by Enjay » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:14
My problem is my biological clock wants me to sleep at a time that means coordinating with the rest of humanity is quite difficult. For me, the ideal time to go to bed would be 3-4 a.m. I don't fee especially tired before then. However, I also need to sleep through until about mid day. So, I am faced with the choice of going to be too early, then spending hours staring at the ceiling until I finally drop off - at least getting some rest, if not sleep, or going to be at a time that suits me, but waking up absolutely knackered when the world dictates that I need to so that I can do my job.
It's bizarre. Most of the morning I'll feel quite tired. About mid day, I'll start feeling human. By the end of the working day, I'll come home and feel pretty tired but as the evening wears on, I become more and more awake until I'm fully functional at about 9-10 p.m. I don't even mean it's the typical student/ teenage thing of going to be late and lying in in the morning but getting over that when you finally get a job. I stopped being a student over 20 years ago, have been working regularly since then and still have the problem.
It's always been this way. Even before I was aware of it, my mother tells me that, as a baby, I used to yell whenever she tried to put me to bed, until the early hours of the morning when I would finally sleep - and then do so right through to the middle of the following day. My first memories of the problem must have been when I was about 5 years old, just lying in bed - not sleeping and bored stiff. School trips etc were another time when it became obvious. Whenever we had a school trip somewhere where people were in dormitories or something, obviously there would be the usual nocturnal hi-jinx but one by one, the voices contributing to our conversations, or whatever, would disappear until I was the only one awake - and wide awake at that.
I've tried everything, and so has my doctor. I've done all the alternative therapies and old wife's tales. Nothing worked. It's not that I'm an insomniac. I'm great at sleeping. Once I get off to sleep a nuclear device is required to wake me. The problem is with me getting to sleep at a suitable time. Frankly, it sucks.
My problem is my biological clock wants me to sleep at a time that means coordinating with the rest of humanity is quite difficult. For me, the ideal time to go to bed would be 3-4 a.m. I don't fee especially tired before then. However, I also need to sleep through until about mid day. So, I am faced with the choice of going to be too early, then spending hours staring at the ceiling until I finally drop off - at least getting some rest, if not sleep, or going to be at a time that suits me, but waking up absolutely knackered when the world dictates that I need to so that I can do my job. :? It's bizarre. Most of the morning I'll feel quite tired. About mid day, I'll start feeling human. By the end of the working day, I'll come home and feel pretty tired but as the evening wears on, I become more and more awake until I'm fully functional at about 9-10 p.m. I don't even mean it's the typical student/ teenage thing of going to be late and lying in in the morning but getting over that when you finally get a job. I stopped being a student over 20 years ago, have been working regularly since then and still have the problem.
It's always been this way. Even before I was aware of it, my mother tells me that, as a baby, I used to yell whenever she tried to put me to bed, until the early hours of the morning when I would finally sleep - and then do so right through to the middle of the following day. My first memories of the problem must have been when I was about 5 years old, just lying in bed - not sleeping and bored stiff. School trips etc were another time when it became obvious. Whenever we had a school trip somewhere where people were in dormitories or something, obviously there would be the usual nocturnal hi-jinx but one by one, the voices contributing to our conversations, or whatever, would disappear until I was the only one awake - and wide awake at that.
I've tried everything, and so has my doctor. I've done all the alternative therapies and old wife's tales. Nothing worked. It's not that I'm an insomniac. I'm great at sleeping. Once I get off to sleep a nuclear device is required to wake me. The problem is with me getting to sleep at a suitable time. Frankly, it sucks.