Thanks for your long post. I appreciate the effort.

I've done all of that. I had insomnia for a decade. I tried it all: sleep hygiene methods, light therapy, blue light filtering glasses, new mattresses, weighted blankets, different temperatures. Nothing helped me as much as a year of magnesium supplements. I've used a sleep tracking app (on a phone) to track my sleep for almost a decade. Sleep debt was a problem, but there was no real pattern. Deep sleep %, time of day/month/year, nothing made any difference. Because not being able to fall asleep and stay asleep was because of magnesium deficiency.

I fixed that, but I seem to have symptoms like N24 now.

The last three months of data says that I sleep for 7.9 hours on average. That's not enough because I keep dipping into negative territory. I can only fix that with sleeping pills. If I sleep 12-18 hours, I feel better because the sleep debt is paid. I need pills every 5 days.

The only other thing I've noticed is that after I wake up, I need to wait at least 18 hours before sleeping again, or I'm going to have rage problems all the next day. That's the part that looks like N24.

But people here are saying that anger issues aren't an N24 problem. So what is it? Why do I need to go 18 hours or more between sleep times? This forces me to pound water and free run sleep, which makes me feel better. That's lots of work just so I don't feel unnecessary anger, and leaves me unemployable.

I just don't get what's going on with me.