• shadowSprite@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My husband will literally say “I’m going to sleep” and go to sleep. It can take me up to 8 hours to fall asleep while I toss and turn and fight panic and depression. However, I did get to work night shift for awhile, and realized that when I go to bed at 8:00 am I can be the asleep in 10 seconds person! I miss night shift. Instead of being tired and miserable all day and laying awake all night except for a few hours of fitful sleep, I slept like the dead for 6-7 hours during the day and felt absolutely alive and awake and happy during my waking night hours. Apparently my circadian rhythm is flipped and so when I try to live “normal” hours my brain responds by sending me into a spiral of doom and worsening mental health.

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    1 year ago

    I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.

    No, I’m not the one falling asleep fast (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    god, the hours I’ve spent awake uncomfortable, unable to move or distract myself to not wake my gf up are uncountable because each of them felt like they were infinitely many hours long

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Pretty much, every relationship I’ve been in has had this dynamic. I’m the anxious night and every fucking one of the people I’ve dated has been a quick sleeper. So annoying.

  • QTpi@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This is my husband and I. He HATES it when I complain that I can’t sleep after being in bed for only 5 minutes and I’m still awake.

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    1 year ago

    My wife is both of these. She falls asleep in ten seconds, but I often find her lying awake at 3am in a spiral over some file she’s struggling to reconcile at work.

  • XbSuper@lemmy.world
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    My gf says she falls asleep a few mins after I do, which is within 5-10 mins of laying down. Something about my breathing pattern apparently.