All my life (17 years) I have been the kid that could never be asleep before everyone else, and the one who thought being up for school at 8am was a real torture method! (*laughs*) However over time my sleeping patterns just keep falling further back on the clock. So now it's stopped and has been for a couple of years been me falling asleep at around sunrise (5am-ish). (This is my natural time... I have been able to move it back a bit to around 2-3am during the school days). If let be I will have my full 8 and a bit hours sleep and wake up on my own (of course by then it's 1 in the afternoon). As you could tell with our diurnal lifestyle and school times, it gets rather annoying. Leaving me sleep deprived or slightly dehydrated (due to the sun warming my room whilst I sleep).

So now that you understand the "problem" I will present the "complications"...

Let's get the simple stuff out of way first. The problem is me not feeling tired and lying in bed for hours and hours until sleep finally hit me at about 5am. The trick is... my diet isn't all salads but it is pretty good (esp. compared to a lot of modern day people). I do not drink excessive soft drink(of course I don't smoke/drugs/alcohol etc etc). I read books, listen to classical music, am pretty comfortable, and go to the GYM and exercise.

In unnatural ways; being woken up at an early time just sleep deprives me. It has an effect on my sleep pattern by maybe an hour at the most and as soon as the early wake ups stop I go back to normal patterns within the day. Recently I wondered with my doctor if it was stress/anxiety based as I am in a high pressure school at the moment so he prescribed some pills to calm me before I sleep (TEMAZE TABLETS - take one before sleep) which had no effect at all (this is my third night taking them and I do feel more calm etc. but not "going to sleep now" and once more I was up those nights until the sun came up.

~MAY NOT BE RELATED!~
I haven't experienced this for a few months now but a while back when I was asleep and my parents came in to wake me up or tell me something before they leave I would often be asleep when I replied. Which is not that uncommon except it was a normal conversation. (aka: "Do you have any assignments due soon" my mother asks. "A couple. Mainly English and ToK that are coming up but I have already finished them." I replied despite the fact I was asleep). I would have no memory of the conversation. (My parents said that one time they tricked me as they naturally though I was faking it to get out of having to get up or do a chore. But quickly discovered it wasn't some act.). As far as I know there was no actions done with this other than speaking however I don't know.

~YOU CAN SKIP THIS HOWEVER THESE ARE TOPICS OF MY MED. HSTORY INCASE SOMETHING CATCHES THE EYE~
-Born with a dilated left kidney (not removed - was thought to be gone but in a scan for something else I may have to have it checked out again).
-Haven't had the test done yet but it seems like I have an allergy to opiates (esp. morphine)
-Had a perforated appendix about 6 months ago and got it removed about 3 months ago
-High pain tolerance
-ingrown toenails ~Genetic (though no one in our family has be known to have it)~

(about all I can think of... ask if you would like any of this in further detail or anything else)

Thanks for any light you can shed onto this matter
Jon