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Fixing My Sleep Patterns — Day 2
Take the small victories when you can.
Note: Day 1 can be found here.
It’s 7:05 as of writing these words. I went to sleep last night at 22:50. I have to say that I fared better than yesterday, but it doesn’t feel all that different. I take falling asleep at 22:50 to be a separate victory. I usually come back home at around 6.30 PM and getting to bed 4 hours later always seems like such a waste. Where are my nights, you know?
The immediate difference this morning is the internal feeling. Yesterday, working on being awake on 5.5 hours of sleep, I felt I was missing a valuable resource. The general inner feeling was emptiness. I wanted to crawl somewhere and sleep for a while to regain that resource. Or eat sweets. Yeah, that craving reared its ugly head, too.
But I didn’t sleep. I did indulge myself with some chocolate.
Like I did yesterday morning, I took a morning shot of myself today, too. I don’t look a lot better.
I still have those black bags under my eyes. I’m also sure that improving my sleep quality will provide an overall benefit to my body. Sleep is the main…
