MirkaLane wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:57 pmInteresting. I've ALWAYS been a "night-owl," so perhaps my issues are similar to yours... I may be trying to force sleep outside of my natural rhythms.
Five years I worked a 7-3 job. I just called myself a night owl, didn't know any better. I just knew that sometimes I could get sleep, and sometimes it was as bad as one hour of rest before I was back up, even if I'd been laying down. Sometimes it felt like I didn't sleep at all. Even then I tried to shuffle it into the times of the day I personally preferred to sleep, often sleeping for 3-4 hours before work, and then 3-4 hours after work. I hadn't discovered the joys of cannabis yet either... misery.
I would LOVE to get it so I'm only freelancing. I can't quite follow my natural rhythm all the way around (I got friends to hang out with between 5pm-1am because of their schedules and I love my peeps! We share so much weed! But now I only have to force myself to sleep some of the time and usually if I cannot sleep I just get up and do something. I suspect a lot of humans are unaware of a sleep disorder and consider insomnia a trap rather than a signal to change their lifestyle. The freedom is wonderful and I wish so many more people had access to the ability to sleep at their leisure, it might make for a lot less cranky humans! It especially effects teenagers and young adults mental health too, I think generally people need less sleep when they're middle-aged, but yikes, those 6am mornings were brutal when I was 18.