They keep changing the rules..

As a person who worked on what we called the Noc shift…

others call it the graveyard shift…but that doesn’t fly at

a nursing home. ….I can tell you, sleep is hard to do normally.

First you have to sleep during the day. That is when the

Earth is its noisiest. It is also daylight.  I used to have dark

shades and curtains so my bedroom was dark like night time. And luckily live in a quiet neighborhood.

Also it is a shift like sleep. Because you get home at 6:30am

and it takes an hour or so to unwind enough to go to sleep.

So if you are lucky you are asleep between 7 am and 7:30 am.

Then, where I worked, they would have meetings at 1:30 pm.

Which was mandatory, and a minimum of two a month.  So you are back up at 12:30 pm. And rush to get to the meeting in time.  And then back down about 5 pm to get up at 9 pm to go to work by 10 pm.

Not exactly your greatest slept pattern.  Even days off could be a challenge.  Do you go to bed when you get home ..on your day off?  Or try to stay up and enjoy the daylight?  And then the last day off, you end up going to bed early so you can get enough sleep to go to work the next night. 

This type of shift, is well documented to be dangerous to your life, they say. Not enough sleep. One needs at least 7 to 8 hours of continuous sleep. So one would think if one got more than 8 hours sleep, things would be good.  In fact there has been articles about getting more than 8 hours, especially if you are trying to lose weight.  I figured it out that if you were asleep, you weren't eating, is why. 

But now they have come out with another report.. And it says..

If you sleep 9 hours it could lead to many different diseases and even bring on death.

What the heck? I guess you better set your alarm clock to go off 7 and half to 8 hours after you head to bed.. or you are doomed.