[brains, PSA] Sleep
Aug. 30th, 2005 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxRandom thing that I _CANNOT_ comprehend:
People for whom insufficient sleep means that they are more likely to be able to fall asleep, even if they are awakened by external sources.
For me, insufficient sleep means my ability to sleep gets really badly fucked up and it's far, far, _far_ more difficult for me to get to sleep. A large part of my ability to sleep anything close to a sufficient amount - as vs. enough that I'm actually feeling rested and alert - is a regular sleep schedule. If I've gotten too little sleep, especially if it's a long-term problem, I seem to move between 'exhausted' and 'alert' too quickly for the exhausted part to win out and let me sleep (or stay there reasonable restfully).
Eventually, however, it tends to get to a point where I am COMPLETELY USELESS, and then I might just pass out even through lack of sleep schedule goodness. This may or may not be very good sleep, but it is often enough for me to be able to get back to a sane schedule _IF_ I'm very careful about it for a few days, and things don't get stupid again.
Sure, the former makes _sense_, but it's so very far outside the realm of my own experience that I just cannot keep it in my head for practical purposes.
People for whom insufficient sleep means that they are more likely to be able to fall asleep, even if they are awakened by external sources.
For me, insufficient sleep means my ability to sleep gets really badly fucked up and it's far, far, _far_ more difficult for me to get to sleep. A large part of my ability to sleep anything close to a sufficient amount - as vs. enough that I'm actually feeling rested and alert - is a regular sleep schedule. If I've gotten too little sleep, especially if it's a long-term problem, I seem to move between 'exhausted' and 'alert' too quickly for the exhausted part to win out and let me sleep (or stay there reasonable restfully).
Eventually, however, it tends to get to a point where I am COMPLETELY USELESS, and then I might just pass out even through lack of sleep schedule goodness. This may or may not be very good sleep, but it is often enough for me to be able to get back to a sane schedule _IF_ I'm very careful about it for a few days, and things don't get stupid again.
Sure, the former makes _sense_, but it's so very far outside the realm of my own experience that I just cannot keep it in my head for practical purposes.
