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Sunday, June 18, 2006

ZZZZZzzzzzzz..... 

I took this out from the above post to make them look more cohesive.

Atmikha asked about my sleep. I don't know why I don't see her comment anymore. But I recently found out that my sleep disorder does have a name. It's called Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome. This means my sleep wake cycle drifts over time. There is another disorder called Delayed sleep phase syndrome which is for people who tend to go to bed late and wake up late. These people can not function in the morning, but they sort of have a routine. Whereas in my case if I'm left to myself, I tend to have something around 24:40 day-night cycles, so I wake up a little bit later everyday.

This problem got intensified when I moved to here, since I am living alone and there is no external event or routine which could make me sync myself with the outside environment. So here I experienced my go to bed times drift to 10am and beyond. Back at home, usually what I did to restore the schedule was to skip sleeping for one night and then the next day I was tired enough to go bed any time I wanted. (Are you really reading this far?! This was not intended to be such a long post.) But here, I experienced another way to get back to schedule. For the first time in my life I tried to complete a cycle by keeping the rotation in its forward direction. I literally went to bed at 2pm and woke up at 10pm. Then I was almost there; I was going to bed at 6pm and waking up in middle of the night. At any rate, no matter what the approach and the process is, it is a total disaster! Anyway I'm doing better right now.