#insomnia/sleep issues

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autistic and zoning out when the social battery runs out…

Neurodivergent_lou

[rooniearts]

Wait wait wait for the swap au, is future!silver sleep deprived? He kinda looks like he's got eyebags in the ref post :0

He is! That is just how I always draw Silver :'D Always interpreted his eyeliner as some ultra dramatic dark circles

Didn't you hear? Every night he lies awake, dreaming of an absolution!

[pidges-lost-robot]

Ik it doesn't align with canon but I do just see Keith as someone who if he is not doing kick flips in the Castle training room just conks out.

Like he eats his food, he does his missions, he does his probably 3-4 hour training a day and then he sits down and passes out snoring immediately.

And the problem with that is anytime someone needs to talk to him has to hope he didn't sit down on an excursion around the many layered and roomed castleship cause he could be asleep on a fucking rafter in the belly of the ship and it's gonna take them a solid couple hours to find him.

[maririari]

i swear jimmy urine has never fucking aged and i don't mean that in a good way . dude has never looked a day younger than 40 in his entire life

[buckybarnesslutshop]

every time someone has ever told me to go to sleep, i have never once listened. like ever. i had a friend learn to tell me to stay up bc i wont listen-

stubborn <3

[canisalbus]

Loving the Machete and Vasco soft intimate cozy bed time drawing series <3

It's certainly becoming a recurring theme.

[rxttenfish]

definitely going to try to describe this scene as best as possible, but also i dont know if this specific fact is going to make it into caecilian, so im posting it here for my peace of mind.

miranda's above-water bedroom has a lot of natural stone in it and water features and generally looks startlingly naturalistic compared to the rest of her castle. her bed is also within one of those little special nooks that really big aquariums have sometimes where it's just a sitting area with the glass above you so it feels like you're underwater, like a shark tunnel. her bed itself is entirely dry but it looks really very much like a themed area in an aquarium for how much it focuses on trying to emulate the sense of being underwater.

the reason for this is because a lot of merfolk circadian rhythm isn't really tied to light per se, but rather has to do with small changes in currents and the water column to help them manage their sleep/wake cycles.

as you can imagine, miranda isn't getting any of these small changes on land. they only really exist in the ocean, and she has some pretty severe insomnia relating to how hard it is to get her brain to "turn off" when it's supposed to, ie, at night when she's supposed to sleep with the rest of the landfolk. this is compounded even further with the lack of any other natural "tells" for where she's lived her entire life and where she feels instinctively comfortable, so she even moreso ends up staying wide awake because she doesn't feel like she's in the right place to fall asleep or rest.

the merkingdom has two solutions to this. the first is a chain of what's basically fairy lights installed around her bed, which are designed to blink in a dull blue light in very specific patterns. it's only really specific to miranda because she's an abyssal, as these fairy lights are made to closely mimic the bioluminescence of other abyssal merfolk, blinking in the particular pattern for "this is a safe place, you are safe, you have someone watching over you, you can relax."

the second is trying to make the places where miranda sleeps above-water look as close to the ocean as possible and to try and trick miranda's subconscious into thinking she's underwater. it's a bit like the mental effect of sticking a human in a space shuttle - if there's just metal and plastic and no plants or sunlight around, human psychology tends to get a lot stir-crazy and have a hard time relaxing. if miranda feels like she's underwater, even when she's not, then her brain has an easier time relaxing and letting her go to sleep and lessens the prolonged psychological effects she gets from staying inland too long.

[kidspawn]

see but no amount of sleep will ever be enough HAVE I NOT LEARNED?

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autism and Being Constantly Exhausted

Neurodivergent_lou

[lastoneout]

I know this is going to sound batshit after all that nonsense I posted last night but legit I do need to be on a higher dose of ambien and I think I'm switching back to weed for a couple days at the very least.

[singlefatherespioandbleu]

and here's the icon in better quality

[patchyworx]

People talk about fast metabolisms like it's all fun and games and eating whatever you want but they fail to remember that it also means your body is Incredibly Stupid and decides that you become deficient in everything in a couple or so days where it takes most others a week. Or months compared to "oops you forgot to photosynthesize sufficiently :( no i don't care that it has been freezing and overcast for the past week, you didn't absorb enough sun. Perish Badly."

Or at least it would be if i didn't like citrus fruits so much, probably

[rreynyaa]

mr silly 😛

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD & Insomnia

Future ADHD

[adolins-heart]

It's always a moment when I'm talking to people abt how frustrated I am over my health struggles and they are like.... "You should be more upset" type beat. Like. Wait you mean I'm not being dramatic and most people actually don't just tough this sorta thing out all the time?