Night Shift

Here is a heads up on how I feel pulling off Night Shifts.

Before starting about it want to share briefly about my sleep patterns during school/college days & professional days.

All throughout school/college, I was always early to bed and early to rise. It wouldn’t matter even if I had the crankiest exam the next morning. I had to dwell into the world of dreams as soon as possible on any given day.
Moving over to my professional life, I suddenly am a nocturnal person, rather animal.
My night starts only after 1 or 2 AM and the sun rises at around 9 AM during the weekdays and at around 11 AM or 12 PM during the weekends. I have no clue about the reason for this transformation.

Now hitting the topic of this blog “Night Shift”. Two weeks of regular shift followed by night shift for another two weeks in a month can really confuse the most loved & cared about aspect (sub consciously) of a human being “ SLEEP”.

I very strongly feel, sleep has its own personality with loads of attitude. No matter how much we love it (or) are committed to it, it occasionally heeds to our needs. It can shock us by bothering us at the least expected time and can evade us when we need it the most. Boy, I bet!!!! Priyanka Chopra could be an easier personality to woo.;-)
This turns into belief when I vividly experience all my feelings related to sleep during night shifts.

It is a Herculean task to keep my eyes open from 4 AM – 7 AM and when the shift ends sudden excitement of having accomplished one more night on the mission (mission here is not the work, it is to be awake) offsets my sleep and I just cant fall asleep before 9 AM. Impulsively as if I had a nightmare my eyes are wide open by 1 PM. Then all throughout the day I keep hoping sooner or later sleep would embrace me so that I can carry out the mission effectively, but in vain.

To pass 9 hours in office during regular shifts demands lot of patience & alertness, now imagine a single being in a night shift for 9 hours with no soul on the entire floor!!!!!!!!!!

Night shifts make me feel I am a victim of split personality disorder (lol :-D) because two weeks I am trying to drift into the sea of relaxation at a particular time and the next two weeks at the same time I am trying to fight off very human urge to sleep. I am always preoccupied with “SLEEP” during night shifts hence the need for this post.

Enough ranting on sleep!!!!

Signing off for now, PEACE!!!