I donāt even enjoy playing Zelda that much. Itās just addictive.
Went to sleep at 3-4am, woke up at 7:30am, thought āehā and went back to sleep. Woke up three hours later. Then something like an hour and a half of getting up, shower, more Zelda. Left the house at 1:30pm. Head aches slightly. Havenāt had breakfast yet.
I wonāt be playing Zelda this weekend and the whole next week. If I feel better, maybe I just wonāt play at all. I canāt get a refund but whatever, I donāt have to suffer through it.
Iād also like to track getting up time in addition to āhow easy it was to fall asleepā. I donāt like that it usually takes me 1.5h to get out of the house, regardless of when I wake up.
Didnāt play Zelda. No significant problems falling asleep. Was already very sleepy at midnight. I think for me being sleepy = getting distracted much more easily, worse memory, less willpower.
I think falling asleep was ok, but the sleep was too light.
I spent the evening drinking & smoking & also had a few coffees during the day. Itāsā¦ less and less fun, and I donāt want to keep going. But also I just donāt know what else to do during bar conversations. I donāt feel particularly good just talking to people without doing anything else in the process.
Or, perhaps, in general my mood/state just isnāt good-by-default? I donāt know.
I donāt think this line of thinking is productive, even, without concrete examples. But I donāt have time to give them right now.
Going back to the scope of this thread ā Iām still waking up at 7:30am, but I havenāt yet managed to start going to sleep at the appropriate time.
Very light sleep. Was falling in and out; remember being awake at 2am and at 5am even though I went to sleep at like 11:30. No idea why. Possible factors:
I didnāt drink or anything. Yet, I just crashed in the evening and woke up at 4:30am with a headache. No idea why.
Btw, Iād like to also keep track of how much time it took me to leave the house. Usually itās 1.5hr. Iād like to reduce this time.
For now, I will only be recording this for days when I go to the office and when I wake up at a reasonable time. Unfortunately, it doesnāt seem like I can edit the thread title anymore ą² _ą²
Actually no, Iām closing this thread instead. Insomnia ā as in, ācanāt fall asleep easily / at allā ā is solved. I like keeping out-of-scope things out of scope.
Iād like to resurrect this thread and try to achieve consistent 8hr of sleep. Letās say that going to bed before midnight is green, before 12:30 is yellow, and everything else is red.
Jul 8
I went to sleep around 2am. I feel not even sleepy now, but more like the previous day hasnāt ended. Just a very long day. I donāt like it.
No energy to do anything. Sitting in the corner of the shower right now.
Factors:
Started doing an important task at midnight. Generally I donāt trust myself to do tasks, and this distrust is justified. So I didnāt feel comfortable stopping, even though I was aware of the midnight.
Possible solutions: be more careful in organizing my life in such a way that this kind of stuff doesnāt come up. Know thy limitations.
It was Saturday. I generally donāt know what to do on Saturdays.
Possible solutions: nothing. Just accept that I have no solutions right now, wait and see.
Iām already usually spending saturdays by loitering around the city, riding scooters for two hours, enjoying the sun, going to restaurants, etc. It feels very unsatisfying.
I started vaping and smoking (again) very shortly after stopping caffeine tabs. Now my chest hurts. Iāll resume the caffeine because insomnia is still better than chest pain.
An update two months later: resumed caffeine, no smoking, no chest pain. Surprisingly, caffeine (even 400-600mg) doesnāt seem to cause insomnia. I am getting slightly sleep-deprived throughout the week (due to getting less than 8h of sleep?), but no particular issues with falling asleep unless I vape. Overall Iām more or less ok with continuing caffeine tabs until I get ADHD meds.
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