Yep. Numbing the thoughts away with constant input helps the body gain the upper hand and let me go to sleep.

Yeah this is me as well. I just overthink for hours without a distraction. Give me a phone or something to watch and I’m out in 15 minutes honestly. I feel bad because I know I’m probably degrading my sleep but…as least I’m sleeping.

When I wake up all I can think about is brushing my teeth and eating breakfast

What if I'm used to eating late?

I am not smart enough to come to my own conclusions about a lot of science, so yes I must believe what the collective scientific community asserts, because I have no other way to prove things that happen. For me, that means putting my faith in their accuracy. So yes, I believe in science.

It should also be noted that there are people out there that treat science as a religion; that it is infallible, and cannot be changed, and to suggest otherwise is blasphemy. 🤷‍♂️

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/believe

"To consider to be true or honest"

I don't know what you think believe means but you're wrong

You can believe that an answer can be found scientifically. You can have faith that what you see with your eyes, and that what happens during experimentation is accurate and not a fluke or trick of some sort.

Just because religion dominates most belief, and there are strong religious groups that hold that belief and faith are binary with no wiggle room whatsoever does not mean that it's the only way they can function. On can still test faith and belief without losing them, and changing those beliefs to what holds more truth.

Holding that that belief and faith have no part in science... is a belief in and of itself. A particularly contradictory one at that.

Sounds like someone needs to spend a day or two going down a wikipedia rabbit hole about the concept of knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

Knowledge is itself a justified true belief. Also, the scientific method is the best way of obtaining empirical knowledge, but the idea that empirical evidence is true is still a belief, and not even that justified. Also also, science is constantly trying to prove itself wrong. It's unlikely that what we think now based on scientific methods will be the same we think in the future.

“believe in” religion
“understand” science

I have a strong feeling I do too, inherited from my mom (both of us self-diagnosed). I also appreciate you calling it a syndrome and not a disorder. It's only a "disorder" because society decided to only accommodate one type of circadian rhythm. Humans have needed people on night watch forever, my money is that this was an advantageous phenomenon.

Me too!

Question: does your schedule slowly morph and change over time or does it stay consistent?

Because I think I have non-24 on top of it and I was wondering if it was part of the normal symptoms or not.

Wait for real?