my sleep experiment

For a week now I've been trying to reset my sleep time. Over the last two years I've gradually got where I was awake at night and asleep for most of the day. I need ten hours to function due to my lupus and fibro.
I've been pushing myself by staying up later everyday and going to sleep after a set period of time.
Yesterday I pushed to the extreme unfortunately. I was awake from 6pm Thursday until 5pm Friday.
I fell asleep Friday and slept until 1am Today (Saturday). I woke up with a whopper of a headache. It took two tylenols and two ice bags to calm it down to a dull roar. I think it was due to the two very large cups of coffee I drank Friday morning.
It's now 4pm and I'm going back to sleep. I'm so scrambled up on the date that I can't tell if it's June yet. Catch you later.....

It took three hours to fall asleep because my mom kept popping in my bedroom to ask me something or get something. :-p
It would scare me everytime and give me an adrinaline rush.

I slept until 6am today and woke with the daylight! Maybe my clock is reset? We'll see over the next few days.

Oops! I felt so sleepy I fell asleep for 3 more hours. :-(
I woke up so fuzzy brained I couldn't talk straight or plain.

The semester I was most successful in college, I scheduled all my courses between 8 and 11 am. I would then go to an early lunch, go back to my room and read for a bit, then go to bed at about 1 pm. I would get up around 10-11 pm, eat breakfast, hang out with my friends before they went to bed, and start doing homework/studying around midnight or 1 am. I'd work until about 6:30 am, shower, eat breakfast, and go to class. All these people were dragging and trying to stay awake at 8 am because it was so early, but it felt like about 8 pm to me. The best part was that on weekends, I'd get up around 10-11 pm, get ready, and go out with friends. They'd start fading at 2-3 am, whereas I could stay up all night easily because that was my "daytime."

Now I'd be glad if I could sleep like that at any point!

I hate being awake when the rest of the house is asleep. It's very boring. I live in a small rural town that rolls up the sidewalks at 7pm.
The closest big city is an hour drive from here so no late night boogie fest for me. ;0))

Well, I function best when I sleep from about 5-6 a.m. to around noon or 1 p.m. That is just what my body wants to do, and anytime it has its chance, even with taking sleep medication I WILL NOT be able to sleep and I'll be back in the same cycle. My daughter, who lives with us, is the same way, except she (poor thing) has school-aged children and has to get up for a while during early morning hours during the school year to get her children to school.

When I wake up every morning, I feel horrible, but around late afternoon and into the evening, I start feeling better (if I haven't overdone it), and I'm usually wide awake at 10 p.m. when others are ready to close down for the day.

I've already told my children to find a nursing home that takes night owls. If they don't, I'll be in big trouble.

Good for you!!!

I work best when I fall asleep by 12:30 and up at 8:30. Makes those early mornings for school a pain in the rump, though. I have so much trouble going to sleep by 11, even with medications.