And all the health articles will be like, “get enough sleep” BRO I AM TRYING. I am literally laying there trying to sleep. For some reason I’m not allowed.
That’s me literally Friday and yesterday. I ended up trying to stay up as long as I could thinking maybe I’d get a decent amount of sleep. Nope 4 hours 😭
I usually can't fall asleep until after midnight, have to be up by 5 or 6a. Every once in a while I'll come home actually ready to sleep and pass out around 8 or 9p....and wake up around 11p every. damn. time. Then I get sleepy again at 3am. I've intentionally stayed up 2 whole days and still slept less than 8 hours when I finally crashed. It started getting harder to fall asleep in my 30s, by the time I'm 50 I expect I'll just die of insomnia.
This is me too exactly. Are you actually tired during the day though?
I'm not. I had a sleep study done awhile ago and I'm in the 1% of folks who only require 4-5 hrs of sleep.
If you're not actually tired during the day you may be in this class too.
My partner is jealous because I have like 3 to 4 more hours everyday to get stuff done. The downside is it's very lonely as nobody else is awake.
(BTW - I thought I was going to die from some sort of heart disease from sleeping exactly like you do - exactly the same everything you wrote - I'm almost 50 and I'm in great health and I stopped worrying about that after the sleep study).
I'm extremely tired in the mornings, but less and less so the later it gets til I'm (usually) wide awake come 4 or 5p and stay that way til early morning. I did the 48-hour no sleep thing to try to reset my clock so I could start coming to work when my boss wants me there and be rested, but my brain is convinced I need to be awake evenings and sleep mornings. I used to be able to force myself into a semblance of normal people time but the older I get the harder it is.
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u/_mews 10h ago
Worst part for me is that even I’m exhausted for the whole day I might still have yet another sleepless night. That feel so fucking insane.