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Sleeping to sickness

Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder that most people think of when someone says they have trouble sleeping, pop culture has put such spin on it. But there are other disorders too like sleep deprivation (not enough sleep), sleep apnea (snoring/breathing trouble while sleeping, caused by reduced oxygen level); there are also other terrors like acting out dreams in the physical world, awake but muscles are paralysed, teeth grinding and shouting out dreams. But, I'm suffering from the most common form of sleep disorder of the 21st century; I always wake up tired, no it is not hypersomnia. This post is going to be sort of self-shaming one, in order to change my habit.

Confession: I'm a big YouTube consumer, I consume too much to even remember them all the next day even though I follow quality contents still they are useless if I forget them all. Almost all of the channels I follow hosts, education, science, history, general health, environment, computer and related stuff; my entertainment is made of stand-up comedy, sketch comedy and cartoon consumed from the same app. One of the best and the one that produces the least content is CGP Grey. Time and again he was successful in making me feel bad about the way I sleep, I don't have a schedule and I watch videos and read something from the phone at night in bed. This is my disorder, I sleep by 1 or 2 am and try to catch up on sleep of 7 hours by sleeping till 9 or 10 am or even 11 and making sure I will always feel tired and lose early productive hours of the day. 

Irregular sleep cycle (ripped off CGP Grey)


Again on 1st of May, CGP Grey was successful in doing this, and I promised myself to follow his guidelines for this pandemic lock-down. And yet, here I'm writing this self-shaming post. I planned too many things and nothing picked-up steam, the reason - VAPID goals; I wanted to be happy and all-star from Day-1, it seems it is not possible and so I'm accepting the ground reality and trying to adapt.

Here is my first SMART goal of the lock-down and I'm declaring it here so I can always count on you to remind me if I'm steering away.
I will go to bed before 10 pm, penultimate hour being no screen-time; there by making sure I get sound sleep of at least 7 hours and I wake up before 7 am everyday, so that I will never wake up tired.
Yes, I have in-built buffer hours to help me at first, we can re-define this goal the next time we meet 😉

Update on 06 Sep 2020:

1.5 month has passed, I'm not able to make any headway. Maybe my goal is not SMART enough, even with buffer. I'm going to try and redefine, with a goal that will guarantee success, trying to win big with small multiple targets.
8 hours of sleep, and waking up before 7am.
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