<p>School started last week... and I've been getting plenty of sleep (7-8 hours for junior year). Last year I got like 6 hours towards the end of the year, and I took naps for an hour (sometimes 2 hours when I forget to set my alarm clock) when I got less than 6 hours.</p>
<p>However, these days I am pretty tired when I get home. I do work really slowly and it's hard to do ACT/SAT practice tests or practice violin... despite me getting enough sleep. So I take a 45 minute nap right when I get home. Anyone else feel this way? Maybe it's because I have to walk a quarter of a mile home in 90 degree weather... not sure :p</p>
<p>You know, the ideal day for the human body would be 25 hours. That’s the time frame the human sleep cycle will adapt to if isolated from the Sun. But your nap schedule sounds normal (you’re getting tired when I do, and my girlfriend was the same when she had to wake up that early, too), as far as I know.</p>
<p>Your schedule isn’t abnormal at all. Here’s MY schedule, which is definitely abnormal:</p>
<p>Get home by 3:30
Eat, watch TV, do whatever till 4
Sleep from 4 to 10-12, or even 1 AM, depending on how much workload I have for that day.
Eat and try to wake up for like an hour
Do homework/study/etc till 4 or 5 am
Go back to sleep until 7 am and go to school</p>
Both ways, in the snow, with no shoes, the burning hot ice tattering your handmade clothes that these confounded kids nowadays never had to deal with.
And your stone tablet and chisel, not to mention the calculator! They were huge in your day, and made of wood! And if it got one drop of hot snow on it, it would break, so you had to shield it with your body.</p>
<p>I have an abnormal napping schedule too! I usually come home around 3ish. I start off doing homework and pretending to be all productive, but I fall asleep in my chair and wake up around 8pm. Then I start rushing all my homework and studying till 2-3 AM. Then I go to sleep around 4 (just cuz I can’t focus on all my stuff at once) and try to wake up for school at 6:30. but half of the time I’m late. so yeah…your napping schedule doesn’t sound irregular to me. :D</p>
<p>I don’t, but I only can sleep for four hours because I have too much homework (for only one school)…90 degree weather is nice (live in somewhere 110 is a low temp.)</p>
<p>I try not to fall asleep when I get home, and I didn’t, but then I got tired at night, so now I’m probably going to take more naps in the afternoon. I get home at 4 and take 2-3 hour naps until dinner, eat dinner, and then do homework.</p>
I know of no such thing. I took my literature classes at a college. However, I’m pretty good at Impromptu Speaking, and inspiration just came to me. It only took my tweaking to turn it into an exaggerated old-person tall tale.</p>
<p>Oh hmm that’s not too strange. From my personal experience, back when I used to get around 4 hours of sleep, and then started sleeping a couple extra hours it didn’t really help. My head just ached more. I used to think it had something to do with the way your sleep cycle functions, and if you wake up in the middle of a deep-sleep cycle it isn’t pleasant.</p>
<p>Another reason could possibly that with monophasic sleep you will inevitably have your more tired times and more alert times due to being awake for one continuous time period. Whereas last year you had adopted more of a biphasic lifestyle where you’ll probably have more of a constant level of alertness. And now since your body had gotten used to this, you aren’t necessarily faring much better.</p>
<p>In my personal opinion you should just officially adopt a biphasic sleep schedule with 4.5 hours of core sleep and one 1.5 hour nap. From what I’ve read it’s pretty healthy. And I’m officially following it this school year…hopefully it turns out for the best. It should be better than variable sleep hours.</p>