addiction to knowledge?

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Today was like any other day. I work up, brushed my teeth, made some coffee and before I got dressed, I sat at my computer and started reading up on Relational algebra. 10min before it was time lo leave, I ran through the house. After ironing my shirt I ran out the door just barely getting to work on time. I spent my entire day somewhat skipping out on work so I could program some of what I learned that morning as well as following along with a book. I get home and its off to Google to find something new. I almost always have a hard time going to sleep even after taking sleeping pills because my brain is racing! going over things, theorizing other things. I do this 7 days a week. Is there anyone here that can relate to this?

I tend to be obsessed with gathering and applying knowledge myself, though not to the extent that it negatively impacts my work life.

I do that too, somewhat. My job keeps my hands and eyes occupied, but not my mind. I have developed research projects, public service campaigns, knitting designs, etc., by the hundreds. Unfortunately, I can't stop and write any of it down so it's all here and gone.

My brain is wasted on me. I wish I could donate it to someone with more free time and wisdom.

I have some of that behavior but it's not about knowledge. My brain doesn't handle knowledge that well due to dyslexia & probably other learning issues. I get caught up doing mindless stuff & I go over it over & over again in my head & it can keep me up.

Definitely relate to this. I can go onto the Internet for 5 minutes, look something up, and then see something else interesting, follow the link to that.....and so it goes on. Before I know what has happened I can have been sitting there for half the day reading up on random stuff

Around here people call that "perseverating" on their "special interest", OP. It's as common as any other AS trait.

With places like Wikipedia I often get swept up in going from link to link till I have 20 tabs open, and I can read a book for 6+ hours. Sometimes it interferes with schedules and work, and I tend to get a headache from either self-inflicted overload or eye strain or maybe a combination of the two.

Obsession has such a negative connotation. I like to say I have a passion for knowledge.

I sometimes am guilty of doing this. Especially on WP. But because I am the sole breadwinner in my household of one, I acknowledge that I cannot do it often, and that I have to impose bedtime rules on myself in order to sleep, and that I have to have time parameters or I will never get the housework done. I wish, sometimes that I had the latitude of not having to work and support myself. I have a million things I would do. However, I am lucky that my job is my special interest, so in many ways I am fulfilled.

I like me some trivia.

I always binge on information about anything I'm interested in, reading and memorizing everything about it. I just soak up everything.