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I Sleep From 2-4am and 11-3pm
by Jesus
(Houston, TX)
I want to cure this so bad.
Kevin's Answer
Ah, the segmented sleep schedule that's even more unorthodox than the typical delayed sleep phase syndrome.
If you'd like to change this so that you are sleeping continuously throughout the nighttime, first it would likely make it easier if you could shift your start time (currently 2 am) to an earlier time in the night. Bright light therapy and even sleeping pills if you so choose can be effective in doing that. You can read more about those treatments for delayed sleep phase syndrome here.
If you can get your sleep time shifted earlier it will likely be easier to then influence your clock dependent alerting in a way where it does not wake you in the middle of the night anymore.
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