Your body may be tired because of the change in the sleeping pattern. Make sure you get the deep sleep you needed to feel better. Also, try to find some time to do exercise too. If you are not getting enough sunlight, think about taking Vitamin D. Change in sleeping pattern alone will not make you depressed. But if you are depressed, the sleep pattern will change. You can be tired all the time and will feel sleepy during the day. You may not be able to concentrate well on your tasks at hand too. Doing meditation will help you relaxed. While sleeping during the day, try to keep your bedroom as dark as possible. If you can use ear plugs so you will not be disturbed by the outside noise.

Hi, @cosmopinkice!

I can only add from my own experience to your question as I used to feel the same in the past. I live in Spain and when it's so hot during the day, the Spaniards have "siesta", i.e. they sleep from about 3 to 5 or 6 in the afternoon. My husband and I quickly cottoned on to that, because it really is too hot in the summer for working during the day. The first drawback, of course, is that we are never tired at "bedtime". But neither are the Spaniards, so much of life and work takes place during early and late evening.

The second draw back is that both, my husband and I (and I suspect some Spaniards as well), wake up after their siesta and feel "down" or "bad" or depressed. We have found that this is due to our blood pressure sinking quite low and when we get up after the siesta, it takes a while until be are back "in motion" again.

I'm not saying that I recommend to have a cup of coffee, but that is exactly what we and the rest of Spain does and then life goes on.

I personally have not only gotten used to this "divided" sleep pattern, I have found that I need it like that now, because I HAVE to get up early to milk the goats and feed all the other animals we have, care for the plants etc., etc., then I MUST have a rest, i.e. siesta, simply because I need it and after that I have a coffee and can work on until quite late at night.

I don't know if this "different" sleeping pattern is "good" or "bad", the important thing for me is that I feel good about it and I do now.

Even if it's not your blood pressure gone too low after your "day" sleep, I'm sure that you can find out by observation what the cause of your feeling "bad" is and find a solution for it.

I hope this helps a bit!

Well, the lack of sleep and the inability to sleep normally (insomnia) has been linked to depression.