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Tag: sleep

  • A Month In, and Bad Sleep

    It’s been a month of daily writing! Or at least a month of intentionally planning for it. It’s not been easy, I recall 2 nights of rushing at 1155PM to push a post out. It’s not difficult rushing because I’m trying to hard to write something out. It’s harder when I have the whole day to write, and I am torn between the million topics I can think of.

    I remember enjoying writing daily, and I think I do look forward to it, but truthfully, it’s not easy.

    Last night, I had really bad sleep. I slept late, and woke up early today, because Clarice’s alarm went off. Bad sleep triggers me worse than anything else in the world. Internally, I need a way to manage my emotions and thoughts especially when bad sleep is definitely on its way with the child coming and all that.

    Growing older, sleep has been something I look out for, and trying to keep my lifestyle around it better. I have my array of tasks to do before sleeping, and I need to schedule and plan my time better. The rant about doomscrolling the other day was in view of this, with a total frustration at being annoyed about how time slips away whenever I just stop focusing properly, and allow distractions to just pull me away.

    In any case, we’re in the month of my birthday! Truly, the month of me losing my youth, including the lack of ability to function at 110% with little sleep. Rough stuff, but let’s make the best of it.

  • Sleep Stats: My Night Time Routine

    There’s some pride I take towards getting good sleep score when I sleep and wake up the next day. I think its mostly me being proud of myself getting in a place to get good sleep, like reading, and chilling out. Getting a good night time routine going to get me asleep.

    Currently this is my night time routine:

    Turn off all major bright room lights and get all warm lights on

    Shower for the day (cold showers preferable)

    Floss and Brush teeth, maybe gargle / mouthwash.

    Cool down in the bedroom, with aircon and fan on, to get my body temp lower.

    Write or summarize the day in some way. It could be an app tracking the things I did today. Or this daily blog

    Read a book.

    I find that this sequence has worked one of the best, and got me a really good score yesterday. And it needs to be done by about 10PM, if not my brain gets kinda cranky, and I don’t get myself to sleep properly.

    I also realised I really enjoy the use of soft earplugs. Last night I used the Loop earbuds, that are great to sleep with for some reason. They don’t hurt my ears like how some of the foam ones do, and they don’t roll out of my ears through the night.

    I’m aiming to have really good sleep tonight again, because I’ve done all the things that I mentioned above, and I’m really ready to rest well for tomorrow’s early day.

    A self reminder post for myself to have good sleep.

  • GooD SleeP

    The past week has been quite bad on my sleep for some reason. The weeks before I had pretty tough time trying to stay asleep; I would wake up to go pee in the middle of the night and just not be able to get back asleep. Now I can sleep pretty easy, but I just haven’t had good long quality sleep. It’s a mixture of late nights and early mornings that just play against each other. But last night’s sleep was great.

    The bad sleep just makes the whole day sore a bit. It feels like nothing goes right after that. Today I woke up feeling completely fine though, and I didn’t feel as if my head was going to spin over. The past few mornings were tough, but this morning is great. I think it also helps that it rained in, and I had a nice cool start to the day.

    I usually write these blog posts in the morning, and the next few days I’ll be staying at my parent’s place. It’ll be exciting especially because I have no idea how it’s gonna be like now, that I’m older. It’s been 2 years since I’ve gotten married and moved out. I think the next few days will be interesting, and I’ll have to find a new or nice spot to have these morning writings.

    (Also I’ll definitely miss this keyboard, but the other one that I’ll be typing on will be great too. lol.)