Keeping up with my sleep

When I find myself laying in bed wishing I were more tired than I was, I'm reminded of days when I used to wish I had more time in the day to get everything in I wanted done. I used to stay up until the sun came up over the weekends just out of habit. I always found my most interesting ideas came to me in the middle of the night. I'm not the only one who thinks so. It's a popular idea.

From a man of few written words, Rives:

Society's sleeping habits have changed dramatically over the past century. Compensating for all that giant populations bring to a city. Competitive job markets, 40 hour work weeks, commuting, and getting up at the crack of dawn the following day to fight for freeway space early to avoid the slow crawl of traffic. People 100 years ago had a lot more free time on their hands to set their own schedules. Of course they also had child labor, no safety standards, and no indoor plumbing. I imagine that meant many of their free hours were spent avoiding dying rather than spent on leisurely activities.

I've always thought about changing my sleeping pattern in some way. I thought of going to bed extra early, waking up for a few hours in the middle of the night to read or write, then back to sleep until dawn for the day. I wanted to try some crazy Uberman's sleep schedule in college. My main hesitation was that everything I read said that kind of change to your sleep schedule typically involved a period of adjustment of about 10 days where you wanted to kill yourself from lack of regular sleep; and who needs to deal with that for any days let alone 10?

Since I don't have any trust fund money headed my way, and I'm not counting on any lotto winnings rolling in to free up my time to have a ridiculous sleep schedule. I'll just do what I've always done: celebrate day light savings time in all of it's brain tricking weirdness. This year my day light savings resolution is to use the extra day light I have in the morning to help get me use to waking up AND being functional early in the morning. I'm gonna use the extra night hours to trick my brain into thinking it's the middle of the night. That's kind of the same thing as a dramatic adjustment to your sleeping pattern, right?