I’m all itchy-scratchy wanna go somewhere still. Maybe this will turn out more than a passing mood then.. I have a very weird body clock. I’m more awake now – much more – than I was at noon today. It’s all screwy. I have never been a morning person as such, but I’m scarcely an afternoon person as it’s going at the minute. I’m a 2pm-4pm and then a 10pm-1am person for now. What’s all that about?? Very strange. I’m reading this book on fatigue at the moment and it says in it that people who have the CFS thing (which I talk about ALL the time on here, I realise, but it does take up a lot of my brain space) often have a topsy turvy wake-sleep cycle. It’s pretty interesting that that has been observed clinically. Additionally though, SAD sufferers also have that tendency to be groggy during the morning and more alert when they shouldn’t be, i.e. at bedtime. SAD, if you didn’t know, is the Winter Blues, the tendency that everyone has (magnified in SAD sufferers) towards feeling tired, sluggish and low during darker, shorter days of autumn and winter. I’m in both the CFS and SAD camps at present, though luckily I’m not suffering too badly right now, touch wood. When we sleep it’s because our internal body clock is telling our bodies, via brain messages, that it is ‘time’ to sleep. There are several hormones and processes implicated in this action that I’m aware of. One of the protagonists here is melatonin, which is cued by darkness to increase in quantity. Aside: sorry the link provided is just Wiki – I am not too up on good reliable internet sources for this sort of stuff. As melatonin has a part to play in causing drowsiness it makes sense that darker days would result in that sluggish feeling most people experience at some point. It doesn’t explain why SAD would result in me feeling more wakeful at night, but there’s probably an explanation that I just haven’t bothered to read up on. Unless it’s just me, that is. I can say that I’ve experienced the SAD thing for years in that way though, even when not suffering from anything else physical or psychological. At uni, for instance, during winter months I missed most of my morning lectures (thank God it was a notes-on-the-internet kind of course, hey?), wandered round in a half asleep, carb munching daze for the part of the day I got up for, and then, around 10pm, got a burst of HELLO! I’M YOUR BRAIN AND I’VE JUST DECIDED TO JOIN YOU FOR SOME JOLLY JAPES. Hence, ALL my productive uni work took place in the 10pm-2am time slot. Ah, the flexibility of being able to work when I wanted saved my ass. Anyway, so what am I blathering on about now.. I don’t know. Just be interesting to find out if there’s any reasonable reason I should get that weird sleep-wake pattern. I watched Lord of the Rings (part 1) today. Brill film. Seen it before but definitely worth a second visit. Orlando Bloom is crap in it though – he really does just stand around with a glazed expression. His ghd-styled head of long white hair is more interesting to watch than he is. Is that harsh? Maybe. I mean I know he’s an elf and so the ethereal quality is necessary, but I didn’t like him in the only other film I’ve seen him in either – Pirates of the Caribbean. Again, great film but I don’t get the Bloom appeal. I’m all itchy-scratchy wanna go somewhere still. Maybe this will turn out more than a passing mood then.. I have a very weird body clock. I’m more awake now – much more – than I was at noon today. It’s all screwy. I have never been a morning person as such, but I’m scarcely an afternoon person as it’s going at the minute. I’m a 2pm-4pm and then a 10pm-1am person for now. What’s all that about?? Very strange. I’m reading this book on fatigue at the moment and it says in it that people who have the CFS thing (which I talk about ALL the time on here, I realise, but it does take up a lot of my brain space) often have a topsy turvy wake-sleep cycle. It’s pretty interesting that that has been observed clinically. Additionally though, SAD sufferers also have that tendency to be groggy during the morning and more alert when they shouldn’t be, i.e. at bedtime. SAD, if you didn’t know, is the Winter Blues, the tendency that everyone has (magnified in SAD sufferers) towards feeling tired, sluggish and low during darker, shorter days of autumn and winter. I’m in both the CFS and SAD camps at present, though luckily I’m not suffering too badly right now, touch wood. When we sleep it’s because our internal body clock is telling our bodies, via brain messages, that it is ‘time’ to sleep. There are several hormones and processes implicated in this action that I’m aware of. One of the protagonists here is melatonin, which is cued by darkness to increase in quantity. Aside: sorry the link provided is just Wiki – I am not too up on good reliable internet sources for this sort of stuff. As melatonin has a part to play in causing drowsiness it makes sense that darker days would result in that sluggish feeling most people experience at some point. It doesn’t explain why SAD would result in me feeling more wakeful at night, but there’s probably an explanation that I just haven’t bothered to read up on. Unless it’s just me, that is. I can say that I’ve experienced the SAD thing for years in that way though, even when not suffering from anything else physical or psychological. At uni, for instance, during winter months I missed most of my morning lectures (thank God it was a notes-on-the-internet kind of course, hey?), wandered round in a half asleep, carb munching daze for the part of the day I got up for, and then, around 10pm, got a burst of HELLO! I’M YOUR BRAIN AND I’VE JUST DECIDED TO JOIN YOU FOR SOME JOLLY JAPES. Hence, ALL my productive uni work took place in the 10pm-2am time slot. Ah, the flexibility of being able to work when I wanted saved my ass. Anyway, so what am I blathering on about now.. I don’t know. Just be interesting to find out if there’s any reasonable reason I should get that weird sleep-wake pattern. I watched Lord of the Rings (part 1) today. Brill film. Seen it before but definitely worth a second visit. Orlando Bloom is crap in it though – he really does just stand around with a glazed expression. His ghd-styled head of long white hair is more interesting to watch than he is. Is that harsh? Maybe. I mean I know he’s an elf and so the ethereal quality is necessary, but I didn’t like him in the only other film I’ve seen him in either – Pirates of the Caribbean. Again, great film but I don’t get the Bloom appeal.
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I’m all itchy-scratchy wanna go somewhere still. Maybe this will turn out more than a passing mood then..
I have a very weird body clock. I’m more awake now – much more – than I was at noon today. It’s all screwy. I have never been a morning person as such, but I’m scarcely an afternoon person as it’s going at the minute. I’m a 2pm-4pm and then a 10pm-1am person for now. What’s all that about?? Very strange. I’m reading this book on fatigue at the moment and it says in it that people who have the CFS thing (which I talk about ALL the time on here, I realise, but it does take up a lot of my brain space) often have a topsy turvy wake-sleep cycle. It’s pretty interesting that that has been observed clinically. Additionally though, SAD sufferers also have that tendency to be groggy during the morning and more alert when they shouldn’t be, i.e. at bedtime. SAD, if you didn’t know, is the Winter Blues, the tendency that everyone has (magnified in SAD sufferers) towards feeling tired, sluggish and low during darker, shorter days of autumn and winter. I’m in both the CFS and SAD camps at present, though luckily I’m not suffering too badly right now, touch wood.
When we sleep it’s because our internal body clock is telling our bodies, via brain messages, that it is ‘time’ to sleep. There are several hormones and processes implicated in this action that I’m aware of. One of the protagonists here is melatonin, which is cued by darkness to increase in quantity. Aside: sorry the link provided is just Wiki – I am not too up on good reliable internet sources for this sort of stuff. As melatonin has a part to play in causing drowsiness it makes sense that darker days would result in that sluggish feeling most people experience at some point. It doesn’t explain why SAD would result in me feeling more wakeful at night, but there’s probably an explanation that I just haven’t bothered to read up on. Unless it’s just me, that is. I can say that I’ve experienced the SAD thing for years in that way though, even when not suffering from anything else physical or psychological. At uni, for instance, during winter months I missed most of my morning lectures (thank God it was a notes-on-the-internet kind of course, hey?), wandered round in a half asleep, carb munching daze for the part of the day I got up for, and then, around 10pm, got a burst of HELLO! I’M YOUR BRAIN AND I’VE JUST DECIDED TO JOIN YOU FOR SOME JOLLY JAPES. Hence, ALL my productive uni work took place in the 10pm-2am time slot. Ah, the flexibility of being able to work when I wanted saved my ass.
Anyway, so what am I blathering on about now.. I don’t know. Just be interesting to find out if there’s any reasonable reason I should get that weird sleep-wake pattern.
I watched Lord of the Rings (part 1) today. Brill film. Seen it before but definitely worth a second visit. Orlando Bloom is crap in it though – he really does just stand around with a glazed expression. His ghd-styled head of long white hair is more interesting to watch than he is. Is that harsh? Maybe. I mean I know he’s an elf and so the ethereal quality is necessary, but I didn’t like him in the only other film I’ve seen him in either – Pirates of the Caribbean. Again, great film but I don’t get the Bloom appeal.
I’m all itchy-scratchy wanna go somewhere still. Maybe this will turn out more than a passing mood then..
I have a very weird body clock. I’m more awake now – much more – than I was at noon today. It’s all screwy. I have never been a morning person as such, but I’m scarcely an afternoon person as it’s going at the minute. I’m a 2pm-4pm and then a 10pm-1am person for now. What’s all that about?? Very strange. I’m reading this book on fatigue at the moment and it says in it that people who have the CFS thing (which I talk about ALL the time on here, I realise, but it does take up a lot of my brain space) often have a topsy turvy wake-sleep cycle. It’s pretty interesting that that has been observed clinically. Additionally though, SAD sufferers also have that tendency to be groggy during the morning and more alert when they shouldn’t be, i.e. at bedtime. SAD, if you didn’t know, is the Winter Blues, the tendency that everyone has (magnified in SAD sufferers) towards feeling tired, sluggish and low during darker, shorter days of autumn and winter. I’m in both the CFS and SAD camps at present, though luckily I’m not suffering too badly right now, touch wood.
When we sleep it’s because our internal body clock is telling our bodies, via brain messages, that it is ‘time’ to sleep. There are several hormones and processes implicated in this action that I’m aware of. One of the protagonists here is melatonin, which is cued by darkness to increase in quantity. Aside: sorry the link provided is just Wiki – I am not too up on good reliable internet sources for this sort of stuff. As melatonin has a part to play in causing drowsiness it makes sense that darker days would result in that sluggish feeling most people experience at some point. It doesn’t explain why SAD would result in me feeling more wakeful at night, but there’s probably an explanation that I just haven’t bothered to read up on. Unless it’s just me, that is. I can say that I’ve experienced the SAD thing for years in that way though, even when not suffering from anything else physical or psychological. At uni, for instance, during winter months I missed most of my morning lectures (thank God it was a notes-on-the-internet kind of course, hey?), wandered round in a half asleep, carb munching daze for the part of the day I got up for, and then, around 10pm, got a burst of HELLO! I’M YOUR BRAIN AND I’VE JUST DECIDED TO JOIN YOU FOR SOME JOLLY JAPES. Hence, ALL my productive uni work took place in the 10pm-2am time slot. Ah, the flexibility of being able to work when I wanted saved my ass.
Anyway, so what am I blathering on about now.. I don’t know. Just be interesting to find out if there’s any reasonable reason I should get that weird sleep-wake pattern.
I watched Lord of the Rings (part 1) today. Brill film. Seen it before but definitely worth a second visit. Orlando Bloom is crap in it though – he really does just stand around with a glazed expression. His ghd-styled head of long white hair is more interesting to watch than he is. Is that harsh? Maybe. I mean I know he’s an elf and so the ethereal quality is necessary, but I didn’t like him in the only other film I’ve seen him in either – Pirates of the Caribbean. Again, great film but I don’t get the Bloom appeal.