[manmal]

For me, sleep before midnight is the most important factor. If I need my brain working well the next day, all I need to do is go to bed by 10PM. Even if I wake at 5:30, it will be fine.

BTW, nights were I have dream recall afterwards, are the best. Anyone else have made the same observation?

[draven]

Same, and most of the times it’s when I sleep longer. Perhaps because there’s a lot of REM sleep towards the end of the night (as my Garmin watch tells me) and/or because I’m kind of half awake at that time. So maybe dream recall indicates I slept a whole night

[Cook4986]

Building on this, I’ve observed nightmares (I.e., particularly intense, terrifying, or otherwise challenging dreams) guarantee a good next day.

[wazoox]

Interesting. I've found that nightmares are strongly influenced by what I've eaten. Cabbage gives me nightmares almost certainly, for instance. Generally for me dream content seems heavily related to sensations in general : sounds, smells, bowel movements, cold, heat, weird limb positions...

[txzl]

same. but, mostly no recall lately. as I go to bed at 2:00 and sleep 6 hours max

[manmal]

Ouch that’s rough. A few nights like that and life just feels hard for me. Gloomy outlook, bad memory etc

[wafflemaker]

Ha !

Slept just 2:50h today according to the fitness tracker. Not my top form.

Many days like that are actually exceptionally nice (given expectations of the contrary).

I look at it as a low energy situation, where the regular ego train of thought gets extinguished.

Had one long, rare moment, where I genuinely enjoyed just being at work, tired. People around, things happening - just enjoying being there.

Wonder how much it had to do with me getting a couple therapy session the day before, having mum flying over to visit for 17th may festivities and listening to a good part of Ram Dass podcast where post-stroke Ram Dass was discussing sth with the host on Skype.

[timbit42]

My grandmother always said every hour before midnight is worth 2 hours of sleep.