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I have literally been like this from birth, my parents love to tell stories of how difficult it was to get me to sleep. I was taking sleeping tablets for a long time (which would give me maybe three unbroken hours of sleep) but I weaned myself off them about a year ago - damn they are addictive!! Now I just accept that I get less sleep that some others and always have a supply of books, music and my comp nearby if I can't sleep.
grins... oh btw, hi everyone, I am actually going to try the whole sleep thing right now. 
good afternoon folks...it is almost 2pm and I just got up...so well. I am one of the ones who loves to sleep long (but don't enjoy it anymore as much as I used to due to my pain problems).
However I was quite the opposit Wanders...my parents picture albums are full from me being asleep in the shopping trolley, in the car of course, in the doorway between the bathroom and the hallway...even on the toilet  (they didn't leave any chance out to picture my easy sleep).
They also used to say that I would miss out on half of my life due to sleeping so much. I used to go to bed late and therefore even enjoyed more to get up late which fitted very well to my shift work working in children's home years ago...though, not on those mornings where I had to start at 6.15am to wake the kids up for school.
However then I came temporarily-permanent to the UK (unfortunately) and my Ex was not pleased at all about my sleeping patterns as he got fedup about the fact that this means I can't do as much work on writing applications over here as I could do otherwise and over 6-8 weeks (seriously  ) he called me every fucking morning (except sundays) at 9am with his regular questions "are you up now? how many applications have you done?"
Whilst it was nice that he looked after me at that time in the UK as I was still far away from being stable on my feet, he messed up my internal alarm clock...since then I have damn problems to sleep long as from that time onwards I woke up automatically latest at that time.
To make things worse I then had my job as a live-out carer where I worked monday to friday 7am to 10pm and weekends 9am to 7.30pm which gave me 4 hours sleep during the week and 6 hours sleep at the weekend (and my fucking employer tried to fill my workload more at weekends with many tricks but they did not succeed....my 6 hours sleep were holy for me at the weekend and damn needed).
Soon later I got a job here in residential care and I was looking forward to sleep long again...with not that much success (as I said, my ex changed my internal clock...not that it matters to him, to me it does).
And now in the last 3 years my increased stresslevel here with uni and working often around the clock took the last toll on me where then the fibro significantly worsened that now I am on amitriptyline which knocks me out 10minutes to 2 hours after taking it. Without it I could only sleep 1-2 hours before waking up my hole body stiff and the side I am lieing on in immense pain....that was awful until finally a GP grasped what I was talking about.
In the first few weeks his tablets gave me up to 12-13 hours marvellous sleep, I felt like being my own me again (just my me with tablets by now) and at the moment it works up to 6 hours and then the pain crawls in a bit...but so far only a bit and I aim not to increase it as I seriously want off that stuff again when I leave england.
So natural I am a loooooooooooooooooong sleeper....and someone who truly enjoys to do so.....however, sadly my life in UK changed me badly in that aspect and I just hope to become my own self again in my next country once I am out of here (whatever country that will be....)
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