Sleeping All Day

[Pookie]

I intentionally never sleep at night.

How come?

 

[MindFrog]

I have episodes of sleeping the day away before covid. I've get headaches from it that I cant lie on the bed anymore, so I have force myself to stay awake again. Ans the cycle repeats.

I can't believe I'm missing it since now, I'd get yelled at now for not getting out of my room earlier.

 

[Silver]

Currently my sleep pattern is go to sleep around 4 or 5am and sleep until 2pm or so... Last night I slept 12 hours and woke up today at 3.30pm...

Now that I'm a prisoner at my parent's house, I sleep during the night and wake up in the morning.

But over Christmas I'll be staying at my family's house and will have to get up at about 9am every day :(

 

[Skathon]

How come?

I do not like missing it.
Cold, quiet, no sunlight... Perfect.
Furthermore, I have never had any sleep schedule/pattern.

 

[Donk]

Anyone take Lithium? If so, does it make you sleep all day? I'm not sure if I'm sleeping so much because of my meds or it's a symptom of MDD. Also, my energy is really low even though I had so much sleep.

 

[Bauhaus]

My sleep pattern is all over the place. I sometimes don't see daylight at all. Up all night and then sleep during the day. But I'm a chronic insomniac so can't get into a decent pattern of sleeping at night and then awake during the day. If I do get into a pattern it just gets messed up again anyway. My body will sleep when it wants to sleep, I can't control it. I think it's affecting me never seeing daylight. I'm now a vampire lol.

Same here. At first (20 till 10 years ago) my sleep/wake pattern constantly shifted forwards, so from the moment you have to go working, do social activities,... you would develop instant insomnia since you can't go to sleep when you need to. And this already happened when I was still having a job ...it was HELL, and I couldn't just retire my job since then I wouldn't get an unemployment benefit.
Then during my unemployment years it even got worse, my pattern got lost completely and I had to go bed on different hours during the whole day and just hope that at one point I was sleepy enough and fall to sleep. I call it "my window of opportunity (WoU)", meaning the amount of time I had to fall asleep at a specific time in a day. And this WoU got smaller and smaller and now there is NO WoU anymore, I NEVER feel sleepy anymore and you can't imagine how much I crave for that sleepy feeling that makes you fall asleep naturally. I need to take a shitload of meds every day and it's a gamble if they'll work at a specifie time.

My sleep schedule shifts constantly. It's like my body isn't on a 24 hour clock so I end up staying up a little later every single day until I go all the way around the clock, and then I just keep doing it. As such I'm awake nights about half the time.

It's called Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder, that's how my sleeping problems started.

OTC medication containing the antihistamine diphenhydramine paradoxically induces wakefulness and alertness in all cases of biological AD/HD.

This is interesting, years ago I also tried diphenhydramine & doxylamine, and also had the opposite effect, it's like I took speed or amphetamines. While promethazine (also an anithistamine) made me sleepy. After doing some research, it appears the first 2 antihistamines belong to a chemical class called ethanolamines, and they appear to cause paradoxical effect in some people.
For the record, I don't have ADHD.

 

[mediocre]

I've done this for 15 years. I'm pretty certain it has done permanent damage to my body and my brain. So much that I'm now seeing a nuerologist. I've never had a job or any responsibilities as well as having deep depression and autism.

But recently being awake at night has really made me very anxious and down so now I'm trying to get a proper sleep routine back. The darkness of winter makes me feel 100x worse. So it's better to see at least a little bit of daylight.

 

[Gnip]

I've done this for 15 years. I'm pretty certain it has done permanent damage to my body and my brain. So much that I'm now seeing a neurologist. I've never had a job or any responsibilities as well as having deep depression and autism.

But recently being awake at night has really made me very anxious and down so now I'm trying to get a proper sleep routine back. The darkness of winter makes me feel 100x worse. So it's better to see at least a little bit of daylight.

I was born in sunny southeastern Florida at a time there was little crime, then my family moved to central New England. Everybody in Florida was always friendly and cheerful, then people in New England were unfriendly and nasty, especially during the school year, right when kids were forced together. That is clearly not a coincidence.

When the French Rococo painter Marie Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun published her three volume memoir Souvenirs from 1835 to 1837, she titled Chapter XVI "Unmerry England" about her nearly three years in the UK starting in 1802, and it seems the climate is what was most responsible for her experience there.

Right now where I am, it's a biting 20 degrees Fahrenheit coming up on 11:00 PM with snow predicted through the day tomorrow, and I miss my sunny Florida. (I also want to slap everybody I've known who thinks they'd like the change in seasons, or has told me from down south that they miss the snow. My father, a cruel, stupid and evil person, was actually pretty relaxed and easy going in Florida. The cold and darkness up north makes people ill tempered and rotten. I have always hated New England, but am trapped until I CTB, a thought I never contemplated in rural Florida.)