[kirklancaster]

All my life, I have never needed much sleep, and even though I do sleep for longer now I'm older, it still only fluctuates between 3 to 4 hours maximum.

I do not take anything to help me sleep for longer for the same reasons as you; not sleeping for long is natural to me so does not bother me, and I prefer not to use drugs or drink.

I still work long hours when I do work, and for the most part it is heavy, tiring manual work, but even this does not result in me sleeping for more than 4 hours.

When I am working, if I have a 'time-limit', then I engineer it so that I have 'quiet' jobs to perform 'after hours, so to speak; painting for example, but I am lucky, that I am also a writer and avid reader, so my 'extra hours' of wakefullness are never wasted, even when I am not working, because it is during the 'early hours' when the rest of the world is sleeping that I write or read.

If you do not suffer from your abnormal sleep pattern, then do not worry. Use those 'extra' hours to do something useful, so that if you cannot develop a 'normal' sleep pattern, then at least you can ensure that you are never bored stiff during your insomnia.

[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

All my life, I have never needed much sleep, and even though I do sleep for longer now I'm older, it still only fluctuates between 3 to 4 hours maximum.

I do not take anything to help me sleep for longer for the same reasons as you; not sleeping for long is natural to me so does not bother me, and I prefer not to use drugs or drink.

I still work long hours when I do work, and for the most part it is heavy, tiring manual work, but even this does not result in me sleeping for more than 4 hours.

When I am working, if I have a 'time-limit', then I engineer it so that I have 'quiet' jobs to perform 'after hours, so to speak; painting for example, but I am lucky, that I am also a writer and avid reader, so my 'extra hours' of wakefullness are never wasted, even when I am not working, because it is during the 'early hours' when the rest of the world is sleeping that I write or read.

If you do not suffer from your abnormal sleep pattern, then do not worry. Use those 'extra' hours to do something useful, so that if you cannot develop a 'normal' sleep pattern, then at least you can ensure that you are never bored stiff during your insomnia.

Great post. I don't think I'd be able to function on a regular sleep pattern of 4 hours lol, when I don't have insonmnia I'm normally an 8 hour person. But everyone's body works differently.