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Johnny4428:

--- Quote from: Bryanj on December 12, 2023, 09:32:59 PM ---25 years of nights means i only think in the dark!

--- End quote ---
You and Ken! I’m definately a day light person. I can happily work away all day but comes evening I’m done.

Oddjob:
Yeah, spot on Johnny, after so many years working either late afternoons or nights my body clock is royally screwed. As soon as I stop work for a holiday or being off sick I would start to go to bed later and later, in the end I didn't go to sleep until 3-5am in the morning, now I'm retired I'm going to bed around 3am but then I read until 7-8am before I can go to sleep. It's a god awful state of affairs, I miss half the day sleeping. I can break the cycle but I have to stay awake for around 36 hours to do it and eventually I just revert back again.

On holiday I had to be at the airport for the flight back at 5am, I didn't sleep for 42 hours beforehand, when I got home I slept for 16 hours straight.

Johnny4428:
I suppose if you muck around with the body clock for such a prolonged period of time it’s going to get confused about where it’s “norm” is. I think the important thing is getting sufficient rest for the body to reset and repair regardless of what time of day or night you get it.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I moved from the old three shift system that I worked for 20 odd years to a so called body clock friendly circadian shift system. 4 on 4 off, 12 hour shifts, two 7.00 am to 7.00 pm day shifts followed by two 7.00pm -7.00am night shift then 4 days off, repeat. Sounds great except your first day off you are asleep, second day off a walking zombie, third day off half retuning to normal but you can't sleep. Fourth day off you feeling good enough to face another 4 days work.

SteveD CB500K0:
Was that in the police Ted?

They still run the “calls” like that.


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