I’m currently not working, not even job searching, just… taking December off it all. So naturally I’m allowing myself to sleep in as much as I want. I’m finding myself falling asleep around 1:30am and sleeping through to 11am, only waking due to the crushing guilt of ‘wasting the day’. I could probably go for another 2 hours or more. It’s all making me realize that humanity is doing the human condition dirty - we should sleep as much as we need to sleep, not be forced to grind at some mediocre task for 8 hours after under-sleeping.
In my experience, the feeling of not having slept enough doesn’t vanish, no matter how long you sleep. Personal hypothesis: When you wake up, the sleeping hormones are still present in your body and make you not want to get up, whether you still need to sleep or not.
For me, there is a “yessss let’s go!” moment that will happen eventually that let’s me know I’ve truly slept enough, but I truly do think we’re all exhausted in a way we’re not evolved to properly deal with yet. Maybe 15-17 hours, while excessive, is what we all collectively need to start the repairing process. Who knows.
I get to that point if I had like 4+ days off work, or if things all fall into place (no one needs me, allergies weren’t triggered, the weather didn’t make all my joints hurt…) It seems to happen around 9 hours of sleep.
It doesn’t happen often, but I’ll say my brain just seems to work so much better when this happens. It does make me wish that things could be slow enough that this is typical, but I suppose I’m better off than I have been so I can’t really complain.
I’m currently not working, not even job searching, just… taking December off it all. So naturally I’m allowing myself to sleep in as much as I want. I’m finding myself falling asleep around 1:30am and sleeping through to 11am, only waking due to the crushing guilt of ‘wasting the day’. I could probably go for another 2 hours or more. It’s all making me realize that humanity is doing the human condition dirty - we should sleep as much as we need to sleep, not be forced to grind at some mediocre task for 8 hours after under-sleeping.
In my experience, the feeling of not having slept enough doesn’t vanish, no matter how long you sleep. Personal hypothesis: When you wake up, the sleeping hormones are still present in your body and make you not want to get up, whether you still need to sleep or not.
For me, there is a “yessss let’s go!” moment that will happen eventually that let’s me know I’ve truly slept enough, but I truly do think we’re all exhausted in a way we’re not evolved to properly deal with yet. Maybe 15-17 hours, while excessive, is what we all collectively need to start the repairing process. Who knows.
I get to that point if I had like 4+ days off work, or if things all fall into place (no one needs me, allergies weren’t triggered, the weather didn’t make all my joints hurt…) It seems to happen around 9 hours of sleep.
It doesn’t happen often, but I’ll say my brain just seems to work so much better when this happens. It does make me wish that things could be slow enough that this is typical, but I suppose I’m better off than I have been so I can’t really complain.