[crazygringo]

When I was younger, I'd be able to play intense video games and fall asleep right after.

Now, the older I get, the more I need to force myself to relax 1-2 hours before bed -- meditation, massage, quiet reading, chill music, whatever it takes -- just to be able to fall asleep.

It's a big bummer, really. It's so easy to want to code into the night -- to make that final commit at 12:30 am and then hop into bed satisfied with real progress on a project. But the reality is, I'll be wide awake until 2:30 am thinking "oh if I refactor it that way!" "what if I did that as a next step" "did I account for that edge case? can't remember...".

So now I force myself to stop at 10, to give myself 2 hours to let all the thoughts fade away (and often put them in a notebook as they pop up during those 2 hours so I can let go of them), but it's frustrating.