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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9661760" data-attributes="member: 6799660">It could well be genetic. Adenosine receptor perfusion or cerebral blood flow regulation or the like. I likewise can get up after truncated rest or wake up in the middle of the night and deal with <insert pet or house-related micro-emergency> with minimal impairment whereas my wife fumbles and mumbles and tries not to walk into things, etc. And yes, it does not change your doing best on a full night's rest.There might not be one. If you were forced to keep going with that sleep pattern you'd just keep going in your 'having hit the wall' mode semi-indefinitely (with the reduced capabilities and slow erosion of long term health that come with it). I know any number of people* who have normalized this and just keep going in that mode, having kinda forgotten that they are always tired. *particularly people who have full time, mentally taxing jobs; and then also have houses and spouses and social lives; and then finally also want to spend 3-4 hours in the evening keeping up on all the computer games like they did when they were young and single.We all should take time to do something like this now and again. I have a spouse and a house and a dog and an enjoyable and respected job that pays triple what 13-year old me thought was great money and two weekly and one monthly gaming groups and am decades sober and have learned to live with the TBI and get to pay it forward on multiple different fronts. Thirteen-year old me and 20-something 'ruined failure' me are both high-fiving me like mad.I don't know if you need this, but maybe it helps. I, a random near-stranger, give you permission to just walk away.</blockquote>

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