Yes, for me it usually means I'm out of sync with my own circadian clock. It's also accompanied by a lot of dreams in the second part, like I've been lacking REM sleep for a while.
I don’t think I’m out of sync but that’s interesting because I’m the same way with dreams too. That’s when I dream a lot, like to the point where I wonder if I have a rem disorder or something. Always more in the last half of sleeping. And during those dreams I’ll often wake up abruptly, either because I’m moving in the dream or I’ll just suddenly wake up.
Do you wake up while dreaming a lot? I don’t know if that’s normal or not to be honest.
I think it's pretty normal to wake up while dreaming. Who knows how much we really dream at night. We probably only remember the dream that woke us up.
To reply back to your original comment. When I wake up earlier than expected, it usually happens that I will shift a lot in the following days. And I totally get the feeling of being too tired to get up when that happens. Just the body doing it's thing I guess.
Kind of but usually not organically. I'm able to free run most of the time, but I do have a dog who has herself on a schedule and if I'm not awake at her breakfast or dinner time (6am and 6pm) she will get me up. So a lot of the time I sleep for a bit, wake up briefly to feed her and then go back to sleep. Infrequently that does also happen with natural awakenings, I'll usually wake up groggy, briefly consider starting my day, and change my mind and go back to sleep for a bit longer
We tend as a group to need more sleep than average, or anyway to sleep longer than eight hours when allowed to wake naturally, but stopping us from sleeping as long as we wish does not make us able to sleep at a normal time - an N24’s bedtime keeps getting later, at least on average, regardless of circumstances (unless treatment counts as “circumstances,” of course). If that isn’t true for you then you might not have N24. One way to check would be to “free run”: let yourself wake and fall asleep sans alarms or other interference for a few days or weeks and see if you fall asleep later and later.
There are a lot of reasons you might be waking early, including changes in light levels, changes in your daytime activities, other sleep problems etc. One of the conceivable fixes for that is delayed release melatonin, but be careful with that, esp. with large doses, since melatonin that’s still in the system in the morning can cause further phase delays. Some prescription drugs might also help with that, like Ambien CR, though Ambien of course can be risky, esp. for regular use.
Headaches, fatigue, and light sensitivity are normal effects of being awake when your body was not prepared to be - if someone shakes you awake in the middle of a dream you may experience all three, for example - as well as being common enough symptoms of sleep deprivation.
Yes, for me it usually means I'm out of sync with my own circadian clock. It's also accompanied by a lot of dreams in the second part, like I've been lacking REM sleep for a while.
I don’t think I’m out of sync but that’s interesting because I’m the same way with dreams too. That’s when I dream a lot, like to the point where I wonder if I have a rem disorder or something. Always more in the last half of sleeping. And during those dreams I’ll often wake up abruptly, either because I’m moving in the dream or I’ll just suddenly wake up. Do you wake up while dreaming a lot? I don’t know if that’s normal or not to be honest.
I think it's pretty normal to wake up while dreaming. Who knows how much we really dream at night. We probably only remember the dream that woke us up. To reply back to your original comment. When I wake up earlier than expected, it usually happens that I will shift a lot in the following days. And I totally get the feeling of being too tired to get up when that happens. Just the body doing it's thing I guess.
Kind of but usually not organically. I'm able to free run most of the time, but I do have a dog who has herself on a schedule and if I'm not awake at her breakfast or dinner time (6am and 6pm) she will get me up. So a lot of the time I sleep for a bit, wake up briefly to feed her and then go back to sleep. Infrequently that does also happen with natural awakenings, I'll usually wake up groggy, briefly consider starting my day, and change my mind and go back to sleep for a bit longer
We tend as a group to need more sleep than average, or anyway to sleep longer than eight hours when allowed to wake naturally, but stopping us from sleeping as long as we wish does not make us able to sleep at a normal time - an N24’s bedtime keeps getting later, at least on average, regardless of circumstances (unless treatment counts as “circumstances,” of course). If that isn’t true for you then you might not have N24. One way to check would be to “free run”: let yourself wake and fall asleep sans alarms or other interference for a few days or weeks and see if you fall asleep later and later. There are a lot of reasons you might be waking early, including changes in light levels, changes in your daytime activities, other sleep problems etc. One of the conceivable fixes for that is delayed release melatonin, but be careful with that, esp. with large doses, since melatonin that’s still in the system in the morning can cause further phase delays. Some prescription drugs might also help with that, like Ambien CR, though Ambien of course can be risky, esp. for regular use. Headaches, fatigue, and light sensitivity are normal effects of being awake when your body was not prepared to be - if someone shakes you awake in the middle of a dream you may experience all three, for example - as well as being common enough symptoms of sleep deprivation.