I took away his playpen so he couldn't eat breakfast and then immediately take a nap. Instead, he is climbing on the table. And maybe? with no nap? He'll go to bed at 2 am? For a brief period of time we'd got him going to bed at midnight and getting up at 11 and napping at 3 and it was... I felt almost normal. But then we all got sick for a month... Robin went to sleep… ok, I don’t know. I gave up on him at 6:00 AM and went to bed myself. I think maybe he finally decided to lay down then? Maybe? He was talking to his feet as I went to the bathroom.

But! I woke him up at 3:30 this afternoon! And I took away his playpen so he couldn’t eat breakfast and then immediately take a nap. Instead, he is climbing on the table.

And maybe? with no nap? He’ll go to bed at 2 am?

For a brief period of time we’d got him going to bed at midnight and getting up at 11 and napping at 3 and it was… I felt almost normal. But then we all got sick for a month…

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