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#21
I have to have a movie playing to go to sleep. Now even my dog is addicted to having the DVD player going 24/7 and if it shuts off -- i.e., I forget to put the disc on repeat -- he starts barking at it. The TV/DVD player in the bedroom has been running non-stop since 1998 except twice to replace the DVD player, once to replace the TV, and a couple of power outages along the way.
 
#22
rustynuts said:
I have to have a movie playing to go to sleep. Now even my dog is addicted to having the DVD player going 24/7 and if it shuts off -- i.e., I forget to put the disc on repeat -- he starts barking at it. The TV/DVD player in the bedroom has been running non-stop since 1998 except twice to replace the DVD player, once to replace the TV, and a couple of power outages along the way.
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Same here, always have to have a movie playing in the background. I started doing that when I lived in the downtown of a bigger city (I was used to living in the country) to drown out all the noise, now that I'm back in the country I can't shake the habit.
 
#23
Have worked both swings and mids when I was in the USAF. Working swings (three days 4pm to midnight, then training that fourth day and that night starting the first of 3 nights mid to 8am, then 3 days off - with the first day off being the one you just got off at 8am for) was, actually, worse than working straight mid shift; you'd just get used to the hours of afternoon and then have to shift to midnight to 8. My husband worked almost 10 years of mid shifts; it's been 18 years and he still has problems getting his sleep patterns back to normal.
 
#24
My sleep patterns were never normal to begin with. Even as a teenager I'd stay up until four or five in the morning, grab a couple of hours of sleep, get up and go to school, and then get a couple more hours of sleep in the early evening. I haven't slept more than four or five hours a day in the past 35 years, and seldom 4 or 5 hours in a row.

Everyone I work with wants desperately to go back to days but I've requested to be kept on nights. It just suits me better.
 
#25
worked my share of graves, as well as bakers hours, but have been on swing for five years.

better than graveyard fer sure, but still no Fri nights unless arrangements are made.

and i drive a forklift too (while operating twin lasers)
 
#26
rustynuts said:
My sleep patterns were never normal to begin with. Even as a teenager I'd stay up until four or five in the morning, grab a couple of hours of sleep, get up and go to school, and then get a couple more hours of sleep in the early evening. I haven't slept more than four or five hours a day in the past 35 years, and seldom 4 or 5 hours in a row.

Everyone I work with wants desperately to go back to days but I've requested to be kept on nights. It just suits me better.
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As a teenager I would stay up very late, and during summer vacation I'd usually wind up staying up until dawn and sleeping until afternoon, and even today when left to my own devices I am pretty much the same way.

My shift rotates (1 month days, 1 month nights) so I do play "normal person" half the time, but by far I prefer nights.

Whether I'm on days or nights, I tend to sleep from 11 to 5 and I have a firm rule, when I'm on nightshift I stay on nightshift, even on my days off.

The transitioning from days to nights, and back again, IMO is what stresses the body, so I minimize the transitions as much as I can.

FWIW, I can switch from day to night shift pretty easy, but find it *much* harder to switch back to days after I've been working nights.

Also, I like coffee. ;)
 

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