Do I live on the wrong side of Earth?

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<p>So it’s 5:57am, and I’m yet again wide awake after having spent an entire night/morning not only fully awake, but more aware than I ever was during the preceding day. Essentially, I’m sleepy and groggy all day, and I’m wide awake at night.</p>

<p>This makes me wonder, what if I moved to China? Would my circadian rhythm finally be in conjunction with my environment? I realize it’s a little drastic, but it’d be marvelous to finally be diurnal like the rest of society, rather than nocturnal, which just screws up my whole schedule.</p>

<p>Thoughts?</p>

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<p>Wait, so do you sleep through all your classes?</p>

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<p>I’m always sleepy during the day, but I have too much willpower such that I never fall asleep during class (occasionally I’ll drift out off into that “zone”). I actually start feeling angry at my teachers when I’m in class and I could sleep if only I didn’t have to be in that damn class. =/</p>

<p>Damn, it’s 6:35 right now. Sun’s coming up. This sucks. Maybe I should start learning Chinese.</p>

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<p>Nah. You’d probably have an easier time with daytime waking for a few days while you dealt with jet-lag… and then you’d adjust to local time and eventually be right back where you started. I’ve had the same issues with a nocturnal schedule in the past, and whenever I travel somewhere with a several hour time zone shift, I have maybe a day of being skewed before ending up with the same nocturnal tendencies on local time. Sleeping on a long flight also screws with things, so that first day probably won’t even be oriented the way it normally would on home-local time.</p>

<p>I always enjoy being able to use jet-lag as an excuse for my bizarre sleep patterns for a few days when traveling, though. But generally they’re the exact same bizarre patterns I have at home; turns out I’m very tied to environmental cues but in the wrong directions.</p>

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<p>^ Well, I never sleep on planes.</p>

<p>Should I just walk there?</p>

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<p>maybe you should just drink coffee in the morning or check if you need to drink…blood</p>

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<p>I drank a good deal of blood a couple of days ago. But I heard that’s not good for you.</p>

<p>I’m not very interested in drinking coffee. I used to drink tea, and the caffeine in that seemed to make me crash even more.</p>

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<p>doesn’t tea have almost negligible amounts of caffeine…?</p>

<p>for a few years I drank it like water (literally–my parents would pour it into water bottles for me to bring to school to drink too)</p>

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<p>^ Well, the point is I usually felt groggier after drinking black tea. Green tea has very little caffeine, though (and it is great for you).</p>

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<p>what about the types of tea that people drink because they have trouble falling asleep? do those contain caffeine also? I always figured it would be counterintuitive since I’m pretty sure all tea has some level of caffeine, and if you’re really that insomniac you wouldn’t want any caffeine even a little…</p>

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<p>^ Well, different people have reactions to different chemicals. Like I said, caffine-rich black tea made me crash and feel groggy. Herbal “teas” often times don’t have any caffeine.</p>

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<p>Lol wow I can sleep at any given time, night or day, and I like sleeping so much that I don’t have a problem with, say, sleeping 16 hours every day for like a month straight.</p>

<p>I’m at 10 hours of sleep weekdays, 12~16 on weekends right now. </p>

<p>I’ve never understood how it’s difficult for someone to fall asleep, but meh. It’s something I’ll never understand, I guess. GL.</p>

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■■■■■■■. >:[</p>

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<p>Invoyable… how do you do that? </p>

<p>The only time I’m really awake is from 6-7 pm to 12 am. I really could sleep 18 hours a day. I did it during Christmas break.</p>

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<p>Bleh…it’s 6:51am. Still haven’t gone to bed. I definitely think I’m on the wrong side of the planet.</p>

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Be jealous. ;)</p>

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  1. Eat 10 cookies.
  2. Change in my pajamas.
  3. Lie down in bed.
  4. Fall asleep.</p>

<p>Really, though, I go to bed around 9pm on weekdays, wake up at like 7:20am (~10 hours), and weekends it’s anytime, but it’s at least 11 hours.</p>

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<p>I sleep 5 hours on weekdays, and 10-12 hours on weekends. x3 My dad doesn’t understand how I function for school. I’m just used to it, I guess.</p>

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<p>Meh, it’s 5:56am, and I’m stuffing my face with a bagel. My second one, in fact.</p>

<p>Hunger > sleepiness.</p>

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<p>Yep, same. 5 hours on weekdays and 10 hours on weekends has become pretty standard for me.</p>

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<p>I guess I’m the only one who gets less sleep on weekends (since I know it’s the weekend, and that I don’t have school the next day, I feel no need to go to bed).</p>

<p>Anyways, I’m already eating breakfast, so it looks like I won’t be going to bed “tonight”. =/</p>