I am such a crank when I don’t have enough sleep.
Not only am I so cranky, but I either spontaneously cry, or am almost crying the whole time.
I just can’t handle not enough sleep. Usually I’m fine to a certain point, but after that point, it’s just all over for me. It’s almost as if when I hit a threshold of sleep deprivation of maybe…..70 percent, then after that I turn into a complete wreck.
So I am one of those people who needs sleep to do everything, function, be sane, not cry. With all the traveling and entertaining I have been sleeping around midnight and getting up, on average, at ten, which, seems like a lot, but never feels like enough. I miss my prime sleeping time.
When I was in the US I was going to be, latest, at eleven and waking up around eight and that was so perfect. I am trying to get back to that, but it’s such a long process where you have to inch your way back up earlier and earlier. Which is hard when there are people over, or you’re jetlagged, or you are traveling.
Now that school starts, it won’t get any easier. Maybe it will in some ways because I will have a set schedule, but I will have more work to do.
Also when I don’t get enough sleep, my whole health goes downhill. My system, when in balance, is really good, but when something tips, even a little, it’s a very slippery slope.
I need sleep. More and more of it. It’s a daily challenge.