Most days without sleeping... ( Archived) (46)

I've discovered that it's very possible to be awake for two days, sleep for about 12-18 hours, then stay up for another two days. Fascinating research going on here.

PARADIGM BUSTER!!!!

The best and most natural way to deal with sleep deregulation due to jet lag is Melatonin.

It's the natural product that regulates day-night activities for all living things, both plants and animals.

The brain creates and stocks melatonin during daylight hours and releases it at the normal sleep time, and it brings on the onset of sleep.

It's not a true sedative because it clears out of the blood very quickly. An hour after its released (or taken as a sleep aid) it's gone from the body.
It just brings on the onset of sleep and then it's function is finished and it's flushed out of the system.

If you take it at the time you want to go to sleep for several days in a row it will not only help you to go to sleep, it will reset your natural sleep clock to the desired time.

Possible, but not good for you.

You can totally lose your natural rhythms that way and find yourself waking up every night at 2AM ready for a new day, but then desperately needing to sleep at 4 PM.

All your harmones, enzymes, and neurotransmitters will be on the wrong schedule too.

Yeah Ray, I've noticed that. The only way for me to get back on a normal sleeping pattern and to get up early in the morning and go to bed at a decent hour at night is to stay up for a day. Then I'm good until that one night I become a vampire again or just sleep in.

I can adjust back quickly, but it does take discipline. I've tried some binaural beats to align my brainwaves with the delta frequency---usually works and gets me sleepy fast. But damn does it produce some powerful dreams.

That has happened before, getting up like 2-3 in the morning and ready for bed around 4 pm. I force myself to stay up to about 10 or so and I'm good and back on a normal pattern.

I guess this happens when I miss more than two days of exercise. To be honest, I think I can really function okay by staying up for two days, then sleeping for about 18 hours, then up for two days again and sleep again for 18 hours or so. The thing is I have to stay in that rhythm to feel normal---or alive hahhaha. It is interesting though how I was able to pull that off a few times, and I looked fresh and awake---no dark or heavy bags under my eyes and I was able to work out and so on. Belief is power man. In any case, I don't like that shift though. Time becomes warped and really flies by. Hmmm...I don't know, must be this new galactic wave we are getting now hahahaha.

Thanks for the heads up.

One hour a day? I can handle 20 minutes, but one hour is too long. What if I jog in the woods for 40 minutes plus the meditation? Nevermind, I know it works...just need to get back in that groove since baseball season for me starts soon. Judging by your pics, I believe you though...you look YOUNG! Will you marry me?