Issue.
I need sleep.
Or, rather, I need to find some way to re-incorporate naps into my schedule. As it is, I only really get between 5-6 hours of sleep on the weeknights. Usually, this is my own stubbornness: "I'm 21, there is no possible way I am going to allow myself to go to bed because it's only 11." Sometimes, I just flat out can't sleep (you should try living in my head). And others, I just have studying I have to do right up until midnight, which I've settled on as my official "shop closed" hour.
I had set myself up with classes so I get done early enough (around dinner MW, and 3pm on Fridays--TTHs suck dick until 8:30) to take naps, but, I find myself using that time to take care of other things I promised to myself I would do.
This is not a different pattern. Of particular importance is the "shop closed" hour which I implemented last fall when I started to realize that classes really were irrelevant. This hour meant that the hours of sleep I would get in a night would vary because on some nights, I would be able to get 7 because I'd wake up and go to class later than I would work. However, because this semester I work at 8 everyday, I only get 6 hours of sleep every night.
And I can tell you--you can feel it. At the beginning of the semester, when I felt fairly refreshed, my body adjusted to the 6:00am wake up very easily. I would find myself waking up a few minutes just before my alarm, for example. However, as the last three weeks have wore on, I have noticed not only my sleep becoming increasingly interrupted by my alarm, but also how heavy the sleep is becoming, as well as how fatigued I still am when I wake and drag through the day.
Mostly, it's noticeable because of how regimented it is. Because this time frame is so isolated and prolonged, I can noticeably feel more tired with each day, as though you can feel the physical burden of the increasing deficit.
And really, this is just a long, dragged out explanation to arrive at two main conclusions:
Or, rather, I need to find some way to re-incorporate naps into my schedule. As it is, I only really get between 5-6 hours of sleep on the weeknights. Usually, this is my own stubbornness: "I'm 21, there is no possible way I am going to allow myself to go to bed because it's only 11." Sometimes, I just flat out can't sleep (you should try living in my head). And others, I just have studying I have to do right up until midnight, which I've settled on as my official "shop closed" hour.
I had set myself up with classes so I get done early enough (around dinner MW, and 3pm on Fridays--TTHs suck dick until 8:30) to take naps, but, I find myself using that time to take care of other things I promised to myself I would do.
This is not a different pattern. Of particular importance is the "shop closed" hour which I implemented last fall when I started to realize that classes really were irrelevant. This hour meant that the hours of sleep I would get in a night would vary because on some nights, I would be able to get 7 because I'd wake up and go to class later than I would work. However, because this semester I work at 8 everyday, I only get 6 hours of sleep every night.
And I can tell you--you can feel it. At the beginning of the semester, when I felt fairly refreshed, my body adjusted to the 6:00am wake up very easily. I would find myself waking up a few minutes just before my alarm, for example. However, as the last three weeks have wore on, I have noticed not only my sleep becoming increasingly interrupted by my alarm, but also how heavy the sleep is becoming, as well as how fatigued I still am when I wake and drag through the day.
Mostly, it's noticeable because of how regimented it is. Because this time frame is so isolated and prolonged, I can noticeably feel more tired with each day, as though you can feel the physical burden of the increasing deficit.
And really, this is just a long, dragged out explanation to arrive at two main conclusions:
- I need to think of some way to adjust my schedule so I have room to nap/get more sleep.
- Damn, this sucks dick.