sigh it's a sign.......fine.
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Lolol my group therapy runs until 10 so I want to read for hours and don’t sleep until 12:00 AM or 1:00 AM and even then, I wake up at 4:00 AM for work. I’m tired, boss.
Are you getting up because work is that early or are you getting up because it takes time to prepare for work?
Prepare.
Damn, yeah that's gonna be a tough one to deal with. Is there a chance you could move some of that prep time to the night before?
By staying up late, we exert some infinitely small level of control over our lives. We get to choose when the free time ends.
Compare that to admitting defeat and going to bed to be well rested for your wage slave job where you generate shareholder value that you will never see yourself.
Its an easy choice. Stay up late, work to rule, form a cross industry collaboration with other unions and bring the economy to its knees.
Counter offer. Poor sleep hygene is hugely detrimental to every part of your health. It leaves your body weak, it hinders your cognitive abilities, it slows your reaction time, it deregulates your mood, and it leaves you with a low threshold for change and action. That's not even touching the increased dependency on creature comforts and addictions that only feed the corpo wallet.
There is an obvious reason the corps push for more hours and worse balance, Walmart got caught back in the oughts recommending managers routinely change up employee hours because the disruption makes them more complacent to the company.
Get a good night sleep. Every night, every chance. Make it the foundation of your schedule. Use your well rested body, mind, and spirit to come up with new and creative ways to fuck over work. Good sleep is 6-10 hours of rebelling against the systems designed to oppress you and they give you the clarity of mind you need to make it a 24/7 rebellion.
Thinking of good sleep as a form of rebellion might genuinely work for me lmao
i feel all these affects, but there's nothing i can do about due to sleep apnea.
since being diagnosed decades ago, i've learned that almost half of the us population suffers from it at well and reading this is making wonder if that's why we're all okay w living in a world controlled by billionaire pedo's. lol
I also hate having to wake up to piss 3 or more times in the middle of the night.
More than once (if that) per night is not normal. You should see a doctor if you have the means.
Me rn at 3 AM local time:
I relate hard to this. While I still do it on occasion, it burned me enough times that I’m basically too traumatized to do it anymore. Too many rough days where I fuck up everything due to exhaustion.
One strategy has been rewarding myself for waking up early with a nice pastry or preferred caffeinated beverage on the way to work. Or just the small contentment of reading casually before I go in, instead of rushing until I run out the door.
Basically, if my mornings suck, then I’m going to stay up to “procrastinate” the morning, illogical as that is. So the strategy is to make the mornings (more) pleasant.
Another thing is no eating within 3 hours before bedtime. I find that digestion keeps me up longer and disrupts my sleep if I do doze off. The empty stomach in the morning also wakes me up consistently, like a built-in timer. If I’m up past midnight, I will be starving and night-eat which compounds the whole problem.
Currently doing this.