I am so, so tired (34/365*)

[white_hart]

I am currently far too tired to string words together in a sensible order, so have a poll instead.

Poll #25226

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 37

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Tonight, white_hart should

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go to bed as soon as she's had dinner (about 8pm)
14 (40.0%)

watch some undemanding TV after dinner and then go to bed (about 9pm)
20 (57.1%)

go to her Zoom knitting group at 9pm and not get to bed until sometime after 10pm
1 (2.9%)

SEWIWEIC
0 (0.0%)

How much extra sleep does white_hart need to stop feeling tired?

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1 hour
0 (0.0%)

2 hours
2 (5.7%)

3 hours
4 (11.4%)

4 hours
4 (11.4%)

5-10 hours
2 (5.7%)

10-24 hours
1 (2.9%)

Over 24 hours
1 (2.9%)

About a week
13 (37.1%)

Infinity
5 (14.3%)

white_hart will never stop feeling tired
3 (8.6%)

How tired are you right now?

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Not at all!
0 (0.0%)

Eh, a bit, but nothing a good night's sleep won't fix
5 (13.5%)

Enough to look forward to a lie-in at the weeked
12 (32.4%)

Enough to be longing for a holiday
10 (27.0%)

Completely exhausted
10 (27.0%)

* I am also starting to struggle with the count of days

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

I went to bed at 8pm the other day and can highly recommend it.

[white_hart]

I think it's probably what I'm going to do. I'm too tired to focus on TV or talking to people at knitting, really.

[sfred]

<3

[cybik]

I put "completely exhausted" for the last question, but it's a bit of a weird one because it's not the tiredness that sleep would fix. What I need is regularity and a routine, and I can't get that at the moment.

[white_hart]

I think there is some (possibly quite a lot) of that too. What I really need is a break and a change of routine, but it's not going to happen any time soon, and I do also need to get through the bit of the year where it feels like I'm getting up in the middle of the night. (I can cope with 6-7 hours' sleep in summer. I can't when it means the alarm going off in the dark.)

[serriadh]

8pm with an audiobook is a good solution for me when I'm very tired but not sure I'll sleep. I don't know how you get on with audiobooks but a podcast or playlist would do as well. It's the being able to lie with my eyes shut without thinking I hope I fall asleep soon... what's the point of an early night when I can't even fall asleep on repeat for hours that is so helpful.

I hope you can get some sort of break soon.

[white_hart]

That's pretty much what I did - I put on a podcast and dozed and woke up and had to scroll back to catch up on what I'd missed a few times, and eventually drifted off.