<p>Has anyone who is a night person tried this?</p>
<p>Wake-up at around midnight and do homework/study.
Go to classes in the morning...maybe until 2pm or whatever.
Come home and sleep until midnight.
Repeat.</p>
<p>Meals would be fit into awake time. Obviously if you had after school engagements this wouldn't work, but let's assume you didn't.</p>
<p>I do this a lot actually. Not on purpose, but what usually happens is I have to pull an all night for some school related reason, so I’ll go to school then come back, sleep until 12am or 1am, get up and do work, shower, whatever, and repeat. I have classes until about 6pm though. I’ve been on that schedule for the past 2 weeks. I don’t really like it, but only have a week and a half left so I’ll deal and fix it later. :)</p>
<p>Well, like you said, this schedule doesn’t allot one with the opportunity to do much besides sleep and go to school, so it’s not really practical, especially considering that most people would be tired after going to classes on a schedule like this.</p>
<p>Have you tried this, G? If so, how has it worked out for you?</p>
<p>I stay up all night sometimes, either to study or just use the internet. Unfortunately, I have some afternoon classes, so it’s hard to stick to that kind of schedule.</p>
<p>I did this on Black Friday. I went shopping and had to work that day, so I went to sleep around 6 pm, woke up at 8:30, left after 11 and didn’t return home from shopping/work until almost 9:30 am. However, when I tried to fall back asleep that morning I woke up at the top of every hour, and each time my mood was worse than the hour before. Finally I just stayed up after three hours when I felt slightly more like a normal person.</p>
<p>All-nighters can make your mood go in all kinds of odd directions. It’s okay, even fun, every now and then, and when I was in high school I used to stay up until 6 or 7 am all the time on weekends and breaks, but now I don’t like doing that so much.</p>
<p>I use alternative sleeping schedules during finals, or at least did back when I had a lot of hard, in class finals. The most common thing I’d do was go to sleep around 6 pm, wake up around 2 or 3am, and then study for a final at 8am. It honestly didn’t throw me off THAT much since I was still awake for the daylight hours (more of them really) and it wasn’t that far offset from regular sleep.</p>
<p>For what you’re talking about, a lot of people who do shift work do exactly that. They work from midnight to 8am or so and either sleep before or after that</p>
<p>That’s pretty much my life. It doesn’t work very well. It’s much easier to pull an “all nighter” to do homework than it is to go to an appointment, it eventually gets depressing to hardly ever see any daylight, and then you’re always taking tests at the end of the “day” instead of in the middle when you are actually functioning for it. Not to mention that then I have to sleep through all the noise and light shining in the room, it drives my roommate nuts to be tiptoeing all day long, and I could pretty much never see my friends again.</p>
<p>I’ll probably do it for finals, since my ADD is much less of a pain at night for whatever reason and I function a lot better, but for day to day living it’s just not worth it.</p>
<p>I sometimes fall onto that schedule and stay there for a few weeks. I just now fell out of it, and I’m back on a “normal” schedule. </p>
<p>It works better if you go to bed later than 3:00pm because like said, you’d be having class at the end of your day, and by then you’re exhausted. I was going to bed at around 7:00 and waking up at 3 in the morning. Then I do my homework. It’s nice to do your homework when you’re not exhausted. =P And I was getting 8 hours of sleep every night, which is nice.</p>
<p>It would be hard to do to if you work at night. I work in the morning, and I also don’t have a roommate, so it’s an easier schedule for me to maintain. It’s also hard to do if you need to be around people a lot, because you’re sleeping when everyone else is awake, and awake when everyone else is sleeping.</p>
<p>I do that sometimes around midterm and finals weeks. My sleeping schedule was like stay up all night until about 7AM, then sleep in the morning/afternoon and wake up in the late afternoon. I’m trying really hard not to do that again, but for some reason, I feel like I’m more productive when it’s 2-3AM.</p>
<p>^^^I’m in that type of schedule right now. I had all afternoon classes this semester so lately I would stay up until 5 or 6am and sleep until 1 or 2PM. I’m more productive after 10PM, but it’s a difficult schedule to keep, especially since one is sleeping through most of the daylight hours.</p>