Chronobiology and You

[Little Dragon]

This is a tangential and kinda personal question, so I understand if you'd rather not answer, but I'm curious: were you in the military?

(The way you wrote the time made me wonder. )

Actually yes. For five years, when I left school at the age of 16. A few years ago now!
Is it not common to see that usage of time format on RF then?

 

[Debater Slayer]

Actually yes. For five years, when I left school at the age of 16. A few years ago now!
Is it not common to see that usage of time format on RF then?

I have rarely seen it anywhere. I was in the army myself (as a conscript), so I recognize the format.

 

[Little Dragon]

I find meditating prior to going to be helpful as well.

A friend of mine thinks I should try it for my anxiety and ptsd blah blah.
I find distraction also helps!

 

[Little Dragon]

I have rarely seen it anywhere. I was in the army myself (as a conscript), so I recognize the format.

Ah ok. I shall be more careful in future lol!
Don't mind you guys knowing that I guess. It's not part of my life now.

 

[Little Dragon]

I once dreamt that there was a totalitarian dictator of Britain who had two penises

I bet nobody can beat that

That is some grade A quality dreaming boi!

 

[Eddi]

That is some grade A quality dreaming boy!

Freud would have a field day!

 

[SalixIncendium]

A friend of mine thinks I should try it for my anxiety and ptsd blah blah.
I find distraction also helps!

I'd listen to my friend.

 

[Little Dragon]

Freud would have a field day!

He could write a whole book on that dream!
Wonder what Jung would make of that Archetype lol?

 

[Little Dragon]

I'd listen to my friend.

Sometimes I try. I find it helps, then the next day, something occurs and I get involved, and forget all about it, until, anxiety builds again, and my usual methods, essentially the use of sedatives, would not be appropriate or possible. Due to being at work for example.

 

[The Hammer]

Interesting. Personally, I don't wake up until around 1600 hours. However I don't go to sleep until about 0400 hours. So in the winter, at this latitude, I rarely see the Sun. I work nights and late evenings. Have always been a night owl, just like my grandmother, she was the same as me. It suits me fine though. At night, we only have candles on usually. Electric lights are just too bright.

The researcher stated that if you treat your night like your day (sleep schedule, eating etc.) your rhythm can maintain that as our bodies don't "physically know" what time of day it is.

 

[The Hammer]

This is a tangential and kinda personal question, so I understand if you'd rather not answer, but I'm curious: were you in the military?

(The way you wrote the time made me wonder. )

I vastly prefer the 24 hour clock system thanks to the military myself. Running local and UST is a pain in the *** though imo.

 

[Little Dragon]

The researcher stated that if you treat your night like your day (sleep schedule, eating etc.) your rhythm can maintain that as our bodies don't "physically know" what time of day it is.

Interesting. Meaning light itself is not the primary factor in these rhythms? As it is with some organisms.

 

[The Hammer]

Interesting. Meaning light itself is not the primary factor in this rhythms? As it is with some organisms.

Mmhm. Seems that it plays a part of it. Hence light interrupting that schedule. But a lot of it I think deals with our personal sleep/wake cycle.

Edited: "The trick is to pretend that night is day and vice versa. If you do this very rigorously, you can avoid most problems because your body doesn’t know what is day and what is night. What matters is how much light comes in and when you eat. If there is no light and you keep the room dark for eight hours of sleep, you are not interrupted and you don’t eat during that period, your body doesn’t know the difference. The problem is interacting with your family, with the rest of the world."

 

[Debater Slayer]

I vastly prefer the 24 hour clock system thanks to the military myself.

The fact that it could be disastrous to confuse AM with PM when setting an alarm seems to me a good argument for the 24-hour system.

 

[ChristineM]

Actually yes. For five years, when I left school at the age of 16. A few years ago now!
Is it not common to see that usage of time format on RF then?

I use similar, either 16:00 or the french 16h00
But I've not seen many using the 24 hour notation

 

[The Hammer]

A friend of mine thinks I should try it for my anxiety and ptsd blah blah.
I find distraction also helps!

But distraction doesn't help alleviate the problem long term. I'm a chronic distraction person myself at times. (Been much better the last few years).

 

[The Hammer]

The fact that it could be disastrous to confuse AM with PM when setting an alarm seems to me a good argument for the 24-hour system.

It is. And I still do this from time to time on 12s.

 

[Little Dragon]

But distraction doesn't help alleviate the problem long term. I'm a chronic distraction person myself at times. (Been much better the last few years).

 

[Quintessence]

Being in tune with circadian rhythms is why I haven't had to set an alarm clock in over a decade. Whenever I tell folks that, they stare at me like I've grown two heads.