mikeyyork said:

Winter is upon us again,, and with the fading daylight my sleeping pattern (such as it is) slips away from me uncontrollably.

Even in summer i'm the kind of person who stays up late,, usually until the day starts to break. It's not a problem in summer because even though i'm sleeping late, i can still get up relatively early.

The problem starts in the winter.
This is the 6-7th year running where ive started finding it very difficult to get to sleep before 8 in the morning,, this leads to me waking up at 4 in the afternoon feeling incredibly tired.
If i didn't physically pull myself out of bed i think i could lie there in a blissful daze for most of the night.
And i get this feeling every year without fail.

It's starting to annoy everyone around me again, and because i'm not getting much daylight and i feel guilty about being nagged so much, this sleep 'disorder' can bring about seasonal depression which can make christmas tricky.
In the past its got to the point where i stop dragging myself out of bed and it'd look to anyone like i'm in some serious depressive state,, even though i don't feel that bad.
Eventually just want to lie in that bliss to avoid all the nagging..

Does anybody have a similar problem,, or have any info about it..
I don't even know what to call it.
It's not laziness because i only ever sleep for 8 hours,, and i'm fine during the summer, i can still be productive.
It's just this winter thing,
I don't even know if it's a valid thing to go to the doctors with.

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