Intro

Since adolescence I've suffered from Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome. My father also has the sleep disorder, and his mother's diaries suggest that she did as well.

I finally gave up on high school and got a GED because I simply could not wake up for morning classes.

Over the years I've become more disciplined. I've learned to force myself to function on virtually no sleep. But now at 28 it's still a real struggle to get out of bed before noon.

I know that I don't have the best sleeping habits, and I'm trying to improve them. I should keep my bedroom tidier, try harder to avoid doing homework and other activities in bed, make myself get in bed and turn out the lights at a reasonable hour even if I'm not tired, etc.

I don't know how many of these changes I can really stick to. If I don't feel tired, trying to sleep just makes me feel anxious. It's difficult not to do homework in bed when it's the most comfortable place to sit in my house and has more surface area to spread out books and papers than my desk.

My goal with this blog is simply to keep a log of my activities and see if any obvious patterns emerge.

Things I plan to track are:

• what time I woke up
• what time I got out of bed
• how active I was during different times of day
• how much sunlight I got and when
• whether and when I took a nap
• what I ate and when
• alcohol consumption
• what time I started trying to sleep
• how dark my sleeping environment was
• what sounds I could hear in my sleeping environment
• what time I fell asleep
• whether I woke up during the night and for how long