Plz let me sleep

It’s 4am and I just want to get off youtube and sleep

So why is it that as soon as you lay down to turn off your mind, it seems like your mind wants to plan out every detail of your future life, call that old friend you haven’t spoken to in 4 years, replay that embarrassing thing you did on a date freshman year, think about everything you should have said to your parents when you got in a fight about where you were headed in this life, and so on and so forth. I’m a insomniac, for a couple of reasons but the most ever present reason is the fact that my brain wont shut the heck up at night.

I don’t know about you, but I enjoy sleep and I also enjoy waking up at a decent hour with enough energy to finish daily tasks and then some extra things. However as badly as I wanted this for myself I would often be up till 4am perusing reddit, youtube, and other pinterest like sites. One night at around 3am when I had just landed in that weird area of youtube, (you know the one, that part of youtube where you are watching a dog and dolphin play catch and suddenly you don’t even know where you are and you begin questioning reality, that place)

And I decided that watching this man shove an entire coke bottle into his mouth was just not worth waking up at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and wasting an entire day. So knowing I had already failed and it was 3am I decided to spend the rest of my weird night owl energy on devising a plan to get myself to sleep so I could become a functioning human again. I started thinking about what I did before I went to bed and what I could change about that routine to make sleep less of a forced matter and more of a pleasant state I easily fell into when I snuggled under the covers of my bed. Heres what I came up with,

As much as you rest your body physically, you have to rest it mentally, its weird how many scientists and doctors will tell us not to watch TV, eat, or surf the web before bed and yet that was literally my nightly routine. TV, eat, surf web. So the first thing you have to do if you really want to sleep is stop kidding yourself that “background noise from TV helps you sleep” because you could easily turn on a fan and a fan wont singe your corneas before you engage in sweet slumber.

So get rid of the electronics and read a freakin book people, dim the lights and shut yourself off from the internet for a few seconds. People feel restless at night because they are on social media. Worrying about who is liking your picture and why Brian hasn’t accepted your friend request yet aren’t relaxing thoughts, they will immediately turn your brain back on and get it chuggin and churnin again, so when you put your phone down after your body begs you to sleep, your brain is still like, “WAIT! Aren’t you worried about the Brian thing? We can’t sleep now! I mean lets think about what you said to him at that party so we can rationalize this, If Brian doesn’t like you nobody will! Accept your fate as a widow, speaking of widows black widow spiders are deadly have you seen one recently? Remember that docum-” AHHHHHH! so there you have it a few seconds of facebook just cheated you out of a productive day tomorrow.

You don’t realize it but you are giving energy all day, you NEED rest and sleep, your body would literally fail without it. Ive been trying this new sleeping early and ignoring how many retweets I have at night because I’m letting myself be a little selfish before I sleep, and why not? If you want to go to bed at 9, silence your phone at 8, take a bath, light a candle lay in bed and just breathe and tell your mind to shut up. I guess I’m so fanatic about this right now because I feel so disgusting when I wake up super late and waste and entire day. But, on days that I get rest and wake up at 7 without a single moan or groan I feel like a lawyer/supermodel/CEO that nobody can mess with, I feel like someone with an agenda and a purpose, and thats what everyone wants, a purpose. See how much you need sleep? Its so important you could become a depressed purposeless fool without it. So stop reading this and get some rest for goodness sake!