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miss_lucy21This morning, I woke up at 6 because that's roughly the time I get up 3 out of 5 work days nowadays and I have a very stubborn body clock in terms of when my bladder would like emptied in the morning, thank you. This was all right- I was hungry too, and I needed to go get the drug test for being official at my job this morning. I'd already done a drug test, but it's been more than 30 days, so I get to do another one. The lab is only open from 8-5 on M-F, which is coincidentally when I need to be at work, so I had to go for Saturday. Along with everyone else in my town who's gotten a new job lately, apparently, because it took a rather long time to get my chance to pee in the cup (this was okay. It ensured that I really had to go by then). But I was kind of falling asleep in the waiting room while I was there, so I figured I'd go back to bed when I got home and get another few hours of sleep. I got home around, oh, 9:30ish, crawled back into bed around 10, and was probably out by 10:15.
...and promptly woke up at 3. PM. That's, what, 6 hours of sleep? On top of the 8-9 hours I got last night? Yeah. Clearly my body was just plan done.
It's not really unexpected. It's time change week and I always have trouble adjusting to that. And then in all the excitement on Wednesday, I went to bed a little later than usual that night and then woke up at 3:30 am with my brain buzzing. And proceeded to do my typical 14 hour Thursday. And then not go to bed early on Thursday (actually, a little late). But I figured I'd sleep until about noon and then get up and go do stuff on my list, which did not so much happen.
I do really need to figure out how to get my body to adjust to more like 8 hours of sleep instead of 9 or 10. It likes 10, but it can function on 8 without a real appreciable lack of performance. Less than 8 gets problematic. 7 for a couple of days is fine, so long as I can catch up later. 6 is where things start getting dicey, and less than 6, and I am generally not functional as a rational person. Part of it is the ADD- the best way I can describe how I feel all the time is based on how I've heard people describe mild sleep deprivation. You feel a little distracted, a little fuzzy? Yeah. That how I feel all the time. So, for me, mildly sleep deprived is probably more equivalent to moderately sleep deprived for most people in terms of effects, because adding a little bit of distraction and fuzziness to my normal state just magnifies things. And some of it is age- I used to function perfectly fine on 5 hours of sleep when I was in college. At 33? Not so much.
(Note to those of you under 30. It doesn't seem like it should, but things change very abruptly when you hit 30. It was almost as confusing as being 12-13 again (the last time I had a growth spurt and couldn't figure out how long my limbs were. I've been roughly the same height since 1993). I felt like my body was falling apart and I was more like 80 years old all of a sudden instead of 30. I'm mostly used to it now, 2.2 years into it, but damn. That was a shocker. Everyone talks about your body changing when you hit, like, 50, but no one mentions that it also happens at 30. And it's not just me, all my age-mates were also like what the hell is this bullshit now? So you've now had some warning, if you hadn't already known that)
...and promptly woke up at 3. PM. That's, what, 6 hours of sleep? On top of the 8-9 hours I got last night? Yeah. Clearly my body was just plan done.
It's not really unexpected. It's time change week and I always have trouble adjusting to that. And then in all the excitement on Wednesday, I went to bed a little later than usual that night and then woke up at 3:30 am with my brain buzzing. And proceeded to do my typical 14 hour Thursday. And then not go to bed early on Thursday (actually, a little late). But I figured I'd sleep until about noon and then get up and go do stuff on my list, which did not so much happen.
I do really need to figure out how to get my body to adjust to more like 8 hours of sleep instead of 9 or 10. It likes 10, but it can function on 8 without a real appreciable lack of performance. Less than 8 gets problematic. 7 for a couple of days is fine, so long as I can catch up later. 6 is where things start getting dicey, and less than 6, and I am generally not functional as a rational person. Part of it is the ADD- the best way I can describe how I feel all the time is based on how I've heard people describe mild sleep deprivation. You feel a little distracted, a little fuzzy? Yeah. That how I feel all the time. So, for me, mildly sleep deprived is probably more equivalent to moderately sleep deprived for most people in terms of effects, because adding a little bit of distraction and fuzziness to my normal state just magnifies things. And some of it is age- I used to function perfectly fine on 5 hours of sleep when I was in college. At 33? Not so much.
(Note to those of you under 30. It doesn't seem like it should, but things change very abruptly when you hit 30. It was almost as confusing as being 12-13 again (the last time I had a growth spurt and couldn't figure out how long my limbs were. I've been roughly the same height since 1993). I felt like my body was falling apart and I was more like 80 years old all of a sudden instead of 30. I'm mostly used to it now, 2.2 years into it, but damn. That was a shocker. Everyone talks about your body changing when you hit, like, 50, but no one mentions that it also happens at 30. And it's not just me, all my age-mates were also like what the hell is this bullshit now? So you've now had some warning, if you hadn't already known that)