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by racl101 1461 days ago
My brain thinks about way too much shit at night to be able to sleep longer.

I'd basically have to give up caffeine to achieve this.

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If your caffeine use is interfering with your sleep, then it's adversely affecting your overall health. That's generally a good reason to discontinue or limit use of a substance.

I get it though, we all like our pleasures in life. But some of them aren't good for us, so we have to choose between the short term pleasure of substance use versus the long term pleasure of not just longer life, but higher quality life when we're older.

That would be tough for me.

I don't smoke.

I don't drink.

I don't toke.

I don't gamble.

Only vice I have is drinking coffee and eating burgers.

Coffee is one of those few things that brings me a lotta joy.

I started listening to podcasts/audiobooks as I went to sleep about 10 years ago due to this and it hugely decreased the time it took to fall asleep. Unusual to be more than 10 minutes now.