[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.
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Date: 2005-08-30 07:31 pm (UTC)Do you find such people excessively normal in other respects as well? ;)
I can relate... it's very easy for my sleep schedule to get completely fsck'ed up and very hard to get it back on track:
As I said in another LJ entry, why can't I be as wide awake at noon as I am at 4AM?
Bleagh...
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Date: 2005-08-30 07:35 pm (UTC)Oddly, no. But then, this is the kind of thing I will only have reason to notice if they are sufficiently close to me that I'm ever likely to need to care. :)
As I said in another LJ entry, why can't I be as wide awake at noon as I am at 4AM?
See, if it were just that I was actually awake at some strange hour, I'd be happier about it. It's actually that I'm dead tired exhausted alternating with being semi-alert with very little time in either state (the time between state changes reduces the longer I'm unable to sleep, until I am entirely useless and exhausted far beyond the point of pain, and I finally crash).