Was just wondering

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Sleep. Always take the option to sleep.

    And actually sleep, don’t lay in bed playing on your phone half the time.

    • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      Easier said than done🫤, I cant sleep well before sunrise, even if I do, I don’t feel well rested even if I get 8hrs

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        9 months ago

        If you can access it then it would probably be worth doing a sleep study, if you haven’t already. There’s a lot of reasons you may be sleeping terribly and many of them are fixable or at least treatable.

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            9 months ago

            There are different forms of “your circadian rhythm is all fucky” that are actual treatable diagnoses. I’d agree with the other guy; get it checked out if possible.

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      9 months ago

      don’t lay in bed playing on your phone half the time.

      And if you’re going to at the very least filter out all the blue light.

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    9 months ago

    3 hours of sleep

    Coffee will make me feel miserable if I drank it at the wrong time

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Three hours of sleep. The more insufficient that three hours is, the more you need it.

    Quoting from my favorite blog speedsmart, “Any amount of sleep is better than none”.

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    9 months ago

    You can actually try both. When my husband is exhausted from insomnia, he gets up in the middle of the night and makes a cup of coffee, and it somehow knocks him out enough to fall asleep.

    • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      Highly doubt if you can get high quality sleep that way

      Insomnia sucks tho, I can’t sleep no matter how hard I try when I am stressed and it’s brutal, can’t imagine going thru that every single day

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        9 months ago

        Coffee is a stimulant and stimulants can absolutely cause drowsiness in people, usually those of us with ADHD.

        If I’m not tired I can drink a small espresso and the stimulation from the caffeine wakes my brain up enough to actually deliver the sleepy hormones (this is how my Dr described it to me, anyway)

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    9 months ago

    For me 3 hours is exactly the wrong amount of sleep. I would be groggy for hours afterwards. In college my rule was I’d only sleep if I could get at least 5 hours. Now, some decades later, I’d take the sleep.

    • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      ‘Studies’ show that coffee only makes you less aware of your exhaustion, it doesn’t make you perform any better, so sleep is objectively better, but man, I will feel much worse waking up from 3hrs of sleep than if I just never slept to begin with

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        9 months ago

        but man, I will feel much worse waking up from 3hrs of sleep than if I just never slept to begin with

        Yep. That’s why I’ll take the coffee. With just 3 hours, I’m going to be groggier than if I hadn’t slept at all, and the caffeine is just a safety net.

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    9 months ago

    Sleep. I drink coffee for the taste/habit - not because it energizes me.

    I suspect I have some combination of ADHD and autism which might make me somewhat “immune” to caffeine. I sometimes drink a cup before sleep too and it doesn’t seem to affect me much.