Circadian rhytm coordinates metabolic processes on cellular level, hormonal balance, and other important things. It get’s calibrated by dailight. Additionally, you sleep worse during day, have worse memory retention.
I’m pretty sensible to it and get irritated skin and pimples after a too late night, a irritated digestive trackt and an abscess after multiple late/short nights.
In short, you run on fumes on nightshifts and shouldn’t do that for forever. It might be fine for you for now, but please don’t act like it’s ok, that’s misinfirmation.
What you say is mostly true, but we don’t all have the same circadian rhythms. There is such a thing as night owls, and while you might not sleep well in the daylight I genuinely sleep better in a sunbeam. The times in my life that I have been the most exhausted and chronically sleep deprived were when my circumstances demanded that I be up and active before 10am. I have struggled for years against the constraints of others schedules while my body screamed at me that it wanted to do everything later. The simple fact is your body will tell you what schedule works for you or not. If you are not energized or at your best at midnight, fine, but humans come in all sorts of variations and some of us evolved to guard the tribe while others slept.
I love when someone writes a pleasant “this is my experience and what worked for me.” And then people downvote. ITT some real night owl/daywalker tension. :D
Just to add some crunchy bits to the batter, your circadian rhythms will most likely shift as you age. For example, I used to be hardcore night owl, and couldn’t imagine my life ever going differently. Then I couldn’t do it anymore and managed to become a second-shifter. Now I’m all about getting in bed early and up early.
Yeah no, just get blackout curtains and your body’s resistance to sleeping during the day goes away. The only issue I had with night shifts was the social disconnect of working during general sleeping hours, sleeping during general gathering hours, and getting ready for work during party hours.
Circadian rhytm coordinates metabolic processes on cellular level, hormonal balance, and other important things. It get’s calibrated by dailight. Additionally, you sleep worse during day, have worse memory retention.
I’m pretty sensible to it and get irritated skin and pimples after a too late night, a irritated digestive trackt and an abscess after multiple late/short nights.
In short, you run on fumes on nightshifts and shouldn’t do that for forever. It might be fine for you for now, but please don’t act like it’s ok, that’s misinfirmation.
What you say is mostly true, but we don’t all have the same circadian rhythms. There is such a thing as night owls, and while you might not sleep well in the daylight I genuinely sleep better in a sunbeam. The times in my life that I have been the most exhausted and chronically sleep deprived were when my circumstances demanded that I be up and active before 10am. I have struggled for years against the constraints of others schedules while my body screamed at me that it wanted to do everything later. The simple fact is your body will tell you what schedule works for you or not. If you are not energized or at your best at midnight, fine, but humans come in all sorts of variations and some of us evolved to guard the tribe while others slept.
I love when someone writes a pleasant “this is my experience and what worked for me.” And then people downvote. ITT some real night owl/daywalker tension. :D
Just to add some crunchy bits to the batter, your circadian rhythms will most likely shift as you age. For example, I used to be hardcore night owl, and couldn’t imagine my life ever going differently. Then I couldn’t do it anymore and managed to become a second-shifter. Now I’m all about getting in bed early and up early.
Yeah no, just get blackout curtains and your body’s resistance to sleeping during the day goes away. The only issue I had with night shifts was the social disconnect of working during general sleeping hours, sleeping during general gathering hours, and getting ready for work during party hours.