find it crazy that people can function with less than 10 hours of sleep
feel drowsy and spaced out with just 8 hours
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4 hrs checking in 🫡
WHAT
😂 💀
is this you 
Sometimes
working or just family time?
I just stay up late and have to wake up at the same time every day.
Weekend in theory is when I can sleep in, but then kids wake up even earlier.
I kinda feel you on that, I feel my brain's creativity turn up a notch past 10-11 PM, creative tasks become really easy and ideas start flowing out
it's also why most of me yapping about ideas regarding nostr has been past midnight
I wish I could go to sleep around 10 or 11 but there’s too much to do after kids fall asleep.
I do rest a lot in between. It’s probably the only reason I’m alive right now.
yeah, chores really take up a bunch of time and suddenly it's past midnight
you take regular breaks with your remote work or just based off of feel? curious how you avoid burning out whilst obsessed with a project
Not regular but whenever I feel like I need one. I optimize for most productive stretches of time. Design is part grind and part creative. You can force the grind but you can’t force creative. Ideas come at random times too and you sometimes do most of the work in your mind right after waking up or doing some totally random thing.
I guess it helps to enjoy your work or else id be burned out more. It’s nice being able to say that I have fun working so it never feels like work.
It does feel like a really privileged and fortunate position to be in, and it's really inspiring too
Reading random things and just experiencing life gives a lot of ideas, so it's nice to have a notepad at hand
🤗
I used to actually hate design work. I thought it wasn’t for me. But then I realized I was just working on the wrong things that I didn’t care about. Having a guiding principle in life towards some great long term goal made me realize I like design work as long as it’s for something I care about. Right now those things are bitcoin and nostr so work feels like play. Plus, great people motivate you to be better. When everyone is at the top of their game you’d hate to disappoint them. I think about this often and it’s probably a strong motivator.
It's possible you are oversleeping at 8
huh
i've been trying to work out when's the best for me to go to bed and how much to sleep
any guidance?
Try different amounts until you find what's right for you
10 is very likely to be wrong
Sometimes less is more
Do not look at any screens 1 hr before sleep
so 10 is too much you're saying?
what about naps? are they good or do they mess up the rhythm?
the screen thingy felt like a personal attack, so it's time to change that 😆
If you feel drowsy with 8 hours, try 7, not 9. If you're super sensitive, you can even try to fine-tune it, like 7.5 hours. But it sounds unlikely that you feel well sleeping 9, 10 hours regularly (barring some sort of condition).
maybe i'm just a master eeper
my record is 15 hours in a row (don't recommend)
i'll try out a regular time of going to bed and waking up without an alarm clock, to see what my body feels like
More than 7.5h makes me super sleepy all day. 6-7hrs is optimal for me it seems.
huh, maybe i am oversleeping
when i sleep without an alarm clock, i seem to sleep for like 9-10 hours atleast, if not more
Do you have a good cyrcadian rhythm?
uhmm
any quizzes or tests for that to check?
Wake up with the sun, go outside before 9am so the body can get some red light in the morning and after 4-5PM so that it can wind down. Try to minimize blue light exposure (screens, phone) after sunset since blue light is only usually present in sunlight around 12PM. Your body thinks it’s day again.
wait
you have sun? been cloudy and rainy here the whole day 😆
i mostly get sunlight when i am walking to or from classes, but that's mostly it 
LOL yeah winter is miserable 😩 especially up north. Definitely not the best time to adjust circadian rhythm. Classroom setups are also not friendly to the body. It’s all blue light all the time. I was always, always tired in school. Bet our circadian rhythm was out of wack.
I feel like I am just studying, eating and sleeping 😂
Went for a really smol run yesterday just to shock my body a little
7 is my magic number.
Maybe you're sleeping too much? Or maybe it's a diet thing? Or maybe you're still building your brain? That requires a lot of sleep. 😊
i don't really know, trying to find more of a stable thing to go off of, and thought starting with sleep 🤗
building a galaxy brain 😆 definitely could be one the reasons it needs sleep
or maybe i am just an eepy person
😂 maybe... sleep is probably #1 on factors that dictate quality of life (imho anyway). Fix that & anything else starts to seem obvious.
I plan for 10 hours sleep,
but can usually get 7+ hours
Eat properly and workout
when i can finally have the time to work full-time, i'd love to
noodles and sandwiches until then
Wdym by “have the time to work full time”?
bachelor degree's schedule takes up most of the time of the timespan of a 9-5
It's individual. You gotta sleep what your body ask. Setting alarm to wake up is fiat torture