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Calculate When You Are Most Awake

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the between-noon-and-midnight dept.

cjellibebi writes "Scientists have devised a formula that works out what times of the day you are most tired. Using their website, you can work out your alertness profile for any given day. It is also discussed on this BBC News article."

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  1. unrealistic form options (for me at least) by mardoen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Their form to enter the time I wake up in the "mornings" is flawed. No option after noon (I usually rise at 1-3 pm, go to sleep at 4-5 am).

    Guess they didn't think about students. Or unemployed programmers...

  2. Naps? by skraps · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Their system doesn't account for naps. I generally sleep from 3am-9am, and 6pm-8pm. Work for the man during the day. Take a nap to refresh yourself. Work for yourself at night. I've used this system on and off for a few years, and it works well.

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  3. Using your sleepy time of day for diagnostics by Tiburana · · Score: 5, Interesting
    One the things that those who practice ancient Chinese medicine believe is that certain types of energy run through meridians in the body, and are tied to individual organs or groups of organs. Supposedly, each energy has a peak time and a nadir time. For instance, the lung energy has its peak from 3-5 am and then the large intestine energy peaks from 5-7 am.

    Practitioners use this diagnostically by associating when people have a major dip in their energy level to show them which energy needs to be strengthened, which may indicate a pathology in that associated organ.

    The individual energies correlate to five elements that are each expressed by particular flavors, seasons, colors etc. and they will recommend a person increase their exposure to the things associated with the element where their energy is weakest.

    It would be interesting to see if the times of people's energetic nadir as predicted by this system or observed empirically did correlate to physical or emotional issues as predicted by this ancient system.

    I have to tell you I have been pretty skeptical learning about it all but there are a lot things that correlate with accepted western medical theory and some intuitive things that are just dead on, whether I believe in it or not.