its a phase which almost every young adult goes through and its not helped from the peer pressure we have in our late teens to go out until the early hours of the morning getting off our faces with alcohol.
its happened to almost everyone i know including my siblings and my parents said it happened to them. when we reach 16/17/18, we fall into a natural sem-nocturnal sleeping pattern of naturally wanting to go to sleep between about 2am and 4am. then wake up at about 1pm or 2pm. this is my natural sleeping pattern. i fell into it when i was 17 during the summer between Year 12 anad Year 13 and its been very hard to break this since. i have been assured by my dad that you slowly drift back into a normal sleeping pattern by your mid-twenties.
in the holidays, i find myself (unless i have a job or something that needs doing early) waking up after midday without fail. its my natural sleeping pattern these days.
i am creating this thread because i found it unusually hard to wake up at 10am today. 10am isnt very early but it feels very early to me these days. when i was 15/16 and younger, 10am was the typical time i would be waking up in holidays and on weekends. usually it was closer to 9am.
so why do most young adults develop a natural, semi-nocturnal sleeping pattern?