Interesting.
Been on a bit of health kick these last few weeks. I've sworn off alcohol, started eating better and exercising a little after work. Trying to do a bit more physical stuff at work to so thats adding to the fray. Been feeling great, lost a few kg's, enjoying a very clear head and a non-bloated feeling from all the beer....but with it has come a strange side effect.
Sleep deprivation. In the last 96 hours I've only had about 10 hours sleep, usually from about 2-5am when I get up for work. I'm not sure why this is. I thought i'd be sleeping better with a health kick. I often tell people who marvel at my busy schedule that if I don't work my ass off (mentally/physically) then I can't sleep because My Head Just Won't Stop Working....but I've been finding it worse lately.
I can work 9 hours at my job, come home and work my freaking guts out on the computer for my metal club or pimping my band. I'm not having microsleeps and I'm very clear in my work...but I still find it impossible to get sleep. But today I started to notice that colours were becoming a lot more, I dunno, vibrant? They seem to swirl a bit as I was driving home. I've had a couple of people ring me up to confirm questions that I don't remember asking. I've found things of mine in strange places with a post it note explaining what to do with it, but I don't know why I just didn't do it when I put it there. I've even found myself standing in rooms of my house completely unaware of why I went there...or when I went there, coming back to the computer to find conversations on MSN I don't remember starting.
Just now my head has got insanely woozy. For the first time in about 4 and a half days I feel tired. But not tired...I mean tired. My eyelids feel like they have strings attached to my kneecaps, my head (although it is rather large anyway) feels like its made of granite and my fingers seem to be moving in slow motion on this keyboard, although my ears tell me they're typing faster than normal.
But behind all this, my mind literally feels like a new wheel of a sportscar, speeding through a desert. It feels competent, sure of itsself, determined and hungry. I sit here and will a small nap to come on, but the noise and constant thought flowing in the middle of my brain Just Won't Quit.
What the hell is happening to me.
Sleep deprivation. In the last 96 hours I've only had about 10 hours sleep, usually from about 2-5am when I get up for work. I'm not sure why this is. I thought i'd be sleeping better with a health kick. I often tell people who marvel at my busy schedule that if I don't work my ass off (mentally/physically) then I can't sleep because My Head Just Won't Stop Working....but I've been finding it worse lately.
I can work 9 hours at my job, come home and work my freaking guts out on the computer for my metal club or pimping my band. I'm not having microsleeps and I'm very clear in my work...but I still find it impossible to get sleep. But today I started to notice that colours were becoming a lot more, I dunno, vibrant? They seem to swirl a bit as I was driving home. I've had a couple of people ring me up to confirm questions that I don't remember asking. I've found things of mine in strange places with a post it note explaining what to do with it, but I don't know why I just didn't do it when I put it there. I've even found myself standing in rooms of my house completely unaware of why I went there...or when I went there, coming back to the computer to find conversations on MSN I don't remember starting.
Just now my head has got insanely woozy. For the first time in about 4 and a half days I feel tired. But not tired...I mean tired. My eyelids feel like they have strings attached to my kneecaps, my head (although it is rather large anyway) feels like its made of granite and my fingers seem to be moving in slow motion on this keyboard, although my ears tell me they're typing faster than normal.
But behind all this, my mind literally feels like a new wheel of a sportscar, speeding through a desert. It feels competent, sure of itsself, determined and hungry. I sit here and will a small nap to come on, but the noise and constant thought flowing in the middle of my brain Just Won't Quit.
What the hell is happening to me.