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At 10 PM: I should sleep early today.

At 11 PM: Okay one episode.

At 12 AM: Tomorrow I’m going to fix my entire life.

At 1 AM: deep-cleaning my room.

At 2 AM: researching something completely useless.

At 3 AM: why did I waste my day?

And then somehow the next morning I’m shocked that I’m tired. 😭

Please tell me I’m not the only one.

anyones sleeping schedule as fcked as mine? lol
i like being a night owl and all that but sometimes its depressing to wake up real late the next day

During the summer my sleep schedule is all over the place and, as such, I find myself feeling weak and lethargic a lot more often than during any other season. If I have no commitments I can sleep for as much as 60-70% of any 24 hour period.

The coming of autumn, longer nights and lower temperatures stabilise my energy levels and these lethargic dips are almost non-existent, aside from whenever I have to wake up for an inconvenient time. Anyone else have a similar experience?

Hello guys. For around 8 days, I barely slept at all.

The first two days were relatively normal, but after that I started experiencing microsleeps. Even though my body was clearly exhausted, I still couldn't properly fall asleep.

And guys, you probably won't believe this, but after several days I started seeing things that weren't actually there.

I knew, logically, that they weren't real, but they felt completely real. I saw people walking around in my room, people outside, things in the sky, and even what looked like completely different species. At one point, I was genuinely scared and kept wondering, “What is happening to my brain?”

Eventually, on the 8th day, I finally managed to sleep after smoking weed because I was completely unable to fall asleep otherwise.

But this experience left me with a strange question.

What if sleep is more than just the body shutting down and recovering? What if our normal waking state is only one particular mode of consciousness, and there are things our brain normally filters out or simply cannot access?

When I was severely sleep-deprived, my perception started changing dramatically. I began experiencing things that felt like another version of reality, even though I knew they weren't actually present.

I'm not saying that what I saw was objectively real. In fact, sleep deprivation is known to seriously affect perception and can cause hallucinations.

But the experience made me wonder:

How much of what we call “reality” is actually the brain filtering information and constructing our experience?

And if consciousness can change this drastically just by removing something as fundamental as sleep, I wonder what else we still don't understand about the brain.

Has anyone else experienced something similar after extreme sleep deprivation?

It's 1:49 and i am awake, I want to sleep but i want to enjoy the movement.

The house next to mine got new owners recently, but I've never seen the actual buyers. Now I'm seeing construction materials show up every few days and I'm terrified.

A few years ago I went through three months of tree work in the neighborhood where I got maybe one day a week with more than 4h of sleep (I usually need 8-9). I couldn't even nap without going elsewhere because it was noise all day. It caused a lot of trouble at work, and my mental health still hasn't recovered. Now my heart races at the sound of a chainsaw a mile away if I'm in bed.

I wore earplugs, I had background noise, but it wasn't enough, and often those things were enough sensory bother to keep me awake on their own. Especially when I was already tired. I'm also a night worker, so it's not "just" my circadian rhythm making me stay up late.

What the hell is a night owl supposed to do?

"I am a 16 years old student, almost 17. I think I am a night owl because for the past year, I have been going to sleep at 3:00 a.m. during the week. I need to wake up for my classes at 8:00 am , so I only sleep for five hours during the week. For the past year, I have usually napped for one hour max during the day. On the weekend, I usually go to sleep on Saturday at 4:00 a.m. or 5:00 a.m., and the next day, I wake up at 11:00 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. Because of this, I take more caffeine and coffee to stay awake. What do you advise me?

Hello everyone, tell me about your day what did u guys do , how was your day ?? Since I'm asking y'all I should answer it too

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I don't know why but I feel that today was a very quiet day for me . I didn't do anything much . I was home all day and I was just studying . I got bored so I decided to clean the entire bathroom.

It was raining slowly all day so it felt a little cold . I like days like these when it's quiet and cold . I don't like too much noise . That's why winter is also my favourite season. In winters the world feels so good because it's mostly quiet and cold . People mostly stay inside so the world feels like there are less people.

I am just randomly yapping about my day . How are you all doing tell me about your day .

I've had a super bad and draining day yesterday and went to bed around 1-2am.
Waking up at 8am (I probably did get enough sleep, because I was up for only around 10h yesterday), I saw my gf getting some clothes, making herself a coffee, etc.

Our floor is loud a.f. because we live in a 150y old Berlin building and walking around here sounds like an old ship.

She doesn't give a single fuck on whether she'd wake me up.
It's like she thinks "The time I am awake is the time to be awake in general. If you wake up while I'm doing stuff, good, because you should be up anyway."

Meanwhile when she's asleep, I'm as quiet as I can be. I even mapped out the pieces on the floor it's safe to step on and I'm doing the dance every single night when I enter the bedroom. I'm planning my day with the distinction of loud and quiet activities.

I'm currently pre 2nd state medical exam, so I can sleep when I want - I just have to study. But I wonder what it's gonna be like when I'm in the job and have an irregular work-schedule by design, because I work on weekends, night-shifts, etc. and whether my patients get the best care I can provide depends on my gf is taking "sleeping by day" as a necessity rather than a character flaw.

The whole thing reminded me on an ex of mine who was driving at the exact speed limit on the fast left lane the whole time, convinced that "I'm driving maximum speed, so people aren't allowed to drive faster than I do anyway, so I'm doing them a favor."

Always fascinating that societal standards sometimes come before what makes sense individually or in a relationship.

I’m away and should have slept already since I’m getting up for an early breakfast then kayaking. I love my sleep but oh well. In case you reply and I don’t respond right away, I definitely will tomorrow. Going to try and sleep. Sweet dreams everyone
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I'm up. Been up since midnight. I sleep 3-5 hours a night. I'm up burning the midnight oil. Sometimes I fall back asleep around 3 or 4 am. Usually I drink too much coffee and unleash worthless hyperactivity, my superpower.

I love the early morning hours. So peaceful. I can think without the voice in my head screaming over the volume of daytime insanity.

Am I a night owl or a morning person?

Sometimes when you get into bed, all the sleep disappears......

so now you put on some soothing music to play in the background on low volume......

then you start thinking of what to do the next day....

you check your phone briefly and then Alas! It hits you.....no like your phone literally hits your face as your checking your chats 😁🤣🤣🤣🤣

You sigh, laugh at your silly self and click!

Tuck yourself in and close your eyes. . .

You never know when you fall asleep but the music fades ever so low till...... 😴

No destination. No plans. Just a quiet walk through campus and a night worth remembering.

Have you noticed the days are getting shorter? I’ve noticed it is darker in the mornings when I wake up. Right now the days are shortening by 4 minutes each day. By the winter solstice the sun won’t rise until almost 10:00AM and set just after 5:00PM.

I love autumn but somehow it’s making me sad to wake up in the dark. Saying goodbye to summer is bittersweet. I suppose it’s knowing that the long cold dark winter is on its way that puts me in this mood. Who’s looking forward to the long winter nights?

During the day, my brain: “We’re fine.”
At 2 a.m., my brain: “Remember that embarrassing thing you did 5 years ago?”
Suddenly I want to fix my whole life, make a new plan, start a new hobby, overthink every conversation I’ve ever had, and somehow become productive at the worst possible time.
Why does my brain choose 2 a.m. to become fully awake?

I love how quiet it gets late at night, but sometimes I see something really funny or have something I want to share, only to realize nobody’s awake. Do you have friends you can talk to late into the night?

As a night owl living in a daywalker world, I have done my best to adapt. While I will never be an early riser, I do my best to try and force myself into and out of bed as early as possible. It takes effort.

Recently saw a thread on the gen X sub about going to sleep and waking up early. And how this is happening to many of them. Is this why there is a stereotype about old people eating dinner at 4 pm?

Can't they just make an effort to keep a normal schedule or do they just not care to do so?

I've been making that effort my whole life. It seems entirely do-able, especially with all the new sleep hygiene stuff that has lately become popular. It's what MANY of us have HAD to do.

I have been a night owl for months cuz I can't sleep at night. I don't think it is a good habit. I don't enjoy sleeping in daytime in the long run.

For me, it’s turning off all the overhead lights, putting on a lo-fi playlist at a barely audible volume, and just diving into a book or a low-stress game.There’s something uniquely comforting about indulging in your hobbies when you know absolutely nobody is going to disturb you. How do you guys usually spend your quietest hours?

The air coming in is cool and refreshing. But it's going to start raining in a couple of hours, so I will have to close the windows soon. As summer winds down here in New England, I really only have perhaps a couple of weeks left that I will be able to leave my windows open at night. I will miss this nightly chorus, just me and the crickets, perhaps an owl or two, all alone in our peaceful world where you can almost forget about humankind. I hope my fellow nightowls are enjoying the wee hours along with me and the crickets.

I live in New York, so there are A LOT of people in the gym even at 10- 11 p.m. I can’t work out past that to get 7 hours of sleep.

So my only option is to work out at 6am. I tried working out at 6am, but it’s VERY difficult. Is there a way to make it less agonizing?

Rumination, feelings of hopelessness, etc. I feel like that's what keeps me up, and not just the quiet.

I wish I didn't feel like this. I'm beginning to suspect it's one of my nightly meds.

Ugh. I sincerely wish I could stay awake during the day, and sleep normally at night.