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I am pretty confident that I have "non-24." Given my druthers, I would probably slip into an 18/10 pattern. Currently, I'm in a 15/9 pattern but I fade out in the afternoon and need to take a short nap or I am dead. It has been this way my entire life.In my case, I seem to have this:
Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder (Non-24), also called Free-Running Disorder (FRD), is a condition in which a person's day length is significantly longer than 24 hours, so that sleep times get later each day, cycling around the clock in a matter of days or weeks.
A bit annoying, I gotta say. Fortunately, I got lucky in that most of the time, I dont have any specific scheduled obligations... so it usually doesnt matter. Well, doesnt matter TOO much. Night time is still more restrictive, with less to do and things closed down, so when I'm on that side of this "cycle", I tend to feel cooped-up in the house.
Oddly when it is time to sleep... whatever time that is... I tend to sleep just fine. About 7-8 hours each day and I dont get woken up by stuff easily. As my father puts it, "you could sleep through a zombie apocalypse".
Unfortunately, it seems that a lot of medical professionals arent very knowledgeable about sleep-related disorders, at least from what I hear. So it's difficult to get assistance with stuff like this.