Slasher on 27/4/2012 at 05:02
Have your eating habits changed significantly? It seems weird that all of the sudden your body would just plop on an extra 6 hours of sleep...
When I used to work graveyard shift I would do the same thing: stay up for crazy amounts of time, go to work, get home in the morning and then crash for 12+ hours. Even these days, going to school, I'll build up a sleep deficit Monday-Friday and usually pay it off on Saturday with a nice 10-12 hour nap.
Kolya on 27/4/2012 at 08:59
A book is a good idea. Doesn't have to be about sleeping.
Briareos H on 27/4/2012 at 09:41
Endogenous tryptamines (serotonin, melatonin) and vitamin D production cycles depend on the sun, which you're not getting a whole lot of apparently. Those have a very important effect on sleep, wellness and fatigue.
Instead of trying to regulate your day-to-day sleep and calculating the amount of REM cycles or whatever, force yourself to wake early on a saturday and take the day walking out and getting as much sun as you can. The goal is to get home with a sunburn and exhausted. Sleep.
The next day it wakes up early too, it goes out and applies the sun on its skin (walk or physical exercise not required). It goes to bed early.
See how you feel on monday.
And in general, get as much sunlight as you can.
june gloom on 27/4/2012 at 16:42
Well I seem to have normalized (I hope.) Crawled into bed around 6am, woke up around noon. If I can keep up this pattern I'll be happy. We'll see what happens tonight.
The main thing about the 6am thing is that I really don't have much of a choice if I want uninterrupted sleep. Apparently I'm the fucking put-the-dog-out person so if I go to bed at a more regular time (for me that's always been about 2, 3am) I'm basically kicked awake at around 6:30 or so to put the dog out. So I end up staying up the whole night because I can't be bothered.
Womble on 27/4/2012 at 18:19
I've had the opposite for like the past month, I can't seem to sleep more then 3-4 hours before I wake up. Not like I can get back to sleep either. I'm so tired :/
Yakoob on 27/4/2012 at 19:25
Womble, could be sleep apnia (sp?) My friend has it and no matter how long he sleeps he wakes up several times and is always tired because of it.
june gloom on 27/4/2012 at 23:21
apnea
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Neb on 28/4/2012 at 00:33
I've found it impossible to keep a pattern for over 10 years now. If I sleep before 10.pm then I'm wide awake and ready to go at 1.am, but if I'm awake after 10 then I only manage sleep the next night. On days when there's nowhere I need to be it's completely randomised.
Having a fucked up circadian rhythm is diabetes inducing, so it needs sorting.
