The Overlooked Connection Between ADHD and Sleep
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2020
- People with ADHD often have problems getting to sleep, but is it the ADHD symptoms that causes the lack of sleep or lack of sleep that cause ADHD symptoms?
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Well, it’s hard to fall asleep when your brain won’t shut up.
Word, bare loud
Seriously, my brain is so loud and annoying when I'm trying to sleep
I know this comment is from a while ago but THIS. “Quiet your mind”? Nah mate I’ve constantly got sound or music replaying in my head like the phantom of the bloody opera.
@@N3RDYG0GGLES yea me too I got the song "bone dry" stuck in my head and random past memories constantly replaying itself
Well you wouldn't enjoy tinnitus
you know the ADHD is real when you're watching this video and reading the comments at the same time when you should actually be asleep
+1 but watching different videon on my phone and tv respectively while reading comments lol
@@feeelf And listening to music
And when you have to be up in just a few hours because you are a health worker and work in-spite of quarantine. Fun club this
lol
Jemma C
It’s 2:35am here lol
I told my mom for years that I felt better when I went to sleep at 12-2am and woke up around 10am. She never believed me until recently when she started looking into ADHD and realized that her whole immediate family likely has it, including her.
Classic 😅 which doesn’t help with getting diagnosed or accepting the connection since it’s just “normal” for the family 🙈🤪
This works for me too but my family are always calling me lazy
That is EXACTLY the range I default to when I am not required to keep a “more normal” schedule. Yes, I have ADHD, diagnosed about 12 years ago when I was just shy of age 49. It does not surprise me that this is yet another symptom related to ADHD.
Same!!! Those couple hours of silence and solitude after everyone has gone to bed… glorious.
Whenever someone makes a comment or “joke” about my sleeping in I just think “laugh all you want, I wouldn’t trade that alone time for anything.”
*sigh*… normies.
...Well that explains a lot.
I could remember several years ago, I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was actually diagnosed with ADHD. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them
YES very sure of Dr.benfungi. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
100% agree I used to have Psychosis and paranoid thoughts like "people thinking about me talking about me etc. Very odd behavior after getting off Adderall from 7-16. Antidepressants at 18-29. 31 now. I took way to much, but took about 20g of Gold caps (Psilocybin containing mushroom) I analyzed my entire life. The emotions that came out helped me understand behavior etc more. Wont ever need to do it again because I'm happy and contempt forever, but I wish more people did this to alter their perception of reality. Would help with healing much trauma
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
Very glad not to hear the usual "oh, you've just got to avoid screen time after 8pm and magically you'll go to bed earlier"
Like noooo, I've lived with this brain my whole life and I can tell you, I could sit in a dark room *all day long* but that time between midnight and 2am, I'll be *wide* awake.
EXACTLY . Thank you, my thoughts exactly.
BRUH, RIGHT?!
YES!
Every doctor i saw about it over like 10 years of my trying to get help told me the same thing and a lot of them were actually really aggressive about it. Then the sleep specialist diagnosed me with DSPD and it was like @&#$ YOU DOCTORS 🖕🏻
I just wanna know what percentage of iRrEsPonSiBlE bEhAvIoR is literally a disease we can't identify yet
Can confirm, I have ADHD and my sleep schedule can get real wild. If left to my own devices I will push my bedtime further and further back, a couple hours at a time, until I’m only awake when it’s dark out, then push it _further_ until I’ve come full circle to a normal sleep schedule.
It’s tough when you’re trying to fall asleep but at 4:00 AM your eyes snap open when you realize you have a question that desperately needs to be answered by Google.
Thats exactly what my roommate is doing. He has ADHD and there will be times where our waking times overlap and sometimes we're completely off.
*Look into Non-24 circadian rhythms?
Same!! I try to go to bed before 12-1AM but if I start going to bed when I'm actually tired it just gets later every night.
@@prinxen1733 That is exactly it, thank you.
Thats how i pulled 2 all nighters/dayers in a week
Hands up all my fellow ADHDers who have to watch videos at 1.5-2x speed so you can concentrate enough :)
Thank you Hank!
I had to pause and restart several times. It sucks not being able to concentrate 🥲
I watch videos at 1.5x so I can concentrate, and I watch Minecraft Letsplays at 2x because it's "too slow", meanwhile other people would probably have to slow down any videos that I edit so they could understand them. Ah, the joys of ADHD.
I'm watching this at 3:38am at 2x speed. I've never related so much to an entire comment section before.
idk if i have adhd but but i had to close the comments so I'd stop reading them instead of the captions
Yep. 1.5X if there is no talk - 1.25X if there is talk.
I'm watching 3 years later at 3:30 am. Was diagnosed with ADHA this year at age 56. There is so much to learn. As I do learn about it, I'm shocked no physician diagnosed me sooner. Only diagnosed after my youngest was diagnosed, and I started researching ways to help them. This led to my talking with my doctor and asking if I could have it also. So many aha moments since.
Well it’s not really a physician’s field, I don’t know your symptoms but most of them are stuff you can only really fully diagnose if you’re actually looking for it specifically, which is usually a psychiatrist thing.
Yeah, I got diagnosed after going through the second and more definitive diagnosis of my own daughter. I think it’s pretty common, especially for women.
me toooo, watching it at 2:50
SAME. Its 2:57 rn for me
Literally came here to say pretty much the same thing. 2:43am, though. 😂
every time I learn something about ADHD, my reaction is always "well that explains a lot"
This is painfully relatable
Same
Same
Ditto...
I highly suggest How To Adhd and Tottally ADD youtube channels.
Watching them was a continues "oh... that explain it..." and learning to accept that adhd affect me much more than i realised
As a teenager and young adult, I remember wishing I could adopt a 26 hour day instead of going to bed late and waking up tired.
Me too!
I know what you mean.
I've literally had that thought before too
I used to daydream that I had a remote control that could pause time. I could sleep for a bunch of hours while time paused around me. I could also fast forward boring or unpleasant things and rewind and watch memories back (but not change them! Even my daydreams had rules at 10 years old. lol)
I just realised that movie Click with Adam Sandler basically stole my daydream 30 years after I first had it. 😛
Mine close to 2 hours too. After high school instead of forcing myself to sleep I slept whenever I feel like it. My sleep schedule cycles day and night in about a week period. Every day by sleeping by an hour and 45 minutes later than I did the previous day.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Does anyone know any good source to get them? I put so much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety levels, would love to give shrooms a try.
Yes, dr.sporesss
Dr.sporesss is the best, he's been my go to for anything psychedelics.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is. dr.sporesss
Regarding people who have a later sleep cycle; maybe there is no problem. Having people awake at more times of the night likely meant their ancestor tribe would live through the night. Maybe the real problem is forcing everyone to wake up at the same time.
this, i'm quite happy falling asleep between 11pm and 4am and I can manage a few days on 4 or 5 hours then have a longer sleep
It really is, before industrialisation you'd sleep when you needed to sleep, napping was also a regular thing. Farmers would ofc work at the crack of dawn but then they'd take midday siestas to avoid the midday sun, so did hunter gatherers. Also it was quite common for people to go to sleep, wake up at night, hang around and do some chores for a few hours, then go back to sleep. Human night vision is actually not that bad, and since we discovered fire there was always a dim light source available.
Absolutely this. There is some loose genealogical evidence to state that what we now call ADHD might be the genetic remnants of ancestors who lived a nomadic lifestyle, hence why it's so prevalent in humanity rather than having been selected for.
Most of my 'problems' with ADHD are actually problems with how it interfaces with modern society.
As usual, it's the modern society's devotion to the clock that's the primary problem, not neurodivergent ppl.
Tell that to the people around me that keep pestering me with "maintaining a normal persons sleep schedule"
Hank: "Hopefully this helps explain why you're watching this at 3 in the morning"
Me: "I'm so glad I'm watching this at 3 in the afternoon, not too long after waking up and starting my day"
Same.
Mood.
oh dear, I wasn't even up at 3 pm yesterday and now it's 2am when I'm watching this
Sleep when you're tired and get up to do stuff when you're rested... That should be the goal. The inconformity between your schedule and everybody elses can be mitigated and ultimately may become a non issue if one works towards that end. End result: You are happy and productive. As somebody who rarely falls asleep at the same time every night or day I can assure you that embracing my night owl tendencies and shaping my world around them instead of fighting to fit into the "natural rythym" that I simply DO NOT FEEL.. works well for me. Stay safe ppl
Ditto
I always say “I can’t focus enough to sleep” and no one understands what I mean 😭 RIP to all my fellow ADHD friends
I took a bit of ritalin now in hope to fall asleep soon xD damn tomorrow sucks
Trueee
I used to stare at the light on my radio to focus on something specific. It helped quiet my brain. Now I do guided meditations. It’s taken a lot of practice, but falling asleep once I actually decide to lay down has been much easier as of the last year or so.
Oh my god you put words to it 😧 I play a favorite tv show or a sleep podcast on my phone quietly so I have something to take my focus until I can fall asleep
@@MikeStonerUpUrs exactly what I need. Our thoughts will keep us awake so what helps is a interesting podcast to take your mind off the fact you can’t sleep right 😃😀
As a 30 year old woman with adhd let me tell you how right you are and that while I've figured out a lot on my own, you've answered many questions I've had about myself. Now, if you all excuse me, I'm off to get some melatonin.
As a case study I closed all the blinds and just slept and woke whenever I felt like it during summer break for like 5 weeks when I was 16-17. Ended up sleeping as if the day/night cycle was 26/27 hours long. Funny how this backs my experience up so well. Oh, and yeah, I slept really well during that time, no issues.
Some people who have locked themselves away in a cave as an experiment had 26 hour cycles, too.
I deal with the holy trinity: ADHD, depression, and anxiety. The struggle to sleep leads to me staying up for extended periods which causes the anxiety to kick in and then being up late with depression leads me to dark places. I wouldn't wish this cycle on anyone
I also have the three mind problems, they suck and I do agree that people shouldn't be given this, it's annoying and tiring. Hope people can get help for such problems, I have gotten some medication and it does somewhat help.
Same! It really sucks, I also deal with some fears that are borderline paranoiac at times, honestly wouldn't give it to my worst enemy
Throw autism into the mix and it's a real party
I had rough time growing up for the same reason. I got really into body building and boxing and started taking sleep medicine every night. Fixed it right up
Don’t worry when you wake up ground yourself and rember where you are call your mom or even do somthing else like drawing or more comic reading
I have adhd but no trouble sleeping, but I go to bed at 6 in the morning 😁
im autistic and potentially also have adhd bc yeeee. meh circadian rhythms s l i g h t l y fucked up and by dat mean im a night owl lol. sleep at 1 wake up at 10. always been like dat. also whenever i miss a sleep cycle after abt 12-1 am my brains just adds 1 on lol.
I Love how i find your comments everywhere 😂 Zufall ? Ich glaube nicht.
Same
I feel like going to bed at 6 means you got trouble sleeping if you’re staying up cuz ur not tired
@@ma.2089 the thing is I'm hella tired and I'm sure I could sleep immediately if I go to bed, but I'm sitting here, doing anything but not going to sleep
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW VALIDATING THIS IS!!! i’ve struggled with falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up for YEARS! i may even say my whole life, it just got worse the older i got
I can vouch for that. I'm 70. It's really annoying!
This is actually super interesting. I've taken melatonin gummies for the last few years as I always had a hard time falling asleep, and they helped me feel more alert and awake the morning after. After being diagnosed with ADHD and seeing this video, it makes so much more sense why my symptoms are exacerbated on days I don't sleep well.
"…why you're watching it at 3AM…"
Actually it's 6AM. *GET ON MY LEVEL*
I HAVENT SLEPT FOR THREE DAYS AND I'M HAVING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF COFFEE AAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Its 8:30am... nerd hahahahaaaaaaaaa :(
I will beat ur record tonight 😉 I will be back!
@@ThePhilipish the night's just getting started at 3am lmao
Ever do 2pm but u actually haven’t slept yet lol 😂
Time blindness is one of my biggest problems with sleeping on time personally, and the only way I manage to get to bed roughly on time is by auto-locking myself out of all my devices at a certain time. I also feel more awake at night than during the day for some reason.
Yesssss my time blindness causes me to go to bed so late. There’s just so many more stimulating/fun things I’d rather be doing than sleeping!!
You can auto lock yourself out of your devices?? This is something I need to figure out how to do. I have severe time blindness, an iPad, a nice phone and my brain “wakes up” the most at night. Falling asleep isn’t necessarily the issue. The issue is allowing myself to fall asleep.
What are we the same
Hardcore nightowl, yep. Aka -- Delayed Sleep Syndrome. Possibly aggravated by Seasonal Effective Disorder (which can be either winter- OR summer-blues depression).
I don’t feel so alone 🔸
I always feel a little left out in these ADHD/sleep issues. I have the other type of sleep issue, I’m always tired no matter when I go to bed (8pm or 2am) and I never have an easy time getting up to an alarm. If left to my own devices I end up on a weird delayed sleep schedule sleeping 2am to 12pm and feeling like garbage (mostly in college). But now as an adult I sleep from around 8/9pm to 6am and I still never want to get up to the dang alarm clock. I would still rather sleep til like 9/10am if I had a choice. I know so many other ADHDers have troubles falling asleep and staying asleep, but I can sleep as soon as my head hits a pillow and I don’t wanna get up. It’s like hypersomnia or something. Feels very opposite to most other ADHDers. I struggle with it so much I sometimes have nightmares about not being able to wake up, or about falling asleep without being able to stop myself (although, aside from a boring class, I’ve never fallen asleep in a dangerous situation driving/etc). Very strange.
I had the "always tired" part for a while as well and part of my treatment meds-wise was to take both a stimulant as well as an antidepressant that does both norepinephrine and dopamine. If you are on meds, talk to your doctor about it to see what they think!
Maybe your life is too intense. When my life is too intense, I need way more naps and sleep...
I go to sleep around 2a and wake up around 10a if life isn't stressful but if major stuff is going on (and it's often the case) I might need more sleep. And that doesn't even include naps. But yeah, I could almost always stay in bed longer. I can totally relate.
No because this is literally me, I’m always tired bc of my terrible sleep schedule, I can sleep at 6pm if I wanted to, 11pm or even 5am
Honestly, I relate to this issue as well. I almost got no trouble falling asleep and no matter how long I sleep I still have a very hard time waking up. Being able to sleep for a bit more at the weekend is a big bliss for me.
I have never felt so seen by a video before, and while I have seen some attributes of ADHD and thought “Huh, maybe I have that”, nothing has ever made me want to get tested more than this video. It’s like you watched my specific sleep cycle and reported on it.
Yeah, see my comment. Pretttttty sure the algorithm is watching us and keeping track of stuff and I'm not keen to it. It needs to keep it's nose outta my business. I wasn't looking for anything like this and now... it may have made a powerful enemy.....
The theory that people with ADHD would be look outs throughout history thickens
I didn't even know that, the plot is getting DEEP.
ya idk that would make a lot of sense i get this weird feeling of fulfillment when i can look down on something from a high place (not a metaphor)
It’s the “Hunter Brain” theory. That people with ADHD (among other neurodivergences) had an evolutionary niche in our hunter/gatherer days, wether it’s the “always on, hyper vigilance” of someone watching for predators, or the insomnia of being the one that watched the fires at night. I doubt there’s much credence to it, to be honest, and just a way to go “see, you were useful!”
@@Felinius I’d say a much better explanation is that before the modern era of schooling, rigid work schedules and sedentary lifestyles ADHD would really not be all that noticeable. It’s a real disorder without modernity but it’s been severely exacerbated by modernity.
@@lach888c2 Oh, I wouldn’t disagree in the least, I merely reiterate the theory I recently learned of myself, that falls in line with this.
I’m actually watching this at 3am, and being called out like that was super-spooky. I have chills.
Its 3am for me too
4:32 here lol
Literally the same thing just happened to me lol. So odd, I'm sure it's intentional based on some scientific study or something.
Lol I felt like I was being called out
bro it's 5am and i was thinking the same thing
As someone with ADHD, combined type and ASD, I'd love to see more studies on how sleep is different than people who dont have any of them.
Thanks Hank for calling me out on watching this at 1am 😅 I don't know if I have ADHD but I definitely struggle with traditional sleep schedule
It's nice having people try to help instead of dismissing it or belittling us for the condition.
Agreed.
+
Hank has it!
Love
I had a lady call me a drug addict for taking my ADHD meds at work.
I'm sure she doesn't drink, smoke or take any painkillers or antibiotics ever when she needs them tss
"and maybe even learned why you're watching it at 3 am" is the most relatable quote I've ever heard
ah so we're all here at 3 am huh
Did the RUclips algorithm purposely show this to us at 3am lol
Lol 2:53
IC 😂😂
I jumped when I heard him say that. Lol. It's 332am here now
As someone diagnosed with adhd at age 5, nearly 27 years ago, and as someone fascinated by all things biology and paleontology, I still hold (and this is also the analogy i use to explain how my brain works to neurotypicals) that adhd is a holdover/throwback to when society wasn't quite society as we see it now. Our brains think we are still on the Serengeti and we are the meerkat sentries of society. Always on guard to what is around us. Always ready to call it like it is, and keep everyone calm and organized in the chaos of something gone wrong, because chaos from taking in all the signals and cataloging those signals is what our brains know best.
Thank you for your channel. Your work makes me a better informed and often a more sympathetic/patient human. My son is currently undergoing evaluations for learning difficulties, ADHD among them. You and your content give me more tools to help him and myself. Thank you for being an educator and advocate for so many topics!
Flashbacks to 4 year old me staring at the ceiling wondering if I’m going to die earlier since I’m spending more of my awake time at night oof
Omg yes!
same
Same.
Omg, so true. For me it was the same except thinking will not having enough sleep cause permanent brain damage.
Old post, I know but I find it interesting that people with ADHD are largely considered not as aware as "normals" lol...at 4 years old, I would give myself stomach aches trying to comprehend the ideas of eternity and infinity.
yeah I have ADHD and I have trouble sleeping... and my ADHD really gets wild if I don't sleep well, it's a whole cycle
ADD, if anyone would diagnose me but sleep isn't as available as I would want it.
I will always go to bed later and later every day, and always have to force myself to go to bed. And every single sound wakes me. (went to sleep at 6am today.) LOL
same😔
SAME.
Try drinking a little coffee or soda before sleep it might help it work for me
5:36 I'm literally watching this at 3am 🙈😂 I haven't been diagnosed with ADHD (yet), but I've always felt I had it, and now hearing these sleep disorders I've had since i was a kid just further validates it. I completely agree with the bilateral comorbidities. From my experience neither one causes the other, they both stem from the same place, BUT each makes the other one worse.
2:50am, close enough
1:45am This is a good reminder video that I forgot to take melatonin.
Oh it’s Hank! Thank you, Hank! This info was extremely helpful and explains my entire life
I'm just happy for the acknowledgement of ADHD. I get tired of the whole, "just focus more" nonsense from people.
And yeah, I suddenly try and do everything at once an hour or two before bed.
Yeah, like telling a clinically depressed person to "just be more positive" 🤷♂️
ROFL..exactly. Me n my daughter both are diagnosed. When people tell her that she says "o just focus, never thought of that"...lol
I like ur pfp. Dunsparce :)
same! i'll do nothing all day and then before bed be like, well maybe i should go ahead and do that one thing. and, while i'm at it, maybe i'll tackle this, and that, and oh yeah i procrastinated on that too today, let me at least check it out and see if there's anything i can do real quick... and then it's 5:26am and i've just deep cleaned my car and organized my closet.
My dad says that when he has ADHD as well
Woke up at 6:30pm again today
I swear every single problem I have is somehow magically connected to the ADHD
Yeah I feel. People don't don't have ADHD have no idea how much it effects our everyday life.
@@nicolecorter3533 yess! when you try to explain it their like “oh that happens to me too” like no, this more than “happens” to me Bc it happens ALL the time, it’s a lifestyle I didn’t choose 🥲 and effects almost every aspect of my life. People just don’t get it
You should get diagnosed so you can find ways to get better medically
Try taking a few deep breaths to slow down your heart rate and try thinking about being in a fantasy world, this tends to helps me.
i woke at 4 and have been awake since
Glad you spoke about this, it makes it so much easier to explain to people that my sleep is messy
I think, looking back, my sleeping issues have had the most profoundly negative effects on my life. Through my entire life I've had issues with falling asleep, staying asleep and nightmares.
It's hard to function when you're so damn tired.
I feel so grateful to have a med provider who has been so patient with finding a combination of meds that help me with many of my issues (add, bipolar and sleep).
10 AM to 4 PM: I sleep
2:00 AM to 4:00 AM: PURE CRACK ENERGY
I've never related so much to a comment in my life. If I have to wake up "early" and do the sleep hygiene thing and try to go to bed early without sleeping pills, I am just up tossing and turning and my brain is thinking of SO many interesting things at once. If I am on a "good sleep/wake schedule" (which can only happen via sleeping meds lol ime) it falls apart in less than a month. I just naturally sleep later (always have) so it is obviously not going to work out too often... PLUS in the morning/early afternoon, I am so unfocused and dysfunctional at a default... 2:00 is too early for a lot of things, because I remember everything when I wake up mentally at around 4:00pm It doesn't matter how early I woke up or went to bed, I just am simply not all there until 3:30-4 pm... When I'm falling asleep, & I take my sleeping pill before 3AM it won't work and I have to take another. But if I take it after 3:30, it works beautifully, and I don't need as much.
100000% same
Same. Be tired AF at 10pm. 1am: like almost manic energy. Covid lockdowns really messed me up. I can't do anything at night like I used to. Further down the spiral ... 😕
@@jenk7138 Ever tried smoking a fat bowl of indica at night? That always seems to help me
Yeah for me is from 11 PM to 2 AM
The ADHD kid: ...
The insomniac: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary.
That actually works the other way too in all do honesty lol. The adhd kid just accepts it and says the same thing as the insomniac kid lol. How I know? I'm the adhd kid lol
who can stay up the longest challenge but both of us are already really really tired but not enough to be able to sleep correctly
ADHD and sensory seeking autism
BOSS MODE
when ur both
@@paellamuncher So this is the power of the gods.
This is eye opening to my current situation.
I had mild symptoms of ADHD since I was a kid .. but generally focusing was not that big of an issue (rather was not able to focus on school courses I did not enjoy)
However , recently (past 1-2 years) I have a hard time to focus on my daily job (programming) which I always loved and was proefficient.
I Do think bad sleep habits from the last 10+ years have skyrocketed my ADHD.
Symptoms manifest differently for everyone of course, but I’ve been told that only being able to focus on subjects you enjoy is also a symptom of ADHD. That’s how it was my entire childhood, but it also came with periods (a few hours at most) of hyperfixation on the interesting subjects which is how that interest usually manifested. I don’t know whether you have those, but if you do that might be another ADHD thing!
ADHD and sleep problems here (delayed sleep phase). I’ve been diagnosed before I was 5 with ADHD and have always sleep problems. I feel the sleep problems resulted from the ADHD, but they’ve always have been comorbid. I’ve managed to manage the sleep issues over the last few years, but the ADHD hasn’t changed.
This also doesn’t include the added challenge of executive dysfunction and hyperfocus when it comes to actually getting ready for bed. If you are reading a book or watching a show it can be difficult to stop in order to go to bed on time no matter how tired you are actually getting.
Hyperfocus is the killer. I got super into a web novel and chewed through like 140 chapters in 3 days.
Dude I read through an entire book in one day, from 9 am to 6 am I just read the book and got through like a 300-400 page book it was nuts, I just never felt tired
Yeah so when i was in HS still
I got up at 0600 and watched a drama til 0600... Realized it was Saturday morning and had to see my little sister and brother. So stayed up til 2200... Because I was just so busy I couldn't sleep
Being in the military like this... Sucks. I literally got rid of all my streaming services...
Yeah I do that
I've found that playing something with words in the background as I fall asleep helps my over active brain to latch on to whatever I'm listening to instead of running wild
Hah, I'm the opposite - I focus on the words and can't relax, because if I zone out I'll miss what they're saying 🤦 I do guided meditations though, where the first half is someone talking and the second half just the sound of waves that I can regulate my breathing to. Focusing on the waves hits the perfect spot of keeping me focused enough that my mind doesn't wanter too much, but not so focused that I can't fully relax.
@@FaerieDust I used to try guided meditation to quell my ADHD but then like 30 minutes there's always a midroll ad that plays and just destroys everything
I always need a video in the background unless I’m extremely tired
@@Jellylamps My mom is the same - if she can't sleep she'll put on a TV show or something. I can't do it, I keep myself awake if there's any kind of narrative involved
I never was able to do this for 30 years of my life, and thought my ex was crazy for doing it (he loved falling asleep to Bob Ross videos), or my older brother or roommates who would only sleep with a tv show on (Scrubs for my brother). But for some reason, in the last couple of years I started doing it with podcasts and longer RUclips videos and now I can't go to sleep without them. (I also just got diagnosed with ADHD, and I know at least my ex had ADHD too).
I’ve had sleep issues since childhood, childhood insomnia, sleepwalking… my poor parents!
I was diagnosed with ASD1/ADHD at 48 and the medication has been life changing. ❤️
Really nice episode, thanks!
"...why you're watching it at 3am"
✅ I recognise myself in this picture and I don't like it.
It’s 5:30 help
I watched the whole video and didn’t even notice he said that lmao I wonder how much I actually heard
@@aurisb3800 It's five months later. Have you gone to bed yet? I'm worried.
@@RustyGonzo luckily yes
@@aurisb3800 Oh thank God.
Who's heard this one,
"Oh, well we're all just a little bit ADHD sometimes because of our phones and Facebook."
Or, “We live in an ADHD world”. Yes, attention spans are getting shorter, but ADHD is about so much more than that. And it paints having ADHD as a negative, as if any of us can control it.
Yea. Agree totally. And oh boy the hectic pace of the modern world makes it all so much worse. On the other hand, youtube and some calm person talking seems to be just about the only thing to make it even possible to concentrate to tasks like cleaning and making food, so there is that.
@@ristopoho824 for me, a person with ADD I find fast electronic music like darksynth and such making me hyper focused on tasks, but, without something that stimulates me enough I go all ape mode.
Also, hi there fellow finnish hooman.
It’s been around even in human prehistory
@@ristopoho824 I hate the struggles with executive functioning
Omg! Glad i found this show i loved you crash course!
I agree with delayed circadian rhythm but I've also experienced my whole life a particular trouble with waking up at the right time too, even with an alarm.
WAIT! you’re telling me getting “tired-hyper” is an ADHD thing
Yes, that is basically what it is. Just all the time.
It happens! Our bodies pumps adrenaline to survive. It gets to fighting mode.
@@agapiosagapiou ADHD is too low adrenaline though. So instead the brain constantly switches focus, always looking for something new, because concentrating on one thing would mean sleep.
I used to do this at school dances! I'd be exhausted and then suddenly find myself with a burst of energy! That's when things would get wild.
anything is if it sells pharmaceuticals
The fact that ADHD affects nearly everything in your life means whenever I say "yeah that's because of my ADHD" to someone they say "dude you can't use ADHD as a reason for everything". Anyone else ever hear this?
I'm sure a lot hear this especially with all the naysayers, but without context it's hard to judge whether you are right or not.
Neurodevelopmental disorders are in a class of their own for a reason - they are not some outside disease affecting “you” - they ARE a part of you. ADHD literally affects how your brain grows and develops. For me, my ADHD feels like a set of tinted glasses - it fundamentally affects every aspect of how I experience and view the world. Sure, to other people I can look “normal” in many contexts, and I often feel normal as well, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still a part of me - not always in a negative way, either. Now, 2 yrs after diagnosis (& a lot of moping/mourning) I’m at a point where I can recognize good things about my ADHD too, which is why viewing it as part of me rather than some “thing” that I “have” has been helpful to learning how to manage everyday life. It’s hard to explain that to others, though (I think my family still secretly thinks I’ll wake up as a brand new, cured person someday)
@@Tika927 you have worded this so beautifully thank!
If it bothers you, you have to change it
@@svp5thechad408 you just cured my ADHD, thanks
I found a large contributor to my sleep issues (restless leg especially) was low blood ferritin (iron storage and utilization). I need an infusion annually the past few years (age 55-58). I definitively have a form of ADHD. I believe it has helped make me great at multitasking, but I also have deviancy and addiction issues. All this combined with a strong type-A personality has been a blessing and a curse throughout my 58 year life.
Great video. Heartfelt comments.
"And why you're watching it at 3am"
*checks time*
*3:07am*
...
I was diagnosed with ADHD last year at the age of 62. Every time I discover another connection to my behavior I realize there's an explanation for what I always considered character flaws. Why didn't I discover this decades ago?
Doctors tend to either ignore it or brush it off as something you'll grow out of
Because when we grew up in the 70s… Only boys had ADHD 😆
And of course what I mean by that is girls present differently. (I was that flaky girl, the chatty Cathy, the daydreamer, always late, etc. ) I was diagnosed two years ago at the age of 56!
Because decades ago they didn't realize it was an actual medical problem. At best, it was considered a personality quirk, but most doctors and medical professionals were happy to explain it away as actual character flaws. Something that we could fix if we just tried harder. Something we could change if we had the willpower.
Anyway, I pop a 1.5 mg melatonin gummy around 10PM and it puts me to sleep by midnight, which lets me get the seven and a half hours of sleep I need to get up and clock into work-from-home at 8AM, around the same time I take my ADHD meds so I can actually try to focus on work. This pattern seems to be working well for me, but if I ever have to go back into the office, I suspect I'll need to shift everything up an hour.
@@ANNEMARGARET0319 No one ever suspected that I had ADHD because I managed to get good grades. My younger sister was born in 1971 and had the identical problems as my brother who was diagnosed but the doctors literally told my mom that girls don't have ADHD.
I feel like that and I'm only 36! It's crazy we can live with conditions like these for decades but no-one recognised our symptoms as being anything other than important..hopefully better awareness for these disorders moving forward into 2023/24 and onwards so people don't have to struggle and suffer in silence 🤫
Having ADHD as a scholar looks like; watching a video that mentions a medical syndrome, wondering if there's a link between that and ADHD, googling it, finding a link, researching studies about it on a database, beginning to write a research paper about it, and promptly abandoning it an hour later. Only to work on a completely different, incomplete project.
and the project you were actually supposed to be working on this whole time is due in an hour.
I feel so called out
Get out of my head 😂
@Nikky Ramos - I've asked my mum for YEARS If she'd given away a twin I ought to know about. I think I've just found my twin!!!!
😁🤣💟💕
Actually 🤕
Yep confirmed, I have ADD and have RLS. It’s so bad I would lay in bed and just cry for hours as a child because I didn’t understand why it was happening. I also have the RLS that affects the arms as well so it’s like a whole body thing.
It explains the crazy sleep patterns I've been having in my life.
OMG AND THE RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME TOO!!
I know what you mean. Can I make a suggestion? I used to get a lot of restless legs but since I have given up caffeine (no tea, coffee or chocolate) I get significantly less. I also have greatly reduced my sugar intake (which affects my breathing too) and try not to do anything too taxing on my brain in the evenings as an overactive mind seems to go hand in hand with these symptoms as I continue to do the mental activity in my head when I am trying to go to sleep.
I completely agree with the delayed circadian rhythm thing. When it gets dark and everyone else is getting sleepy it’s like I just start waking up &/or getting amped! I can feel it, like I’m getting psyched up for something!
Just take maletonin sublingual pills once. It's amazing. After around 20 minutes, you'd "feel" the night! You'd suddenly feel that it's too late to be awake and it's time to sleep. Wonderful!
yeah it's so frustrating, I'm exhausted and feel so fatigued all day and then when I'm finally starting to feel awake and alert NOPE it's bedtime!
@@digitaldrittenIKR?!
When it's time to bed , I feel like working. All day I'm lifeless.
Gosh, it's maddening.
I think there's an "environment" where this is "fixed" or perhaps at least put to healthy use and downsides mitigated. Buuut I don't know if it exists in society :(
I don't know what we should do
What if the "night owls" are genetically predisposed to be the overnight protectors of the "early birds". It would make some sense in early human evolution.
this makes so much sense why 7 year old me would spend 2 hours tossing and turning, attempting to sleep but failing miserably
Yup. Sleep was a terrible thing for me in my early childhood. My adhd got better as I grew up and now it's very tame. Problem is I still need to take precautions to ensure I get good sleep or else my entire day will be screwed up.
Same
Same! Then when I did go to sleep around 1 am I'd wake up at 4 am, and be like "CEREAL!" And would run the day off 3hrs of sleep
No; it was because you never had any WONDER during the day.
same here. and now that I'm 35 my circadian rhythm is almost non-existant. with me only taking naps before and after work.
Woah this makes so much sense for my ADHD, I know that I got horrible sleep as a kid/teen and improved once I was medicated for my anxiety. But still it takes me a whole 1-2 hours to wind down for bed and I can't sleep comfortably for the night until it's been dark for a while
I’ll be tired all day, and even struggle to get out of bed no matter how much my family yells at me and berates me for my terrible sleep cycle, but the moment it starts getting dark I’m wide awake and energized.
While unemployed as an adult, I’m finding that sleep definitely drifts due to hyper focus. Daylight is not that important personally (especially for sleep-cycles during the summer); but if I stop doing an activity I’ve been hyper-focused on for hours, like for a bathroom break, the need to sleep comes from nowhere and hits me like a truck! Hyper focus seems to be a very powerful sleep suppressant very consistently with me.
Yes! Sometimes I am scared of stopping what I am doing because I know I'll develop a sleepy feeling if I do.
For my entire life when it was near the time I would go to sleep and I had to do something I didn’t want to do such as homework or something mundane my body and mind would completely shut down
im scared to stop working even when i come home. just making and eating dinner is enough to go right to sleep, then sleeping schedule is fucked and work will be hell
You're right, the same happens with me
I actually sleep better during the day than at night, but I still hated working night shift 😕
*Me, a person with ADHD watching this at 4am:* oh
5:35 EXPOSED
Man, I thought 1:30 AM was bad.
There’s also the fact that stimulants are often used to treat ADHD, and in my experience (got medicated about a month and a half ago and recently diagnosed with combined type ADHD) if I’m not careful about when during the day I take meds and when I take breaks from those meds it can mean having even more trouble falling asleep. That and I currently have a roommate with alarms that go off before mine sometimes…
I have severe ADHD, and my sleep is totally screwed up. This explains sooooo much
My girlfriend was recently diagnosed with adhd. She can be sound asleep and snoring but if I move or change the channel on the TV she becomes wide awake like she was never asleep to began with. It's really wild how it seems like she's never really fully asleep.
Thats me HAHAH
@@Ec-pb1tl me too!
I wake up with the slight, indirect light that comes through my heavy but light-colored curtains when my across the way neighbors go to the bathroom, which does not face my window. Never could sleep with TV on though, not to mention channel surfing! I hope Michael's wearing headphones...
I have to be sleep deprived to fall into deep sleep and that's not even a guarantee. My mum can rock up to my house at 6am and I'm already sitting up.
@@volaalov6254 that's me buddy
Same 😆
When he said "And maybe even learned why you're watching it at 3am" it felt almost like a forth-wall break for me
He said that when my clock was LITERALLY 3am on my laptop
Here's a hack that has helped me out a lot- I have ADHD/Narcolepsy and maintaining a normal sleep cycle has been challenging.
1. Start liking houseplants. Get some plants, some grow lamps with timers or use those $5 christmas light timers you can get at any supermarket.
2. Put the plants and lights in the room where you sleep.
3. Set the timers to sync with sunrise and sunset on Jun 21 if you're in the northern hemisphere, Dec 21 if southern hemisphere.
Get up when the lights come on, start winding down for bed when they switch off.
This delayed circadian rhythm cost me a LOT. In my 12th grade I literally missed most of my classes because of this and almost got failed 🥲 Fortunately I did not fail and got admitted into a college but my grades were so low that I ended up in a college and stream I did not want to study in.
I guess this would explain why it's like pulling teeth trying to sleep earlier than 2 am and I need to have the lights off a few hours before I go to sleep
I do that. Have lights out @ 10 fall sleep @ 2 and wake up @ 5 then fall back to sleep @8. And miss my 10 am appointment. If you ask why not just stay awake from 5...I try that but by 2pm I'm so sleepy that I have trouble focusing on driving. The warmth of the sun makes it worst. I'm thinking of getting a mini RV so that I can sleep on location to accommodate my sleep patterns and the world I'm living in. The plus about ADHD is that we can do multi thinking.
@@BlueSky-oe4fn Omg you sound just like me. I also have to be in the pitch dark for like 4 hours, then dont fall asleap till like 4, even when im really trying hard to go to bed early for weeks at a time. I notice that I get the deepest sleep from about 6-9am... when most people are waking up. I cant even explain how difficult it is for me to wake up in the morning. Like a honestly feel incredibly drowsy until sunset. And I often miss 10 or 11am appointments as well. It's incredibly frustrating. Society wasnt made for people like us, and we get called lazy. But i think it's clear that there is something off with our circadian cycles, or perhaps there are other factors at play too. Wish I knew what they were.
I can go to bed at 10pm but no matter what I do I only fall asleep at 1am on an average night, midnight on a good night or 3am on a bad night. I have found that my body responds to certain vocal pitches by getting sleepy so now when I struggle to sleep I turn on RUclips and watch time team. This works best when you have RUclips premium so the ads don't interrupt things and wake you up again with the pitch change. To deal with the light and the odd drive to watch even though I'm using it to sleep, I use a sleep mask or just close the flap on the phone case. Doing this I can be asleep within an hour of going to bed.....usually......that is if I didn't do something stupid and have caffeine after 5pm.
I tried but woke up and now I'm here at 3 AM.
Use a blue screen filter on your phone it'll put you to sleep fast
This would explain why I can’t sleep unless I’m so exhausted I don’t notice myself fall asleep. I’m not saying I have ADHD for sure, I haven’t gotten confirmation about if I do, but I have a lot of the symptoms, including some rare ones, and I have trouble sleeping, making it harder for me to wake up early in the morning for school. Usually because of this, we end up a little bit late.
honestly same, I don't know why but I have to spend about what feels like an hour trying to get to sleep to actually sleep. But even then I'm not even sure if that does anything because I don't exactly remember which point in time I would fall asleep at.
SAME !
Yep same,with adhd your brain is overactive so makes relaxing and sleep really tough.sometimes wish i could just switch my brain off!
Same here. For years I legit had to just lay in the dark and stare at the ceiling for 2+ hours until I finally fell asleep. It’s why at this point I don’t bother trying to go to sleep before I start feeling like my brain is malfunctioning.
Honestly it could just have to do with some other things I 100% have, but I dunno.
you can have even rare symptoms but it can be just coincidence. But anyway if you have think that you have adhd, go to doctor. Cuz adhd is disorded
Maybe also talk about the overlooked elephants in the room called ABUSE and TRAUMA that make kids and adults generally more nervous about everything and thus less likely to let their mental guard down to fall asleep normally while also being more prone to excessive behavior choices to combat a lack of reliable cognitive energy in their daily life
Thank you. Yes, this is what I went through. I think I was abused by my parent because I had ADD, and they didn't believe in it. So I got traumatic punishment constantly by a control freak.
In my experience ADHD = Trying to get the most dopamine hits out of the day before falling asleep. Binge eating is also very common in ADHD, you're essentially getting Dopamine hits but have trouble stopping, and funnily enough some ADHD meds reduce appetite too.
I only got diagnosed when I started taking melatonin and realized that a "good night's sleep" was not in fact a myth.
Howd you get a good nights sleep?
@@ellgonzales6165 if you're of legal age I recommend cbd for sleep! If not then good luck getting good amounts of sleep as a youth in the school system :( in all of high-school and middle school I really only got between 3-5 hours of sleep max in between all the school work, stress, and adhd probs:(
What I always say about sleep is "I don't fall asleep, I go to sleep. Sleep is an active, rather than passive, thing that I have to do. It won't happen on is own, most of the time"
That.. doesn't really help. Not for most people, anyway.
I always say "Sleep is a thing my body does when it physically can't do anything else, which is why it takes until I suddenly can barely maintain consciousness for me to not be wide awake"
@@Dice-Z most ppl don’t have adhd. Op makes sense
Dude same, I never go to sleep out of being really tired, I just decide "Yep, I can`t afford to keep being awake better turn off the PC"
@@Axl-ng1yj no for real!! I can be violently exhausted (as I am now and I have to wake up in 90 minutes fml) and I’ll stay up if I’m entertained but if I’m bored I’ll just go to bed or take a nap instead existing in boredom or silence lol
I found what helps me quite a bit is gradually dimming the lights or turning them off in staggered stages, 9:30 PM, 10:30 PM, etc. When all the lights are on in the house I lose track of time and stay up way more than intended.
THIS IS EXPLAINS SO MUCH
I love when people who don't believe in ADHD say "You're fine! Everyone has trouble focusing! Happens to me all the time!" and then all I can think is. "Bruh... you should get checked out because, no, not everyone has trouble focusing..."
Everyone has trouble focusing sometimes, everyone loses their keys sometimes, but losing your keys for the fourth time that day on your way from the bathroom to the kitchen, and then not remembering why you went to the kitchen in the first place until something is already burning, is not normal.
@@friendstastegood oh, is it not normal? oh....
@@friendstastegood ayo that’s my daily life lmao
right? and sometimes i get the same rhetoric about even rarer issues. like, if you can relate to this, you're not normal either lol
I always ask them if they think it impacts their life, have/had trouble with school, unable to keep a job, difficulty navigation social situations because you can't focus on one conversation long enough or you take over the whole conversation. Then yeah, get it checked out, might be ADHD. Otherwise, everybody has trouble getting up in the morning, sleeping well, focussing on work etc etc. But it shouldn't be all the time, and it shouldn't impact your life extensively in a negative way.
Joke's on you, Hank. I'm watching this at 9am after going to bed at 5am. I swear if the world allowed me to go to bed at 5am and get up at 1pm I would
That happened to me last night. I just wasn't tired. Sleeping in feels amazing.
My current schedule. The problem is I miss actually living
if there's any way you can try to make your life fit around that schedule, do it, commit to it, it'll change your life.
Yeesssssssssss that's me! My natural schedule is 4am-11am
Whole reason I worked in bars for so long.
Turns out it doesn't help as much with... other life stuff.
I clicked on this video because I have adhd and sleeping problems. At the end when he said he "and maybe even learned why you're watching it at 3am" I took a look at the time and it was 3am. That was quite the shock.
This hits hard when you have ADHD and you're watching this at 2am knowing you need to wake up in 4 hours.
"... and maybe finding out, why you are watching this at 3am."
Well, its 2am here, but i still feel called out right now anyway. Rude, Hank :D
2:36 as I post now. HE KNOWS.
*checks time* ... 2:16 😬
2:01 am for me
2:54 am, and it looks like I won't be getting to sleep for at least another 18 hours.
I came here to say this! LMAO
Yup. It’s like I just cannot turn off my mental processing until I am exhausted.
mee too
That Thing Decides
I wake up in the most random parts of my home for this very reason.
Yeah in the summer I find a fast hard bike ride an hour or 2 before bed helps since I tire myself out. Winter......well then I'm crap out of luck or go to the gym
@@alicomando1195 and yet you are just as much that Thing as it is not, without contradicting itself. Or yourself in this case.
You are as much in control as you are not. It doesn't cancel eachother out, yet they are definitely opposites, I can promise you that. Consider it. The more you figure this riddle out, the greater the reward will be. You're doing great, it's your default to do your best after all! Keep it up and have fun with this puzzle.
@@11shoopdawhoop My Average DSPD-Non24 Is 24 Hours And About 48 Minutes
How interesting! Thanks for the video.
Me trying to go to sleep: "....i wonder why toilets are different all over the world... i should probably research why"
The part about kids being more hyperactive when they're tired opened my eyes so much! I used to stay up late on purpose before tests and classes throughout middle and high-school because I always found that my brain was so tired it was finally quiet enough for me to focus in class but God was I sleep deprived
Wow! That's really cool that you realizes that about how your brain works and you were able to tweak your behaviors to sortof manage your ADD!
There's something almost kinda sad about it too though... I can empathize with the struggle and needing to take some drastic measures in order to trick your mind into managing at life. I used to have to do that for any type of project in school.... Had to wait until the night before and stay up all night and do the work all at once and get it finished just before I had to leave for school. The urgency of knowing it was due NOW, was the only way I could get my brain to do it. otherwise I could just not focus my attention on it.
@@kmdn1 I feel this. The last project I did before I finished university was a a big term project that I had been half-heartedly working on all term, and then it got down to the due date. It was due on Sunday at anytime (because the professor was kind). I started working at noon on Saturday, and worked through till 8:00 am on Sunday.
But there were also very clever professors who knew how students like us work, and made a whole bunch of smaller deadlines throughout the term. They knew that if there wasn't immediate pressure, we would leave the projects to the last minute.
Yeah I talk a lot more when I’m tired
I’m the same way even now as an adult. When I’m tired, I become so much more hyperactive. I could talk people’s ear off. I call it a Sleepy High.
@@williwiebe i need my teachers to do that, i cant do anything without a deadline right in front of me. my grades are due tomrrow during school and i am very much getting my work done now
Thank you for addressing adult ADHD, it is often omitted or simply ignored by essays, studies or explanation videos.
What do you mean? I thought ADHD kids popped out of existence when reaching adulthood.
I am really glad they mentioned adult ADHD. Most people forget that many kids with ADHD continue to have it as adults, and so many studies are only done on children. So much more research needs to be done in adults!
Thank you! I was diagnosed at age 30, and it's made a world of difference. Symptoms seem to morph as we age, as well. A handful of older adults I've talked to take a small dose of stimulant before bed... it has helped their "everywhere" thoughts to chill out enough so sleep can settle in.
@@JoelRiggs I also got diagnosed as an adult, but when they explained everything to me, so much about my past, my upbringing, my time at school... Made perfect sense. It made me feel like not only I wasn't crazy, I wasn't alone in my feelings.
Anomen
“It’s my 18th birthday!!! I can’t wait to-“
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Ugh. Im in a horrible mood tonight, and im not gonna get into that. But now im smiling and shaking my head, and thinking about how great science is, and how glad I am that Hank Green tells me about it.
It is 3am and I have severe undiagnosed ADHD.
Bold of you to assume! I'm watching this in the afternoon, thank you, sir. You know. After delaying getting out of bed for two hours and now rushing to get to work.
every time i tried to sleep in silence as a kid I couldn't,i remember spending hours tossing and turning,nothing really helped until i started sleeping with my earbuds in, listening to podcasts and stuff. sitting in silence made my thoughts race,so listening to people talk about things helped,like a lot,now i can't sleep without earbuds
Me too I play piano music on my phone or else I will stay awake thinking for 8 years
Same. I use a guided sleep meditation. My parents used to take us on car rides when my siblings and I were babies if they couldn’t get us to sleep. The lull of the car engine somehow knocking us out. We also slept or napped wherever they were, so often in busy rooms with all the adults talking. We’d pass out like that. Without the mild/guided external stimulation my mind runs wild for hours…
Same--now i can't sleep without earphones and its kinda bad for my ears but its either that or no sleep ahsksk
Same, I have relaxing/meditative music playing overnight and if my laptop dies at any time, I wake pretty quickly after....
My Grandparents were always listening to the TV in the living room, and while I couldn't usually hear what was being said, I could hear people talking, their tone of voice, etc, and it was soothing. Now, I need SOME sort of noise. Preferably one that isn't totally consistent. I usually go with a fan. But, if I try putting on something that changes TOO much, I find myself focusing on it, and struggling to sleep. I can't put on podcasts and the like because I'll be so busy listening that I just... won't sleep. It's a frustrating balancing act. When I ran off to college for a semester, I found the sound of traffic to be pretty much perfect. There wasn't tons where I was staying, so it wasn't crazy, but there was enough that it was consistent and at a good volume. Alas, then I had to move back home where traffic is rare and far enough away that a police siren passing by on the nearest main road is barely noticeable. *sigh* Rez problems.
These were the people who stayed up all night watching out for leopards and vikings while the farmers slept.
leopard watcher is a kickass title and I’m happy to claim it
This
Man, I was having that thought too. What if it's genetic/ancestral remnants of people who would resist sleep for the survival and benefits of the village/tribe/settlement. I'm thankful my ADHD has helped me notice suspicious activity or other weird things late at night when everyone else is asleep. It's reassuring that I'll be able to sound an alarm or be there to protect members of my family at 3 a.m. or something.. A blessing and a curse, I suppose. Brains are wired weirdly.
@@meaningfulmindfulness15 i thing it was the case. They were night owls, and also the other one (people who go to bed early, and wake up early) the problem is that we don't talk about them cause society said this was the only way to live a healthy life
Tbh i'm truly jealous of them, i wish i could go to bed early, but even when i sleep 2 hours i can't. It took me years to realise this was a real problem, and not that i was just lazy to get a proper sleep schedule
@@kermitleninja7310 yeah, I've always been a night owl, even as a kid. Followed me into my adult years, I worked behind the bar for 6 years or so too, so it actually really helped closing late on weekends. I'd find myself sitting outside our apartment around 3:30-4 in the morning feeling charged up and happy that all the bar noise was gone. It was crazy to feel how quiet everything is at that time of the day.. Something about it felt so serene. The wind-down was rough and I'd always fall asleep closer to 6 am.
The habit is hard to shake.. Haven't been back to work lately, but the sleeping is still I think my biggest health flaw. If I could sleep a little more, I'd be able to train a little harder with my fitness/recovery time.
I'm happy to know I'm not alone
I've ALWAYS has issues with sleep. Falling asleep, staying asleep, waking up, feeling rested, etc. I finally started taking adderall in my 30s for ADHD and my life has honestly never been better. The biggest thing I noticed first was the ability to fall asleep and feel rested when I wake up. It's been pretty insane honestly.
It has always taken me at least an hour to fall asleep. And often, it takes longer than that. It's been this way ever since I can remember. I remember being bored during naptime in Kindergarten because I just laid there waiting for the 30 minute nap period to be over so I could get up. I was so happy to learn in 1st Grade that naptime wouldn't be a thing anymore.
I have found that often I won't actually feel tired until around dawn. Then all of the sudden, I'm so tired I can't stay awake. It's happened several times when I've had to stay up. And yes, I often go to bed when I'm not tired because I know that I need to sleep if I'm going to function the next day. And even if I don't sleep, just laying there with my eyes closed does give me a sense of "rest."
i was diagnosed ADHD as an adult. One of my college ed class profs suggested I be tested because she saw some of the signs. Since I retired, I've been able to usually let my body decide my sleep pattern. I've discovered I run on a 32 hour 'day.' Sometimes I sleep at night, sometimes during the day, but I usually sleep 11-12 hours and then am up 20-22 hours before being ready to sleep again.
Omg. That sounds so much like my sleep patterns.
This is very similar (maybe the same) as me! It feels good to not be alone in this but it's still nearly impossible for me to do much of anything.
it's awesome that you're able to live in the way that's best for your body now after retiring :) i wish society would allow for us to do what our bodies need, before retiring..
SAME!! I realized as a child that my internal day is not 24 hours, but 30+ hours! Trying to sleep the same time every day is an exercise in futility!
oh my god I've literally never heard anyone else say this, but this is EXACTLY how I function! I told my mom about his last week and she told me I was crazy. But I swear my body is wired for like a 30 hour day! I wake up naturally around 11 and stay groggy or sleepy until about 5pm, when I finally become really awake. I have the most energy in the day between like 8pm-12am and then I am very awake naturally until about 6am. But I make myself go to sleep earlier than that obviously. I probably fall asleep between 3 and 4 every night. But if I could I would just push each day 3 or 4 hours further out. It is so nice to actually hear other people say they have this experience as well. Thank you guys so much for sharing. I'm going to look into this a little more.
"…why you're watching it at 3AM…"
ooh it's only 1:30, I'm ahead of schedule
I looked up at my clock and it was 02:55 … I had that moment of "How on earth did he know?!?!"
Eeeyyyyy. Me too when he said that!
Its 1:30 for me too🤣🤣
1:05 here lmao
And I'm behind by 3 hours
man, I hate my ADHD so much, but have no idea how I'd like without it
I was diagnosed when I was 14, so about 5 years ago.
I had VERY bad insomnia and issues with times of day. I am always sleepy during the day, no matter how much sleep I've been getting, and during the night I was always wide awake, no matter how tired I was during the day. It's dumb. My insomnia is mostly gone now, but I still have restless leg nights or insomnia nights every now and again.