Body Clock Thing
Jul. 19th, 2010 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupStill trying the light therapy thing, but with very mixed results. The plan is to wake between 8:00 am and 9:00 am and then spend 10 to 30 minutes outside basking in the sun while I have my morning coffee. So far it seems that mostly when I manage, like today, to wake that early then there is no sun. When I wake later, there is. :-/ There is also the issue of migraines and sunburn. Both of these have interfered with my getting my dose of sun over the last three weeks, but I'm hoping those were just flukes.
I've also set up my monitors to start filtering out the blue channel around 8:00pm so that I have a visual clue that I should be getting tired. That part seems to be working although I can't say that I've been finding it any easier to actually fall asleep once I go to bed. In fact, last night is the first time since I started this regime that I've felt tired, gone to bed, and actually fallen asleep at the right time.
One can chalk that up to the light therapy finally doing its thing, or one can be more inclined to say that its the result of three weeks worth of five and six hour nights that has finally convinced my treacherous body that it needs to fall asleep earlier. Who knows. We'll have to wait and see what tonight brings.
I've also set up my monitors to start filtering out the blue channel around 8:00pm so that I have a visual clue that I should be getting tired. That part seems to be working although I can't say that I've been finding it any easier to actually fall asleep once I go to bed. In fact, last night is the first time since I started this regime that I've felt tired, gone to bed, and actually fallen asleep at the right time.
One can chalk that up to the light therapy finally doing its thing, or one can be more inclined to say that its the result of three weeks worth of five and six hour nights that has finally convinced my treacherous body that it needs to fall asleep earlier. Who knows. We'll have to wait and see what tonight brings.
