Does anyone else have serious problems with sleep? - So many hours wasted when you could be doing something.

[Alex Hogendorp]

Sometimes I have nightmares where I sleep for entire months or even years.

 

[Skitarii]

It's a sign bro, you're the long lost avatar who'll awaken in 100 years when the world needs you most

 

[scallion]

Yeah it's because some motherfucker is already setting off fireworks

 

[Agarathium1066]

It varies heavily for me but yeah, I have times where sleep quality is pretty awful. Laying down after a long day is too relaxing to want to quit entirely but I do wish I could feel less fatigue.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

You probably have problems with sleep because you're an autist and you drink caffeinated sugary beverages and don't get exercise and are also fat and have a terrible sleep schedule and a poor diet and use the computer actively up until right before you go to bed without a program like Flux that alters blue light levels on your screen (although if you type "night light" into your search bar on Windows, there's actually a built in setting to alter blue light levels in there including an option to schedule it) and I wouldn't be surprised if you take naps during the day.

Anyways you couldn't be doing things for all those hours when you're asleep because your body and brain function more actively during the day specifically predicated on the idea that you sleep at night so they'll have a chance to deal with maintenance then. If you don't sleep your immune system will tank/you'll become inflamed/you'll experience hugely increased levels of depressive+anxious+obsessive symptoms/your blood pressure will increase dramatically which will screw your kidneys in the long run/you'll be tempted to eat more and worse foods/your metabolism will be less efficient, it just generally will fuck you up. If sleep was extraneous and unnecessary it wouldn't be a thing most animals do.

Ranting aside, unfortunately the harder a person finds it to sleep the more anxiety inducing they'll find the idea of going to bed, which makes the issue self reinforcing. If you figure out ways to make it happen more predictably, you'll probably find the idea of sleep less adversarial.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

I have trouble sleeping period. I'm pretty sensitive to even minor hormone shifts.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Kirkland Sleep Aid is the best thing that ever happened to me. I can't sleep without it, but it's not like I was sleeping before...

 

[Wintersun]

I thought the OP was asking about if we had an issue with how much time sleep wastes instead of being able to fall asleep.

In that vein, yes, it would be better if we could have the dark hours to continue to do more shit, but you'd also have corporate bullshit forcing you to work more, so I'm fine with my free trial of death every night.

 

[Cringe newfag]

If you think sleep is wasted time then you aren't doing enough during the day. Stretch your brain and exercise your body during the day. Then you put in 8 hours of hard work sleeping, and your body spends every moment repairing your muscles, sorting out all your new information, etc.

If you have a proper life then sleep isn't wasted time, it's like an 8 hours intensive pit stop on a racecar.