Man, falling back asleep on purpose is one of the most paradoxically hard things.
(I am pro “go back to sleep if you’re tired enough to actually fall asleep again”, although I will note that this is quite different from staying curled up under the covers – I enjoy that too but I am more sympathetic to Marcus here)
I find it hardest to sleep when I’m thinking. There’s a brief window upon waking up where I’m only juuuust conscious enough to notice “hmm, I seem to be awake, it seems to be early enough that I should probably sleep more, I should go back to sleep.” And then I have to figure out how to let go of conscious thought without doing it deliberately – each deliberate thought begets another, and another.
I am pro “go back to sleep if you’re tired enough to actually fall asleep again”, although I will note that this is quite different from staying curled up under the covers – I enjoy that too but I am more sympathetic to Marcus here
Huh—in my imagination, curling up under the covers and ‘daydreaming’ is like 75% of the way between wakeful alertness and sleep, and has many of the same functions.
I think I have a sharp distinction between ‘uncontrolled daydreaming’ and ‘deliberate daydreaming’. The former naturally leads back to sleep, the latter prevents sleep (for me)
Note this is kind of half joking in how it was worded, but kinda… not in the suggestion itself. That is, just make the internal state shift to do the uncontrolled daydreaming thing, instead of the controlled daydreaming thing.
Man, falling back asleep on purpose is one of the most paradoxically hard things.
(I am pro “go back to sleep if you’re tired enough to actually fall asleep again”, although I will note that this is quite different from staying curled up under the covers – I enjoy that too but I am more sympathetic to Marcus here)
I find it hardest to sleep when I’m thinking. There’s a brief window upon waking up where I’m only juuuust conscious enough to notice “hmm, I seem to be awake, it seems to be early enough that I should probably sleep more, I should go back to sleep.” And then I have to figure out how to let go of conscious thought without doing it deliberately – each deliberate thought begets another, and another.
Huh—in my imagination, curling up under the covers and ‘daydreaming’ is like 75% of the way between wakeful alertness and sleep, and has many of the same functions.
I think I have a sharp distinction between ‘uncontrolled daydreaming’ and ‘deliberate daydreaming’. The former naturally leads back to sleep, the latter prevents sleep (for me)
Why not just do the uncontrolled thing instead of the deliberate thing?
:-0
Note this is kind of half joking in how it was worded, but kinda… not in the suggestion itself. That is, just make the internal state shift to do the uncontrolled daydreaming thing, instead of the controlled daydreaming thing.
I have tried, but it’s hard. :P