I woke up at 7pm today. Tomorrow I'll probably get up at 9pm. Around this time next week, I'll be waking up at 7am.
This is normal for me. I have a rare-ish circadian rhythm disorder known as #Non24. My sleep cycle doesn't track with the sun. It's not at all rare amongst people who are blind, but it's rare amongst sighted people.
I also suspect it's actually more common than believed & there are people out there reputed to be lazy, immature, or erratic when they just can't sleep normally.
Totally the same. I remember some studies on this looking at whether teenagers are the same, and most people move forward to 24hr rhythms, but not everyone.
@ewen ah, so you also have a bedtime that moves a few hours later every day?
I believe the deal with teenagers is that they tend to have delayed sleep onset (i.e. they don't do mornings), but not non-24 and most will eventually normalize to a more daytime oriented wake schedule.
A lot of people with non-24 start off as having delayed sleep latency and progress to being full blown non-24 patterns. I'm not sure if this describes me as I already tended to wake up and go to sleep at all hours even as a teenager.
My pattern is hard to determine because I'm always switching time zones anyway. Which is how I worked out that if I just keep heading west by two hours every day then I feel like I'm in the right time zone!
I try to settle into a "normal" schedule at home but my body resists. Every so often I just do a full lap and lose a day sleeping, which resets things a little. My brain so rarely gets the rest it needs.
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