Comment by manmal
8 hours ago
For me, sleep before midnight is the most important factor. If I need my brain working well the next day, all I need to do is go to bed by 10PM. Even if I wake at 5:30, it will be fine.
BTW, nights were I have dream recall afterwards, are the best. Anyone else have made the same observation?
Same, and most of the times it’s when I sleep longer. Perhaps because there’s a lot of REM sleep towards the end of the night (as my Garmin watch tells me) and/or because I’m kind of half awake at that time. So maybe dream recall indicates I slept a whole night
Building on this, I’ve observed nightmares (I.e., particularly intense, terrifying, or otherwise challenging dreams) guarantee a good next day.
Interesting. I've found that nightmares are strongly influenced by what I've eaten. Cabbage gives me nightmares almost certainly, for instance. Generally for me dream content seems heavily related to sensations in general : sounds, smells, bowel movements, cold, heat, weird limb positions...
same. but, mostly no recall lately. as I go to bed at 2:00 and sleep 6 hours max
Ouch that’s rough. A few nights like that and life just feels hard for me. Gloomy outlook, bad memory etc
Ha !
Slept just 2:50h today according to the fitness tracker. Not my top form.
Many days like that are actually exceptionally nice (given expectations of the contrary).
I look at it as a low energy situation, where the regular ego train of thought gets extinguished.
Had one long, rare moment, where I genuinely enjoyed just being at work, tired. People around, things happening - just enjoying being there.
Wonder how much it had to do with me getting a couple therapy session the day before, having mum flying over to visit for 17th may festivities and listening to a good part of Ram Dass podcast where post-stroke Ram Dass was discussing sth with the host on Skype.