Ever since my injury, I've been sleeping more, even as the quality of my sleep has improved. For the first couple of months, I slept poorly, with lots of insomnia and anxiety. Now I'm sleeping better (thankfully), but I find my body/brain still pines for a good long sleep each night.

I can easily go to sleep at 11 pm and wake up at 9 am. Even if you subtract an hour or so for sleep quality issues (tossing and turning or waking once or twice at night), that's still nine hours. When I return to work, I will need to get up earlier, but right now I feel very uncompromising about my sleep schedule - it took so long to resume sleeping semi-normally, and sleep seems like one of the most important aspects of recovery.

Does anyone else find they need more (or less) sleep since their injury? If you have to get up early in the morning for work or other reasons, do you simply go to bed earlier at night?