<spoiler=First post! Just a warning: It's quite long, especially since most of you are apparently half asleep alot of the time --click anyway--

>I've had sleeping issues since I first hit the teenage years. Initially blamed on the invisible evil known as 'hormones', but since I still suffer from abysmal insomnia no-one really knows the cause. Doctors, specialists, crazy hippies and their smoldering vegitation - all were stumped.
I tend to get about 2 to 4hrs when I have college the next morning which is especially irritating since I'm an 'older student' which basically means when I turn up looking half dead it gives the lecturers (or as I like to call them 'inflated-self-importance-
teachers') the excuse to lay into me about setting a bad example and segueing into a vent of their general frustrations with life; despite the fact that I still manage to fuction perfectly fine, or better, than the young-uns /end elaborate tangent.
Thankfully 2 out of 5 days a week are counted as 'study days' meaning that on those days attendance isn't mandatory and I can
try to catch up on sleep. Still don't manage more than the supposed average of 8hrs though; not drifting off till gone 6am-ish.
My holidays go to total shit however. Take the three(!) weeks I've got over christmas. My sleeping has slowed down to 8-10hrs every
48hrs. That is I go almost two days before being able to sleep. I've yet to resort to pills though (slight phobia).
Anyways in terms of pattern I'm not sure if I understand what the graphs represent correctly (lack of intelligence and sleep are an ever present hinderence) but I think I'm biphasic?
I tend to have about a half hour of some sort of bizarre nightmarish half-conciousness that causes me to shout myself awake(disturbing as I'm not always sure if the shouting really happened and/or if it actually did come from me), lay awake for an hour or so and then finally settle into actual sleep.
Erm... yeah that's it... thanks for reading my rather strange first post - I really didn't register just to vent this weirdness. Really I didn't.