why you are so tired

So glad my (very specific) research could be useful. Here for all your sleep questions! 💤

It sounds really weird but when I need to calm my brain down to sleep, I make up a story in my head and play out the story in my head, and I just somehow drift off.

For me my problem is revenge procrastination. It means you procrastinate sleeping to take control of your schedule because you feel like you were robbed of doing the things you want because you did things you didn’t want to do, like work.

One of the reason for people to always ignore the alarm is because people don't have anything to do in the morning. So, my suggestion for people who suffers from this is to try to do a morning routine like studying, cleaning, exercising, reading or practice something you want to be good at.

Having anxiety is my biggest issue with sleeping. I need a distraction so desperately because if I dont have it my mind wanders to all of my current problems, regrets and trauma memories too. I get woken up from how awful it makes me feel. So I really need a youtube video or something playing to distract my mind to help me fall asleep.

I'm always going back and forth between "sleep is a waste of time, if I didn't have to sleep I could get so much more done" and "I just want to go to sleep forever and never have to wake up"!

After a week of horrible sleep discipline… the universe might be telling me something

I learned this in a psychiatric hospital, but it works wonders for sleep. Progressive muscle relaxation: you start at your toes and tense up each muscle group going up your body until you end with your face, taking 1-2 deep breaths each time. It's never failed me. It also helps with anxiety.

Can confirm, before I used to have an office job and I got mentally tired, but my body was not, so sleeping was crap. I’ve worked as a flight attendant for around 3 years now and the change in physical exhaustion has helped me a LOT. Jet lag and weird shifts are hell, but after a 17 hour flight, I sleep like a rock and my blood pressure has been at a more normal level since I made the switch

This video was soooo validating. Another thing I think people don’t acknowledge enough is when you actually don’t want to sleep because you don’t want to fast forward to the next day. I know I used to use my phone to distract myself from that stress before I finally talked to my doctor about it.

Anxiety also causes this Being anxious for long periods of time is tiring, but when u have to sleep anxiety can get worse because there’s less to distract u from it

I personally find sunrise imitating alarm clock very useful in that part of the year when I need to get up when it's still dark. Opening my eyes to a small amount of light feels less depressing than waking up in darkness which only makes me think how early it is and how cold it is outside. It doesn't make me extremely energetic and it doesn't trick me into thinking it's noon already, it simply makes my morning tolerable, so I do recommend it.

I started sleeping at 10 pm and wake up 6 am, while I was reforming my house. I felt energetic enough to do everything I need, without feeling the need to sleep in the afternoon. Unfortunally, I coundn't do it for long, so now I'm back to staying at my phone till 2 am and waking up at 8 am already tired. But I learned that: exaustive exercise and sleeping early are the best for my sleep. Oh, eating light at night too. I realised that depending on what I eat at night, I have reflux and I wake up feeling odd and tired.

Honestly I think the problem is our rigid schedules that require us to torture ourselves awake to clock time rather than light time, as opposed to us being terrible people for not perfectly optimising our sleep 🙃

I used to have an old wind up alarm clock. Pro: The heart attack it gives you in the morning will immediately wake you up. Con: It will also wake up everyone in your household, as well as your neighbours.

naps are underrated - a lot of the time when I have more chill days I find myself struggling to keep my eyes open in the afternoon so I started to just let myself sleep for 10-15mins and it makes a huge difference. Also the walking outside thing, really gives you an emotional and energetic boost.

Ngl I’m watching this at 1 am

When Covid first hit, I ended up switching to split sleep schedule, sleep for 4-5 hours, awake for 4-5 hours, sleep for 4-5 hours, awake for 10-12 hours. I felt amazing, it really worked well for me, the problem being that there is no way to make that work with the societally expected awake & sleep times, and now that I'm back to work and school, that sleep schedule can't work between all my responsibilities. I feel worse than before, and I wish that I could go back to that schedule.

If I can't fall asleep because my mind is too occupied, but I am tired, I find the prime factors of random big numbers. If I'm not tired, I listen to ASMR and it helps me to become tired

Very nice production girl, from the little animations to the different angles all the time. It had stillness but also movement it was never boring but always chill and I just wanted more. Great great job 👏