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Calculate When You Are Most Awake
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."
for on-the-job sleepiness when you finish the questions?
:-|
"A nap combined with 2 Pro Plus tablets will temporarily alleviate tiredness."
I don't trust a "scientific method" that ends with a sales pitch.
Seems to be pretty accurate in predicting my 3 p.m. nap after my 4-6 a.m. sleep schedule. Too bad it can't tell me what time this afternoon I'll wake up after I go to bed now.
"Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
when I'm most tired. As soon as I arrive at work... Zzzzzzz
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but there was no way to put in my real sleep schedule.
I work 3rd shift (1 am - 9 am), so most days, I end up sleeping from 2 pm - 10 pm.
"Using their website, you can work out your alertness profile for any given day."
Not for much longer, you can't. It's already getting slower...
...but you can also calculate, when their webserver will be asleep!
There's a glitch of some sort. It said that I would be noticeably tired at 16:30 and most tired at 16:30, but the graph clearly showed otherwise. The tips for tiredness also has a problem as the words aren't showing up properly.
their website took a little snooze.....
Hangover, drugs imbibed that day, energy expended dancing naked to the Transformers theme song in the morning, etc.
seems to me that saturday morning is the perfect time to post this news...anyone who's awake now (like me) obviously has a problem or a sucky job.
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I'm most awake during lunch time. Before and after I'm like one of the apes wondering what that big black box thingy is.
"Is that program finished yet?"
"URGH!"
I'm supposed to be wide awake, right now. So I guess that's why I had to read each question a dozen times before I gave up on ever being able processing a complete sentance again, and clicked on the first number I could recognize (after vainly trying to remember how a drop box works).
you have been astro-turfed
next on slashdot, scientists devise a new compound said to give men a huge wang
Took the test and it said I ... zzzzZZZZZ ZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZ (snore ... whistle ... snore ... whistle ...)
(... hey, is that coffee I smell?)
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.
Being tired at work is *good*. Give the man your worst hours. Keep the good hours for yourself.
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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...
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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Set the beddy-bye time to 11:00pm and your wakeup time options are between 11:00pm and 12:00pm? I woke up at 3:00 in the afternoon fercyrinoutlound!
For anyone who may be confused by the term knackered:
Main Entry: knackered
Pronunciation: 'na-k&rd
Function: adjective
Etymology: English slang knacker to kill, tire, perhaps from knacker, n.
British : TIRED, EXHAUSTED
Maybe someone who's really English (i.e., not the fake Canadian type like myself) can expound on the etymology. IIRC it has something to do with killing old horses.
On an more related note, I have noticed that I read Slashdot when I start to tire of whatever it is I'm working on (or not working on). I believe it has something to do with the rhythm of 20-minutes of focused attention followed by a few minutes of wandering thoughts we all have.
At least that's my theory.
"It's really quite simple," he told BBC News Online. "If people are tired during the day then they are not getting enough sleep."
May I please be funded in order to come up with s.th. astounding like that ?
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
... even without doing the test, I predict that their webserver isn't most awake right now ;-)
Or, you know, you could always just pay attention to yourself.
*honk*
This is my sig. It's prescription, I swear. I need it for reading things... on the other side of things
What a worthless calculator! It only works for bed-times between 6pm and 6am.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I think I was on the last question. It was so exciting seeing a website just listed that hadn't crashed!
I did all the questions and t h e n.....
Now I won't know when to be tired.
OH THE HUMANITY!!!
It alternates between telling me I'm most alert at either 4:04 or 5:00 exactly. Not even sure if they are talking about AM or PM.
And what's really odd is it's not even asking me any questions before giving me my results.
I guess they figured out a way to determine when you are most alert based on your IP or something.
About 72 hours after the arrival of my first child, I was more tired than I'd ever been in my life. Just when things were starting to improve, a few years later, along came the second.
At this point, I'm not even making the interest payments on my sleep debt, and the Sandman keeps threatening to send his goons around to beat the rest of it out of me.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
I don't know how scientific the whole thing is, but it's all a protracted (but low-key) advert for some kind of "pep" pills. And as if that weren't enough, the layout doesn't work for Firefox (non-portable HTML), and it's very easy to confuse its text generator.
Just walk on, folks...ank
Still hoping for Gentle Treatment...
...after a big pot of coffee.
I fell asleep waiting the page to load due to the slashdot effect.
Who is John Galt?
The poll also found that men and women experience tiredness differently. Some 64% of women said they become irritable when tired. Men said they make more mistakes.
But, um, isn't that just the usual gender stereotype (it might have some truth to it, I'm not judging)? Women being more aware of their emotions while men are more performance driven?
Next thing you know, they notice alcohol affects men and women differently: men can't change tires, while women can't find their eyeliner in their purse.
"It's really quite simple," he told BBC News Online. "If people are tired during the day then they are not getting enough sleep."
And next on BBC:
"If you are thirsty, drink!", scientist claims.
So many complaints about being tired. You guys should really decrease on your daily dose of sex.
Oh wait.
Apparently they're using some sort of new-fangled time system where hours have more than 60 minutes. The results came out as:
"You will start to feel noticeably tired at 15:60 and you will feel most tired at 17:60"
15:60? 17:60?
For me, it basically says that I am never alert. I did a 4am-9am sleep pattern, which is actually being on the generous side for me: I normally sleep more like 4 hours. I had bad insomnia for years, and just "got used to" sleeping little I suppose. Somewhere after 4-5 hours I will wake up without an alarm, and I won't be "exhausted" all day...In fact, sometimes I'm not tired by 4am, but get myself off to bed anyway.
/.-ers who have cried "marketing scheme."
Apaarently, this means that I am in fact never alert. I have to agree with other
I will, perhaps foolishly, jump in with two real book recommendations.
The shorter of the two is Stanley Coren's "Sleep Thieves." It goes quite heavily into the various consequences of sleep deprivation. It's quite scary.
The longer of the two -- and probably more informative on the biology of sleep -- is William Dement's "The Promise of Sleep." Dement is viewed by many as the leading sleep researcher in the United States.
It will take you much longer to read this books than take the linked for test, but you'll be much better informed. You might even be able to marshall substantial arguments against a PHB's death march.
Both books also have tests to take to find out how sleep deprived you are. There are also recommendations for treating this condition.
Both are available from your favorite book seller.
"Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- B. Franklin
ProPlus is the main (only?) brand of caffeinated pep-pills here in the UK; their tag-line is "for relief of temporary tiredness" or somesuch.
Sure enough, in the results they show that I never even make it as awake as "little sleepy", let alone "alert". If that were true, I'd have been out of a job (or dead from lack of attention when crossing the road) a long, long time ago. Funny then that I spend most of my Saturdays dancing from around midnight til 7:30am, and all without any chemical assistance...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Scientists have devised a formula that works out what times of the day you are most tired.
Funny, when you go to the website, you tell them when you sleep, when you are tired, when you feel awake, and then they graph your answers out. Ummmmm....that is truly amaaaaazing.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Where neoliberal propaganda urges us to push ourselves ever harder, even to the point where we are supposed to be concerned about how alert we are at every waking moment.
eat shiat and bark at the moon
The site is obviously an ad, but they did a fairly good job at predicting my low points in the day.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, I'm usually completely wiped out, and occasionally I'll end up face down on the keyboard.
I used to sleep so much better when I was physically active. Now, it's get up, commute, sit like lump at desk all day, become unmotivated due to typical work day, get home, sit around the home or at the computer all evening because I've got no energy.
Life was better when I went rollerblading every day, before my knees went to hell.
I bet exercise a few times a week would be a hell of a lot more effective than that little caffeine pill.
And someone should do a study on what professions tend to get better sleep. I bet a construction worker will have insomnia 10 times less than a desk jockey.
I like this site. What time do you go to bed and wake up? Are you a morning person or a night owl? When do you feel most alert? How easily do you wake up in the morning? How well do you sleep? etc.
Sort of like asking what card you are holding before before magically guessing what card you picked.
After asking all that, they draw a line graph that matches your answers. I didn't go on to the recommendation page, so I didn't get to see how many no-doze I need to take a day to be 'normal'.
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.