(Hi! This is a reupload because there was a glitch in the previous video) FUN FACT: Because of the change in the day/night length across seasons, people actually get more sleep in the winter than in the summer - almost an hour more per night! 🌚 This sleep cycle is a good average: your circadian rhythm can shift somewhat depending on your sleep/wake schedule. And this stop-motion animation is really fun for me. Thank you for watching 😎
Wonderfully done! I love your videos! Have you ever thought to do a a video on the effects of Daylight savings on the brain? It would seem to go along the lines of this video.
For those confused about why you're awake at totally different times, it's *obviously* because she's in Australia. Just adjust the times according to your time zone and you should be set (/s). Great video!
I love this video, the stop motion makes it even better giving the sense of time actually moving slower as you would feel a day pass. I have to criticize that this schedule is based on what is considered a "regular" person's cycle. An important part of the population has this shifted to earlier hours (early birds) or to later hours (night owls), around 15% for each, and struggle with the usual schedules. Also this is shifted by the seasons as you expertly explained the effects of temperature and light exposure on the circadian rhythm. I would love to see you tackle these concepts next, chronotypes is an awesome topic. PS: Consider adding that coffee works much better a 30 to 120 minutes after waking up because your body is already in the process of waking up your mind in this range and the effect is redundant so coffee as soon as you wake up kills that benefit of it and increases the chance of fidgeting + some people actually take coffee on a stomach that has been empty for 6 to 12 hours which is not recommended.
What about those of us who are decidedly more nocturnal. I've noticed we take longer to reach our peak performance but it lasts longer. Though I'm fairly certain my confirmation bias is effecting my perception. Is there any data on this?
vince bramich There are some studies that show that being "night owls" are a thing that does impact a part of the population. As with most things in social science, these results describe a general tendency and deviations do not necessarily mean that one is abnormal. Your mileage may vary.
You have often done very good stop-motion work in the past, but this video really excelled and added other creative elements (hope it gets nominated for an award). I particularly liked the eating sequences. It is one of those things seems so simple and obvious after you have seen it, but conceiving it was remarkably creative. Kudos! I am amazed at how this stylized presentation helps focus your message. There are many great science communicators on UA-cam these days. I think it is right in your wheelhouse to create a video on the techniques different communicators (SciShow, Veritasium (sp?), PhysicsGirl, yourself, etc.) use in effectively getting your message across, maybe how the knowledge from brain science help you do this. I humbly suggest one of your long form videos (20 minutes) for this. I should really give a bunch of money via Patreon to raise this pitch higher in the queue. Hey, someone who is already a contributor! Please borrow my idea and send it to Vanessa! Cheers.
Very good filming. I've always been more suited to working the night shift. Even when I worked at places that didn't have a night shift, I talked 3 out of the 4 of them into creating one so I could go on it. I've been retired for 10 years and I still am more comfortable sleeping during the day than at night.
Fun to be in the arctic circle, where you get about a month during the summer where it doesn't get dark at all and a month in the winter where you only get a few hours of daylight.. a bit further north can get up to a month of no daylight at all... I should get light switches with timers.
nice camera work with stop motion. you & Jake Roper are the only ones I've ever seen do this. I'm sure there's more out there. I think you two are the best.
Awesome video! Did not know about the cool towel trick, I'll probably try that out tonight! Also about the phones/computers thing (for those of us who care glued to our screens every waking minute) there's an app for phones called Twilight and a program called f.lux for PCs that changes your screen to stop using blue/white light after sunset.
This videos editing was so cool! Congrats! 👏 I have a question. I've been sleeping six hours at night plus two in the afternoon. Is this bad for my health? 😮
L Galicki Band Actually no! The idea of sleeping in a single block of time is a relatively recent invention. Although what would generally happen is people would go to bed earlier and then wake up at some point in the night and be active for a brief amount of time, naps are not an unnatural thing!
My sleep cycle is so out of wack 😭 I've tried everything including things doctors advised, but I still have an extraordinarily hard time controlling when and for how long I sleep and when I feel active or calm.
That... was ... one of your most awesome videos yet. That editing though. on point. SAVAGE.. and if only i could tell you my sleep problems, it will be something you've never heard before and makes you think. (so PM me if you're interested) ANYWAY, love the video.
I haven't been tired at 9pm for atleast 10 years. On my usual days i go to bed at 1am. When I stay up late it is going to be 3am. Usual wakeup times are 10am-12am. On workdays 9.30am with heavy alarms.
I guess it depends on the overall usage of the phone. If you are a person, that has his phone glued to his hand over the day, putting it away an hour before sleeping might help. I myself use the phone to tire my eyes after my body is already sleepy, but about 2-3 hours before that, i usually don't use my phone at all, so its a different situation.
[Yoshikage_Kira] me, getting in to bed and pulling up my phone to watch a video helps me go to sleep. But I'm also a night owl, so maybe it's that blue light triggers me to want to go to sleep, idk.
For my first decade my nights were split in two. As a child I'd wake up at night, and watch late-night t.v. (Get Smart, Bewitched, etc.) until the station went out... Then back to bed... it was like 4out, 2up, 4out...
That was brilliant Vanessa! Stop motion awesomeness to match the great Peter Gabriel videos i reckon ... great work and so, so informative as always! Have we had a video on the negative mental/physical/emotional effect of Nightshift working yet?
I've said this before, but since the video is so great, I've tried doing stop motion and one thing I know is, it's not easy, we all really appreciate all the hard work behind the videos. I love the video, the stop motion and narration is just so brilliant. This needs to be viral.
I wish this were true for everyone. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), really messes with a body. I wish more people knew more about it, so that those with it would at least feel supported by their friends and family.
The video is so cute that I actually had to watch it twice: The first time I adored the stop-motion work and got next to nothing, the second time I looked away to focus on what you say.
How does it work for shift workers? This week I could be up at 2am for 4am starts, next week I could be starting later, finishing after midnight and not getting to bed until gone 2am... and those are just examples. It has been known to be on a 9am start Wednesday but by Saturday I'm starting at 5.30am. Yes, I work odd hours, but I am paid relatively well for them, so it's worth it.
I work night shift, and even before I did my normal time for feeling tired was more like 5am, get up at 10-11am. even then it wasn't unusual for me to go to bed at more like 10am and get up at 3pm. I do my best work at night
My body seems to work on a 26-27 hour day if I let it. It really sucks when I'm at the phase where I'm getting up at midnight and going to bed at 4:00pm. No matter what schedule I'm on though I ALWAYS feel sleepiest in the morning between 6:00am and 11:30:am. It's weird...
This is pretty much only true around the equator, because how many places do you know that get dark around 9? Where I live, it's dark at 5 in winter and it doesn't get light until 10 XD
going to bed / sleep anywhere from 10pm to 1am, awake at 3, asleep at 4, awake at 6, asleep at 7 up and 8. plus numerous visits to the toilet ... this can't be normal can it? Unless thats what happens as you get to the back end of your 50's. At least I have an excuse for my over eating now.
Is this schedule really that strict? A few years ago i read an article that our inner clock actually counts as if the day has 25 hours and tries to naturally shift our sleepcycle a bit every day. If i remember correctly that was a remnant of an old habit to make it more difficult for predators to "guess" our sleeping-time and enable us to choose when to sleep rather than be forced to sleep at the same time.
for most people this rhythm is pretty much true for those that actually work at night or better known as graveyard shift those facts don't actually apply so with that said what is the cycle that an individual that dose the graveyard shift goes through
Unfortunately my cats are well in sync to my circadian rhythm, which means no sleeping in on the weekends. They demand to be fed the same time everyday.
What about night owls? Do we just automaticly throw off the sleep sickle or what? Because I can't get to sleep earlier than 11 or 12 pm and don't wake up earlier than 9am. And when school starts that's what throws off my natural clock.
I'm curious about noise level. I can't sleep in dead silence. I need there to be background noise above a whisper and below normal speaking volume. I always fall asleep to videos this way. Is this normal biology or am I weird? :P
OMG! I have been looking for the name of this phenomena forever! I know there had to be a name for this. I just called it tingly head and couldn't find the correct keywords to describe it. :) Wow! Thank you :)
I want to be a morning person but I sleep everyday at 2:00 am and not because I'm tired but because I don't want to stay up all night and sometimes I do. :( Being a Night Owl is horrible for some of us.
A reference to Her morning Elegance is just simply adorable. And please don't say you didn't notice. But in case you don't know what I'm talking about - just google it! Seriously, its awesome!
Heh "biological clock" can mean something else entirely to a lot of people. Also, it's so odd to hear things like this with such specificity when I work on SUCH a different sleep schedule xD
(Hi! This is a reupload because there was a glitch in the previous video)
FUN FACT: Because of the change in the day/night length across seasons, people actually get more sleep in the winter than in the summer - almost an hour more per night! 🌚
This sleep cycle is a good average: your circadian rhythm can shift somewhat depending on your sleep/wake schedule.
And this stop-motion animation is really fun for me. Thank you for watching 😎
BrainCraft sleep makes me tired lol
BrainCraft I love your videos so much!!!
I am your biggest fan ever!!!
+Luce Kidlets aww thanks so much 😌
BrainCraft your welcome.😌
Wonderfully done! I love your videos!
Have you ever thought to do a a video on the effects of Daylight savings on the brain? It would seem to go along the lines of this video.
Alright, so I guess I'll say it again-
AWESOME stop motion work!!!!
+StaticImage big high five for leaving the same comment ✋️ thank you!
BrainCraft How long did this video take?
SERIOUSLY. I was impressed.
I agree the production of this video is awesome, great work to everyone involved.
indeed!
Love the stop motion and how all of this was done in bed. Great vid!
I was expecting a great video and got it. I was not expecting dinosaur pajamas.
The effort you put into this video deserves infinite likes
What about the people who are natural night owls? I mean they existed long before modern electonical devices could throw off their sleep cycle.
Newton used to drink black coffee throughout the night to kill sleep. Or so I've heard.
I am black coffee
Our biological clock tells us when to stop and when to move... stop and motion... "stop motion!"
For those confused about why you're awake at totally different times, it's *obviously* because she's in Australia. Just adjust the times according to your time zone and you should be set (/s).
Great video!
I love this video, the stop motion makes it even better giving the sense of time actually moving slower as you would feel a day pass. I have to criticize that this schedule is based on what is considered a "regular" person's cycle. An important part of the population has this shifted to earlier hours (early birds) or to later hours (night owls), around 15% for each, and struggle with the usual schedules. Also this is shifted by the seasons as you expertly explained the effects of temperature and light exposure on the circadian rhythm. I would love to see you tackle these concepts next, chronotypes is an awesome topic. PS: Consider adding that coffee works much better a 30 to 120 minutes after waking up because your body is already in the process of waking up your mind in this range and the effect is redundant so coffee as soon as you wake up kills that benefit of it and increases the chance of fidgeting + some people actually take coffee on a stomach that has been empty for 6 to 12 hours which is not recommended.
What about those of us who are decidedly more nocturnal. I've noticed we take longer to reach our peak performance but it lasts longer. Though I'm fairly certain my confirmation bias is effecting my perception. Is there any data on this?
vince bramich There are some studies that show that being "night owls" are a thing that does impact a part of the population. As with most things in social science, these results describe a general tendency and deviations do not necessarily mean that one is abnormal. Your mileage may vary.
i am unable to sleep and this video popped up
You have often done very good stop-motion work in the past, but this video really excelled and added other creative elements (hope it gets nominated for an award). I particularly liked the eating sequences. It is one of those things seems so simple and obvious after you have seen it, but conceiving it was remarkably creative. Kudos!
I am amazed at how this stylized presentation helps focus your message. There are many great science communicators on UA-cam these days. I think it is right in your wheelhouse to create a video on the techniques different communicators (SciShow, Veritasium (sp?), PhysicsGirl, yourself, etc.) use in effectively getting your message across, maybe how the knowledge from brain science help you do this. I humbly suggest one of your long form videos (20 minutes) for this. I should really give a bunch of money via Patreon to raise this pitch higher in the queue. Hey, someone who is already a contributor! Please borrow my idea and send it to Vanessa! Cheers.
Very good filming. I've always been more suited to working the night shift. Even when I worked at places that didn't have a night shift, I talked 3 out of the 4 of them into creating one so I could go on it. I've been retired for 10 years and I still am more comfortable sleeping during the day than at night.
Awesome video as usual
+Zlatan Best thank you! 👩🏻🔬
0:28 I INSTANTLY YELLED AND SCREAMED NOOOOOOOOOO BECAUSE THAT SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE MY ALARM CLOCK. AND I HATE IT SO MUCH AAAAAAHHHHHH
Loved the stop motion format of this video! Great video, as always.
i hope you know how amazing is your channel. We're learning and it's fun to watch, i love it!!!!
Fun to be in the arctic circle, where you get about a month during the summer where it doesn't get dark at all and a month in the winter where you only get a few hours of daylight.. a bit further north can get up to a month of no daylight at all... I should get light switches with timers.
I just love how creative your videos are!
Excellent editing, presentation, and excellent choice of music. Good information too.
nice camera work with stop motion. you & Jake Roper are the only ones I've ever seen do this. I'm sure there's more out there. I think you two are the best.
Vanessa's videos have some of the best use of stop motion...
Awesome video! Did not know about the cool towel trick, I'll probably try that out tonight!
Also about the phones/computers thing (for those of us who care glued to our screens every waking minute) there's an app for phones called Twilight and a program called f.lux for PCs that changes your screen to stop using blue/white light after sunset.
I use f.lux as well, though I hear Windows 10 now has built-in support for the same thing.
Elino Villegas I started using f.lux recently on my Android! It's fantastic.
This videos editing was so cool! Congrats! 👏
I have a question. I've been sleeping six hours at night plus two in the afternoon. Is this bad for my health? 😮
L Galicki Band Actually no! The idea of sleeping in a single block of time is a relatively recent invention. Although what would generally happen is people would go to bed earlier and then wake up at some point in the night and be active for a brief amount of time, naps are not an unnatural thing!
Congratulations for this channel!! I liked!! Continue this work, please!!
My sleep cycle is so out of wack 😭 I've tried everything including things doctors advised, but I still have an extraordinarily hard time controlling when and for how long I sleep and when I feel active or calm.
That... was ... one of your most awesome videos yet. That editing though. on point. SAVAGE.. and if only i could tell you my sleep problems, it will be something you've never heard before and makes you think. (so PM me if you're interested) ANYWAY, love the video.
I haven't been tired at 9pm for atleast 10 years. On my usual days i go to bed at 1am. When I stay up late it is going to be 3am. Usual wakeup times are 10am-12am. On workdays 9.30am with heavy alarms.
JaagupKu exactly!! my "peak time" doesn't kick in till 8pm!! but I was born at 11:16 am so I just always say that's my natural wake up time!!!!
by peacewillow I was born at around 11pm; 23:10 +-5 minutes
2:19 Who else actually gets sleepier because of the phone
I guess it depends on the overall usage of the phone. If you are a person, that has his phone glued to his hand over the day, putting it away an hour before sleeping might help. I myself use the phone to tire my eyes after my body is already sleepy, but about 2-3 hours before that, i usually don't use my phone at all, so its a different situation.
[Yoshikage_Kira] me, getting in to bed and pulling up my phone to watch a video helps me go to sleep.
But I'm also a night owl, so maybe it's that blue light triggers me to want to go to sleep, idk.
For my first decade my nights were split in two. As a child I'd wake up at night, and watch late-night t.v. (Get Smart, Bewitched, etc.) until the station went out... Then back to bed... it was like 4out, 2up, 4out...
That was brilliant Vanessa! Stop motion awesomeness to match the great Peter Gabriel videos i reckon ... great work and so, so informative as always!
Have we had a video on the negative mental/physical/emotional effect of Nightshift working yet?
I've said this before, but since the video is so great,
I've tried doing stop motion and one thing I know is, it's not easy, we all really appreciate all the hard work behind the videos. I love the video, the stop motion and narration is just so brilliant. This needs to be viral.
I wish this were true for everyone. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), really messes with a body. I wish more people knew more about it, so that those with it would at least feel supported by their friends and family.
Who says you can't be productive if you spend the day in bed, great video Vanessa.
Nice video, I actually asked for this in the last video, thanks for explaining in the best way possible.
The video is so cute that I actually had to watch it twice: The first time I adored the stop-motion work and got next to nothing, the second time I looked away to focus on what you say.
How does it work for shift workers?
This week I could be up at 2am for 4am starts, next week I could be starting later, finishing after midnight and not getting to bed until gone 2am... and those are just examples. It has been known to be on a 9am start Wednesday but by Saturday I'm starting at 5.30am.
Yes, I work odd hours, but I am paid relatively well for them, so it's worth it.
Is anyone else hearing hints of the Tetris soundtrack in the chords of the backing track of this video?
I work night shift, and even before I did my normal time for feeling tired was more like 5am, get up at 10-11am. even then it wasn't unusual for me to go to bed at more like 10am and get up at 3pm. I do my best work at night
Great editing!!
I love your videos and it's always great seeing a gorgeous woman who loves science and also sharing her love of it ;)
This will help me fix my broken clock. Thank you.
very well done! I don't know if stop motion animation is actually fun to do or horribly long and frustrating!
Love the style of the video.
My body seems to work on a 26-27 hour day if I let it. It really sucks when I'm at the phase where I'm getting up at midnight and going to bed at 4:00pm. No matter what schedule I'm on though I ALWAYS feel sleepiest in the morning between 6:00am and 11:30:am. It's weird...
Excellent, as always.
This was an interesting change in video style! Also, I'm watching this at 2AM... so consider how relevant it may be right now XD
Awesome vid Vanessa!
Love the stop motion
What if someone's rhythm is shifted, like, say, sleeping from 1AM to 9AM? Would you just shift everything?
(Also, awesome animation!!)
The stop motion was fantastic, how long did that take lol?
my cicadian rythm is totaly screwed, i live in Brazil and my biological clock are in Japan.
same kkk
This is pretty much only true around the equator, because how many places do you know that get dark around 9? Where I live, it's dark at 5 in winter and it doesn't get light until 10 XD
Wow, this is really frickin interesting! I had no idea!!!
going to bed / sleep anywhere from 10pm to 1am, awake at 3, asleep at 4, awake at 6, asleep at 7 up and 8. plus numerous visits to the toilet ... this can't be normal can it? Unless thats what happens as you get to the back end of your 50's. At least I have an excuse for my over eating now.
I like the stop motion animation in this video!
I feel like i don't have a sleep cycle when i'm on vacation. I range from going to sleep at 9pm to 8am and waking up at 6am to 7pm...
Wow....this is superb, thanks.
Very Interesting but at the same time fun to watch, great vid.
Cool cloth at the base of the neck, huh? Temperature control, huh? This was helpful, thanks.
i go to sleep 10PM-11PM
i wake up at 6AM-6:40AM (no alarm clock)
i cant sleep more than 9 hours
the best possible
And here I am, always on night shifts, so my circadian rhythm is always extremely confused.
Animation was epic!
Is this schedule really that strict? A few years ago i read an article that our inner clock actually counts as if the day has 25 hours and tries to naturally shift our sleepcycle a bit every day. If i remember correctly that was a remnant of an old habit to make it more difficult for predators to "guess" our sleeping-time and enable us to choose when to sleep rather than be forced to sleep at the same time.
Thank you for this awesome video!!
for most people this rhythm is pretty much true for those that actually work at night or better known as graveyard shift those facts don't actually apply so with that said what is the cycle that an individual that dose the graveyard shift goes through
Unfortunately my cats are well in sync to my circadian rhythm, which means no sleeping in on the weekends. They demand to be fed the same time everyday.
Awesome video! It reminded me of the movies by Norman McLarren
Its 8:10 am. Im just on the way in bed and im sleeping roughly till 8 or 9pm. Every day. My whole life. Now what?
I SO wish this was called A Clockwork Braincraft.
You should do a video on forced perspective. On that note; Vanessa how tall are you
My guess is you are 6' 1"
Good idea. Because she forced my perspective to her chest, and I want to know how and why.
Then, there must be something wrong with my body-clock
What about night owls? Do we just automaticly throw off the sleep sickle or what? Because I can't get to sleep earlier than 11 or 12 pm and don't wake up earlier than 9am. And when school starts that's what throws off my natural clock.
Great video 👍
Those pajamas are so cute! :)
Really well made, but I'd have wished for some more information on the "Why" instead of just laying out the "What"
I'm going to have to try the cold cloth trick.
I'm curious about noise level. I can't sleep in dead silence. I need there to be background noise above a whisper and below normal speaking volume. I always fall asleep to videos this way. Is this normal biology or am I weird? :P
do you know about ASMR? If you don't, then you have independently discovered ASMR's use in sleeping :D
OMG! I have been looking for the name of this phenomena forever! I know there had to be a name for this. I just called it tingly head and couldn't find the correct keywords to describe it. :) Wow! Thank you :)
Kahalasama that's how I am too. I have to have a loud fan running in my room so I can sleep.
awesome stop motion
Amazing stop motion! even for a second time!
I feel my body is at it's peak at 7:30-800am, is this normal?
I want to be a morning person but I sleep everyday at 2:00 am and not because I'm tired but because I don't want to stay up all night and sometimes I do. :(
Being a Night Owl is horrible for some of us.
Pepe Puente then sleep earlier? If you aren't comfortable with your current sleep schedule then you can change it.
In this video: Special- Vanessa's brain daily routine.
How does the rhythm change for people that have worked a consistent night schedule for more than a year?
1:03 I WONDER IF THIS IS A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING HUH
Be honest, did you nap while filming this video? Thanks for sharing!
This is super cool
... unless you're a shift worker
awesome vid
I don't think the sleep cycle is called the circadian rhythm, it just refers to any cycle that lasts 24 hours.
I love your videos.
What if I go to sleep between 4-7am? When will I be most coordinated? At maybe 10pm?
What about the hours you're asleep?
She has a great body😍
Jean Carlos Ortiz very
For some reason watching this reminded me of a flu dream. Probably the stop-and-go animation.
Um...and what about people who like to sleep at day, and be awake at night?
A reference to Her morning Elegance is just simply adorable.
And please don't say you didn't notice. But in case you don't know what I'm talking about - just google it! Seriously, its awesome!
My sleep cycle is exactly the same. Just shifted with about 3-4 hours :|
I have that same type of alarm clock
I want that pyjama. Where did you get that pyjama?
I bet this took a while to make with the stop-and-go animation.
Heh "biological clock" can mean something else entirely to a lot of people.
Also, it's so odd to hear things like this with such specificity when I work on SUCH a different sleep schedule xD