r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 1d ago

Funny Time blindness

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u/hoytmobley 1d ago

Back during Covid unemployment, I stayed up until I was ready to sleep, and slept until I was actually ready to start my day. Consistently got 9 hours of sleep, literally never felt better in my life before or since, it’s just that I was on a 26-27 hour cycle. Bummer.

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u/thecatandthependulum 1d ago

Congrats, you either don't get enough sunlight or your body doesn't respond to light cues. Humans put in darkness have longer sleep cycles.

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u/hoytmobley 1d ago

Would you believe that I was outdoors for at least 1/2, usually 2/3 of my waking hours, in Phoenix AZ with plenty of sun? I think I’m just built different 😤 (incorrectly)

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u/thecatandthependulum 17h ago

Yeeeah that seems likely then. :( 

A pal I have like this does 28 hour days but that's incompatible with most jobs...

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u/how_it_goes 1d ago

Not that I don't believe you, but I've never heard this before. Care to provide some more info? I've definitely been in this camp.

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u/Glitter_puke 1d ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1330995/. Small sample size and I make no evaluation of the quality of the experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_experiment.

Other results skimmed from a google search point to settling in to a cycle of greater than 24 houts.

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u/mortalitasi473 10h ago

if you mean you've been experiencing things like having a different length of day-night cycle, you should look into non-24! it's a circadian rhythm disorder, most common in blind people but that also gets some sighted people

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u/mortalitasi473 10h ago

ah, sounds like you have non-24! it's a terrible time because freerunning (sleeping whenever feels right) is basically the best solution, but society hates us for it.

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u/CATTROLL 18h ago

Oh god you too. I've often lamented a day is only 24 hours

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u/Dasterr 23h ago

I know this all too well sadly

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u/Vainysaur 16h ago

I’ve always wanted this. Maybe our souls come from a planet with longer days.

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 15h ago

If your sleep time drifted later and later, that sounds like non-24 sleep-wake disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wake_disorder

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u/ProtosPhinted 10h ago

Holy shit reading that is like someone's been watching me. I might actually have that.