melatonin

[rayheinrich]

.....or the lack of it? Nice!

Probably not the lack of it. If you have a regular 24 hour cycle (circadian rhythm) then it's just
being produced at a different time. irregular? The it gets really screwed up.

P.S. You can keep a balanced non-traditional 24 hour schedule if you do it this way:

1. You experience one period of bright light longer than three hours but less than 16 at the same time every 24 hours,
and you go to bed 16 hours after the time the exposure started, and get about 7 1/2 hours of sleep in a dark area.

2. You don't vary this schedule (by more than about +/- 2 hours).
(Working a rotating work shift or breaking your schedule on weekends will absolutely screw this up.)

3. You don't get more than 1 bright light exposure a day. (Such as what happens if you sleep 8 hours in the middle of the day
and get exposed to bright light for 4 hours before and after you sleep.

I usually screw this up in some fashion and end up tired and psychotic.

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"Maybe "wipe my tears" needs a few words farther up in the poem to put it in context." 
i intended that with "she rises the tides" .. gravity drawing water. tears are not a bad thing per se, hiding them is.

Oh, I didn't understand the correlation.   But if most readers don't as well...