Blind people can get really bad insomnia and easily slip out of living in a 24-hour body clock world. Or at least that's what I've been told. Maybe I'm just talking about me.- I have dreadful sleep patterns.
The theory goes that if you don't recieve light into your brain then serotonin isn't produced properly. Serotonin, it is said, keeps you 24 hours whereas some blindies can operate on something like a 30 hour body clock.
It's always been a problem for me. I'll fall asleep at night relatively easily - I'm practically unconcious before my head even reaches the pillow - but I often wake up at 1 or 2 or 4 and just can't get back to sleep again after that point. I dearly wish I could wake up at 7am, get up and go to work at a normal time, and not panic as the time to go to work approaches some 8 hours after I woke up meaning I'll have to pull a 21 hour day before bedtime.
Over the years though, my body has got quite used to it. Not many people could survive on so little sleep.
can you guess what I'm leading up to here? I reckon that this little quirk of blindness is going to be my saviour once baby is born.
All I hear from parents of newborns is that they are desperate for sleep. They are operating on a totally different body clokc, waking up several times a night, and suffering from extreme sleep deprivation.
So could this thing that's dogged me all this time actually help when it comes to being a new father? Could being blind be some kind of weirdo advantage here? Ha!
I guess I'll find out soon. Course, the difference is that I currently wake up because my body wakes me up. In a few days (or weeks) time, it'll be someone else waking me. Does that fit into my general positive theory of blindie insomnia and parenthood? I bloody hope so.
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