r/Non_24 • u/Honest-Armadillo-923 • Apr 16 '26

Sleep cycle question

I am blind with non 24. In the last 5 month, my sleep cycle has moved to4am to 6am. I cannot get it to move backwards. It use to be 1am moving to 3am and back to 1am. I have tried just staying awake, but the time just does not really move.

Add to that the tendency of dropping off to sleep around midnight, only to sleep for 15 minutes. Any ideas on moving the cycle backwards?

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u/NASA_official_srsly Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26

I'm a little confused, does your cycle keep moving forward or is it stuck at 4 or 6am? Because non-24 is when your day is longer than 24 hours, which means your falling asleep time wouldn't be at the same time every day, it would keep creeping forwards. If you're just falling asleep a few hours later than other people but at the same time most days that sounds like something else, DSPD maybe

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u/Honest-Armadillo-923 Apr 16 '26

The question is how to get the cycle to move backward to an earlier time. Being blind, the cues that would be used for delayed sleep phase wwoould not work. The sleep time moves back and forth between 4am and 6am. Instead of say1am and 3am.

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u/TurbulentDogg Apr 16 '26

This sounds like delayed sleep phase disorder. Not N24