What the fuck is going on with my sleeping schedule?
Over the last 150 or so hours, I've gotten around 30 hours of sleep. This is really starting to freak me out. The rough schedule I end up going with is:
Fall asleep around midnight for 8-10 hours. Wake up in the morning on time or close to it. Work and go home and do stuff until around 12-1 AM. I'll feel a little sleepy real early in the night, around 7-8 PM. Way too early to fall asleep. I don't drink any caffeine at this point, just keep on pushing until later.
Then around midnight (maybe as early as 11), I'll lay down to go to sleep and just lay there, my brain going a hojillion miles an hour, unable to get a wink of sleep, despite being tired earlier. So around 2-3 AM, I'll just accept that I shouldn't go to sleep, since if I do I know I'll sleep right through my alarm clock. Anywhere from 1-3 hours later I'll get tired again, but as I mentioned earlier, I don't dare let myself sleep.
9 AM will roll around and I'm still awake, and of to work I go. I'll chug through the day, but be tired for much of it. I'll go home at my normal time of 6:30-7:30, and be tired for much of the rest of the night. I've tried falling asleep then, hoping to sleep the night away, but many times when I've done this I've woken up completely awake around midnight. In fact, this is what originally began my sleeping trouble. I got a migraine, and as I was laying down in the dark with some painkillers, I fell asleep for around 3 hours, waking up at midnight, unable to go back to sleep. Anyway, so I'll stay up until 11 AM at the earliest, and finally fall asleep, the cycle starting all over again.
The silver lining of this is I get more waking hours per week. Since the one thing you can never get back is lost time, this is a nice thing, but I'm worried. This isn't normal sleeping schedule, even for me. Have I done stuff like this before? Yes, but it's usually be a single night thing. Having this going on for almost a week now is starting to make me worry, hopefully needlessly.
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Note: I wonder if my erratic sleeping patterns are being caused by a lack of sunlight in the winter. Something like sub-syndromal Seasonal Affective Disorder. Of course, I'm no doctor so I'm hardly qualified to judge myself. If I can't get this fixed soon, I'm going to be going to the doctor.
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P.S.: I'd like to add that compared to some of the serious shit other people on my LJ are dealing with my complaint pales. I kinda feel like a jerk for posting this and being all whiny and emo and shit about it. These people have some way more serious emotional stuff to go through. Me? "Oh wah! I can't get my 8 hours of beauty sleep a night. Boo hoo."
Fall asleep around midnight for 8-10 hours. Wake up in the morning on time or close to it. Work and go home and do stuff until around 12-1 AM. I'll feel a little sleepy real early in the night, around 7-8 PM. Way too early to fall asleep. I don't drink any caffeine at this point, just keep on pushing until later.
Then around midnight (maybe as early as 11), I'll lay down to go to sleep and just lay there, my brain going a hojillion miles an hour, unable to get a wink of sleep, despite being tired earlier. So around 2-3 AM, I'll just accept that I shouldn't go to sleep, since if I do I know I'll sleep right through my alarm clock. Anywhere from 1-3 hours later I'll get tired again, but as I mentioned earlier, I don't dare let myself sleep.
9 AM will roll around and I'm still awake, and of to work I go. I'll chug through the day, but be tired for much of it. I'll go home at my normal time of 6:30-7:30, and be tired for much of the rest of the night. I've tried falling asleep then, hoping to sleep the night away, but many times when I've done this I've woken up completely awake around midnight. In fact, this is what originally began my sleeping trouble. I got a migraine, and as I was laying down in the dark with some painkillers, I fell asleep for around 3 hours, waking up at midnight, unable to go back to sleep. Anyway, so I'll stay up until 11 AM at the earliest, and finally fall asleep, the cycle starting all over again.
The silver lining of this is I get more waking hours per week. Since the one thing you can never get back is lost time, this is a nice thing, but I'm worried. This isn't normal sleeping schedule, even for me. Have I done stuff like this before? Yes, but it's usually be a single night thing. Having this going on for almost a week now is starting to make me worry, hopefully needlessly.
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Note: I wonder if my erratic sleeping patterns are being caused by a lack of sunlight in the winter. Something like sub-syndromal Seasonal Affective Disorder. Of course, I'm no doctor so I'm hardly qualified to judge myself. If I can't get this fixed soon, I'm going to be going to the doctor.
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P.S.: I'd like to add that compared to some of the serious shit other people on my LJ are dealing with my complaint pales. I kinda feel like a jerk for posting this and being all whiny and emo and shit about it. These people have some way more serious emotional stuff to go through. Me? "Oh wah! I can't get my 8 hours of beauty sleep a night. Boo hoo."