Zzz.... sleeeeeeeepy
Tuesday, 26 October 2021 12:30![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimenaI'm so unnaturally sleepy these days. Sure, I've always been more of an evening/night-person than a morning/daytime-person, but over the past few weeks I've felt like I've been struggling more and more with staying awake for a normal amount of time.
I get up in the morning, but can then fall asleep again after being up for an hour or so. Or rather, I WILL fall asleep again, and will likely sleep until past noon if I don't take any active measures to prevent that (like setting the alarm on my phone). Even after a long morning sleep like that, I can still only stay awake a bit into the afternoon, before I'll be likely to want to fall asleep again, even while in the middle of some task or activity. In the evening I start to feel awake in the way I probably should be in the daytime.... but if I go to lie down in bed (for example to read), I will still fall asleep within minutes, AND sleep until morning.
It's annoying to be constantly that tired, with no obvious reason. Normally, my daytime sleepiness used to have the obvious explanation of me trying to live by a normal schedule, despite preferring to stay awake until 2-3am, which meant a constant sleep deficit.
I can't say I'm sleeping to little anymore, though. And there is no energy for staying awake late either.
It's a little bit hard to sort my thoughts around this, because I guess it's been building up to the current situation for a while, and I can't say exactly when or why things started to change. The point is still that this is not normal anymore, so I probably need to make an appointment with the doctor to get a check-up. Not looking forward to that - neither to the check-up, nor to the "making the appointment" bit.
I get up in the morning, but can then fall asleep again after being up for an hour or so. Or rather, I WILL fall asleep again, and will likely sleep until past noon if I don't take any active measures to prevent that (like setting the alarm on my phone). Even after a long morning sleep like that, I can still only stay awake a bit into the afternoon, before I'll be likely to want to fall asleep again, even while in the middle of some task or activity. In the evening I start to feel awake in the way I probably should be in the daytime.... but if I go to lie down in bed (for example to read), I will still fall asleep within minutes, AND sleep until morning.
It's annoying to be constantly that tired, with no obvious reason. Normally, my daytime sleepiness used to have the obvious explanation of me trying to live by a normal schedule, despite preferring to stay awake until 2-3am, which meant a constant sleep deficit.
I can't say I'm sleeping to little anymore, though. And there is no energy for staying awake late either.
It's a little bit hard to sort my thoughts around this, because I guess it's been building up to the current situation for a while, and I can't say exactly when or why things started to change. The point is still that this is not normal anymore, so I probably need to make an appointment with the doctor to get a check-up. Not looking forward to that - neither to the check-up, nor to the "making the appointment" bit.