General Discussion

I've always been a night owl. While being LE in the Air Force, we alternated week by week among day, night, and mids shifts. HORRIBLE on trying to sleep. You just get somewhat settled into one schedule, when the next week you're on a completely different one! (LOL) At least my younger body didn't find it too much of a hassle, and a couple of the shifts led to some excellent after-work parties. But I fought to try to "schedule" sleep for decades after that... my system just never wanted to cooperate with the day/work/night/sleep schedule. I could get SO much more done in the middle of the night. My mind and body were both sharp at that time of the day.

Being retired, it's hard enough to keep up with time with nothing on your schedules, for example. I've tried to make it fit into a day/night schedule, but it just doesn't work. And now I've done so many experiments with trying to get on a schedule, that I think my body has basically given up on it. I sleep when I sleep. Be it for 5 minutes of 5 hours. I don't think it does real well for your body, from all my past readings. But they may have been biased, in favor of fitting in to the "normal routine." I've just decided I'll never be normal, and sleep when I can.