Is staying up really really late bad for your health?

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I'm up 'til 4-5 am every night, but I don't have classes until late so I still get 6-7 hours of sleep. Is there something intrinsically bad for one's health about staying up so late, regardless of whether or not one gets a decent amount of sleep after? I'm not too worried about getting pale, but it seems like I heard somewhere that staying up late is bad for your heart.

― Dan I., Sunday, 23 February 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

as long as you're getting plenty of sunshine everything should be okay

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone has their own sleep cycle and you should stick to what feels natural for you. Some people sleep only four hours a day, some sleep all the time, whatever.

The only thing that is important for MENTAL health rather than physical is that sleep is a pattern. Whatever pattern you have, be consistent with it. Don't stay up till 4 in the morning 4 nights a week and get up at 6am nights a week, *that* will seriously fuck you up.

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I always wondered how Kafka could manage having a full time job as a clerk in the day and write his incredible novels in the night. Then he was an owl I guess.

I read in his diaries he had very strange sleeping habits. he could sleep days on end or stay awake night after night. I don't know if he is an example or not.

you end up waking one morning being metamorphosed in some beetle.

― erik, Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

And it left him more disposed to contract and die of tuberculosis.

*shrug* At least we have the Brothers Quay to continue his legacy.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the answer is no, which is why I'm about to drop deadda
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― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I think research has proven links with amount of sleep rather than when you sleep.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i pull a kafka.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 23 February 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could only sleep 3-4 hrs a day rather than the 6-8 hours that I normally do.

never enough hours.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I sometimes go to bed late safe in the knowledge that I will then sleep soundly, whereas if I went to bed early I would only lie awake for considerable periods of time and get irritable.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too. Having said that though I got hardly any sleep last night and I feel like several different types of shit.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

can you list them?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 24 February 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop being crude. It is unbecoming.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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