Have you tried a hammer to the head. No bed needed, just instant sleep.
But I haven’t had enough “me” time to recover from the previous 16 hours of things I didn’t consent to be required to do, but have to anyway
After a while sleep becomes the me time 😭😭😭
I took a break from study and realised the me time isn’t even helping me to re-approach school. I’ve had infinite me time. Sleep, however, is so much more powerful than I knew
Past me is a jerk.
I would do absolutely anything to get 8 hours of sleep in 4 hours.
To me is having someone to cuddle with that helps me sleep
Personally, making sure I’m comfortable physically and mentally is a lot more effective than looking for more hours. Sure, my sleep schedule is fucked, but it’s gotten better since I’ve realised that somehow extra screen time helps me sleep, mainly by making me focus on other topics, and lets me jot down what’s bothering me.
And people keep pestering me about my screen time as though it’s the reason I have insomnia… even though I barely used any screens until I was probably 10, and I’ve always had that damn insomnia.
The problem isn’t when You go to sleep. The problem is that You are being forced to get up unnaturally early.
I don’t know. Naturally you would be sleeping on the ground with insects constantly annoying you and always having to be half aware of predators (or at least taking shifts in looking out for them).
Naturally I would get up at 8, work until 17 and go to bed at midnight. That’s the rhythm for me. I know because that’s how I do it when I have a couple days off. Unfortunately I have to get up at 5.
All to get to a job that is actually taking a hit by requiring employees to be there for more than 6hrs a day and to which you spend way too much time commuting. Not to mention that there’s a good chance we’re literally built to have varying sleep schedules, originally to watch for predators, so half the population is just getting completely fucked because the only people we consider valuable are those whose day starts earlier.
The problem is that You are being forced to get up
unnaturally early.FTFY.
If I get up later there won’t be enough daylight left at the end of the day to do anything. I’d get up even earlier if I could.
I’m up at 5 every day and rarely home before 8.
Sunlight is almost a myth most of the year.
Doesn’t matter to me. Go to bed 12 hours before and still can’t get 8 hours of sleep. Wake up 20 times a night plus laying down takes me 30 minutes or more to fall asleep. Never rested.
I feel you. The last time I had proper sleep was a decade ago. I don’t remember what’s it like to wake up rested.
Try general anesthesia - as our beloved Michael Jackson did.
Funny enough, I recently had an upper endoscopy under sedation. I woke up feeling very well rested after some 40 minutes. Genuinely the best sleep in years, lol.
I would do anything for sleep,
But I won’t do that.
Felt. I get addicted to the peace and quiet once I finally have it.
I suggest you all look into first sleep and second sleep. It seriously changed my life. And I love it. We need to bring it back. It’s what we would naturally do if we weren’t surrounded by constant artificial light
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“I know what I have to do, but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it.”
I can’t lie, it’s the opposite for me. If I feel to energetic before bed, I have a coffee and it more often than not makes me sleepy.
I have that too and apparently it’s very common in ADHD. Something about the caffeine streamlining the processes in our brains and calming them down by focussing them.
Yeah that tracks, my monologue becomes voluntary when I have some caffeine, but if I have enough caffeine, it flips around and whoops, now I’m ultra anxious, distracted, overstimulated and my thoughts and monologue are going as fast as a maglev.
That happens to me. I cut out caffeine for a few weeks when that happens and it goes back to normal.
I stopped consuming caffeine some time ago, can’t say that it did much to improve my sleep.
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Speedrun sleep any%
