I don't fall asleep before midnight. Ever. Usually I lay there for hours, thinking. I try to clear my mind but I can't. I try to focus on my breathing, but I can do that for hours, it bores me, and it doesn't make me fall asleep. I try to consciously relax my body from the toes up. I do yoga. I don't drink caffeine before bed. I sleep in total darkness and silence. I've tried everything non-drug. The one thing that makes me sleep is binaural beats, where I use sound to induce certain levels of brain activity... but this makes me feel like a space cadet during the day so I try not to do it unless I have no plans. Not to mention that its really hard to fall asleep with ear buds in.
I make sure I don't know what time it is when I'm trying to fall asleep... then, right before I'm asleep (I'm always aware of this), I check my clock. It is ALWAYS past midnight, usually between 1 and 3 am. I wake up at 5 am on weekdays. On the weekends I sleep as much as possible, sometimes 16 hours... but I still don't fall asleep before midnight. The exception would be when I'm fatigued due to illness.
I also have to resort to sleeping when I get home from school when I don't sleep at all during the night. I never have any problem sleeping during the day, and when I do, light and sound don't keep me awake like they do at night. In the summer when I don't have school, I go to bed around 4 or 5 am and get up around 2 or 4 pm, if I'm allowed. I'm constantly tired and have permanent circles under my eyes. When I'm at school, I go from being hyper to exhausted to hyper all day, and if I have free time in class I relax and then I either fall asleep or I have little spaces of time where I'm not aware of anything and I have no memory of anything (not for long though... less than 5 minutes) I'm a sophomore in high school. This no sleeping thing has been going on since middle school. It doesn't bother me much, but it would be nice to get tired at 9 or 10 pm so that I could sleep. I can't take medications to force me to sleep because I won't get up in the morning. I get migraines a lot, I think from being sleep deprived. I'm not anxious. Could this have anything to do with my circadian rhythm? It seems like its reversed or late or something... I also eat at funny times. Is that possible? I also have weird dreams where I think I just woke up and I look at the clock and its either early or late, and then I really wake up and its a different time. In the mornings, I will get up and open two doors to get to my alarm clock and hit snooze and go back to bed every five minutes for up to an hour before I wake up, and not know that I was doing this. My mother tells me I was turning it off when she wakes me, but I don't remember. I only remember lucid dreaming right before I woke up. What should I do? I want to be able to sleep and wake up when I'm supposed to.