#i have to be up at like 5am-6am

[masked-artist-xp]

I'm gonna force myself to go to sleep so I don't fall asleep during any classes tmr

Nuh night

>_<

#ultimate goblin brain spillz #nuh night bbgs #must eep #i have to be up at like 5am-6am #no #hhh #apologies to all my friends that i worried tn #or smthn idk #im not upset #just a tiny bit mad at myself #feeling a lil stoopid #a lot stoopid* #.-. #shhhhh #go to eep finner #Ik ur probably awake #if not then i never told u to go to eep #jdosbjd #lots of tagz #lmfao

[starredforlife]

ive been so productive today I scheduled a dentist appointment and paid a bill and sent an invoice to my professional job i should just play videogames the rest of the day (<— I’ve been putting off the aforementioned errands for like a week lol)

#star’s thoughts #I have commissions to work on but like. hm. #here’s my day to day: wake up 12/1 coffee an hour take care of emails or whatever during that time too #2:00-6:00pm free time. typically hang out with roommates or have an existential crisis #7:00pm make dinner and nap #9:00-3am work #3-5am workout #6am be asleep #so now is my fucking around time #I don’t think I have chores to do not really #and it’s gross out or I would go weed the garden a bit more

[daisywords]

waking up well before your alarm is weird for multiple reasons but one of them is the

*checks time*: 6:22 a.m.

*has a very elaborate dream sequence that extends across multiple days, with developed side characters, extensive lore, and several tone shifts*

*checks time*: 6:48 a.m.

like huh?

#anyway guess what happened to me this morning #especially weird bc I just got back from the next time zone over in the other direction #so 6am should have felt like 5am not 7am #but my body was overcompensating I guess. very eager to wake up #like girl chillax you went to sleep at like 2. we don't need to jump the gun here

[robotpussy]

everytime i think abt going bald i think abt all the wigs i want to wear then i end up just. wearing scarves because I'm lazy. i need 2 get into glueless wigs

#i have a bunch of headband wigs but i dont rlly like the way they look anymore like the styles r boring me now #i think the reason why i fear doing lace front wigs all the time is because most of the time I'm at uni and i have 2 get up at #5am to leave the house at 6am like I'm not even properly awake how am i gonna get able to put on a wig? and that's why #i have a huge bag of wigs that is taking up all the space in my hair corner. I'm just gonna throw some wigs away #cause ik im not gonna revive them so i might as well. anyways next time I'm going bald my schedule might be a but more #relaxed. as in i might not have to get up at 5am everyday depending on what my post graduate job will be. maybe THEN ill put more effort #into my wigs 🙏

[yoohyeon]

My body went numb a little and I’m stressed, cause I hope everything is not coming back and I’m afraid to go to sleep (cause you know I’ll feel it more since I’m not distract and I will panic) but I have to wake up in 2 hours for Puppy’s pills so I have to so sleep now 😭

#I hate being home alone that’s why I can’t leave my parents house even my dad would prefer I did (not seriously) jdidnjd #I weirdly don’t feel tired I think it’s cause I took a mini nap #even if I don’t actually sleep if I take a nap it’s like I slept 10 hours idk why #my body should allow me to have nap more often #I feel like I’m gonna panic and at 4am i still won’t be asleep so Pups gonna have his pills a little earlier #it’s suppose to be at 5 cause that’s the time my dad go to work during the week so we have a schedule #but on weekend if we wake up at 4am (or still awake in my case) we give it or sometime my parents préférer to wake up at 6am and give it #I don’t cause if the sun is up I can’t go back to sleep easily 5 is good #the pills are every 8 hours so it’s okay if there’s an hours less / more in between #that’s a think that stress me out when I’ll start working it’s 5am-1pm-9pm so what’s going to happen at 1pm if no one’s home 😭 #my mom do have a fix work schedule now so we could do 7-3-11 instead since my dad is home 4pm max #but my mom old job had a schedule all over the place it would have been messy unless I would have one fix myself #anyway going to sleep and I hope my body is just tired of being in the same 2 position most of the day #at least my eye dosen’t hurt anymore there’s that ! #goodnight ! #alex.txt

[camptw1nk]

me spending weeks going "and i probably cant afford the eras tour and thats okay i just have to deal with it" during my breakdowns vs. eras not even coming here and only doing 5 shows in australia so probably being impossible to get tickets to

#i also had to keep spending the money I had in savings bc shit kept going wrong #so i. dont have enough for a ticket anyway #i was so hopeful that tickets wouldn't be announced for another couple of weeks now that i have a job #like i will put my entire first paycheck into it assuming i get it in time which i doubt #but thats still. I'd still have to battle for tickets #i am just 🧍‍♂️ bc it looks like it may just not be possible at all and im so sad ab it #i havent been able to get a presale code either #and apparently all the hotels nearby have been booked already #and flights to aus are Not cheap #it all got announced at like 5am nz time and its now 11 and i only woke up half an hour ago so i had No Chance #i wish i stayed up until 6am like i sometimes do #or i woke up for a drink and saw it #i just. i wish i could go but i dont think ill be able to and its so upsetting #there was a period of time where the eras tour was the only thing keeping me going and i thought i was out of that period but #idk this is hitting hard and there's nothing i can really do ab it

[solemntitty]

tuna spread on crackers....... soon

#jamie has made a statement #im going to the store at 6am its 5am rn but i need to wait for sunrise #personal #i have an immense craving for tuna salad on crackers #i might make the tuna salad at home ngl but i dont have crackers #oh god if i get chicken on a biscuit crackers i might implode from joy #unfortunate reality of living directly next to a grocery store is that youre always like #'eh i can just pick that up real quick'

[leavemetoplaythesims]

i can’t sleep :(

#i might have drifted away for like 30 minutes but then i woke again and now i’m like wide awake #it’s 5am #i might still try to sleep and if i’m still awake by 6am i’ll just get up

[mityenka]

I asked my boss if i can work the afternoon shift tomorrow and she's read my message but hasn't responded so idk if she expects me tp be there by 7am or 1pm now

#i cant wait to quit this job actually my boss keeps asking me to help out in other stores that are like an hour away by train #and half an hour by car and i don't want to spend all the money i earn on fuel for my car so i have to wake up at 5am every weekend #to catch the 6am train #plus i'm in my finals atm so i could really use the time to study or something

[paperconsumption]

my practice ended at 7pm and now my next practice is at 7 AM this is insane they should be arrested for this like actually i am distraught

#i haven’t swam later than 5pm for like. years now. excluding swim meets #i thought the schedule said 6am not 6pm at first and tbh i would have preferred that so much #i’ll wake up at 5am on a sunday. who’s gonna stop me

[youremyonlyhope]

6am and still awake... yay

#I need to be up by 10 at the latest for an appointment like come ON brain #please just SHUT UP #I've gone full circle from discouraging myself from acting on the potential crush to being determined to do something tomorrow #and get it out of the way and then cycled right back to discouraging myself and thinking of worst case scenarios #that's not all I've been doing. I already read like 10K words of a fanfic #involving a character that shares his name... ok but in my defense this name is COMMON like one of the most common. #and this character's ship is one I've shipped for literal years so no it's not because of the crush #the crush maybe just brought that ship back to the forefront of my mind again... but literally I had a tab in my phone of the ap3 tag #*ao3 tag #but yeah this ship is already a longtime otp so seriously the name thing is truly a coincidence #and I have literal insomnia so even if I hadn't read the fanfic or mentally gone through every single possible outcome #I'd still be lying awake at 6am. maybe 5am instead without all that. maybe.

[galacticdeserts]

*me* I'm not gonna stay up till 5am again bc I'm so tired!!

*me but several hours later* hha tee hee whoopsie I'm such an aquaphor!!

#fuck can you tell i am DELIRIOUS-- #i can tell my stress levels are through the fcking roof because for the last few weeks my bedtime has gotten later and later #and now its just consistently after 5am #and in a few weeks I'll be having to get up at 6am for work 🙃 #tbh i think i just need to sleep next to someone for like-- one night?? #and trick my brain into thinking it's safe and no longer on guard watch so i can actually rest and preferably for longer than 6hrs #i am exhausted. my body is so tired. my brain refuses to stop firing on every possible cylinder. and i all i want is to be held :'/ #or just.... near someone one who makes me feel safe.... just for a little while #from delulu to big sad that's it send post boys #personal #galacticdeserts

[tombsforteeth]

I know my younger sister has issues and has since a child, but fuck why should we have to pussy-foot around her on Christmas under her threat of “fine, I’ll just fucking go then” if she’s going to spend her time in a dark room on her phone?? If it wasn’t Christmas and for mums sake and it being the only day of the year that the whole family is together, I would pull have said fine fuck off. I’ll have to ask her when she wakes up. Like, go to a psychologist and heal whatever trauma it is you got. You’re not the only one with issues here, and should you really be moving in with your younger suicidal sister if you’re going to flip and be nasty like that? “I don’t actually care about any of yous” well you do otherwise you would have blocked all our numbers, not talked to us at all and not bought us actually really thoughtful gifts.

And to cap the night off was a strong disagreement with dad over whether or not shooting and killing your otherwise perfectly healthy dog because they kill chickens or wander off on a scent trail is okay. I think you shouldn’t kill animals for being animals that need additional training but “this is a farm, nature is cruel, and you live and you die”.

#toothy talks #maybe I’m just tired from another late night and not enough sleep #I went to bed around 1am and woke up at 5am to pee and couldn’t get back to sleep and now it’s basically 6am #my sister literally flipped into a shitty mood when I finally walked into the kitchen coz mum told her she pulled out the wrong type of bin #liner and mum don’t say it meanly or rudely she litterally said “that’s the wrong one” #amd dad was pretty drunk by that point and had a double shot of rum and of cause became defensive #I never said “you haven’t trained those dogs enough but I think he caught the drift #and then people got shitty at me for getting out here at 6pm because it ‘held everything up’ but like the elder of my sisters could have #done her dog sitting duties before we got out there so it’s not my fault #and we need to factor in Jacob spending time with his family before literally spending the night 30 minutes out of town with my family #or maybe I’m just upset because my period is literally hours to days away and I’m just being hormonal and sensitive but I also think it’s #valid for me to feel the way I do fuck it I’m getting up to walk my dog #oh and this is my first fully sober Christmas that I’ve gone through and now it’s over and I don’t even have cigarettes to give me dopamine #hits. maybe I can ask Viv for one but I also don’t want to break my streak.

[jckeperalta]

the interview went well I am almost sure I will get the job

the interview went well I am almost sure I will get the job

#girlies pray for me i will not survive waking up at 6am ever again in my life. ever #i be going to sleep at 3am or 5am like my body is not meant for daylight #i think it will be exciting and most likely i will work with this super hot judge who is the sweetest person alive. and hot #but likeeee wym i wont be able to celebrate my silly little breakfasts with youtube or some show #wym i will have less than 2 hours daily of fucking around on my phone!!!!! #i dont fucking want to wake up early like delayed sleep phase syndrome is real!!!!!!! #anyways. i got the most points which im lowkey surprised but at the same time i know im the best so. not surprised 💅 #and they said they will secure a position for me like they couldn't have been more clear #also ive worked there before they know im fit for this job #anyways i slept 5 hrs i am DEAD GOODNIGHT #delete

[the-100th-witch]

I slept in today after my crazy busy weekend of driving everywhere. Ugh, such a good decision but I kinda still feel tired and blugh.

Gonna have to stick to low effort tasks today I feel like my brain is still mush lol

#personal #i been getting up like 5am-6am as a new routine including the last two days #i even woke up on my own at 5am lol but i rolled over my brain and body are still hurting a little from driving #i think my max driving limit is barely 2 hrs anymore than that I'm gonna have to pull over to stretch or something

[ms-demeanor]

I think the eight alarms thing is usually a maladaptation. You've trained your brain to ignore the eight alarms because you kept avoiding the training of willpower following the first alarm would require. I think some sleep therapy might help?

Hey so first of all fuck you, thanks.

Second: I love it when you read literature on sleep disorders, especially if it's on sleep disorders among folks with ADHD, and you see time and time again "when allowed to sleep on their preferred schedule subjects maintained healthy, normal, restorative sleep cycles" and "effects were not lasting without ongoing intervention; resetting the sleep schedule is a permanent effort."

Like, if I sleep *great* from 6am to 2pm and I wake up feeling rested and alert with no special help but I need to turn off the lights in my house and shut down all electronics at 8pm and beam a spotlight into my face starting at 5am to wake up at seven and feel exhausted all day, I think perhaps it is not actually my sleep cycle that is wrong it is perhaps society that is wrong.

BELIEVE ME, when I find the job that pays well and has decent insurance that lets me exist as a cheerful nighttime ghoul I am jumping on that with both feet. But until then I literally feel better getting six hours of sleep and occasionally sleeping so hard that i can't hear my alarms because of chronic sleep deprivation than I do turning off all the lights in my house and ceasing all activity two and a half hours after I get off of work.

Also: the eight alarms aren't all there to wake me up, it's just that sometimes I *also* sleep through the ones that are supposed to remind me to go sit at my desk and start work. One of the first three usually gets me up, but on a day when I sleep through all three of those I will be sleeping through all eight of them and usually a phone call and someone trying to shake me awake to.

ANYWAY after being treated with melatonin and light therapy and staring listlessly at the ceiling in the dark bored out of my skull with racing thoughts for sleep disorders that I didn't have for like twenty years the single most effective intervention that allowed me to get more sleep as someone with both ADHD and DSPD was to start hanging out and being active in places where it would be easy to fall asleep if the sleep caught me there instead of turning my bedroom into a dark, silent shrine of snoozing. Giving myself permission to fall asleep late instead of laying awake chewing myself up with guilt for not being asleep helped too.

Actually here's some tips for the sleepy bitches in the crowd:

1 - If you're laying down and not falling asleep in half an hour, you're not actually sleepy; read something or get up and do something because you're more likely to get sleepy faster that way than you are staring at the clock going "if I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and forty five minutes of rest when I have to go to work; If I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and twenty minutes of sleep when I have to get up, etc. etc."

2 - Allow yourself to be ambushed by sleep. Fall asleep on your cozy couch. Fall asleep in the comfy chair. Let yourself sleep where you fall asleep instead of dragging yourself to where you're 'supposed' to sleep if doing so will wake you up.

3 - The mythbusters thing. If you just lay down and close your eyes and pretend to rest you will feel more rested when you get up than when you laid down. Laying down to rest is better than nothing, it literally causes cognitive improvements similar to sleep in tests, and knowing that can help take off some of the pressure of not being able to fall asleep and can thus help you fall asleep.

4 - It's okay to "hang out" in the area where you're going to sleep. Read in bed. Play games on your cellphone in bed. If you want to go to sleep put on comfy clothes and bring a chill activity and hang out in your bed to do it so that all you have to do when you start getting sleepy is close your eyes.

5 - It's better to get some sleep than no sleep. Sometimes you look at the clock and it's six AM and whoops, fuck it. Okay, time for bed, don't stress that you're only going to get a few hours, a few hours is better than nothing. Lay down to pretend to rest at least and you'll probably feel okay.

6 - This one sounds silly and might not work for a bunch of people for a bunch of reasons but apparently there's some research suggesting that "well-rested" is a state of mind? I've had a reasonable amount of success with just telling myself "Yeah, I actually feel pretty good," and pushing through the day on a couple of hours of sleep. I don't *recommend* that and you should try to get as much sleep as possible, but yeah the next time you're low on sleep see what happens if you just try to decide to not be tired. It sounded like bullshit to me when I first heard it but I've found some success with it.

7 - This shit is cumulative. If you're doing a couple nights a week on low sleep that's not ideal but you're probably going to be pretty functional and you can work on it. If you overbook and overextend yourself for too long - I'm looking at you college students and new parents - it's going to add up. Try as much as possible to at least keep your sleep deficit nights spread out. (This message brought to you by writing 60k words of fiction in october and completely frying my brain because i wasn't getting enough sleep).