Question:
Im wondering if anyone has heard of a link between this type of sleep disorder
(if thats what you call it) and ADHD, or if many people here have this.
I need a lot of sleep, 8-9 hours, and I always want to go to bed later than the
night before. If I have a few days off, I end up going to bed later and later
each night. Its very hard for me to keep on schedule.
Answer:
Do you stabilize at any point? I find that if there are no external
pressures for going to bed and rising that my natural schedule seems to
be 3-4am until 11-12am. I don't generally sleep more than 8hrs if it is
reasonable qualitry sleep. So while with some effort I can stick to a
midnight to 8am sleep schedule if it gets disturbed I gradually drift
toward the later schedule.
We sound fairly similar. Good question. It somewhat stabilizes around 4-5am. I
suspect that its only because of the many misc things that must be done during
daylight (like stores closing at 5pm, etc.) that keeps me from going later. It
also depresses me for some reason to see the sun come up when I havent slept
yet - as if I finally realize that I will now be sleeping though half the day.
I sorta wondered if it was like procrastination - that Im procrastinating going
to bed.
I know people who drift toward an earlier schedule.
I've experienced that most of my life. For a while I thought I must be
a Martian (Mars has a 25 hour day). I find that when my meds are on the
right dose and working and I take them in the morning when I first get
up and follow the schedule from there, then that particular problem is
greatly reduced. Exercise in the morning seems to help as well.
I've owndered the same thing about continuing to drift without the need
to interact with the day to day world.... I fight to stay in sync as
much as I can because I think the alternative is prone to encouraging
alienation and depression.
that's exactly my feeling. It's midnight and I'm telling myself "you
really ought to go to bed now" followed by "I'll just do this first"
followed by "shit it's 4:30 am again".
Never heard of that... woudl be nice to be able to trigger that for a
few days. This is part of what makes it hard to be in a regular 9-5 job.
