Lately I find myself more drawn to naps than I’ve ever been.
My weekend transition to going to bed at 4:30-5:00 AM has started to have its effect on me. I find it harder to stay asleep for a full 8 hours on any day. Instead I sleep the 5-6 hours I can, then get a little nap in, whenever I can.
Okay some days I oversleep and it’s kind of trash to be honest.
I’m trying to rely less on an abundance of caffeine to get through the day, but still I’m drawn to lie down for a good 20-30 minutes for a nap, coffee or otherrwise
Today that turned into an hour and a half and now I’m thrown off.
Every day I wake up with a pressure to get everything done
It takes me a solid 30-60 minutes of being awake to get myself into a mood to do anything.
If I’m especially starved for recreational activities I may even waste two whole hours in the morning. Then I watch the list of things I wished I was doing, not get done as I grind through the same old stuff I get done every day. Occasionally achieving a new milestone of finishing some arbitrary task or another.
Then the desire for a nap comes on because I’m tired and losing focus. Instead of fighting through it, I indulge, mostly it’s for 20-30 minutes. Sometimes it takes an hour.
When I’m up, I feel refreshed with a surge of energy and a feeling of guilt, similar to a Catholic reconciling their fetishes, over indulging in some extra sleep.
I’m a little twisted, I know.
I recognize that as I get older it’s normal to need a bit more rest
A lot of people my age are actually in bed early most of the time.
If I am to believe social media, people at 36 years old really do hate being out past midnight. When I started going out a lot more a few years back, it was hard to adjust. I felt the old man in me urging me home around midnight and missing a few cool moments I could have shared in.
Like when 6ixbuzz and Nate Husser pulled up to Blue Dog like 25 minutes after I threw in the towel. Maybe meeting 6ixbuzz would have been good for me, maybe not.
But being an old man had been getting home not long after the party hit a new level.
Chances are my nap is going to make it easier to keep going at 3 AM
While I write this still slightly discombobulated having woken up later than anticipated, I realize it’s not the biggest deal.
I had wanted to be on the road already, and it may actually mean I have to work a couple of more hours tomorrow. I even wanted to skip writing this over my nap, but realized if I let that become a norm, I may miss a lot more than the 5 articles I missed this year. So here I am, feeling significantly more energized than 2 hours ago, preparing myself to drive people around on the road for 9-10 hours.
Still, if being out until 4 AM comes with a nap requirement, maybe I just need to plan for this.
In general everything feels like it’s changing as I learn my new limits.
It’s on me to take it all into account and plan my life accordingly.
It was super nice cuddling in bed with Bonnie.
Live Long and Prosper Everyone
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