I’m up later than i planned to be, was playing quizzes online, and after climbing into bed amd getting out my tablet to waste more time in front of a screen i got a sudden wave of nostalgia, comfort and joy washing over me and thought "huh, i guess that’s why i alwaya used to push my bedtime to its limits!
But i haven’t gotten that feeling for the last few dozen times i stayed up too late. Just felt tired.
Wondering how it is for other people - what’s your relationship with late nights?
My sleep schedule is notoriously messy (e.g. 3AM here, and I’m translating stuff), so it neither drains me nor it gives me dopamine. But it helps me a wee bit because of the silence, I guess.
I get woken up a lot in select evenings, right after i’ve gone to sleep, by inconsiderate people. Started to use noise cancelling headphones even though i don’t like wearing them that much. But the brain feels so much clearer when you have the white noise on.
Gotta love this sort of inconsiderate people… /s
I hear ya. Sometimes the same happens to me, the whole day except at late night. (“Inconsiderate people” in my case includes the neighbour who owns a dog, who LARPs as a rooster, waking the neighbourhood up. She’s just barking by the way, 6AM now, still translating stuff.)
I tried noise-cancelling phones once. I hated them. To the point I’d rather deal with the noise.