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Trying the New Sleep Schedules

This last week, I tried to move onto a different sleep schedule, with varying amounts of success.  Most days I was able to stay up about 10-12 hours, and was then able to sleep.  The problem still comes in when I try to get up.  Sometimes I was able to get up… sometimes not.

It is still the outside world that is giving me problems.  I have been feeling like I need to be up at certain times… at least I feel some internal pressure to.  That means I end up sleeping too long.  I did that just this last night.  I should have got up about 2am, but did not.

it will take a while to get it all to work out.  2 years ago it took me almost a month to finally get into the pattern.  So I will keep trying.  It is just very draining at times. 

I have given myself some small rewards for getting up some days – that has helped too.  So I still have plans, and am still working on it.  Wish me luck!

Sleeping is Not Working

A couple of years ago, I spent several months living a short day.  I think I have non-24 hour Sleep-Wake Syndrome.  Sounds impressive right?  It’s not.  I wrote about this in my other Blog (Agoraphobe Blog) a couple years back – right about this same time.  You can search for it on that Blog if you wish.

What worked best for me was being up about 12-14 hours, and sleeping for about 7.  So my “day” was about 20 hours long.  It meant I was getting up at different times during the day… but it gave me an extra day or two each week.

It worked very well for me.  I was less depressed, had more energy, and got a lot more done.  It was great!

It sort of fell apart because it is so hard to coordinate with the real world.  I gradually shifted back to matching everyone else.  I have only half-heartedly tried it since.  The last year+ I have had too many other issues to work on it.

Now I am trying it again… for the last couple of months I have tried, but failed to sleep a similar schedule. 

The problem has been that I can not get up during the night when I should, and I just go back to sleep – the result is that I am sleeping almost 12 hours a day.  That does not work well.

When I wake up at 3am, I am not tired anymore… but I can not get myself to out of bed.  There is a mental block.  I get upset, and go back to sleep.

I am going to continue to work on it… but I am very discouraged.