I’ve been practicing sleeping for over forty years now, and I thought I’d gotten fairly proficient at it, but last night suggested otherwise. Here’s the suboptimal way to get a good night’s sleep:
- get exhausted during the day
- drink way too much water with dinner (but not to this extreme)
- go to bed two hours earlier than usual
- fall asleep
- wake up in an hour
- get out of bed
- urinate
- go back to bed
- fall asleep
- wake up in an hour
- get out of bed
- urinate
- go back to bed
- spend an hour trying to fall asleep, and fail despite still feeling exhausted
- get out of bed
- read email for 15 minutes
- watch American Dad episodes for an hour
- play computer games for a half hour
- urinate
- go back to bed
- spend two hours trying to fall asleep
- get out of bed
- urinate
- go back to bed
- finally fall asleep
- sleep through alarm
- wake up three hours late