Do you have a fluctuating alertness level?

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Do you have a fluctuating alertness level throughout the day/part of the day? Can you be very alert/aware during one part of the day and a different creature, so to speak, during other parts of the day? Or, is your alertness level pretty stable, predictable, and reliable for a whole day of 12-16 hours plus or so?

Experiences?

Something similar to that.
Usually if I am sat down on my own, I notice absolutely everything. But, if I am in a crowded environment whilst talking with someone, I turn in to a complete airhead; my mind is just overloaded, so I guess it just 'switches off' if there is too much going on. It's better when there are less people. I can concentrate more then.

I have this problem too. I am acutely aware of my surroundings when I'm at home or in someone else's home. I can hear the tiniest door creak, the faintest footsteps or nails clicking in the kitchen from the dog four rooms away. I know when someone's approaching the room or lays their fingers against the knob to open it, *unless* I am so hotly engaged in reading or writing something that I have to shut everything out.

In public I am a complete dunce. My fiance frequently remarks I lack common sense in public entirely. I become nervous and talk a lot, I am COMPLETELY unaware of my surroundings for some reason, as if I adopt tunnel vision suddenly. I run into things, trip, and have to stick close by him. My voice modulation issue also becomes more profound in public, where I tend to speak very loudly, as if I think I'm at home.

It's pretty embarrassing.

Yeaah. I'm alert in the daytime, when I'm being all studious and such but when I'm socializing at night time I'm not as observant. Unless I have been drinking. Seriously, I've been going to this restaurant/bar for 2 years now and I only noticed the big grandfather clock after I had my first drink there. Alcohol = alertness? What a scary thought.

There are some days that I'm really alert, and there are some days that I feel a little dopey.

I am a zombie in the morning until about 10am. I am okay in the afternoon, best at night.