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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 9:20 am 
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Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your iPad

(CNN) -- J.D. Moyer decided recently to conduct a little experiment with artificial light and his sleep cycle.

The sleep-deprived Oakland, California, resident had read that strong light -- whether it's beaming down from the sun or up from the screens of personal electronics -- can reset a person's internal sleep clock.

So, for one month, whenever the sun set, he turned off all the gadgets and lights in his house -- from the bulb hidden in his refrigerator to his laptop computer.

It worked. Instead of falling asleep at midnight, Moyer's head was hitting the pillow as early as 9 p.m. He felt so well-rested during the test, he said, that friends remarked on his unexpected morning perkiness.

"I had the experience, a number of times, just feeling kind of unreasonably happy for no reason. And it was the sleep," he said. "Sure, you can get by with six or seven hours, but sleeping eight or nine hours -- it's a different state of mind."

Moyer may be onto something.


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http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/13/slee ... tml?hpt=C1

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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 12:20 pm 
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What else is he going to do at night with no artificial illumination? Of course he went to sleep.

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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 12:52 pm 
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And even worse, he's up at the break of dawn with nothing to do. Sure, that's swell for farmers, but what about the rest of us? You're not supposed to get up with the sun until you're collecting social security.


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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 12:54 pm 
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Yeah, that's not exactly rocket science. We were without power for 4 days about a year and a half ago. I went to bed at 8:30 or 9, because there wasn't anything else to do! He was tired because he was bored.


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I like being up late. The fatigue makes you a bit stir crazy and taps into odd corners of creativity.


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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 1:07 pm 
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In my ideal world, I'd go to sleep at around 1:00 am and wake up around 9:30 am.


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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 1:12 pm 
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I'd make it an hour later 2-10:30. But that's the world where I'm independently wealthy.


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Jeff wrote:
I'd make it an hour later 2-10:30. But that's the world where I'm independently wealthy.

Those are my weekends.

I wake up to a hot breakfast, too, so that's nice. :thumbsup:


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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 1:51 pm 
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Eric wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I'd make it an hour later 2-10:30. But that's the world where I'm independently wealthy.

Those are my weekends.

I wake up to a hot redhead, too, so that's nice. :thumbsup:

You insufferable bastard!


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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 1:59 pm 
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That, too.


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