26/11/2025
Doing My At-Home Sleep Study: AuDHD Sleep Bingo Edition
Tonight I’m doing an at-home sleep study, which feels a little like being plugged into a tiny space station while trying to pretend I’m relaxed enough to sleep. The irony is not lost on me.
Because honestly… if you’re AuDHD sleep becomes its own cryptic side-quest.
You don’t just sleep. You negotiate, bargain, overthink, or accidentally time-travel into 3am.
So in honour of tonight’s experiment, I present:
💤 Neurodivergent Sleep Bingo 💤
A choose-your-own for the tired-but-wired:
☐ Replaying entire conversations
☐ Hyperfocus until 2am because ‘I suddenly had an idea’
☐ Sleeping like a rotisserie chicken
☐ Body tired, brain goes: it’s thinking time
☐ Accidentally stayed awake because the doona was the wrong texture
☐ Falling asleep instantly… but only in the wrong place
☐ Overstimulation from… literally the air
☐ Understimulation, so your brain throws fireworks instead of melatonin
☐ The sacred 3am scroll ritual
☐ Dreams that feel like full-length feature films
☐ Waking suddenly because your brain remembered an email
☐ “I’ll go to bed early tonight” (yeah...sure)
Neurodivergent sleep is its own ecology — sensory, hormonal, neurological, and sometimes downright comedic.
Restlessness, circadian weirdness, delayed sleep phase, racing thoughts, emotional processing…
So tonight I’ll be strapped into a collection of wires, hoping the data gives me something useful.
Or at the very least, confirmation that my sleep patterns are — in fact — extremely on-brand.
What's your AuDHD Sleep Bingo card?
