I've been waking up before 5:00 AM everyday since the last four/five years. And you're right, time goes slower.

Yup that is how you do it

nice idea, also getting off ye' arse helps for me

I've tried waking up earlier. Doesn't work for me. Body just hurts and makes me sleep to my usual time or even later D=

I already do that pretty much everyday because I can't sleep all too well myself >.> Though the weeks still go quite fast either way to me to be honest. But then again its the same thing over and over. Another thing that would really help is changing up what you do day in and day out making it more interesting and more fun. Instead of being stuck to the same daily routine.

This really does work for me, but sometimes I just can't help but stay up all night and sleep all day. <3

It really does. I usually wake up at about 2 in the morning for work.

you poor thing! I thought 4 AM was early! Gods! *faints*

In all honesty what I've found out personally is that when we're younger, our lives are much more free so our mind concentrates on the here and now. As we get older, our lives are much more scheduled and our mind is concentrating on getting to the next thing.. that it concentrates on the here and now less and less... so the days seem shorter. And as we try to cram more and more intot he same amount fo time, we tend to wonder more often.. where did the time go?

I found this out when I was forced off work due to a stroke.. when you lose your schedule, the days and weeks pass a lot more slowly.

Curious theory. I'mma try that tomorrow, then.

Circadian Rhythm Synchronization GET!?

POSSIBLY!

Not so sure about this. I sleep 6 hours or less each night. I get up at 4 AM. I get to work by 6 AM. I work until 3PM. I get home around 4PM (because traffic sucks and I don't work close to home). I do a few things, I eat a late dinner at around 7 PM and I go to bed at around 8 or sometimes later depending on if I get everything done that can't wait till the next day. I repeat.... every day until my day off.

The week goes by so fast. I feel like I'm hardly living. Living just to work so I can pay my bills. So I can pay for my meds, pay for my health insurance on time so I don't lose it, pay my student loan little by little so I don't default and ruin my credit, buy decent quality food so I don't get malnourished, etc you get the idea.

On the weekend I sleep late (if I can). Till about noon. I do whatever I want and then when the weekend is over I go back to work. Those weekends off where I get to finally rest are actually the most enjoyable. But I only get 1 day off a week but this week it is two because there is not enough work for us to do on Sunday. They have some other people that requested extra hours for Sunday. So I am actually quite happy that I get to sleep in two days in a row.

Though don't get me wrong. I like to work. I like to feel like I'm contributing to society in a positive way. It's better to be a producer than a consumer. However sometimes I just feel really beat by the end of each Friday. But such is life. It's pointless to complain about. So I try not to.

Your theory is interesting though. Being conscious for more hours each day seems like you'd get to experience more "life".

Helps that I've had to be at work by 6:30-7:00 am for the past 5 years. :D

I agree though! Nothing stretches the days out like getting up before sunrise.

Oh, that and I've accustomed myself to 6 hours of sleep.

We don't really need more than that :P

Exactly! Coupled with regular vigorous activity, my vitamins, and working out now, I have more energy than ever! :D

Tend more toward three to six hours of sleep myself most nights. Trick is to let your body sleep in 90-minute increments (3, 4.5, 6, 7.5hr) and get close-enough with an alarm clock for a month or two that your sleep falls into the groove it wants to use. Find yourself waking up on-the-mark more often than not, and may get to the point where the alarm clock is just a failsafe most times, in case your body decides to go up to the next 90-minute mark.

Biggest problems are that occasionally when you hit a weekend, you'll sometimes sleep in a good 12 hours whether you mean to or not (going to sleep knowing that you don't /have/ to be up can give your body carte blanche to do a 'reset'), and getting woken up mid-cycle. I'd forgotten what it was like to have that logy dragging-ass feeling in the morning until I was forced out of bed by a roommate half an hour early.

I usally get about 3 to 4 hours of sleep.

Hmm :3 I'm usually a sleep at 6 am or something and wake up in the afternoon person! But yes, I know what you mean here! I ma switch schedules =3

I've tried it, but even with enough sleep, I can't pull off early mornings. They are just so harsh an unenjoyable for me/ *shrug* to each their own. 9 am is usually when I wake up

<sub>You want to live longer…
eat less.


You want your hours to -feel- more…
go … do.

Sign off the PC. Go out, have fun, make memories.
End of the day, you'll -feel- more fulfilled.</sub>

Even simpler way: Get one of those Dr. Kevorkian suicide machines and put it in reverse. :)

what about us bats?

and then us bats with insomnia?

and then us bats with insomnia and pet cats that like to wake us up at five in the morning?

I don't know if this would work for me, I'm more nocturnal

Sometimes at work I'd like the day to go by faster... >..>

Exactly, I need to get up early for work, and the day moves slowly until I get home, when it quickly becomes time to get to bed to get a 'reasonable' sleep, but nothing at home has been accomplished during that time.

If I wanted to make the time move slower by cutting back on my meager social interaction, you might as well kill me now, because I do not WANT to look ahead to slow days of work and sleep with no time to do what I REALLY want to do.

Looks like we're in the same boat. I think the best bet is to try to find a job that better fits me.
That's my own personal solution, but it might work for you too. I need to get some tech certifications so I can get a career going where my skills can actually be put to use. I am not a brainless machine suited only for monotonous retail. ._.

Unfortunately, it's hard to fine Electronics Engineering work in this country anymore, since the oversees 'Engineers' work for what would be less than minimum wage over here.

I keep looking for something better, but nothing is coming up on the radar.

Nothing beats a few compy certs and a cushy PC maintenance job. I'll take the humble repairman's position for 30k/year readily. Money in the bank doing something I'm good at.

Computer repair work, In Chicago? either it's done by the company's IT department, or in the 'repair center' at a computer store.

I tried that working for Elek-Tek, until they shut down, and the computer stores hiring repair technicians in the area are 'Always looking for more techs,' which typically means high turnover rates, either the work environment sucks eggs, or they're looking to fire the techs before they start asking for raises.

I've also been looking to transfer to my company's IS department (Why they call their IT department the IS department I'll never know), and while the head of IS likes the idea, and would like to start grooming me to be his replacement when he retires, the move is being completely blocked by the Molding Superintendant, who for some reason functions as the supervisor for the Automation department. (Automation shouldn't be under Production, they should be paralell departments, neither in control of the other, since they have different goals, Production looks to make today's quota, Automation looks to improve the abaility to make next year's quota with higher quality and lower manpower requirements.)

I was just going to work independently. >..>

Tell me how that goes for you. When I was doing freelance work, in order to stay competitive with the chain computer stores with their 'drop off' service, my margins were so thin I would end up losing money after I factored in the gas used to get to and from the appointment.

Heh. Novelty is my only hope: http://www.draconicus.com/bus

I don't sleep. Does that mean I'm going to live a long time (or seem like it)? I sure hope not...sometimes, I kinda wanna die.

hhmmm... this might be true but... if job startsat the 1st.sep on I NEED to wake up super early AND have maybe 5-6 hours of sleep |D

yeah, but time is already slow for me,if I wkae up early like that, then my days take forever!

honestly though, it does help o get up earlier, or at least think you are.

Define "early".

Agreed.

Getting in 5 hours of work before lunchtime just makes the day seem long.

That might explain why the school season seems to last forever, but the summer holiday goes by so fast.