evilgools
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Joined: Mar 06, 2012
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In the year 2011, I was awake for 26+hrs on 178 non-consecutive days. Currently I've been up for 48hrs. I have an uncontrollable desire to stay up as long as possible every night. My parents said I was like that from the crib. It is the only issue that has troubled my carreer; lucky I'm as good as they get in my field, so they let me do what ever I want.
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edgewaters
hibernating
Joined: Aug 17, 2006
Age: 40
Posts: 2426
Location: Ontario
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I absolutely have this problem. I can be going to bed or getting up at just about any time of the day. Last "night" I went to sleep at 1 in the afternoon and got up at 8:30pm. I actually went to a sleep clinic for an unrelated problem (apnea) and they asked me about my schedule and became rude with me when I told them I don't really have one.
I couldn't believe the sleep clinic wasn't familiar with this, and I'm easily able to control it and adjust it whenever I want, just by getting a short sleep. Didn't seem very professional that they didn't know about this and that they acted like I was just making something up (when I wasn't even there for that, but they kept demanding that I explain my schedule, which I kept trying to do, only to be met with disbelief), so, I went back to my doctor and got a different referral. And at the next place I was very careful to explain it wasn't a problem I was seeking help with, although they were familiar with it and offered help anyway (no cure, they said, but there are techniques to cope with it etc, but I'm coping just fine).
Anyway the secret to controlling schedule if you have this problem, if I need to adjust my schedule it's just a matter of taking a nap of a couple of hours instead of a full 7 or 8 hour sleep. It took me a long time to realize this, though, and the adjustment is a bit painful - you wouldn't want to have to make an adjustment when you've got a busy day the next day, because it works by making you very tired and craving sleep all day, so that you can go to sleep whenever you permit yourself to. Nonetheless on 24 hours notice its not that difficult. In fact I'd say I'm more flexible than most people, because of having to adapt to this. Working swing shifts is really easy for me. |
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