The tricky part is getting that habituated bed time started. If I dont sleep for 36 or 48 hours I have an easier time to meet a bedtime deadline but if I have anything over 4 hours of sleep, my brain is running at 150% for at least the next 24 hours. I practice good sleep hygiene, get a 3-5 km walk 4 or 5 times and 3 lifting sessions a week but my mind won’t stop. I’m physically exhausted 90% of the time yet my brain says “no, you don’t need to sleep”
Annecdotally (and ironically because I just woke up from indigestion and cant sleep) I never had good sleep hygene until I took a nightshift job in college over the summers. Having to flip my sleep schedule by staying up somehow snapped my circadian rythym into being good and predictable.
I become manic like this and unable to control my thoughts when I’m overtired and have pushed myself too hard in a day or over some period of time. Also happens when I stay up later than normal. I think it happens to a lot of people and they just struggle to notice it. We’re probably best off just sleeping at the exact same time each day and that fixes the brain into a routine of calming down at bedtime
I used to be too exhausted from work to sleep properly. Like, “me time” starts at 9:30, I don’t even have time to sit down or watch anything or play a game. My mind rebelled against sleeping. So I would play games for 3 hours. IMO about 3 hours per day for personal time is the minimum. But I wouldn’t get enough sleep like that.
The long term fix was to get a situation where I don’t have to work from 07:00 to 21:30 continuously (in this case for clarity I’m classifying travel time, cooking, eating, chores, parenting, etc, as work)
Meditation, masturbation and moderation. The last one is the most important, a well habituated bedtime will help you sleep better.
The tricky part is getting that habituated bed time started. If I dont sleep for 36 or 48 hours I have an easier time to meet a bedtime deadline but if I have anything over 4 hours of sleep, my brain is running at 150% for at least the next 24 hours. I practice good sleep hygiene, get a 3-5 km walk 4 or 5 times and 3 lifting sessions a week but my mind won’t stop. I’m physically exhausted 90% of the time yet my brain says “no, you don’t need to sleep”
Annecdotally (and ironically because I just woke up from indigestion and cant sleep) I never had good sleep hygene until I took a nightshift job in college over the summers. Having to flip my sleep schedule by staying up somehow snapped my circadian rythym into being good and predictable.
Do you mean that you now sleep normally or that you now sleep as if you worked nightshifts?
I mean that i sleep normally now and have for over 5 years.
This sounds like over-tiredness honestly
In the sense that I’m pushing myself too hard physically and that prevents me from sleeping?
I become manic like this and unable to control my thoughts when I’m overtired and have pushed myself too hard in a day or over some period of time. Also happens when I stay up later than normal. I think it happens to a lot of people and they just struggle to notice it. We’re probably best off just sleeping at the exact same time each day and that fixes the brain into a routine of calming down at bedtime
I used to be too exhausted from work to sleep properly. Like, “me time” starts at 9:30, I don’t even have time to sit down or watch anything or play a game. My mind rebelled against sleeping. So I would play games for 3 hours. IMO about 3 hours per day for personal time is the minimum. But I wouldn’t get enough sleep like that.
The long term fix was to get a situation where I don’t have to work from 07:00 to 21:30 continuously (in this case for clarity I’m classifying travel time, cooking, eating, chores, parenting, etc, as work)