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[-] Setarkus@lemmy.world 107 points 11 months ago

Students if school started at a later time: "That means later bed-time :D"

[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 69 points 11 months ago

Something everyone here seems to be forgetting is that even if you are getting the same amount of sleep, sleeping at a time which fits your biological clock better is better for you. I can get some amount of sleep and wake up at 5am and be tired the whole day, and yet if I wake up at 8-9am with the same amount of sleep I am perfectly functional the whole day.

[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

I noticed exactly this since starting WFH. Even if I suffer a bout of insomnia -- where I get maybe 3 hours of sleep -- just being able to sleep in to 0800 makes it so much more tolerable.

It goes from feeling tormented to just feeling rough around the edges.

God but I remember fighting to keep my eyes open at school and at work back then.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

i still have to fight back sleeping anytime i am in a meeting. i actually started hallucinating once. doesnt even matter how much sleep i actually got or if its at the right time, i just automatically get tired sitting down listening to people talk

[-] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean this kindly: have you had a sleep study recently? That doesn't sound typical and you may have a sleep disorder like sleep apnea. Diagnosis and treatment could give you more energy during the day. Take care!

[-] MycoBro@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Man. I can handle 30 min pretty easy. After that I have to stand up at the back of the room cause otherwise I’d be nodding off so hard I would hurt my neck.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Circadian rhythms are rooted in our very cells and dominate our lives. Defying them always comes at a penalty. Adding to the complexity here is that everyone is different; social norms be damned.

Jetlag is probably the best studied phenomenon for trying to "break the rules", and surprise, there is no remedy other than waiting a few days to acclimate to a different solar cycle.

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I was in university I designed a semester around only having afternoon+evening classes.

I slept to 11 every day, which turned into staying up to 3 each night.

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 37 points 11 months ago

That’s still 8 hours of sleep, seems fine to me.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I had a whole semester where classes where all in the morning (there was no choice until I had failed on the following years) and that whole semester I didn't go to any classes. Great times sleeping.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's two parts, amount of sleep and teens have a later sleep schedule (ie night owl).

But in any case just because some may abuse it doesn't mean we shouldn't have it for everyone else.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Uhh, yes? I think that is kind of the point. To acknowledge they do have a different sleep requirements than adults and elders.

[-] Setarkus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

In terms of what time they go to bed? I might be missing something here but what I meant was that they'd just go to bed since school doesn't start that early, so they'd lack sleep again anyways.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

The idea is that teenagers find it really hard to go to bed early. But school still starts very early. So they end up sleeping less than they should to function. The anti biology stance of "they should go to bed earlier" is not helpful. What's helpful is starting school later, let them have their vigil time into later hours, then they can sleep and recover fully, and do better at school. Thus potentially creating better educated adults.

[-] aphonefriend@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

See there's your problem. We can't have all these better educated adults in a functioning society. They'll become all liberal and ruin our perfectly established capitalism with their cries for a living wage or whatever peasants call for these days.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 5 points 11 months ago

Can confirm. My last two years of high school it started at 9, and I'm now a leftist who believes decentralization is a virtue

Imagine if I didn't have to get up at 6 the first 2 years...I might've even tried organizing or something. Instead I'm just tired most of the time

[-] Furball@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

I’m pretty sure teenagers are naturally programmed to go to bed at later times.

[-] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I almost want to disagree with you, but this is legitimately how my friends and I would have responded to a later start time lol

[-] Setarkus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Same for myself, knowing that I'd do that was one of the reasons I even thought to write that :D

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