Sleep or Lack of It
Hello all! I know I know, I've not posted anything for an age, and I know I should put up a picture and change my layout. I will, really.
I had a tiring week, with the workload and jet lag and all, and I couldn't possibly think of anything interesting to say. Or I'm probably just too lazy to say anything. Haha.
I arrived here last Sunday evening, and the thing about jet lag is that you happen to be awake at hours normal people are asleep and as for a result you are alone in your plight for sleep or for amusing oneself. Jet lag in my case means tossing and turning all night, not being able to lull myself to slumber and thinking about big things you should not think about when you're quite unstable at the moment unless you want to get a scorched cranium or induce manic worry onto yourself. Thus in the past years, I end up crying, getting a blocked nosed and being completely emotionally unstable.
This trip however, I tried (or still am trying) something slightly more different. Sleep as late as you want and drink lots of water. And it actually works, though I end up sleeping really late so it makes no difference anyway. Ha-ha.
On the sunday I arrived itself I started work on my homework, (called up Farhanis) though I did not finish it (I'm redoing it, long story), doing something productive is much better than torturously trying to induce sleep that ain't working.
I also read a sleep related article in The Guardian, how that it doesn't matter in what hours you sleep(afternoon or night or whatever), as long as you get enough hours of sleep. Meaning sleeping 5 hours at night and sleeping two hours in the afternoon. You just need enough hours of sleep a day, and not at night.
I guess I can quite agree with this. As I do know people who sleep in the afternoon until about 9p.m. at night, and stay awake all through the night to study, until the afternoon the next day. Though if you think about it, this is a whole other story coz this is just defying the body clock.
Though I realised, no matter how much I sleep at night, I can't help but lull myself to sleep in the afternoons. Which is bad because I end up sleeping and not doing my homework, and night isnt really a condusive time to be studying (atleast for me, due to the fact that everyone only comes online at night and tv is better).
Now I've got to go. I've been procrastinating sleep long enough.
I had a tiring week, with the workload and jet lag and all, and I couldn't possibly think of anything interesting to say. Or I'm probably just too lazy to say anything. Haha.
I arrived here last Sunday evening, and the thing about jet lag is that you happen to be awake at hours normal people are asleep and as for a result you are alone in your plight for sleep or for amusing oneself. Jet lag in my case means tossing and turning all night, not being able to lull myself to slumber and thinking about big things you should not think about when you're quite unstable at the moment unless you want to get a scorched cranium or induce manic worry onto yourself. Thus in the past years, I end up crying, getting a blocked nosed and being completely emotionally unstable.
This trip however, I tried (or still am trying) something slightly more different. Sleep as late as you want and drink lots of water. And it actually works, though I end up sleeping really late so it makes no difference anyway. Ha-ha.
On the sunday I arrived itself I started work on my homework, (called up Farhanis) though I did not finish it (I'm redoing it, long story), doing something productive is much better than torturously trying to induce sleep that ain't working.
I also read a sleep related article in The Guardian, how that it doesn't matter in what hours you sleep(afternoon or night or whatever), as long as you get enough hours of sleep. Meaning sleeping 5 hours at night and sleeping two hours in the afternoon. You just need enough hours of sleep a day, and not at night.
I guess I can quite agree with this. As I do know people who sleep in the afternoon until about 9p.m. at night, and stay awake all through the night to study, until the afternoon the next day. Though if you think about it, this is a whole other story coz this is just defying the body clock.
Though I realised, no matter how much I sleep at night, I can't help but lull myself to sleep in the afternoons. Which is bad because I end up sleeping and not doing my homework, and night isnt really a condusive time to be studying (atleast for me, due to the fact that everyone only comes online at night and tv is better).
Now I've got to go. I've been procrastinating sleep long enough.
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