Again, its not being tired at mid-day. If I don’t eat, I don’t get sleepy at all. I almost never eat lunch at work anymore because when I do, I go down for a nap. It’s a direct causal relationship, or at the very least I can’t find any other reason for it. Lots of people have weird quirks to their biology. Probably most of us.
Its most likely just my parasympathetic nervous system (responsible for the “rest and digest” calming reflex) goes into overdrive that time of day because I tend to have a lot of energy to burn between waking and noon, and eating tells my body it can rest by stimulating the vagus nerve. Not worth doing further digging, no.
Interesting, I’ve never heard of any situation like yours. I still feel like its worth exploring altho I have no idea what I would do if i was in your sitch.
Maybe some other Lemming resonates with it and jumps in but very strange in any case.
I guess the only last crucial question I can envisage is:
do you honedtly recall your childhood having the same “problem” (i dont know that its actually a problem for you subjectively, only that you’ve noted an interesting example in which your body is physically deviant in its reaction to lunch leading to fatigue requiring actual filler sleep)
Like in your school days: did you eat at around 11-12:30ish and need naptime medically as an accomodation from the school for you to get thru the school day? Or did you just fall asleep in class and get chronically scolded by teacher?? Even when a teenager and much younger? When did it “start”?
I don’t have sleep apnea.
Again, its not being tired at mid-day. If I don’t eat, I don’t get sleepy at all. I almost never eat lunch at work anymore because when I do, I go down for a nap. It’s a direct causal relationship, or at the very least I can’t find any other reason for it. Lots of people have weird quirks to their biology. Probably most of us.
Its most likely just my parasympathetic nervous system (responsible for the “rest and digest” calming reflex) goes into overdrive that time of day because I tend to have a lot of energy to burn between waking and noon, and eating tells my body it can rest by stimulating the vagus nerve. Not worth doing further digging, no.
Interesting, I’ve never heard of any situation like yours. I still feel like its worth exploring altho I have no idea what I would do if i was in your sitch.
Maybe some other Lemming resonates with it and jumps in but very strange in any case.
I guess the only last crucial question I can envisage is:
Like in your school days: did you eat at around 11-12:30ish and need naptime medically as an accomodation from the school for you to get thru the school day? Or did you just fall asleep in class and get chronically scolded by teacher?? Even when a teenager and much younger? When did it “start”?
If not, what changed