Today, we were driving to go shoot my boyfriends new “rifle” (he will be so proud I didn’t say gun), and I couldn’t stand the sleepiness. It snowed here in Michigan last night, something most Michiganders love, not so much for me. While I was enjoying seeing the sun today, with the glare off of all the fresh snow, it activated that sleepy response in me. This has always been the case for me, my body says sleep when those nice sunny days come around, at darkfall, wakeup! I remember thinking about this quite a long time ago. In High School, before I had my Narcolepsy diagnoses, I wrote a paper where I imagined a 24 hour world. I think of this often, wishing that I could handle my business from 4pm to 12 am instead of 9 to 5. I spend my whole day dragging ass, then when its time to go to bed, my brain says no. I wish I would have brought my sunglasses today, that may have helped with the beautiful brightness all around, but that takes way to much fore-thought for me.
So, last time I was at the neurologist, they had this little machine in the exam room. It was a Blue Light, a certain light wave that helps regulate sleep/wake cycles. Of course, for me, I was supposed to use it in the morning, which has happened exactly twice. That was months ago…. so I have this machine I will never use because I am a zombie in the morning, but anyway…. I was wondering if this thing really works? Has anyone with Narcolepsy actually had results with this? Guess I will do more research, but if you know anything about this, please let me know.
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