• Replies 9 replies
  • Subscribers 27 subscribers
  • Views 160 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Sleep patterns

Alexa

I found out yesterday that 'disordered' sleep patterns are associated with Autism. I say 'disordered' in inverted commas because I view many problems as a social issue rather than a health threat. Most working hours are daylight ones and, for those of us who are retired, that's when places are open and most deliveries arrive.

Most of the research (as the psychologists admit) is about childhood, not adults. What little there is on adults focuses on things like finding it difficult to get to sleep or wake up (that seems to be a common problem), or not having enough sleep. Only one (or two, but I have no access to the second) take a look at my problem, which is a mismatched circadian rhythm.

I don't feel tired in the evening and have to set an alarm to remind myself to go to bed before 2am.Despite feeling wide awake, I sleep as soon as I get into bed. It's waking up that's the problem! Some mornings, even if I sleep through the alarm, it takes a while for my brain function properly. woozy face

Anyone else have issues with sleep?

Parents

  • Most of my life I've struggled with getting to sleep, and stress can make it worse -having nights with no sleep at all when I had exams in school for instance. 

    Having kids throw sleep out the window entirely for a decade or so, pregnancy makes any sleep problems worse, and my daughter was nearly 4 before she slept through the night, but that is different.

    Being a light sleeper I was then hyper vigilant to them waking up in the night with any slight sound, but then I had a brief phase of sleeping better.

    Last year I got so stressed and burntout I started only getting 4 hours or so before just waking up, and I'm still struggling with this, getting between 4-6 hours and then waking up and not getting back to sleep. I would love to not be getting up in the morning tired. Napping to catch up is just not possible during the day, I just can't switch off.

    Non of the advice really helps for this kind of waking insomnia, it's mostly to help with getting to sleep, which I can do now most of that time (unless I'm so tired I can't sleep at all ironically), I just can't stay asleep.

Reply

  • Most of my life I've struggled with getting to sleep, and stress can make it worse -having nights with no sleep at all when I had exams in school for instance. 

    Having kids throw sleep out the window entirely for a decade or so, pregnancy makes any sleep problems worse, and my daughter was nearly 4 before she slept through the night, but that is different.

    Being a light sleeper I was then hyper vigilant to them waking up in the night with any slight sound, but then I had a brief phase of sleeping better.

    Last year I got so stressed and burntout I started only getting 4 hours or so before just waking up, and I'm still struggling with this, getting between 4-6 hours and then waking up and not getting back to sleep. I would love to not be getting up in the morning tired. Napping to catch up is just not possible during the day, I just can't switch off.

    Non of the advice really helps for this kind of waking insomnia, it's mostly to help with getting to sleep, which I can do now most of that time (unless I'm so tired I can't sleep at all ironically), I just can't stay asleep.

Children
  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing
    Cinnabar_wing said:
    Last year I got so stressed and burntout I started only getting 4 hours or so before just waking up, and I'm still struggling with this, getting between 4-6 hours and then waking up and not getting back to sleep. I would love to not be getting up in the morning tired.

    During my last relationship, my partner's snoring would wake me up and it would take me a couple of hours to get back to sleep. As I was getting up before 5, it often meant there was no chance of catching up on sleep.

    I really sympathise.