Why sometimes you can’t sleep all night long but 10 minutes before your alarm goes off you pass out?
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Often a preoccupation with getting to sleep seems to be a primary reason why many do not.
If I worry about being tired tomorrow and how I have to go to bed early and all that crap, I end up not asleep. So I don’t do that. I go to bed at my first inkling of “hey, I’m sleepy” and don’t think about going to sleep. I am pretty good just thinking about nothing at all most nights, and if not I turn on a podcast to distract my brain from whatever might be bugging me and 15 min sleep timer and never hear it stop.
Sheer exhaustion.
Common for people that cannot turn their brain off. Some can fall asleep the minute they enter the bed, others can’t stop thinking about things.
And when you are one of the latter, you probably keep on going until your body is so tired, it can finally overrule all your thinking. Not great. But it works. Its just not fun when this happens 5 minutes before you need to wake up again. Your body was hoping to finally catch up on some rest. A shame humans invented alarm clocks.
You might also be catching snatches of light sleep that you don’t even realize. I’ll sometimes lay down for what feels like a few minutes, feeling awake the whole time, but my wife will mention I was snoring.
Also check out prescription strength sleeping pills. Was popping tons of over the counter ones and still staying up all night. Two of the prescription and I sleep like a baby.
This does totally suck!
I’m a total night person and I’m full of energy at night, running around the house, feeling good, etc.
But when I wake up in the morning (or afternoon) I’m always tired for a few hours, groggy, aches and pains, and generally a bit stupid. It’s always a fight to stay on a normal human schedule.
If left to itself, my body will always gradually shift towards going to sleep at dawn and waking in the evening.
I was a terrible sleeper for 30 years, only woke up feeling good 3 times & was surprised at how it felt. A lot of the time when I “couldn’t sleep all night” I was really phasing in and out of a light sleep unknowingly & it was only the last one that I really noticed because now I had to really wake up and get moving.
8 hour is a looooooong time to lay in bed. Think back to how much you really remember, are you sure you didn’t fast forward through any of it? Take 20 mg of speed at noon & you’ll realize how different being awake & alert through the whole night in bed really is.
This is because society forces us to work/live/sleep at someone else’s schedule. If we kept our own hours it’s likely that many people wouldn’t sleep when they do now.
It’s not fair that humans make you be awake when your own body doesn’t want to be. It’s barbaric, actually.
For society, your body’s needs are secondary.
It’s hard to force your body asleep if it isn’t ready. It’s hard to force your body awake. It’s not natural.
But that’s people for you.
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