Ok, here’s my perspective. I have ADHD. I also am a fitful vivid dreamer. I’m a night owl. I didn’t have tv time or screen time as a kid, because there was only one tv, and it was only turned on if a parent allowed it, even in my teenage years.
I was an excellent student, a bookworm if you will. However, I have trouble remembering sequences unless I write them down. So…a visual learner, not an auditory learner. As a child I had a regular bedtime. 8 pm lights out. As I got older that increased by an hour every few years.
As I’ve gotten older, getting a good night’s sleep is very important to me. I feel like it’s my body trying to reset or repair itself. I take melatonin and magnesium (with calcium) every evening before I go to bed.
I am very disturbed by changing the clocks twice a year. If I travel in a car and cross time zones, it’s not as bad as arbitrarily changing the time on a clock. So I do think there’s a circadian rhythm issue.
I still tend to go to sleep later than most people, and I have trouble falling asleep. Perhaps not every night, but many nights.
I do not view ADHD as a disorder but more as a difference. I also don’t think it’s that I don’t have a deficit of attention. I think it’s a surplus. I notice too many things to pay attention to, and I don’t know always which is most important to pay attention to. In the classroom, it was easy. Pay attention to the teacher. Other times, it’s important that I pay attention to several things. We now call that multi-tasking.
Oh, and by the way, the belt never was able to change the way my brain worked very much. It just made Dad feel better.
I’m personally a very light sensitive person. I have to have my room mostly blacked out or I will focus on that pinhole of light that is leaking through.