Sudden Changes in Sleep

[Freddyt]

So, when your sleep patterns change is it sudden? Sort of like a period where you get very little sleep and suddenly you are getting lots of sleep or you go back and forth between the two extremes? In the last two weeks I suddenly went from 3-4 hours to 8 hours plus. No big changes in anything but we added a couple reprocessing tasks at my last therapy session which has to this point usually meant sleep is worse, not better.
I watch my sleep patterns my smartwatch records and it seems my sleep patterns haven't changed with the exception I can get more big chunks of deep sleep. I know I feel more rested when I see balanced light and deep sleep which switches roughly once or twice an hour between light and deep.

As for the sudden change though, anyone else?

 

[Defaultxlove]

Yeah my sleep is its own thing. I've been waking up hours before my alarm for about a week.

Came on after a good solid sleeping stretch. Maybe I don't need it? I have no clue!

 

[arfie]

changes in my own sleep patterns are always sudden, whether psychotic or well-balanced whimsy. the psychotic changes always have obvious triggers attached. flashbacks/nightmares, life stresses, physical illness, etc. the well-balanced whimsies are born of my fondness for all 24 hours of the day. when the discussion of day people vs night people arises, i call myself a 24 hour gal. all 24 hours of every day are precious. sometimes i just likes to get a taste of those hours i have been sleeping away.

 

[Friday]

I have a whole bunch of different sleep patterns… that, yep! Not only do they tend to come on suddenly, but? I am notorious for not recognizing until they’ve been the normal for at least a few days, if not a few weeks. And then it’s like… Oh. Right. This. Again. Okay!!! How do we make this work for us? What did I do the last 30 times? I feel like there was a thing.

((Did it involve coffee? Maybe. Let’s go make some and rule it out, just to be sure. Nope! Not coffee. But at least now I can almost think in a straight line. Even if it’s like the smoke trail of a plane doing loop-de-loops and barrel rolls and shit, it’s at least going from one place to another, all sort of grouped together. Okay. So. Now that I can think, again? How DID I organize my life the last 30 times this was in play?))

 

[Freddyt]

I am notorious for not recognizing until they’ve been the normal for at least a few days, if not a few weeks.

...especially when going from little sleep to a lot of sleep.

I'm the same though. With the exception of mid March I just don't know why it changes suddenly. It's a little extra scary for me because not sleeping is a sign of being under medicated for Addison's. In the last couple weeks before I was diagnosed I was sleeping about 3-6 hours.....a week. So when I go from sleeping to not I am always concerned.

I should talk to my endocrinologist and see if checking cortisol levels when there is a change may help figure out if that is playing a part.

Just FYI - the guy thing with falling asleep "after", that's cortisol baby.