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I was describing this exact thing to a friend a few weeks ago. My sleep cycle is trying to naturally push forward several hours every day because I've got too much conscious energy for a typical 16/8. 8 hours is a nice amount if sleep, but I need it on a 22/8 cycle instead.
I felt like a crazy person describing it, but now I feel less alone. Thank you stranger.
I think it's actually pretty common, just not commonly discussed. I suspect people who are "night owls" and "ugh, not a morning person" are pretty much all dealing with this.
I wonder if any sleep clinic/study folks have looked into this... it'd be a hard hypothesis to test... maybe like the Navy could run an experiment on one of its submarines - iirc they run on a 24 hour operations cycle, but all the lighting is synthetic. Adjusting that and the meal schedule /etc could put them in a unique position to really find the optimal wake-sleep duration and ratio.
/shrug.