Avenger wrote:
I am very much naturally nocturnal. When we are doing night ops, all the "early birds" complain but I love it. I laugh at everyone who gets tired and sleepy in the evening, when I am starting to feel my best. My optimum performance is between 2100 to midnight, and the worst between 0500 and 0800. I have extreme difficulty falling asleep before midnight, especially if I haven't been awake at least twice as long as I slept the night prior.
There is quite a possibility I have delayed sleep phase syndrome. If I'm not at work, and can fall into my own schedule, I'll tend to sleep from 0400 to noon, and be lively and alert the 16 awake hours. In fact, I do better with six hours of sleep from 0400 to 1000, than I do with ten hours from 2000 to 0600.
I hate morning people. They piss me off. My brain simply does not work before lunch. Then sometime in the afternoon it kicks into overdrive and stays that way for a long time.
If I skip a night of sleep to try to get "tired enough" to sleep the following night, it doesn't work. Instead I feel like crap all the next day, until about 2100 that evening when I become as alert and functional as ever, and again unable to sleep until the small hours of the morning.
You sound alot like me...Sun goes down and i perk up again.Even if deprived of sleep already...