Ok I’ve always been a bit of a night owl and preferred shift work for this reason. In fact after 2 yrs, I’m still not adjusted to 9-5 life (I’ve tried earlier in life to only to return back to shift work). I struggle a lot with it as often my deepest sleep occurs when I need to get up for work.
However, why does my mum's cognitive ability peak late at night, like between 9pm - midnight.? And even further on if it weren’t me wanting to go to bed for work sake, lol.
I feel like I’m able to have much better conversations with her at night. There is a drastic difference to her cognitive understanding between day and Night. Her rational is also better, ie she’s able to reason.
At day time there’s often no reasoning and tantrums. She seems more confused at day.
She does get up rather late, ie brunch, sometimes lunch coz I allow her to rest while I start work or I wouldn’t get anything done.
What's going on here?
Having said that, I’ve always said about myself that my brain is most powerful in the afternoon at work. Is the same disposition at play here?
now I wonder if there’s any way I could bring it forward coz it would be great if she was at her cognitive best when we have dr’s appointments and when she has her outings etc. Her couple hour respite outing is often at her worst cognitive time. I’ve tried to make it afternoon but they can’t do any later.
My family have always been night owls and when I was doing shift work, I’d often have this spike of energy and clarity at night to sort things out. I’d be cleaning my house sometimes at 2am. Maybe Mum and I are much more alike,... but I think AlvaDeer is onto something below. I think it has something to do with anxiety. Perhaps pressure related to her past work life,....feeling like she’s meant to be doing stuff at day.