<p>I just learned that my friend basically moved into his living room over break, sleeping the couch, dominating the tv, and even changing his clothes there because his mom folds laundry in the living room, and then left all his old clothes on the living room floor.</p>
<p>My son’s sheets from school with a bunch of laundry inside are STILL on his bedroom floor in the same place he dropped them in December. DH and I are taking bets on whether he takes dirty sheets & laundry back to school.</p>
<p>We occasionally hear him laundering a few favorite items which he has worn over and over this past month.</p>
<p>2 PM and my D is still asleep. She surfaced this AM for a few moments and scared me because I thought she stayed with a friend last night. We are in snow mode here in Seattle (four inches=winter wonderland!) so she left her car at the bottom of our steep hill and walked home at who knows what hour. She stays out late with her friends and comes home and sleeps half the day just like all these other college kids. She doesn’t get to do this at school because she always has AM classes. Last semester she even had an 8:00.</p>
<p>She has also been sleeping in a different bed while home–I noted that in several previous posts. She dumped all her clothes on her bed in her room in is sleeping in the guest bed in our office/guest room. Just to be different? Or maybe it is quieter up there so she can snooze all day. Four more days of vacation, then back to senior year…four science classes, all with labs.</p>
<p>They’ve all turned inrto little wild animals who crawl into their caves to sleep and eat when neccessary. Traditional mealtimes and sleep patterns? Pshaw!</p>
<p>Ah, thanks curmudgeon, I had really forgotten that my DS goes to school with all those wild barnyard animals! He has become one!! Now I feel so much better as I understand his sleeping patterns now.</p>
<p>I became convinced over the break that mine had turned into a raccoon.</p>
<p>Did somebody ask “why a raccoon, Curmudgeon”? Well, I’ll tell you. 
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<p>She’d be at the door in the middle of the night, rummage for something to eat, we wouldn’t see her during the day, and she left her :eek: everywhere. Sounds like a raccoon to me. ;)</p>
<p>Hey, I have one of those at my house, too. Dark circles under her eyes as well.</p>
<p>Hey, 'mudge, at least you don’t have a possum. My son played dead every time I asked him to do anything.</p>
<p>“I have trouble falling asleep if I am not tired enough. So the next night, after I slept until 11, I cannot go to bed at 1. If I go to bed at 1, I will be there awake until 3. So then I go to bed at 3, and again, have no reason to get up in the morning, so the cycle continues…”</p>
<p>That is EXACTLY what my son says! He’s still at home (going to college part-time this semester). I hope it doesn’t get worse when he goes full-time! Right now his classes don’t start til noon, so normally he goes to bed somewhere between 2 and 4 am (I think) and sleeps til 11-ish. But it’s rough the days when he has to go to work at 9!</p>
<p>So glad to hear he is within the range of normal!</p>
<p>My D has an awful time because she needs so much sleep that even when she goes to sleep by 10pm, she has a LOT of trouble prying herself off the bed by 6:30 so she can get to HS by 7:30am. My S also had the same problem. They can’t get their homework done & be tired enough to fall asleep much before 10pm, so there’s just not enough hours in a day for them to sleep & still do all that HS expects. S is having a much better time in college, where he can choose the class schedule which works for him (his 1st class this semester is at noon).
I think the reason he was able to attend all his classes in college was at least partly because he knew that he didn’t have to have 7 relatively straight hours full of classes from 7:45-3pm & he could take breaks between classes as needed to nap in his dorm or whatever.
Hope their schedules become more “regular” before they have to have full-time jobs that expect them to keep “normal” hours. Maybe they’ll all get night shift jobs?</p>
<p>From someone who’s had a night shift job for 30 years: I think there are worse things that could happen. Not everyone’s a lark.</p>
<p>oh I do love this thread. I didn’t know our son was that normal.</p>