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Spent three months in Malaysia at GMT +8, then spent three days at home before heading out to join relatives who live out here in Florida for Christmas at GMT -5. Sleep's just not coming, no matter how tired I feel. I fear I may have irreversibly broken that part of my brain that deals with sleep patterns. Whatever sleep I get is short and fitful. 
You have broken it, your Circadian rhythm will be very broke. Meaning you won't sleep and won't sleep deeply.
If you want to reset it fast, the best thing to do is do what ever you can to stay up until about bed tome. Even if that means being awake for 36 hours. And plenty of sunlight during the day. And easy on TV/computer/phone/house lights for an hour or so before bes.
If you want to reset it fast, the best thing to do is do what ever you can to stay up until about bed tome. Even if that means being awake for 36 hours. And plenty of sunlight during the day. And easy on TV/computer/phone/house lights for an hour or so before bes.
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Dont know what it is lately but no matter what time i go sleep i wake up around half 2 every morning :s then keep nodding off and waking up every half hour or so, im coming home knackered from work ao i thought ide sleep a lot better thani am lately finding myself just watching crap on tv from half 2 til 5 now
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One more sleep til xmas!
I'm at work, 8pm - 8am but I've been up since 5:30am so fast approaching 24 hours.
finish them boxing day morning at 8am, and then back in for New Years. oddly the woman that does the rota is also on nights with me but working opposite shifts so she's off for both...
finish them boxing day morning at 8am, and then back in for New Years. oddly the woman that does the rota is also on nights with me but working opposite shifts so she's off for both...
I work 4 on, 4 off consisting of 2 days (7 to 7) and 2 nights (7 to 7). After a fortuitous watch change earlier in the year I now find myself doing my last night shift and am off for Christmas! (I wouldn't have been otherwise.) It also means I'm back in between Christmas and New Year, but actually off for NY itself. Not too bad considering it's my last festive season in the job.
However, no time for going to bed when I finish at 0700 - I'm meeting up with an old uni friend and accompanying him on a job which, fingers crossed, may lead to me starting a new career.
After 15 years of shifts one thing I've learnt is that only other shift workers truely understand what it's like; what doing funky hours does to your body and mind. Even my wife doesn't fully understand and all too often regards staying in bed during the day as laziness on my part. We all have our own ways of living with it and being told to do it differently by people that don't understand can be infuriating.
However, no time for going to bed when I finish at 0700 - I'm meeting up with an old uni friend and accompanying him on a job which, fingers crossed, may lead to me starting a new career.
After 15 years of shifts one thing I've learnt is that only other shift workers truely understand what it's like; what doing funky hours does to your body and mind. Even my wife doesn't fully understand and all too often regards staying in bed during the day as laziness on my part. We all have our own ways of living with it and being told to do it differently by people that don't understand can be infuriating.
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