Sleeping is boring!

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Ok, I know it's important to sleep, but there's just so many other things to do: Go online, look up anything you can fathom, watch movies, admire your collections.... I sleep much later than most people I know. I have few friends who can talk to me until I will become tired. I can't sleep because the fun things are distracting me. I have stayed up as late as 10 am , but I don't stay up that late as much. Usually 4 or 5 am I will sleep. I wanted to know if anyone else does this or feels like this, and what is distracting you?

Ditto! And I thought I was the only one....

I have actually forgotten to sleep, then I can make myself almost sick. I do know that sleep necessary is vital for health so I do sleep, of course. But I'm not good at sleeping. Like Jessi_in_wonderland wrote - there's so much better. I don't need a full 8 hrs every night.

Sometimes I have insomnia....and I like it! This means I get to doing something and can be really productive.

By happenstance, I think I have a (minor) head-cold right now. I feel OK now but have had a fever, etc. The only time I really like to sleep is when I'm sick.

I do the same thing, right now it's partially because of the summer. I get distracted by my racing mind, stuff I want to read about, and other petty things. I usually sleep every 2 days when I'm on this schedule. For me at least, I go in a 5-6 week cycle of this. Usually I'm depressed for 2 weeks or so, and that's when I can't sleep, and then for about 3-4 weeks I'm in a mediocre state of mind. It also happens when I'm too hyper to go to sleep.

^ Hah hah....we're 'sleeporexics.'

I'm glad i'm not the only one !

I feel exactly the same way. I wish I didn't have to sleep so that I could have more time to indulge in my hobbies. I'm mentally and emotionally at my best in the middle of the night, so I stay up all night till about 11:30 AM and I usually don't wake up till 9, 10 or even 11 PM. On this schedule, I've only had 1 meltdown in the past month, compared to about 3 meltdowns per month when I was awake during the day.

When I didn't have schedules to keep I went to sleep whenever I was finally just too tired to stay up.

With the kinds of dreams I have I wouldn't say sleeping is boring, though.

It's quite common for people with Aspergers to have uncommon sleeping patterns in which they have several hours to themselves to do what they wish. Often times this leads to unhealthy sleeping patterns (which in most cases is considered falling asleep at 4 A.M and later). I prefer to stay up late, however my own private studies show that I do better when not sleep deprived, so I take Melatonin (Which is the natural chemical that makes someone tired usually) around 1:30-3:00 so I am able to be in conformance to a workable sleeping schedule.

Melatonin gave me terrible, disturbing dreams! You're lucky it doesn't have that affect on you! I refuse to take it because of the disturbing dreams.... Idaho Rose, I'm really surprised you are asleep from 12 noon til after dinnertime- that's a long time! For some reason, my body thinks 6 to 8 hours is enough. I guess you could call it very modest, or maybe I just don't need as many hours for some reason...

I try to go to bed at 10:30 PM and I listen to music for about an hour and it sometimes works. I tend to go so many days and then cannot sleep until 4 AM sometimes. I hated when had to get up again at 7 AM and my eyes are so puffy.

Since I found that most AS people take 45 mins to actual fall asleep I don't feel bad about indulging in my music when I just lay down.

For a short amount of time (4-8 days) I received disturbing/unresting dreams, once I adjusted to the schedule they went away.

I went to bed at about 3AM. I just got up 30 minutes ago at Noon.

Gasp! Boring?! I find sleep to be very nice and fun. Anyways, I do tend to get distracted by things I could be doing and I fall asleep usually sometime in the morning hours. When I'm tired I always get tempted by dreams to go to sleep though.

This is from an interview with musician Richard D. James (more commonly known under his alias of Aphex Twin), I think it's relevant to the topic -

I think I'll try getting only two or 3 hours of sleep. that sounds very interesting .....