seems like i can sorta tell where i am on the manic to depressed axis based on how early i naturallu wake up. at my most manic it’s like 7am and at my most depressed it’s 11am. currently it’s 9am which i will interpret to mean a healthy balance lol
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the confusing thing is it seems to be pretty independent of when i went to bed which is not how i remember my sleep working in earlier phases of my life where my sleep timing was different on weekdays vs. weekends because of school and stuff 🧐
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like i guess the implicit belief about sleep i developed early on is that on any given day there’s a given “amount” you need and that’s how much you’ll want to sleep but it really doesn’t seem to work like that? sleep seems absurdly sensitive to actual time of day
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You’re overthinking this. Sleep can depend on so many factors: room lighting (cloudy/sunny/seasonal), temperature, what you ate and drank the day before, your sleep the day before, exercise, external noise, etc.
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yeah it’s meant to line up with circadian rhythms that can shift about one hour every 24 hours, based on light, sleeping time, eating times, ambient relative temperature.
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there are some tricks with eating to get it to reset faster but i’ve never gotten them to work. sleeping when you’re “supposed to” (given one’s current 24-hour cycle) is much more efficient
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my circadian rhythm is probably off so idk but my body Never needs 8 hours its always like 12 or 4 and never a "healthy amount". also i dont rly get manic ever anymore but i do notice i keep waking up and going back to bed a lot more when im depressed
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on the other hand ive been super depressed all week and i slept great last night and even woke up on time for school in the first time in months And i wasnt tired when i woke up so ???????