I'm in a randomly extremely good mood and I shouldn't be holy hell.

I literally had two nights of just the worst insomnia. The first I ended up sleeping pretty well because my cat came in and forced me to sleep by not letting me move(I cant bother my pets when they curl up and want to sleep next to me, so its just forced body shut down).

Second night I just couldn't sleep at all. No explainable reason. Wasn't even really feeling bad or anything. Just no sleep happening. Got something like less than an hour and a half.

Theoretically, I should have felt like shit. I don't get it. Woke up today feeling pretty good. Tired in the morning, but as I woke up I was just randomly, I don't know, happy? I don't get it. Like my brain decided to work completely fucking backwards and as the day went on I somehow felt like I was getting into an even better mental state. And it continued to pretty much right now. Where I'm kind of tired but my brain feels wired on happiness. For no real reason that I can explain.

I don't want to recreate this by not sleeping but also wow. I'm finally actually starting to feel tired so maybe I'll crash but what a weird fucking day.

That happens to me sometimes too, usually I hate waking up but I've noticed that when I get less sleep there's a chance I'll get up with more energy than usual.

Yeah it's weird. Maybe it's just adrenaline?

It's just waking up at the perfect point in the sleep cycle

foolm0r0n posted...

It's just waking up at the perfect point in the sleep cycle

Is it? Slightly less than 2 hours of sleep feels like it should be awful.

A sleep cycle is supposed to be around 90 mins. Waking up right at the end of a sleep cycle is generally considered better than sleeping a little more and waking up in the middle of one.

red13n posted...

I literally had two nights of just the worst insomnia. The first I ended up sleeping pretty well because my cat came in and forced me to sleep by not letting me move(I cant bother my pets when they curl up and want to sleep next to me, so its just forced body shut down).

Second night I just couldn't sleep at all. No explainable reason. Wasn't even really feeling bad or anything. Just no sleep happening. Got something like less than an hour and a half.

Theoretically, I should have felt like shit. I don't get it. Woke up today feeling pretty good. Tired in the morning, but as I woke up I was just randomly, I don't know, happy? I don't get it. Like my brain decided to work completely fucking backwards and as the day went on I somehow felt like I was getting into an even better mental state. And it continued to pretty much right now. Where I'm kind of tired but my brain feels wired on happiness. For no real reason that I can explain.

I don't want to recreate this by not sleeping but also wow. I'm finally actually starting to feel tired so maybe I'll crash but what a weird fucking day.

its possible to have exhausted mania, where you feel euphoric, but it isnt necessarily a good thing because it can make it harder to sleep and can make you delirious. Hopefully you can get some sleep in the next few days buddy.

Chaeix posted...

its possible to have exhausted mania, where you feel euphoric, but it isnt necessarily a good thing because it can make it harder to sleep and can make you delirious. Hopefully you can get some sleep in the next few days buddy.

I slept fantastic lol.

I definitely miss the sense of euphoria though.

One thing I've noticed if I'm low on sleep I have less anxiety. A problem I could fix with meditation anyway, but it feels like maybe my mind is too slow to worry about pointless nonsense it creates. Like I'm vastly better at flirting with hot strangers sleep-deprived, hah.

Your body could also have treated it like a power nap, which is 1 short sleep cycle

_Blur_ posted...

Like I'm vastly better at flirting with hot strangers sleep-deprived, hah.

Hah seriously I could see it. I was talking to friends last night and my brain definitely had several switches that were usually switched to "off" completely in the "on" position.