The earliest I’ve woken up and most refreshed I’ve felt in the last few weeks was after a couple beers, dancing around, and staying up until 2AM. I was up at 7AM after only 5 hours of sleep and was more excited and energized to be awake than last Christmas. In fact, I think I slept until noon last Christmas.
As far as I can tell there were only three differences between a normal over-sleeping night and this refreshingly short night. It’s possible that drinking a couple beers every night would help, but this is unacceptable. It’s possible that I should be dancing, or working out and having fun every night, which is doable. I’m hoping that I’ve actually been over-sleeping, even on attempted 7 hour nights.
Junior and senior year of high school I slept 5 hour nights, but that included a 2 hour nap every day. Freshman year in college, well, I forgot how to sleep. Sophomore through senior year of college I always woke up for class, regardless of how many hours I slept, or didn’t sleep, night after night. Since I’ve started co-oping and working I’ve spent more hours hitting the snooze button than I used to sleep in high school. Maybe I AOL instant messenger again and relentless social curiosity. Maybe I need to sleep less.
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