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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?
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"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.
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!
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
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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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"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 ?
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
What a worthless calculator! It only works for bed-times between 6pm and 6am.
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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...
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.
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
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.
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.