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.

  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
    8·
    24 days ago

    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.

  • kubica@fedia.io
    4·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      22 days ago

      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.

  • ADandHD@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    23 days ago

    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.