tired is the new black
The night before last I slept really really well. Like, the way new parents would expect a baby to sleep, given the overworked cliché “to sleep like a baby”. Eight hours of blissful unconsciousness, to awake to a bright new week before my alarm rang. Monday morning and I was rested!
However, last night I did not have so much sleep. Six hours, not quite so rested before turning in, and I awake this morning with not a little displeasure at the sound of the Buzzing Sleep Interrupter.
Here’s what I realise now: tired is the new black. I am so used to being under-slept that being the opposite actually feels foreign. For probably the last five years I have been operating on the assumption that a certain level of tiredness was normal, particularly given the amount of stuff I need (prefer?) to achieve each day.
I think I’ll shoot for more than six hours’ slumber per night from here on…
on December 19th, 2006 at 10:36am
Matthew!!! I’m hearing ya dude!!! Last night, I totally only got four hours sleep!! It was VERY difficult to wake up this morning, and the cheerful sound of the radio blasting me out of my peaceful slumber and 5:32 this morning was MOST unwelcome!!! Naps are a VERY good thing!!!
on December 19th, 2006 at 12:40pm
Ah, how I wish I could take a powernap at work. I’ll have to look at getting a full-time job with some well-to-do law firm which permits that kind of thing.
Because, now that you mention it, I do a lot better during the day if I can work into the night. You know, Winston Churchill would take a powernap at 2pm and then work way into the night. Great minds…
on December 19th, 2006 at 2:23pm
Just read this a couple of days ago:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20031028-000007.html
Timely you should bring tiredness up
on December 19th, 2006 at 2:43pm
@tbk: yeah, I caught that one too! It was largely responsible for me leaving half my curtains drawn so that the room lightens naturally during the morning. I didn’t read the whole article at the time, but I’ve now gone back for a second look…