ZRA
Member
- Oct 11, 2022
- 49
I can't handle that my consciousness needs to shut off every 24 hours. It feels like I start to gain a certain level of lucidity some days, but it just gets CUT OFF and I'm back to decline because I have to restart my stream of awareness. Every night it's this ordeal of trying to silence my thoughts and my cravings for distraction, with the only reward being a Sisyphean reset. If I could, I would pull an all-nighter every night, but I run out of energy in the mid AMs and then just wind up even more sleep-deprived. I don't think it would actually be worth it, but conceptually a manic state seems very attractive to me. I just don't want to continue this pattern of spending my day interspersing self-hatred with meaningless diversions; as soon as I start to make some mental progress, my physical need for rest forces me to throw it away.