Sleeper diaries · 6 people
Twenty-seven nights, in their own words.
Every volunteer wrote two lines each morning. Six agreed to publish theirs in full, under names they chose. Each diary comes with one of their nights, drawn from the ring.
Six kinds of night
One typical night for each group.
New parents5h 57m
22:40 → 04:370 wake-ups
Night-shift workers5h 26m
08:24 → 13:511 wake-ups
Founders6h 08m
00:36 → 06:451 wake-ups
Students6h 44m
01:23 → 08:072 wake-ups
Office workers6h 50m
23:38 → 06:282 wake-ups
Retirees7h 23m
22:26 → 05:503 wake-ups
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The night, minute by minute
Where each diarist sits in the night.
The filled shape is everyone asleep at that minute. The ticks on the rim show when people went to bed. Night-shift sleepers make the second, smaller shape after sunrise.
03:00
1,249 of 1,412 asleep · 88%
New parents91%
Night-shift workers0%
Founders100%
Students99%
Office workers100%
Retirees99%
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Priya
Founder, 34 · Diary 05
Writing two lines every morning was the part I thought I would hate. It turned out to be the only time all day I noticed how I felt.
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