I am tired of diurnal people "suggesting" I just "try and make an effort to wake up early" whenever I tell them I sleep from 4am to 11am, and have my peak performance at midnight. Before noon I am practically a zombie. Try you living in a society where you're forced to work from say 6pm-2am (my preference) and you're told should just try harder.
It's fun living with my parents again (sarcasm!) for the 5th time, working early first shift (start time between 1-4am), and trying to get my dad (always a 9-5er) to understand when I have to get up and when the hell to stop making noise in the early evening so I can actually sleep! That's kinda similar to the "suggesting diurnal" above. Kinda.
having ADHD can mean that you have a "delayed sleep response " which is why i have been called a vampire by multiple friends and family throughout my life . If you find yourself in similar circumstances you can stop beating yourself up because you now have the mechanism for what others may find to be a "shortcoming " in society
I am and have always been a perpetual night owl, despite all the efforts I've made to try and shift into a more strictly diurnal schedule. I'm exhausted throughout the day, but wide awake at night. While I'm glad there is some kind of genetic or evolutionary validation to this, on the other hand, it's still really frustrating!
Not every one does one stretch of sleep, commonly we used to have second sleep/ two sessions of sleep at night. Very handy for sharing guard duties or watching over the fire, animals or babies
There has to be. My sister and I are both night people and the older I get the harder it is to fight so I don’t anymore. At the age of 68 I generally am up from 6 pm to 10 am then sleep in a darkened room. My husband works all day so mostly isn’t bothered by this, he sleeps at night. There must be sheep dogs keeping watch at night.
When I was young I was an early bird, but after working late night and overnight for a few decades I am afraid I'm permanently a night owl. But, beyond that, I think I just hate phase changes. In other words, I resist going to sleep, but once asleep I hate to wake up. Now retired, I no longer use an alarm clock and my circadian rhythm seems to drift. I think I'm on a cycle significantly longer than 24-hours. Changing clocks twice a year doesn't help, especially when winter dusk is around 5 PM (eastern side of a time zone). So glad that 2023 might bring and end to the changes and will leave us permanently on what we now call Daylight Time. I heartily approve.
Same, I've worked 11pm-7am for the past 10 years, and now I'm a permanent night owl. Also about having longer than a 24hr cycle. I was unemployed during the pandemic, I found that staying awake 20hrs (instead of 16) and sleeping 9-10hrs (instead of 8) was much more natural for me.
Everything you said makes soo much sense to me! I also resist going to sleep & hate waking up no matter how much sleep I get. Everyone around me thinks it’s so abnormal. I read somewhere that some people can operate on a longer-than-24-hour sleep cycle, though I think it was discussing teens? But it makes sense that it would continue into adulthood for some people.
For several years I was on a 25-26 hour cycle, where I'd wake up a little bit later every day, and every few weeks I'd be going to bed at 1:00-2:00pm; and I really hated it so I'd often stay awake for 24 hours or longer to get back to waking up early. But even when I did that, my body always tricked me into avoiding the mornings, so I'd either sleep for 3-4 hours and wake at 4:00am, or else I'd sleep for 12 hours and wake around midday. I think something in my brain just hates mornings, and I'll either undersleep or oversleep to avoid them if I can, but not consciously. I'd love to be a morning person but I just can't convince myself to like mornings.
Night owl or early bird doesn't matter to me either way, I just wished I could still sleep for 8 hours like I did when I was younger. Like flipping a switch when I turned 68, I started sleeping only about 6 hours a night and even that requires a medium dose of a sleep aid (Trazodone). Oh, to sleep like a baby again!
Thank you for mentioning high latitudes! This seems to be left out most of the time I learn about circadian rhythms, and I live at a high latitude. I just learned the word "zeitgeiber" and now I can research more than just sunlight. Ps: I took a remote work job for the winter. If I worked normal hours for my time zone, I'd start in the dark and have ~1hr of daylight after work. Instead I chose to line up with my colleagues 3 time zones East: I still start work in the dark but have daylight in personal hours. I use my SAD lamp at the same time daily as my zeitgeiber.
Working at Starbucks with an "open schedule" is a disaster. They have you waking up at 3 am for an open and then staying up til 11 pm for a close in the same week. Sometimes having you get off work at 11pm and then returning to work 7 am. Legally an 8 hour gap is all that's required, but how are we supposed to sleep adequately when we still need to travel to and from work, sleep, eat, and shower in that 8 hour gap?
I like my late night quiet time to work in my shop. But farm chores need to be done by 10am. I am considering changing my rhythm. Ive read about people that are awake 4 hours then sleep an hour, and that seems ideal for my lifestyle.
My work involved me being a day person for the darker times of the year, and an evening person for the less dark months, with occasional switch-ups. I retired at the end of one of the latter, and now find that I *seem* to be on a permanent evening schedule, that is proving to be not, always, a good thing (although how much do I care?). I actually like how such a schedule makes me feel, it feels natural, even if it does mean the rest of the workaday world is (note) out of sync with me...or vice versa.
I am never fully rested, no matter amount of sleep. After a silent stroke, my “battery” was damaged. So, it can never be full. Sleep is a privilege for me. I awake every 2-4 hours.
Chronic insomniac here. I fought my rhythms for years. I've learned not to fight them. I can only get to sleep in the cycle window with prescription medication. My biggest fear is when the only medication I've found to work stops working. Then I'll have to move to extreme sleeping meds.
Some of us have circadian rhythms that would appear at a casual glance to be based on the orbital cycles of a different solar system entirely. My body clock seems to oscillate from a 32-hour to a 36-hour cycle. 24 just isn't enough hours in a day.
Finally someone like me. I agree totally. I get nothing much done in 24 hrs so now I sleep like 12 hrs and awake for like 20 hours so 32 hour day cycles....?
I've always been a night owl. I work a job where my shifts are 12 hours and we flip between days and nights. I adapt back to nights WAY easier than I adapt to days. I worked 3rd shift before I was in this job.
I took a job over summer with a 3-shift schedule, and we changed which shift we were on every week. We got one day off every weekend to allow us to change our sleep cycles, but having only had daytime jobs before I have to admit the constant swapping between shifts went much easier than I ever thought it would. I'll also say that my sleep schedule during the summer didn't resemble my "normal" schedule much but it worked 😆Never been prone to jetlag either, come to think of it.
I am very sure it's possible, I've done it several times now. I'm in college, meaning right now I go to bed between 3 - 5 am. But I am working on becoming a teacher and had a 5- month-internship in a primary school. I went to bed at 11 or 12 at night and got up at around 6 am. It took me a few weeks before and after to adjust, but it was certainly possible.
You’re just a sample size of 1 though. I’m like you in that I have had success changing my bedtime and feeling normal throughout the day but I also know people who have no success with it no matter how hard they try. I guess there’s a lot of variables that affect this.
It's possible for some folks, but one person is not everyone! And it's not necessarily helpful for everyone to have the exact same internal clock anyway.
Ah, the light issue... I have anxiety. I absolutely cannot sleep very well in pure darkness. I need to have some light. I have had so many panic attacks after waking up only to realize the light bulb in my lamp went out and I can't see a thing (adoption of LEDs has gone a long ways towards making this a much more rare event). It is not fun. Being able to immediately get my bearings when I wake up is extremely important to me. Additionally, it's very hard for me to relax enough to fall asleep if I can't see my surroundings. So we have a lot of lights we leave on 24/7. But my anxiety meds are probably also why I find that after sleeping about 8-10 hrs at night, I need a 2-3 hr nap in the afternoon. Sigh. We're working on it. Slowly. If the therapist will ever actually find room in their schedules....
Great work fellow anthropologist! As an anthropologist of the cultural variety, I'm curious how social-cultural patterns and practices and forces can affect sleep. For example, life and work related stressors can affect moods, health, attitudes, sleep cycles and overall well-being. I've always said anthropology will save the world. Here's the proof :)
Well I can tell you parents with school age kids or people with the typical daylight mon-friday job don't really get to choose their sleep cycles. The time they need to be at school/work dictates the sleep cycle for me and many others.
I once fell into a twenty-hour clock. In the course of five days, I slept from 4:00 am to noon, followed by midnight to 8:00 am, followed by 8:00 pm to 4:00 am, and finally, 4:00 pm to midnight. After that, I deliberately broke the pattern and stayed awake until 10:00 pm. I then reset to a 24 hour clock.
I've worked 10 years of nights, back to back lates into earlies (5 hour gap) and now work from midnight 6 days a week. I sleep 4 hours an evening and have never experienced jetlag. Who needs a body clock anyways?
I’ve been working graveyard shift since 2014 and if I’m on vacation or whatever I start getting sleepy at 10 pm and waking up at 6 am within a few days so yeah
For over 20 years I've had no issues changing my sleep schedule on the fly. I can easily sleep during a full blown sunny day or at night like most people. It's something your body get used to over time. I think it may have started when I was a teenager and then carried on into adulthood. I can agree with the later part of the video where I think my body ignores the day/night time clock entirely. It has never been something I've even thought about or my body for a very, very long time.
Very interesting and funny! I struggle a lot with my sleep pattern or lack thereof but I've found things that work for me most of the time. Also Dr Lasisi has excellent taste in hair styles, their hair always looks awesome!
I believe, that being a night owl or an early bird depends on, how long your clock run during the day. That means, that the time when you are becoming tired is from person to person different. A few people feel tired after 23.5 hours, so they are going a bit earlier to bed or on time and sometimes need less hours of sleep to feel well. This is called the early bird. Whereas other people feel awake after 25 hours, so that they have to force themselves to go earlier to bed, then they usually feel for that und nevertheless need up to 9 hours of sleep, when they would wake up naturally. Everyone can force himself to go early to bed and wake up early, but if it stays so, when you do not force yourself to this day rythm is a complete different thing. I had do wage up at 5 am for a very long time, but it never stays that way. 2 weeks and my old sleeping rythm is coming back. Mostly going to bed at 11or 12pm and waking up between 8 and 9 am.
I watched a documentary a few years back about traits etc being passed down within genes. One interesting theory about night owls was that in a previous life they were guardians, soldiers, night guards. Important job 😊
I've been a night owl since I was a kid - laying awake until 1-3 am then sleeping until 10a-noon (when not in school) my best shift is 3-11pm when I worked, loved it as I was wide awake until 3-4am and would get up between 11a-1pm. now that I'm retired I'm usually up all night and will go to sleep anywhere from 4am to 9am when I did work a day shift job, it was tough and on the weekends my body reverted to it's normal state of going to bed late and sleeping late, esp on Sat mornings, Sunday tried to get up by 9am so I could get to sleep Sunday night
Are the early birds the ones who like to wake up at 4, 6, or 8am or the ones that are already awake 12am-4, 6, 8am from the night before? Cuz I’m the latter and these fake “early birds” aren’t up as early as me.
This is one of the few times that the title of something is a question with a yes/no answer and the answer is actually yes! Telling people, even kids, that "it's not their fault if they regularly oversleep because they stay up late enough to be too tired to focus in the morning is because of their circadian rhythms", and that work and school start times should be adjusted, is the same as telling flat earthers that they are right and demand that NASA only use calculations to plot orbital dynamics that work with flat earth theory.
this is not a great take. kids and teenagers are still developing a Lot of their neurological functions, including their sleep cycles, and often require more sleep per night than adults and older people. Their schedules, pretty sensibly, are required to align with adults and older peoples’ lives. but this isn’t something either group gets to be “right” on. When I was a teenager, I needed 9-10 hours of sleep a night to feel rested enough to wake up at 5:30am to get to my 7am class on time, but my family ate dinner at 8pm. Many kids have extracurriculars and other time commitments that are arranged by someone who needs less sleep and may not need to wake up as early to, say, catch a bus. It’s hard to coordinate a lot of people with different needs, and you don’t need to have any of those people be “wrong” or “lazy.” Logistics are hard on everyone and there is not usually a perfect solution to these problems! Especially not one with such an easy scapegoat 🙃
This video is meant to be an overview of human sleep cycles in general, not a reason for you to criticize children for having the bold presumption(!) of going through puberty.
@@kablenis well unfortunately the only time machines we have go forward in time. But we can learn from the past. That means if you have children that need 9 to 10 hours of sleep to feel rested, you can make the choice to eat the evening meal earlier than 8:00 p.m. possibly even in the car on the way home from whatever extracurricular activity you or your child feel they need to participate in in order to make sure they get enough sleep without changing the school schedule so that other people's children who may not be as motivated to get to class on time don't have to do it on their own after their parents have left for work. It's a lot easier to feel like a good person telling people things that they want to hear because those people will tell their friends that you are good person. When you tell them things that they need to hear that they don't want to hear, usually that takes at least a decade for them to realize that you were doing what's best for them and realize that you were a good person and they had been badmouthing you that entire time.
*Sigh* Of course humans can change their sleep cycle. If you get offered a job you always wanted, with a significant increase in your standard of living, then yes you can force yourself to adapt. You might not feel physically great for a while but eventually you get used to it.
I am tired of diurnal people "suggesting" I just "try and make an effort to wake up early" whenever I tell them I sleep from 4am to 11am, and have my peak performance at midnight. Before noon I am practically a zombie. Try you living in a society where you're forced to work from say 6pm-2am (my preference) and you're told should just try harder.
THIS! 👏👏Louder for the people in the back! 👏👏
It's fun living with my parents again (sarcasm!) for the 5th time, working early first shift (start time between 1-4am), and trying to get my dad (always a 9-5er) to understand when I have to get up and when the hell to stop making noise in the early evening so I can actually sleep! That's kinda similar to the "suggesting diurnal" above. Kinda.
Have you ever tried to try harder? :)
having ADHD can mean that you have a "delayed sleep response " which is why i have been called a vampire by multiple friends and family throughout my life . If you find yourself in similar circumstances you can stop beating yourself up because you now have the mechanism for what others may find to be a "shortcoming " in society
And as with so many misunderstood and marginalised traits, an atypical sleep cycle is moralised as less virtuous. It's very frustrating.
I am and have always been a perpetual night owl, despite all the efforts I've made to try and shift into a more strictly diurnal schedule. I'm exhausted throughout the day, but wide awake at night. While I'm glad there is some kind of genetic or evolutionary validation to this, on the other hand, it's still really frustrating!
Not every one does one stretch of sleep, commonly we used to have second sleep/ two sessions of sleep at night. Very handy for sharing guard duties or watching over the fire, animals or babies
Exactly Correct!
I love PBS Terra. Informative content with great hosts.
I was born a night owl, but even now at age 30, I still can't get my dad to accept the fact that there is a genetic basis to this preference
There has to be. My sister and I are both night people and the older I get the harder it is to fight so I don’t anymore. At the age of 68 I generally am up from 6 pm to 10 am then sleep in a darkened room. My husband works all day so mostly isn’t bothered by this, he sleeps at night. There must be sheep dogs keeping watch at night.
I used to get up at 3am during the spring and summer, it was great, during the fall it went to a cycle of getting up at about 7 now
When I was young I was an early bird, but after working late night and overnight for a few decades I am afraid I'm permanently a night owl.
But, beyond that, I think I just hate phase changes. In other words, I resist going to sleep, but once asleep I hate to wake up.
Now retired, I no longer use an alarm clock and my circadian rhythm seems to drift. I think I'm on a cycle significantly longer than 24-hours. Changing clocks twice a year doesn't help, especially when winter dusk is around 5 PM (eastern side of a time zone). So glad that 2023 might bring and end to the changes and will leave us permanently on what we now call Daylight Time. I heartily approve.
Same, I've worked 11pm-7am for the past 10 years, and now I'm a permanent night owl. Also about having longer than a 24hr cycle. I was unemployed during the pandemic, I found that staying awake 20hrs (instead of 16) and sleeping 9-10hrs (instead of 8) was much more natural for me.
Everything you said makes soo much sense to me! I also resist going to sleep & hate waking up no matter how much sleep I get. Everyone around me thinks it’s so abnormal.
I read somewhere that some people can operate on a longer-than-24-hour sleep cycle, though I think it was discussing teens? But it makes sense that it would continue into adulthood for some people.
For several years I was on a 25-26 hour cycle, where I'd wake up a little bit later every day, and every few weeks I'd be going to bed at 1:00-2:00pm; and I really hated it so I'd often stay awake for 24 hours or longer to get back to waking up early.
But even when I did that, my body always tricked me into avoiding the mornings, so I'd either sleep for 3-4 hours and wake at 4:00am, or else I'd sleep for 12 hours and wake around midday.
I think something in my brain just hates mornings, and I'll either undersleep or oversleep to avoid them if I can, but not consciously. I'd love to be a morning person but I just can't convince myself to like mornings.
I'm exactly like that
Today I woke up at 4am, which is better than 8pm like it was for the last couple weeks
@@Ewr42 nice to know I'm not the only one this happens to!
You might want to read up on Delayed Phase Sleep Disorder
@@Uluwehi_Knecht Thanks, I'll check it out!
This is me, too.
Night owl or early bird doesn't matter to me either way, I just wished I could still sleep for 8 hours like I did when I was younger. Like flipping a switch when I turned 68, I started sleeping only about 6 hours a night and even that requires a medium dose of a sleep aid (Trazodone). Oh, to sleep like a baby again!
Thank you for mentioning high latitudes! This seems to be left out most of the time I learn about circadian rhythms, and I live at a high latitude. I just learned the word "zeitgeiber" and now I can research more than just sunlight.
Ps: I took a remote work job for the winter. If I worked normal hours for my time zone, I'd start in the dark and have ~1hr of daylight after work. Instead I chose to line up with my colleagues 3 time zones East: I still start work in the dark but have daylight in personal hours. I use my SAD lamp at the same time daily as my zeitgeiber.
oh wow that last blooper!
And here I am watching this at 2am.
Working at Starbucks with an "open schedule" is a disaster. They have you waking up at 3 am for an open and then staying up til 11 pm for a close in the same week. Sometimes having you get off work at 11pm and then returning to work 7 am. Legally an 8 hour gap is all that's required, but how are we supposed to sleep adequately when we still need to travel to and from work, sleep, eat, and shower in that 8 hour gap?
We have to build union power to force the NLRB to regulate these inhumane schedules out of existence.
The look on your face when your roommate said good morning was priceless and hilarious 😂
I like my late night quiet time to work in my shop. But farm chores need to be done by 10am. I am considering changing my rhythm. Ive read about people that are awake 4 hours then sleep an hour, and that seems ideal for my lifestyle.
I love this show!
The "sleeping less" ad skit made me chuckle.
I always love the bloopers. They are so wholesome
My work involved me being a day person for the darker times of the year,
and an evening person for the less dark months, with occasional switch-ups.
I retired at the end of one of the latter, and now find that I *seem* to be on a permanent
evening schedule, that is proving to be not, always, a good thing (although how much do I care?).
I actually like how such a schedule makes me feel, it feels natural, even if it does mean
the rest of the workaday world is (note) out of sync with me...or vice versa.
I am never fully rested, no matter amount of sleep. After a silent stroke, my “battery” was damaged. So, it can never be full. Sleep is a privilege for me. I awake every 2-4 hours.
It's so satisfying to watch these get better with every episode haha
Chronic insomniac here. I fought my rhythms for years. I've learned not to fight them. I can only get to sleep in the cycle window with prescription medication. My biggest fear is when the only medication I've found to work stops working. Then I'll have to move to extreme sleeping meds.
Some of us have circadian rhythms that would appear at a casual glance to be based on the orbital cycles of a different solar system entirely. My body clock seems to oscillate from a 32-hour to a 36-hour cycle. 24 just isn't enough hours in a day.
Finally someone like me. I agree totally. I get nothing much done in 24 hrs so now I sleep like 12 hrs and awake for like 20 hours so 32 hour day cycles....?
“Kaput”? Someone must have been really stretching to get that backronym. :D
I've always been a night owl. I work a job where my shifts are 12 hours and we flip between days and nights. I adapt back to nights WAY easier than I adapt to days. I worked 3rd shift before I was in this job.
I took a job over summer with a 3-shift schedule, and we changed which shift we were on every week. We got one day off every weekend to allow us to change our sleep cycles, but having only had daytime jobs before I have to admit the constant swapping between shifts went much easier than I ever thought it would. I'll also say that my sleep schedule during the summer didn't resemble my "normal" schedule much but it worked 😆Never been prone to jetlag either, come to think of it.
3:28 Ummm, excuse me, not just any onesie, we're talking about a CORGI onesie. Innovator status unlocked.
This show is very well-made, I enjoy it a lot!
Literally trying to fix my sleep schedule tonight!
I am very sure it's possible, I've done it several times now. I'm in college, meaning right now I go to bed between 3 - 5 am. But I am working on becoming a teacher and had a 5- month-internship in a primary school. I went to bed at 11 or 12 at night and got up at around 6 am. It took me a few weeks before and after to adjust, but it was certainly possible.
You’re just a sample size of 1 though. I’m like you in that I have had success changing my bedtime and feeling normal throughout the day but I also know people who have no success with it no matter how hard they try. I guess there’s a lot of variables that affect this.
It's possible for some folks, but one person is not everyone! And it's not necessarily helpful for everyone to have the exact same internal clock anyway.
Hi from 5:30am (AEDT) i hope this video answers why i am awake
Ah, the light issue... I have anxiety. I absolutely cannot sleep very well in pure darkness. I need to have some light. I have had so many panic attacks after waking up only to realize the light bulb in my lamp went out and I can't see a thing (adoption of LEDs has gone a long ways towards making this a much more rare event). It is not fun. Being able to immediately get my bearings when I wake up is extremely important to me. Additionally, it's very hard for me to relax enough to fall asleep if I can't see my surroundings. So we have a lot of lights we leave on 24/7.
But my anxiety meds are probably also why I find that after sleeping about 8-10 hrs at night, I need a 2-3 hr nap in the afternoon. Sigh. We're working on it. Slowly. If the therapist will ever actually find room in their schedules....
4:30 😂😂 "The early bird gets the worm [...] But those are just the worms I decide to leave behind!" 😂😂
Great work fellow anthropologist! As an anthropologist of the cultural variety, I'm curious how social-cultural patterns and practices and forces can affect sleep. For example, life and work related stressors can affect moods, health, attitudes, sleep cycles and overall well-being. I've always said anthropology will save the world. Here's the proof :)
Well I can tell you parents with school age kids or people with the typical daylight mon-friday job don't really get to choose their sleep cycles. The time they need to be at school/work dictates the sleep cycle for me and many others.
@@christie724 Truth.
Very creative.
I like what you are doing and the way you are doing it! It's light and fun learning of more complex issues associated with the human body.
Super helpful, thank you.
I'm gonna take the fact you guys uploaded this video at this time of the year as a personal attack :c
My sleep schedule is a _disaster_
I once fell into a twenty-hour clock. In the course of five days, I slept from 4:00 am to noon, followed by midnight to 8:00 am, followed by 8:00 pm to 4:00 am, and finally, 4:00 pm to midnight. After that, I deliberately broke the pattern and stayed awake until 10:00 pm. I then reset to a 24 hour clock.
I've worked 10 years of nights, back to back lates into earlies (5 hour gap) and now work from midnight 6 days a week. I sleep 4 hours an evening and have never experienced jetlag. Who needs a body clock anyways?
I’ve been working graveyard shift since 2014 and if I’m on vacation or whatever I start getting sleepy at 10 pm and waking up at 6 am within a few days so yeah
For over 20 years I've had no issues changing my sleep schedule on the fly. I can easily sleep during a full blown sunny day or at night like most people. It's something your body get used to over time. I think it may have started when I was a teenager and then carried on into adulthood. I can agree with the later part of the video where I think my body ignores the day/night time clock entirely. It has never been something I've even thought about or my body for a very, very long time.
Awesome video
Short answer: YES.
9:00 p.m. Peak brain performance// Focus, unless it's been a long week with work. If I'm physically exhausted I need a day to catch up
Yes we can
You rock! Thank you for contributing to awareness!
I'm ad d h d I guess my sleep patterns is changing, but when I need to get something done I can't seem to sleep until it's done.
I seem to have 2 sleep cycles if not using alarms. I sleep from 9pm to 1am, get up for 2 hours, then sleep from 3am to 5 or 6am.
Very interesting and funny! I struggle a lot with my sleep pattern or lack thereof but I've found things that work for me most of the time. Also Dr Lasisi has excellent taste in hair styles, their hair always looks awesome!
Doc, who the heck let the morning people run things!?
The Apple watch and the Oura Ring both have sleep tracking functions and provide great information on your sleep and how to improve it.
I believe, that being a night owl or an early bird depends on, how long your clock run during the day. That means, that the time when you are becoming tired is from person to person different. A few people feel tired after 23.5 hours, so they are going a bit earlier to bed or on time and sometimes need less hours of sleep to feel well. This is called the early bird. Whereas other people feel awake after 25 hours, so that they have to force themselves to go earlier to bed, then they usually feel for that und nevertheless need up to 9 hours of sleep, when they would wake up naturally. Everyone can force himself to go early to bed and wake up early, but if it stays so, when you do not force yourself to this day rythm is a complete different thing. I had do wage up at 5 am for a very long time, but it never stays that way. 2 weeks and my old sleeping rythm is coming back. Mostly going to bed at 11or 12pm and waking up between 8 and 9 am.
I watched a documentary a few years back about traits etc being passed down within genes. One interesting theory about night owls was that in a previous life they were guardians, soldiers, night guards. Important job 😊
My sleep schedule is so out of wackkkk
Why was PBS actually kind of funny on this one
I hate having to "fix" my sleep schedule for school, as soon as I am old enough I'll try to get a night job
I'm new to this channel, came here from PBS Space Time. Are skits like the ones in this video common practice for PBS Terra?
Nope! Only for this show
@@stephcastle26 Ok, thanks!
We are diurnal normally. Night owls like us are the weird ones, I am afraid.
5:52 thank you for this! I need to stop using my phone at night 😖
I've been a night owl since I was a kid - laying awake until 1-3 am then sleeping until 10a-noon (when not in school) my best shift is 3-11pm when I worked, loved it as I was wide awake until 3-4am and would get up between 11a-1pm. now that I'm retired I'm usually up all night and will go to sleep anywhere from 4am to 9am when I did work a day shift job, it was tough and on the weekends my body reverted to it's normal state of going to bed late and sleeping late, esp on Sat mornings, Sunday tried to get up by 9am so I could get to sleep Sunday night
How are SCNs affected in blind people?
And here's me ready to sleep all 24 hours a day 🥲
There have been MANY nights where I wake up *only* because the world around me has.
fun fact: “Zeitgebers” literally translates from German to “time givers”
No clocks, no sound, and no light - perfect sleeping conditions!
from where the German "Zeitgeber" is coming from again‽ has the english dictionary no equvalent‽
Bats vs Owls - Batman and the Court of Owls
Um ya we can sleep whenever we wont deer are doing this now because of humans there now more active at night not day like before.
Are the early birds the ones who like to wake up at 4, 6, or 8am or the ones that are already awake 12am-4, 6, 8am from the night before?
Cuz I’m the latter and these fake “early birds” aren’t up as early as me.
New-borne babies are cathemeral, and so are their parents. Zzzz…
This is one of the few times that the title of something is a question with a yes/no answer and the answer is actually yes! Telling people, even kids, that "it's not their fault if they regularly oversleep because they stay up late enough to be too tired to focus in the morning is because of their circadian rhythms", and that work and school start times should be adjusted, is the same as telling flat earthers that they are right and demand that NASA only use calculations to plot orbital dynamics that work with flat earth theory.
this is not a great take. kids and teenagers are still developing a Lot of their neurological functions, including their sleep cycles, and often require more sleep per night than adults and older people. Their schedules, pretty sensibly, are required to align with adults and older peoples’ lives. but this isn’t something either group gets to be “right” on. When I was a teenager, I needed 9-10 hours of sleep a night to feel rested enough to wake up at 5:30am to get to my 7am class on time, but my family ate dinner at 8pm. Many kids have extracurriculars and other time commitments that are arranged by someone who needs less sleep and may not need to wake up as early to, say, catch a bus. It’s hard to coordinate a lot of people with different needs, and you don’t need to have any of those people be “wrong” or “lazy.” Logistics are hard on everyone and there is not usually a perfect solution to these problems! Especially not one with such an easy scapegoat 🙃
This video is meant to be an overview of human sleep cycles in general, not a reason for you to criticize children for having the bold presumption(!) of going through puberty.
@@kablenis well unfortunately the only time machines we have go forward in time. But we can learn from the past. That means if you have children that need 9 to 10 hours of sleep to feel rested, you can make the choice to eat the evening meal earlier than 8:00 p.m. possibly even in the car on the way home from whatever extracurricular activity you or your child feel they need to participate in in order to make sure they get enough sleep without changing the school schedule so that other people's children who may not be as motivated to get to class on time don't have to do it on their own after their parents have left for work. It's a lot easier to feel like a good person telling people things that they want to hear because those people will tell their friends that you are good person. When you tell them things that they need to hear that they don't want to hear, usually that takes at least a decade for them to realize that you were doing what's best for them and realize that you were a good person and they had been badmouthing you that entire time.
The chicken dance. WHY?!!!
*Sigh*
Of course humans can change their sleep cycle.
If you get offered a job you always wanted, with a significant increase in your standard of living, then yes you can force yourself to adapt.
You might not feel physically great for a while but eventually you get used to it.
Weee, earlyish comment :] I already know the answer cuz I've done it :P
This was super informative! (the comedy was a bit cringe though😂)
How come I can only find that obnoxious morning person doing his excercises online after three in the morning?
HATE that guy!
If the answer to the question in the title was in there, I overslept it.
Tina is not ❌ innovative🖲️📠🕹️⌚️
Oh shit you talking too fast and noisy😂😂
I could do without the attempted comedy skits.
This channel is a real disappointment.
Please, drop the silly acting, it's cringy and makes for unnecessary long videos. That's why I prefer Kurzgesagt and PBS Eons.
it took me two weeks to fix my schedule from getting up at 3pm to waking up at 7am. It was a nightmare!
PBS terra....it's a place for gorgeous black girls!
Great informational video, but could have done without the cringey acting.