I have been waking up early since past 3 days and getting ~6hrs sleep on average. All 3 days, my brain’s power has last longer and feels like it got “overclocked”. I am able to take in lots of information, have more energy to talk to people(almost makes me think I’m might not be introverted) etc. I feel like a different person all together.
What is happening? I have no issues sleeping, I just had to wake up early and sleep late due to stuff.
Your body is producing hormones like cortisol and adrenaline to make it through the day. These hormones help with alertness in general.
How can I put that in my coffee? 🥱
Get someone to throw your coffee in your face, that should do it. Its all about the combined ROA and—…TIMING!👊💥✨✨✨🌡️
Return On Assets? Roids or Adrenaline?
Close 🤞
That doesn’t sound like a good thing if done regularly, is it?
It’s a bad thing not because it’s finite: your body makes hormones when it deems necessary. The issue is when you regularly have high levels of those hormones, it will cause effects like weight gain, fatigue and skin issues, to name a few.
Your heightened sense is a temporary mode at the cost of other functions of your body. Going back to your analogy, hormones influence things like a bunch of presets on your motherboard. Your body cranked up the CPU because you didn’t have enough sleep, but this will cost you in other areas like your immune system.
Unlike a computer, we can’t simply draw more energy from the wall to crank up the settings permanently. So these hormones/presets helps your body focus on what you need the most at that point, redistributing your available energy.
Shit, that explains my weight and flaky face skin. Now I gotta figure out why I keep waking up around 3:00 and can’t get back to sleep.
As a bipolar II person, this sounds like the beginning of a round of hypomania to me.
“Okay, look, I understand this may be presenting as if I am in a manic episode, I get it. And I get that I have pulled every item from the storage room and am now in the process of reorganizing the entire basement. And yes, it is 3 A.M., but I really don’t see how that is relevant. Honestly, have you considered that I am going to need a lot more space to keep all the wood I just found on the side of the road? I swear, it’s like you don’t support my much-loved woodworking hobby I started 6 hours ago.”
"Oooh, you know what? I’m going to give in and just build an extension to the garage for a new workshop. No, I don’t know how to build anything, but I have resources and it can’t be that difficult. It’ll be done in three days, I really feel like you underestimate just how motivated of a person I am. "
Two weeks later, I’m hyper-ventilating in the fetal position on the floor of my closet when the city cops come out to say something has to be done with the rotting shit-wood awkwardly slapped together and nailed to the side of the garage.
This is the kind of shit I would get up to back when I was a hardcore alcoholic. Not as in depth as actually starting an addition into the house but yeah I hear you. I would get like 10% done with some major project, neglect everything that actually mattered in life entirely, and likely forget all about it.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one. Sounds like my SO when they have a (hypo) manic episode.
You might be waking up in a more ideal spot in your REM cycle. For me if I get 6 ½ hours I feel great but I feel like shit if I get a full 8. But if I sleep 9 I feel pretty good again. If you wake up and get interrupted during REM you’ll feel a lot more groggy and like shit for most of the day in my experience.
I have tried this REM cycle theory for me. It doesn’t seem to matter for me. I have tried waking up at 7h30m for few days, I felt very groggy to wake up especially in this cold weather. But somehow waking up at 6hrs, almost as if I haven’t slept at all. My takeaway was that the longer I slept, the stronger sleep I had and the harder it was to wake up whether or not it was at end of the cycle or middle.
Were you falling asleep at the same times?
Not exact, it differs by an hour.
I think it might be an evolutionary thing where if you’re not getting enough sleep your body gives you a temporary boost because there must be a problem that needs to be solved.
Not getting enough sleep is really bad in the long term though. Check in with us again on day five or six so we can support you with your worsening mental and emotional state, compromised immune system and shrivelled pituitary gland.
Human variation.
If you sleep too much. You wake up groggy.
But not everyone needs the same amount of sleep. Some people need 9 hours, some need 5.
Don’t get hung up on forcing yourself to do what’s best for the average person, none of us are truly average.
Do what works best for you, which is apparently 6 hours.
I’m kinda on a similar situation. I was really annoyed some weeks ago because I had some days with a more free schedule where I could just sleep the way I thought I would be the ideal way. And I noticed that it didn’t do anything at all. My conclusion seems to be that the tiredness I was feeling was not about the sleep times but something else. And I’ve given up some occasional naps that I thought that were doing me good and stopped caring so much about the sleep time. And to a point I’m somehow feeling better than before, although I’m still analyzing the situation.
Could be that your quality of sleep isn’t great.
Perhaps you’re tossing in bed or being woken up briefly by something (which you likely wouldn’t remember at all). Or, sometimes people have sleep apnea and don’t know it.
If you can, you should get a sleep study done if it’s becoming a problem.
Does it happen if you go sleep later, wake up later, but still get the same 6 hours?
Not everyone has the same sleep cycle, so regular business hours won’t fit everyone.
Sometimes I get jobs where I need to work some during the day and some in the evening. I love it so much. If I could sleep until 9 or 10 every day and just do the same hours or amount of work I would be so much happier, functional, and productive.
I’d still sleep until 11 or noon on days off when I could even if I had this schedule regularly.
I was doing best waking up at around 14 - 15 and going to sleep around 7 in the morning.
I don’t know. I have to test it out.
Try using sleep as android as your alarm if you have an android device. It tracks your sleeping to try to wake you up at an ideal time in your rem cycle.
"Sleep as android " app?
