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[sorcyress]

Theres a very good reason why I shouldn't be given knowledge --I begin to use it to justify my illogical actions.

Cause see, if sleep is based off of ninty minute cycles, and waking up in the middle of one of these cycles is bad for you, then it's better for me to get four cycles and wake up at five then to get somewhere between four and five cycles and wake up at six, riiiight?

:D

At any rate, I'm really just dicking around until V and Dan show up. Drivers ed starts today -joy. Luna, remind me to tell you about the cupidy whatzits if I don't tell you in school.

Oh, and I thought of another thing about names --too many people have the same name. Hence the reason I use modifiers (ShadowKev vs NinjaKev) or punctuation (Jonny!!!!!, Liam!) or nicknames (Gingur or Sevy or Gizmo)

That is all. Off to school now!

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[marcmagus]

The real flaw in that theory is that ninety minutes is some kind of an average. My understanding is that there's a fair amount of variation between different people. There may also be variation between different sleep cycles of the same person. Unless you know a lot more about your own sleep cycles, I'm not sure how useful it is to plan around their expected length.

(I've played with trying things like that too. I'm not sure how successful it's been in actually having me wake alert more consistently.)

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, yeah, that does work better. If we go on long car trips, we try to get out of the house by four am, on exactly that principle. It works until you crash at about 11 am, but by then you've gotten lots of miles behind you.

[ednoria.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me...

[blaisepascal]

I'm not sure it really matters how many miles you've got behind you when you crash.

[ksatyr.livejournal.com]

My sleep cycle is exactly 90 minutes and I almost seem to get exactly 3 hours of sleep when I manage to sleep.

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

That theory does make sense to me. But yes, 90 minutes is not a universal, it's a guideline average, I think.

There's this cool $300 alarm clock I've found online (that I want just for its coolness, of course, but can't possibly justify) that senses those cycles for each person and times itself to wake you up at the end of one. I'll post the link later if I can find it.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

That would be cool. I normally don't use alarm clocks, because if I wake up in mid cycle, I'm off the whole day. My cycles start around 40 minutes apiece, and gradually get longer through the night, hitting over 2 hours if I get a really long (12+ hour) sleep.

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.axbo.com/axbo/CMS/CMS.aspx?ClientID=wf745012469202214214&SiteID=0&GroupID=7&Language=E) is the official site. The clock is called aXbo. The only decent review of it I've been able to find (with a whole 30 seconds of searching, but shh) is here (http://www.digitalreviews.net/reviews/200604/axbo/axbo-sleep-phase-alarm-clock.html). It sounds interesting. I kinda want one.