Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic
The sun is seemingly setting on the tradition of the youth going out and staying up late. Americans are trudging through a #lonelinessepidemic, an economy marked by high inflation, socioeconomic turmoil and climate change.
sleep is difficult with the vessel thrusters turning on at all hours... late night deployments and all accompanied by the odd piece of sea ice bashing the hull. fell asleep on lab sofa this afternoon... not sure my snoring did much for my leadership mana 😞 ... team sent me to bed. #oceanography#sleep
"No one yet understands how or why, but at night many of us think, feel, behave in ways we might not during daylight. I, for one, am a little more reckless, with a yen for wistfulness and whimsy. This is how I found myself outside on that fateful starry night."
I love not remembering anything about what I told myself to remember just before falling asleep last night except for clearly remembering there was something to remember.
“The most serious athletes employ some EXTREME passive recovery techniques, as in, not even watching a suspenseful movie or television show so as not to raise their heart rate."
I was sick and caught up on my rest friday, still ill but walking around saturday, and yesterday was freaking awesome. I didn't have to struggle to focus, surging rage and despair didn't fuck with me. Time flew.
I got my usual 4 or 5 hours saturday night and last night, and i noticed by this morning that i was back to the man who needs to stifle himself. I bit somebody's head off unjustly because they triggered my shit.
I'm not much worse if I have one night of, say, four hours' sleep. Once it drags on to a second night and a third, I'm wiped out.
We've organised the bedroom to optimise sleep. It's at the quiet end of the house, it's downstairs (which is cooler in the summer), we have blackout blinds and lined curtains, and we have two single duvets on the double bed, so that one of us isn't woken when the other turns over. There are no monitors or TVs in the bedroom, and we only use it for sleep and, let's say, married time. I find sleep is best when I've exercised, when I've gone to bed sober, and when I don't have to get up early the next day.
Your diet plays an important role in getting a peaceful and deep night’s sleep.
There are foods we should avoid in the evening if we are looking to improve our sleeping habits, like:
My spotify suggestions & personalized playlist are totally screwed up by listening to 8+ hours of green/white/brown noise and ambient 741 Hz woo-woo sounds so I can sleep all night. Really need a way to say "no, not these."
So I actually had to go work IN PERSON at one of our datacenters today. [Pause for you to offer murmurs of condolence.] Being in a giant loud building with no windows and perfect climate control all day is disorienting enough to begin with, but it's even worse when you both arrive and leave while it's dark out.
This is a long way of saying it's 19:15 here but I've been ready for bed for the last 45 minutes.
Sometimes I can’t sleep. Or rather, I can’t go back to sleep. This has been a constant theme in my life for a couple of years, and this morning, I realized it’s a problem I need to address.
Some of my rants covering what I've done instead of sleeping earlier in the morning:
Can we control an entire distributed circuit in the brain? If not now, when?
Neurotechniques can do amazing things. One can target a population in region A to track specific projections to region B, and then study the impact on B.
How far beyond that can we already go? What is the most extreme example that you know of open- or closed-loop manipulation?