I'm so tired I could vomit...

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.. I mean that quite literally.

I've been awake since last night around 10pm and it is now 7 pm the next day. And when I stay up so long I feel nauseous and sick to my stomach. Anyone else ever get like this?

The reason I have not slept, for those interested, is because my sleeping/waking times are all out of wack and staying awake is a good way to reset my internal clock to a more normal pattern. I get screwed up every so often... I think it is a symptom of wrong planet syndrome. I was clearly not meant for a world with 24 hours in it's day. I don't know what planet I was meant for, but perhaps it was one with 26 or so hours in it's day. Am I alone in this or might this have something to do with aspergers?

I hope you perk up soon, Psychlone.

You sound like my husband but he does not have Aspergers just ADHD. I really don't know that much about ADHD but he has these sleeping issues.

I have literally never been able to sleep for more than two or three hours at a time without tranqulizers of some sort - to me they are a lifesaver - when I was in college I did 'do-it-yourself' medicating and would take something like 4 to 16 benedryl a night - which is not terribly good for you - but when I decided to get my bipolar and everything else stabilized I got a standing prescription for ambien - which is just wonderful . . . it is amazing how much better you feel when you sleep . . .
I have varying feelings about being dependent on a sleep aide - but it seems to me that diabetics are also dependent on insulin and I have a medical problem just like they do . . .

yep - i get like that, but not very often, cos i tend to make sure i'm sleeping - usually i have a cat nap in the afternoon/early evening, if i can.

interestingly, research has been done to show that humans DO have a diurnal (or is it circadian?) rhythm of 26 hours, psychlone, so you're obviously more normal than you think

there's also a theory that people sleep in "chunks" of a certain amount of hours. for example, if you sleep in 3 hour chunks, your cycle goes through its pattern after 3, 6, 9, 12 etc. hours, and you wake refreshed. if you sleep 6, 8, 10 etc hours, you're disrupting your cycle, and so DON'T feel refreshed on waking. i've worked out that my chunk is either 2.75 or 5.5 hours, which is a nightmare. i calculated it by measuring times when i wake up in the night/morning - if i go to bed at 23.00 (allowing for "going to sleep time"), i nearly always wake up (briefly) at about 02.00, or thereabouts.

i don't think this theory has been validated scientifically, or anything, but i'd be fascinated to do a little experiment here, to see if it has any validity or significance.

comments/thoughts?

After a lot of studying, I determined that my most natural sleep schedule involves 15 hours awake followed by 10 hours asleep. Unfortunately, it adds up to 25 hours, so I'm constantly being woken up too early and falling asleep too late. It's only made worse by the way I can't fall asleep for at least 45 minutes and at most 3 hours after I lay down. And taking naps only seems to royally screw up everything instead of making me rested

I know what you mean about giving your clock a good thump by refusing to sleep, Psychlone. I know it well.