It turns out they were right. The whole time. Assholes. I’ve been doing a pretty consistent midnight to 9-9:30 for a couple of months, no screens in my bedroom, just a nightly podcast. And I’m usually asleep inside half an hour. Sometimes well inside. I still sometimes wake up during the night but that’s mainly cos of painful crampy legs from working on my feet all day.
I regret to report that sleep hygiene is in fact a thing.
Yeah I did my senior thesis on sleep as a joke cus I always slept like shit cus I didn't think it mattered, was really eye opening. Getting good sleep is probably one of the best things you can do for yourself aside from quitting alcohol and smoking. Like it's hard as fuck, you would think sleeping would e easy lol, but like setting up healthy sleep habits has been 10000% life changing for me. Like it makes the crippling depression and anxiety of capitalism mostly bearable so i can be tge sunny bubbly person I am most of the time.
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Yeh I wouldn’t say it’s been a super noticeable effect on my waking life (although I’m sure it has been and I just haven’t observed it gradually taking place), but the fact that my two nightly options aren’t “pass out drunk” or “toss and turn for 1-3 hours before sleep” alone is pretty fucking good tbh.