Leaderofthecats
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hello 🙂
I'm noticing that a lot of folk here seem to sleep at non-conventional times?
I've always tended to do this, although I make a lot more effort to be up for a lot of daytime in the Summer and Autumn rather than in "Spring" or Winter; when it's constantly dark with extremely depressing weather.
Here, it's often dark for 24 hours a day with a half-baked dark blue light segment briefly. The opposite is often true in midsummer, with midnight light resembling an overcast but fairly nice day.
Or, at the very least I'll take myself off outside for a snooze when the weather is nice rather than sleeping inside.
When I was much younger and tried to follow conventional 'wisdom' and do the whole awake from 8am-11pm thing, it was just awful. It wasn't healthy mentally, my body suffered, and I was less productive. I had awful depressing "insomnia", too.
I also really like nighttime, I may even be described as a noctophile. I function incredibly well with a "wonky" sleeping pattern. I have stomach problems which are worse early in the day and improve at night. No idea why.
As society drifts further towards online study and employment opportunity (where loads of people are American and 8 hours behind, or scattered worldwide in all kinds of time zones) , with even local opportunity often being night shift work, I think there's been a subtle but growing resistance to this increasingly outdated idea that only "morning people" are acceptable and valid, and that anyone else 'has depression' and should adapt to fit that mould.
Even if I made myself unwell by getting up early and trying to force it to suit some doctor, over time I drift back to being more nocturnal... Or I'll find myself unable to sleep all night then conking out and sleeping for 16 hours or something the next day.
Sometimes it happens naturally, and that's fine. But I think it's also fine to sleep when it feels right to do so.
I know some folk who work nightshift and understandably just keep the same hours on their days off, and that seems very sensible to me rather than constantly having very erratic sleeping times.
I just wondered if this less conventional approach to sleep schedule is more common among diabetics, or if it's just random and has nothing to do with anything else?
I'm just curious.
Like a cat.
🙂 A cat who likes nighttime lol.
I'm noticing that a lot of folk here seem to sleep at non-conventional times?
I've always tended to do this, although I make a lot more effort to be up for a lot of daytime in the Summer and Autumn rather than in "Spring" or Winter; when it's constantly dark with extremely depressing weather.
Here, it's often dark for 24 hours a day with a half-baked dark blue light segment briefly. The opposite is often true in midsummer, with midnight light resembling an overcast but fairly nice day.
Or, at the very least I'll take myself off outside for a snooze when the weather is nice rather than sleeping inside.
When I was much younger and tried to follow conventional 'wisdom' and do the whole awake from 8am-11pm thing, it was just awful. It wasn't healthy mentally, my body suffered, and I was less productive. I had awful depressing "insomnia", too.
I also really like nighttime, I may even be described as a noctophile. I function incredibly well with a "wonky" sleeping pattern. I have stomach problems which are worse early in the day and improve at night. No idea why.
As society drifts further towards online study and employment opportunity (where loads of people are American and 8 hours behind, or scattered worldwide in all kinds of time zones) , with even local opportunity often being night shift work, I think there's been a subtle but growing resistance to this increasingly outdated idea that only "morning people" are acceptable and valid, and that anyone else 'has depression' and should adapt to fit that mould.
Even if I made myself unwell by getting up early and trying to force it to suit some doctor, over time I drift back to being more nocturnal... Or I'll find myself unable to sleep all night then conking out and sleeping for 16 hours or something the next day.
Sometimes it happens naturally, and that's fine. But I think it's also fine to sleep when it feels right to do so.
I know some folk who work nightshift and understandably just keep the same hours on their days off, and that seems very sensible to me rather than constantly having very erratic sleeping times.
I just wondered if this less conventional approach to sleep schedule is more common among diabetics, or if it's just random and has nothing to do with anything else?
I'm just curious.
Like a cat.
🙂 A cat who likes nighttime lol.
