Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Lost Hours of Sleep

I have this feeling that I'm not going to just slip into a semi-normal life after working some fairly demanding hours for 20 years in the oilfield. I just went through two full, two and two work rotations, part of the kicker is I've been working night shift. I was hoping to just come home for my two weeks off, get some well deserved rest and feel like a new man after my two weeks was up and head back to work fully rested.... this hasn't happened yet.

Lately, I have been able to sleep 9.5 hours without an effort. I have heard that a person never catches up on lost sleep...if this is true, what has happened to all that lost time? Twenty years x 365 = 7300 days x at least an average of one lost hour/ day = 7300hrs or 304.17 days of lost sleep within the past 20 years (essentially 912.5 days of no sleep in the past 20 years - based on a 8 hour sleep pattern).

With the overall importance of a quality quantitative sleep to maintain a healthy mind and body, I'm curious as to the overall affect that this sort of life style has on people. Also, if there is a chance of recuperating these lost hours of sleep, is it going to take another 20 years of 9 hour sleeps or 10 years of 10 hour sleeps?

Speaking of sleep, it should would be nice right abouts now, but nope, I'm trying to transform my sleep pattern in preparation of the next couple weeks of night shift. Night shift....I've heard that this drains an additional 10% of life from oneself, plus the the kaos created with metabolism. Hmmm...


Darcy Regier

http://darcyregier.blogspot.com

1 comment:

  1. Try glasses with eyeballs painted on them. Your coworkers won't know the difference while you catch up on the extra 10%! Thanks for the post Sifu.

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